Posted on 05/10/2018 8:06:19 AM PDT by sickoflibs
Republican Sen. John McCain says former President Obama called to thank him after his dramatic vote against his party’s Obamacare repeal bill last year.
In a copy of his forthcoming book, “The Restless Wave,” obtained by the Daily Beast, McCain said he appreciated the call from Obama. The two ran against each other in the 2008 presidential election.
“Among the people who called to thank me was President Obama,” McCain writes. “I appreciated the call, but, as I said, my purpose hadn’t been to preserve his signature accomplishment but to insist on a better alternative, and to give the Senate an opportunity to work together to find one.”
Before McCain turned his thumb down to signal his no vote, he received a call from President Trump urging him to support the bill. The call came after Vice President Mike Pence tried to lobby McCain on the Senate floor to vote with their party. Obama didn’t call ahead of the vote to try to sway McCain’s vote, the senator said.
“He hadn’t called to lobby me before the vote, which I had appreciated. He had last called me not long after the November election, during the transition to the Trump administration, to congratulate me on my reelection. He added that he was counting on me to be an outspoken and independent voice for the causes I believed in as I had been during his presidency. I thanked him, and said I would try to be.”
McCain’s book is set to be released May 22. The book’s release comes as he battles an aggressive form of brain cancer.
Did he vote for Obama in the 2008 election too?
Thank you for your treason.
#KeatingKlown
In 2008!
A traitor in Viet Nam...A Traitor in the Senate...
Mais oui!
gosh yer sure important (to democrats) you P.O.S.
I’m hoping for a bunch more Republican Senate seats after thr mid-terms. Then Obamacare can be buried with both Ted Kennedy and Juan McPain.
“Heh heh! Heh heh! Obama... Obama THAAAaaanked me, mashtershhh! Heh heh! Heh! Heheheh!”
And McCain sees this as a high compliment!
Obama patted him on the head.
“Senator McCain, You are one good White Man!”
“Well, THANK YOU, Mr. President!!”
Not surprised at anything, Ace, since reading your fawning “concession” speech in Nov. 2008.
McCain’s singing in Vietnam was just the start of his traitorous career.
It would have been neat if, in 2008, Obama had faced an opponent.
Please just go.
One of the main reasons why Trump won office was to get rid of Obama care. McCain is simply thwarting the will of the American people, his own party, and the best interest of the citizens of the country. His loyalties lie far elsewhere.
And check for big cash deposits to the McCain Foundation.
I guess McCain’s brain cancer is opening his mouth to confess all of his sins (that he actually never saw as being wrong).
McCain has never been better than a RINO. He has consistently betrayed US values and other than being a war hawk most of the time (often when it was not the best course of action) - and I suspect its because he benefitted from the defense contracts involved.
Thing is - the voters of Arizona had way too many election cycles and blatant anti-US actions by McCain to be able to plead ignorance.
McCain’s fame was mostly based on his, now mostly proven to be a fraud, POW/military record. He was a pilot and officer who got where he was because of who his daddy was... he was a traitor as a POW. And he was a traitor as a US Senator.
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