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John McCain helped build a country that no longer reflects his values
PennLive ^ | June 17, 2018 | Elizabeth Sherman

Posted on 06/17/2018 12:40:36 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Arizona Sen. John McCain - scion of Navy brass, flyboy turned Vietnam war hero and tireless defender of American global leadership - now faces terminal brain cancer.

I am a scholar of American politics. And I believe that, regardless of his storied biography and personal charm, three powerful trends in American politics thwarted McCain's lifelong ambition to be president. They were the rise of the Christian right, partisan polarization and declining public support for foreign wars.

Republican McCain was a champion of bipartisan legislating, an approach that served him and the Senate well. But as political divides have grown, bipartisanship has fallen out of favor.

Most recently, McCain opposed Gina Haspel as CIA director for "her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality" and her role in it.

Having survived brutal torture for five years as a prisoner of war, McCain maintained a resolute voice against U.S. policies permitting so-called "enhanced interrogations." Nevertheless, his appeals failed to rally sufficient support to slow, much less derail, her appointment.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: cia; ginahaspel; johnmccain; keatingfive; mccain; senate; songbird; strawberries; torture
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To: kenmcg

>>What BS! A better description would be a traitor and disloyal ingrate.<<

Which explains why many are said to be anxiously awaiting the opportunity to piss on his grave.


61 posted on 06/17/2018 2:30:31 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( This Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: Trump20162020

McCain is a nasty vindictive old man. He has dished out tremendous hate in his lifetime and I am glad to see the hate blow back in his bitter old face.

This author obviously has no idea who the real John McCain is.


62 posted on 06/17/2018 2:31:08 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Trump20162020

“I am a scholar of American politics. And I believe that, regardless of his storied biography and personal charm, three powerful trends in American politics thwarted McCain’s lifelong ambition to be president. They were the rise of the Christian right, partisan polarization and declining public support for foreign wars.”

Wrong toots, there’s a fourth! Being a worthless, self-serving, needlessly disruptive, quasi-Marxist a$$hole!


63 posted on 06/17/2018 2:31:32 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

“Which explains why many are said to be anxiously awaiting the opportunity to piss on his grave.”

Right you are, and I have a full tank of gas and a six-pack ready to go. All I need are the GPS coordinates of his FRP.


64 posted on 06/17/2018 2:33:25 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Trump20162020

McLame was never smart enough to be our Prez. Devious enough; yes but never smart enough.

McLame doesn’t share any values with mainstream America either. He cohorts with the enemy and makes deals with whomever promises him the most juju beads.


65 posted on 06/17/2018 2:34:43 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: goldstategop

>> It’s hard to see why he does/did the things he did.<<

Because he has always been a sick, self-promoting snake who has sh*t on everything and everyone that ever got in his way.


66 posted on 06/17/2018 2:42:48 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( This Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: Trump20162020

Are they referring to Vietnam?


67 posted on 06/17/2018 2:43:00 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ( Liberals love all mankind without reservation. Except those who don't agree with them 100%.)
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To: Trump20162020

John McCain is hiding out in Arizona lobbing sneak attacks on the man who had the guts to tell the truth about him. Until I see an independent medical diagnosis that he actually has end-stage brain cancer, I call BS on the whole sob story!


68 posted on 06/17/2018 2:43:18 PM PDT by VikingMom (I may not know what the future holds but I know Who holds the future!)
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To: ChicagahAl
And we're still waiting for an American "Margaret Thatcher".

We already had one, Reagan was her boss.


Jeane Kirkpatrick

69 posted on 06/17/2018 2:53:21 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Trump20162020

McCain has an assigned appointment with SATAN, The Devil himself, after our Lord commands him into the hereafter. This is an evil, hateful envious man that served his country ill in nature!!! May he spend his entire eternity praying for forgiveness from his Lord and maker.


70 posted on 06/17/2018 2:56:24 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Trump20162020

You see the effect of taking illicit drugs? They cause you to lose your grip on reality, just like the author of this dog doo. Apparently Ms. Sherman has been toking, smoking, and imbibing WAAAYYY too much of the stuff. No one could write this pack of tripe unless they were high.


71 posted on 06/17/2018 2:56:39 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Trump20162020
He declared, "To abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history."

In other words, McCain is getting cremated . . .
72 posted on 06/17/2018 2:57:47 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: BraveMan

Ash heap is self-descriptive. McCain is oblivious to the irony.


73 posted on 06/17/2018 3:03:42 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A n Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Trump20162020

Huh?

My big toe would be a better “scholar of American politics.”


74 posted on 06/17/2018 3:06:05 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Trump20162020

I just threw up...


75 posted on 06/17/2018 3:18:36 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s the kindest way to put it.

I agree.


76 posted on 06/17/2018 3:28:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: petitfour

Amen to that last thought.


77 posted on 06/17/2018 3:29:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Trump20162020

Who wrote this nauseating screed? The author obviously has a bromance thing going with johnnie. Obviously, this LIB lunatic needs hospitalization and intensive medications.


78 posted on 06/17/2018 3:54:48 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Trump20162020

The guy’s a bum. I hope that ditzy daughter of his doesn’t get it into her head to run for office.


79 posted on 06/17/2018 3:57:43 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Trump20162020
a champion of bipartisan legislating

Plenty of money in the treasury for all of us.

80 posted on 06/17/2018 3:57:44 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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