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John McCain, Veteran, Senator, GOP Maverick, Dies at 81
NBC Chicago ^ | 8/25/18

Posted on 08/25/2018 5:26:50 PM PDT by markomalley

John McCain, the longtime senator and 2008 GOP presidential candidate who refused to leave fellow prisoners of war behind to escape years of torture in Vietnam, and whose maverick streak as Arizona’s senior statesman at times frustrated fellow Republicans and confounded President Donald Trump, has died, his family confirmed in a statement Saturday.

He was 81and had been diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2017.

McCain had decided to discontinue medical treatment for the glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, his family announced on Aug. 24. He had surpassed expectations for his survival, but "the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict," the statement said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 115th; johnmccain; johnmccaindies; johnmccainobit; mccain; obituary; palin; songbird; strawberries; teddysbuttboi
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To: Bommer

DAMN ####ING STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#### HIM!!!!!1

BEEN WAITING TO OPEN THIS BOTTLE OF JD!!!! :) :) :)

DIE IN PEACE MOTHER ####ER!!!


401 posted on 08/25/2018 8:00:01 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: markomalley

John McCain...Traitor, Murderer, RINO Dies at 81...

FIXED IT.


402 posted on 08/25/2018 8:01:01 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Nateman

McLame’s primary?

yeah this will affect it a lot lol!!!

spit


403 posted on 08/25/2018 8:01:05 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: ladyjane
Kabar,

Are you familiar with what John McCain did when families of MIA and POW were in Washington trying to find out what happened with their loved ones? It was very wrong.

In cahoots with one John F'ing Kerry, IIRC.

It is sobering that we are commanded to pray for and forgive our enemies.

Apparently those two collaborated with them instead.

404 posted on 08/25/2018 8:03:04 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: markomalley

“I didn’t attend his funeral but I did send a nice letter saying I approved of it”
~Mark Twain


405 posted on 08/25/2018 8:04:58 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (no mntion whast)
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To: lightman

Beautiful, thank you. This is really not the time for political rehashing but a time to ask for God’s blessing on his departed soul.


406 posted on 08/25/2018 8:04:59 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Wiz-Nerd; 50mm; darkwing104; Old Sarge
Sod off, swampy.

You are advocating defecating on police cars, and trashing FReepers in the same sentence?

Ozone...?

407 posted on 08/25/2018 8:06:28 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Bommer
We have a winner!

And the PC mods that are killing FR deleted it.

408 posted on 08/25/2018 8:06:45 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (no mntion whast)
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To: mass55th

McCain had an unusual relationship with Bush, too...


       

409 posted on 08/25/2018 8:06:51 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Songcraft

Was that during Bush’s re-election campaign?


410 posted on 08/25/2018 8:11:45 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Mears
“That would be a real slap in the face to the diseased.”

-—I hope you mean “deceased”.

In this case, the difference between those two words (in public usage) was only a day.

411 posted on 08/25/2018 8:11:59 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: markomalley
Outlived another one

412 posted on 08/25/2018 8:12:13 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: markomalley

Thank you for your service to our great country, Mr. McCain.

Now, let’s MAGA!


413 posted on 08/25/2018 8:12:53 PM PDT by cazmandeuce
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To: markomalley

Saw the assh*le in Minnesota when he said Barack Hussein Obama was a ‘good man’. Roast in hell.


414 posted on 08/25/2018 8:13:18 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: KC_Lion; Jane Long; MeganC; Army Air Corps; Bikkuri; onyx; Abbeville Conservative; ...

“...Today we lost an American original. ...”

Oh, he was an “original” all right...


415 posted on 08/25/2018 8:14:23 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Yep! :-)

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416 posted on 08/25/2018 8:14:59 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mr Rogers

At least you aren’t a hypocrite.

I’m so sick of these “turn the other cheek”, Goody two shoes snowflakes who are scolding freepers who are expressing their honest opinion.

McCain wasn’t a good man (remember ISIS?) and I’m not going to be a hypocrite and pretend to grieve.

Out of respect for my blood pressure, I will avoid all TV news shows this week.

That’s all I have to say.


417 posted on 08/25/2018 8:15:27 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: sailor76


418 posted on 08/25/2018 8:16:00 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: mass55th

Yes.   A google search for that picture brought up an article (posted here), which has a caption under that picture that says, "John McCain hugging George W. Bush during Bush’s 2004 election campaign against John Kerry".

419 posted on 08/25/2018 8:19:22 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: CrimsonTidegirl
And there will be a lot on TV about him!

We planned to watch Judge Jeanine today on FOX, but she spent the entire hour, as far as we could tell, on McCain, and we switched to ID channel. Then another hour about McCain followed on FOX taking up Greg Gutfield show. I am sure CNN was all-McCain. ABC devoted time to him also.

420 posted on 08/25/2018 8:23:35 PM PDT by apocalypto
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