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Instead of Criticizing McCain, Trump Should Embrace Kindness, Humility
The Daily Signal ^ | March 21, 2019 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 03/22/2019 4:41:39 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

President Donald Trump made a rare appearance at a church last Sunday. It’s a safe bet the sermon was not based on Proverbs 15:1—”A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” If it was, it didn’t appear to have much effect.

Before and after church, the president engaged in a tweet storm that insulted several people, including the late Sen. John McCain.

Trump accuses McCain of being complicit in the leak of the Steele dossier, a private intelligence report compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele for the political research firm Fusion GPS, which, among other things, alleges that in Moscow Donald Trump booked ” … the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Michelle Obama (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia,” and, while in the company of prostitutes, defiled the bed.

According to Newsweek, ” … major parts of the dossier have been verified by subsequent investigations into Russian election meddling.” Trump’s behavior at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow, however, remains unverified.

The president referred to McCain as “last in his class at Annapolis.” This was too much for McCain’s daughter, Meghan, who said on “The View” that the president is leading “a pathetic life,” adding, “He spends his weekend obsessing over great men, because he knows it, and I know it, and all of you know it, he will never be a great man.”

This is the problem with insults and anger. They invite similar responses. Nothing is affected by harshness, except a general degrading of the office and of the people who shoot rhetorical arrows at others.

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Cal Thomas should go write full time for the Huffington Post.


41 posted on 03/22/2019 5:20:51 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Two words. Pound Salt. PROUD of our President!


42 posted on 03/22/2019 5:20:57 AM PDT by LoveMyFreedom
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bull sh!t!. The worst thing the Bolsheies did was vote for skin color, instead of getting everything they wanted, only, slower.


43 posted on 03/22/2019 5:24:35 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yeah, RINOs hide behind cowardice and treason by parading their phony virtue of "gentlemanly" behavior. Repugnant Congressmen have been derelict in their duty for decades. Decades! And they excuse it by saying they're turning the other cheek.

Trump knows that to fight the enemy actually requires fighting the enemy. We haven't had a POTUS like that for a long, long time.

45 posted on 03/22/2019 5:28:08 AM PDT by LouAvul (Socialism is the logical conclusion of liberalism. Anarchy is the logical conclusion of socialism.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Our country is at war (civil war). We don’t need our leaders to be Sunday School teachers.


46 posted on 03/22/2019 5:28:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This world is chock-full of people who couldn’t fill Trump’s shoes to save their souls from flaming hell, but who just happen to know exactly what he ought to do in order to remain successful.


47 posted on 03/22/2019 5:29:28 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: yldstrk
The press asked him a question about McCain. He responded in typical Trumpian fashion. That's what started this recent brouhaha. What's wrong with simply replying, “No comment!”
48 posted on 03/22/2019 5:30:04 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: dsc
People who want him to act like Pipi Longstocking can eat my shorts.

As I recall, Pipi Longstocking was quite a feisty gal.

49 posted on 03/22/2019 5:30:40 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s been over 200 years and I’ve yet to hear anyone utter a kind word towards Benedict Arnold — left or right. So, what’s your point, Cal?

btw, you used to be one of the good guys.


50 posted on 03/22/2019 5:31:25 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Cal, sorry, but you’re another AntiTrump RINO. McCain was a traitor, so are RINOs and Democrats. Time to retire, Cal...


51 posted on 03/22/2019 5:31:49 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

McCain continues to gouge Trump from the grave via the dossier, family, and media. Trump has knife wounds in his back that will take a long time, if ever, to heal. I give him free-rein to hit back and hard.


52 posted on 03/22/2019 5:31:55 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The dossier has not been verified


53 posted on 03/22/2019 5:33:19 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Cal Thomas is an old time RINO establishment type who took it from years from the RATS. Kudos to Trump, for telling it like it is. He has good reason to despise McCain. McCain served in the war and was shot down as were hundreds of others. He also served in the senate and was a disloyal, fraudster, and traitor to the people who put him there.


54 posted on 03/22/2019 5:33:26 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: avital2
I get his [Trump's] upset.

But notice, he wasn't so upset that he'd vent his spleen on the backs of more than 300 million Americans.

55 posted on 03/22/2019 5:35:51 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Elsie
who said NOTHING about whether it was TRUE or not!

Not exactly THE last in his class...
894 of 899

56 posted on 03/22/2019 5:36:17 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: yldstrk

Yes. I’m glad the Donald is messing up McCain’s sainted image. He was no great man. He was a selfish, vindictive, traitorous, little sh*t who took great joy sticking a knife into his enemies back.

He opposed the Tea Party and called us wacka dooos. That’s McCain.


57 posted on 03/22/2019 5:37:36 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Too late, the President tried that. The McCain’s, especially John, were and are, horrible people. No, the cheek was turned once, time to fight


58 posted on 03/22/2019 5:38:08 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Bush tried the kind and humble route. The nation paid dearly. Sorry Cal, this is stilll a broken world governed by the use of aggressive energy.
59 posted on 03/22/2019 5:40:46 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Flag_This

I see what you did there...good one!


60 posted on 03/22/2019 5:40:48 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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