Posted on 09/03/2018 11:34:36 AM PDT by CaptainK
And that he is directing an investigation into awarding higher medals of recognition of heroism to Chief Gerald W. Farrier and LCDR Fred White
Farrier imo is a MOH candidate
But it will never happen because John McCain would have to be exposed
“McCain would cringe over some of the glowing tributes pouring in.”
Bull. He probably wrote most of them.
"A funeral for a world that never was"
Worth the read...
http://www.atimes.com/article/a-funeral-for-a-world-that-never-was//
Well, it’s certainly part of the reason.
Yes it was a good find. Thanks again.
Hope it goes through the appropriate body part.
Don’t want this gargoyle rising...
You could probably do that with every speaker, except his family. That’s only because we never got them on tape.
Good one...
> “Yes, of course, John McCain was an American hero”
Um, No. Looks like John Fund hasn’t done his homework.
McCain was a casualty and victim, not a hero.
McCain deserved sympathy and thanks for his service, and not a hero status. There were many more men deserving of true hero status that never received any. McCain was a fake hero decorated with boilerplate citations because he was an Admiral’s boy.
Bob Dole was a true hero.
John F. Kennedy was a true hero.
McCain was a fake hero.
“Jill Abramson, the former editor of the New York Times, had to admit “McCain would cringe over some of the glowing tributes pouring in.””
Not a chance! The egomaniac choreographed the whole putrid spectacle before his final departure.
Good article:
The American Establishment took the opportunity to mourn a world that it imagined but never inhabited.
http://www.atimes.com/article/a-funeral-for-a-world-that-never-was//
Your a little harsh on Johnny.
When 4 democrats needed bipartisan support to corrupt the banking regulators for Charles Keating, Johnny stepped up to the plate. That took a maverick, with courage and guts. No other republican would do it.
It cost us about 3.4 billion dollars.
Some say its was a sleazy thing that he did, but Pious John the war hero knew that sometimes you need bipartisanship to get around the law.
And just think, it would have been so much easier for Johnny to run as a democrat, but he did it the hard way, pretending to be a republican. That took guts in a red state, where he had to lie to get elected. Such a gutsy Maverick. A hero to Chuck Todd, Barak Obama, and every Mexican crossing the border to sell drugs to our kids.
The crazies just didn’t understand how lucky we were to have such a sanctimonious blowhard stabbing us in the back.
If you say John McCain the pilot and POW was a hero I won’t disagree.
If you say John McCain the senator was a hero, I will say you are totally wrong.
LOLOL......
I’m so glad he’s gone.....but I do expect megan to carry on her fathers legacy of hate toward Trump. But then she was against Trump from the get go......She was on the view after he won and said “ After he won I cried and cried and cried”...............
She boo-hoos pretty easily.
Beautifully stated! :)
She does seem to doesn’t she.
I think her 15 minutes might be coming to an end.
It will be surprising how quickly it’s, “Mccain who?”
Five years from now, certainly ten, John McCain won’t even register with most people.
Ted Kennedy is already a nothing-burger.
For all those who thought John McCain was so wonderful!
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 airfield 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 matter 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 benefits 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 and 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.”
McCain was a traitor. His nickname was “songbird”. Listen to him sing:
Here lies a guy who left his buddies in arms to the enemy
An OCTOBER 31, 2008 article about McCain by Douglas Valentine.
All McCain is to the left is something they can attack Trump with. they care zero for him except how they are able to use him one last time.
“”He was an angry bitter SOB who always had to hide what he knew he really did and caused””
And the whole time from what I’ve seen in documentaries he believed he was being totally open and honest by saying that he would never LIE TO ANYONE..or he lacked judgment as in the Keating mess - he thought by speaking useless words, he was winning people to believe in him.. NOPE! CNN ran a pretty good 2 hour documentary on him two nights - For Whom the Bell Tolls - I made mistakes blah blah....Not an ounce of sincerity behind the words.
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