Posted on 08/25/2018 9:28:42 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
McCain leaves a legacy of standing up for his beliefs Holly BaileyNational Correspondent,Yahoo News•August 26, 2018 Scroll back up to restore default view. At first, John McCain couldn’t hear what some of his supporters were yelling. The roar of the crowd often made it too loud to hear anything, and he was already hard of hearing in his left ear, a condition that dated to his days as a Navy pilot and no doubt worsened because of the beatings he suffered during his 5½ years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
But in the fall of 2008, during his second bid for the presidency, the Arizona senator could tell that the crowds at his town halls were getting more rowdy — something he normally didn’t mind. The town hall was McCain’s preferred way to campaign; it was the format he felt allowed him to truly connect with voters, where people could see who he was, for better or worse. For months, McCain’s aides had been trying to talk him into holding more traditional events, such as scripted speeches, where he could avoid gaffes that could be seized upon by his opponents. But the candidate stubbornly refused.
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McCain died 9 years to the day with the same brain cancer as Ted Kennedy
I am sorry each had to go through this. It is a terrible disease.
McCain’s sordid life was basically just a chain of betrayals.
The betrayed include: Comrades, wife, voters, party, country.
Hobbits, too.
Exactly, media barf alert! The maverick is dead! Yippee cye-ay!
His believes or that those of George Soros???
Appreciate your recounting of those events.
Will the Governor of Arizona continue the hate McCain theme by appointing his wife as Senator?
Romney is a neocon. And Romney is all about open borders and abominations like TPP. Worst of all, Romney is another backstabber like McCain.
Trump endorsed him a few short months ago, and Romney is now attacking Trump.
Romney is no good.
ARIZONA’S MARICOPA COUNTY REPUBLICANS CENSURE JOHN MCCAIN FOR ABANDONING VALUES (1150-351 Vote)
12 Jan 2014
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3111216/posts
A “war hero” doesn’t finish 894th out of 899 and still get stationed at a Navy champagne unit and promoted ahead of all but two of his 898 other classmates.
A “war hero” doesn’t crash three U.S. Navy jets out of sheer incompetence and ineptitude, including two during non-combat training sessions.
A “war hero” doesn’t get written up on drunk-and-disorderly, fraternization, disobeying orders, and insubordination charges more than two dozen times in less than three years.
A “war hero” doesn’t get promoted to squadron commander of the air field named after his own grandfather immediately after crashing his third airplane. A “war hero” doesn’t have all the military records that cover his time in Vietnam and all disciplinary actions against him censored and sealed “as a matte r of national security.” A “war hero” doesn’t get 28 medals awarded all after-the-fact “for bravery” for no other reason than being shot down and captured and then go on a celebrity public relations tour because he’s the son of two acclaimed Navy admirals. A “war hero” doesn’t repeatedly cheat on the wife who’s back in the states waiting for him, and then cheat on her more when he returns to the states, and then divorce and abandon her.
A “war hero” doesn’t systematically vote against every single pay and benefit increase for military and veterans throughout his entire political career, all the while claiming to be “the soldier’s Congressman,” and then take credit for the passage of a G.I. benefits bill he that voted AGAINST. A “war hero” McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by the impact coming to as the plane settled to the bottom. McCain’s second crash occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. “Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula,” Timberg wrote, “he took out some power lines [reminiscent of the 1998 incident in which a Marine Corps jet sliced through the cables of a gondola at an Italian ski resort, killing 20] which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.”
McCain’s third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Timberg reported that McCain radioed, “I’ve got a flameout” and went through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees. McCain’s fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms an d a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi. For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals. “McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat,” explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs — the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. “Since McCain got 28 medals,” Bell continues, “that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys — grunts on the ground — who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where I’m sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison."
[ This is basically a propaganda piece by Yahoo news. ]
There’s pretty much nothing else they do anymore.
What flag is Marco Foam Boy holding there?
His beliefs were shared by Obama, Clinton(s), Kennedy(s) and all RINOS.
Good info.
[ McCain’s third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Timberg reported that McCain radioed, “I’ve got a flameout” and went through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees. McCain’s fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms an d a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi. ]
What was the 4th loss? I don’t actually know. TIA
It was on the USS Forrestal and not his fault.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire
So sad McCain did not leave a legacy of standing up for Americans. “”
He also left a legacy of crashing very expensive fighter planes. One such crash onto a carrier deck cost a few sailors their lives.
His distinguished records started by being LAST in his class at Annapolis, followed by the plane crashes.
IF his father & grandfather had NOT been Navy veterans, I doubt he would have been given any commission.
Total Nepotism
They keep showing photos of him as a ‘starving’ POW.
BS
He looked pretty well fed to me. Compare those photos with the pics of the Jewish people they rescued in Buchenwald.
THOSE people were starving. John Mc Cain-—Not even close.
God DOES have a sense of humor !!!
Just another nut-bag gone.
McCain put his hatred of Trump ahead of what is best for America. He was the dissenting Senate vote eliminating Obamacare.
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