To: grania
You misunderstand...... it is not a debate.
Trump is destroying the false McCain legacy for history. History must not record that McCain is a hero. McCain was a despicable individual who’s fame results from being shot down in a fit of temper tantrum.
The defense by his pathetic daughter is all about her. She is because she thinks he actually was
135 posted on
03/24/2019 6:59:17 AM PDT by
bert
( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
To: bert
I despise McCain, his power hungry replacement wife and their despicable spawn as much as anyone else. But I’m not going to take away that he was a POW. By giving him that much, we come across as more reasonable, and it doesn’t save his reputation. Adding to that “and he came home and deserted his disabled wife for a young heiress” erases that legacy while acknowledging it.
136 posted on
03/24/2019 9:32:47 AM PDT by
grania
("We're all just pawns in their game")
To: bert
In March 2009 McCain wrote an article for The Daily Beast titled "My Beef With Ann Coulter." In this article, she questioned Republican support for conservative author and columnist Ann Coulter.[23] While Coulter did not respond, conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham challenged McCain's article by comparing her to a "Valley Girl." Ingraham also mocked McCain: "Ok, I was really hoping that I was going to get that role in The Real World, but then I realized that, well, they don't like plus-sized models."[24] McCain responded to Ingraham in a second article for The Daily Beast titled "Quit Talking About My Weight, Laura Ingraham": "Instead of intellectually debating our ideological differences about the future of the Republican Party, Ingraham resorted to making fun of my age and weight, in the fashion of the mean girls in high school."[25] McCain also stated on The View that she thought the change in discourse toward her body was "terrible" and further argued, "When Tyra Banks went on her show in a bathing suit and said 'kiss my fat ass,' that's what I feel like. Kiss my fat ass!"[26] Ingraham responded by calling McCain a "useful idiot."[27] During a later interview on Larry King Live, McCain said that as far as she is concerned, "with what's going on with Laura Ingraham, on my end, it's over."
After John McCain campaign fixture Joe the plumber made some anti-gay remarks (saying he would not have "queers ... anywhere near my children") in mid-2009, Meghan McCain took aim at him, saying "Joe the plumber—you can quote me—is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing."[36]
On September 1, 2018, she delivered a eulogy at her father's funeral at Washington National Cathedral. In an emotional eulogy to her father, McCain mourned her father's passing as the “passing of American greatness, the real thing." In what was widely seen as a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump,
140 posted on
03/24/2019 12:48:18 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: bert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#Commanding_officer,_liaison_to_Senate_and_second_marriage
McCain was reunited with his family when he returned to the United States. His wife Carol had been crippled by an automobile accident in December 1969. As a returned POW, he became a celebrity of sorts.[60]
McCain underwent treatment for his injuries that included months of physical therapy.[61] He attended the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. during 1973–1974.[62] He was rehabilitated by late 1974 and his flight status was reinstated. In 1976, he became Commanding Officer of a training squadron that was stationed in Florida.[60][63] He improved the unit's flight readiness and safety records,[64] and won the squadron its first-ever Meritorious Unit Commendation.[63] During this period in Florida, he had extramarital affairs and his marriage began to falter, about which he later stated, "The blame was entirely mine".[65][66]
McCain served as the Navy's liaison to the U.S. Senate beginning in 1977.[67] In retrospect, he said that this represented his "real entry into the world of politics and the beginning of my second career as a public servant."[60] His key behind-the-scenes role gained congressional financing for a new supercarrier against the wishes of the Carter administration.[61][68]
In April 1979,[61] McCain met Cindy Lou Hensley, a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, whose father had founded a large beer distributorship.[66] They began dating, and he urged his wife Carol to grant him a divorce, which she did in February 1980; the uncontested divorce took effect in April 1980.[22][61] The settlement included two houses, and financial support for her ongoing medical treatments due to her 1969 car accident; they remained on good terms.[66] McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators William Cohen and Gary Hart attending as groomsmen.[21][66] McCain's children did not attend, and several years passed before they reconciled.[24][61] John and Cindy McCain entered into a prenuptial agreement that kept most of her family's assets under her name; they kept their finances apart and filed separate income tax returns.[69]
One reporter later recounted that, "McCain talked all day long with reporters on his Straight Talk Express bus; he talked so much that sometimes he said things that he shouldn't have, and that's why the media loved him."[136]
Golly; sounds like Trump!!
142 posted on
03/24/2019 1:00:38 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: bert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#Commanding_officer,_liaison_to_Senate_and_second_marriage
Early life and education
John Sidney McCain III was born on August 29, 1936, at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, to naval officer John S. McCain Jr.(1911–1981) and Roberta (Wright) McCain(b. 1912). He had an older sister Sandy and a younger brother Joe.[1] At that time, the Panama Canal was under U.S. control.[2]
McCain's family tree includes Scots-Irish and English ancestors.[3] His father and his paternal grandfather, John S. McCain Sr., were also Naval Academy graduates and both became four-star admirals in the United States Navy.[4] The McCain family followed his father to various naval postings in the United States and the Pacific.[1][5]
Altogether, he attended about 20 schools.[6] In 1951, the family settled in Northern Virginia, and McCain attended Episcopal High School, a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria.[7][8] He excelled at wrestling and graduated in 1954.[9][10] He referred to himself as an Episcopalian as recently as June 2007 after which date he said he came to identify as a Baptist.[11]
Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, McCain entered the United States Naval Academy, where he was a friend and informal leader for many of his classmates[12] and sometimes stood up for targets of bullying.[4] He also fought as a lightweight boxer.[13] McCain did well in academic subjects that interested him, such as literature and history, but studied only enough to pass subjects that gave him difficulty, such as mathematics.[4][14] He came into conflict with higher-ranking personnel and did not always obey the rules, which contributed to a low class rank (894 of 899), despite a high IQ.[12][15] McCain graduated in 1958.[12]
Given this LATEST scandal involving higher learning, and that payoffs are discouraged and may even be illegal; I'm sure that 'influence peddling' will still be permitted.
143 posted on
03/24/2019 1:07:01 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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