Posted on 05/26/2019 12:54:40 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: (L-R) Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) (L) takes a selfie with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) (R) on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. In today's inauguration ceremony Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (FILE PHOTO by Getty)
Sen. John McCain's hatred for President Donald Trump reportedly ran so deep that even during Trump's inauguration in January — which was supposed to be a joyous event given that it meant a Republican would finally be in the White House again — the senator stewed in anger.
According to Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who sat beside McCain during the Jan. 21, 2017, inauguration, the since-departed Arizona legislator spent the whole speech repeating the names of various dictators to her like a broken record.
"I sat on that stage between Bernie [Sanders] and John McCain, and John McCain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech because he knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation," she revealed during a campaign event in Iowa last week, according to HuffPost.
"He understood it. He knew because he knew this man more than any of us did," she added.
McCain certainly knew all about dictators:
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What he seemingly knew very little about was Trump.
Despite the belief by Democrats and "Republicans" such as McCain that the president is a fascist dictator, megalomaniac and whatever else, his actions these past two years have shown him to be a transparent leader who respects the separation of powers.
A dictator would have fired special counsel Robert Mueller or at least tried to block his investigation, which as a reminder was started in part because of McCain's widely panned decision in 2016 to funnel a Democrat-funded dossier of anti-Trump smears to the FBI. Yet the president never did.
A dictator would have at least tried to block Mueller's investigation. The president never did that either. Instead, he complied with all of the special counsel’s requests for documents and information.
The president has likewise respected the decisions of those judges who've ruled against his executive orders. This places him in stark contrast to McCain's good buddy, former President Barack Hussein Obama. The former president repeatedly violated court orders.
And save for his frequent criticisms of the media — many of them arguably justified — the current president has, for the most part, treated the left-wing media with honor and respect.
This cannot be said of Obama, a man whom McCain frequently defended and praised. Not only did Obama's Department of Justice spy on the Associated Press and then-Fox News reporter James Rosen. It also made attempts to spy on numerous other media organizations.
"[T]he DOJ considered subpoenaing the phone records of other news organizations, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and ABC News," Columbia Journalism Review reported just last week, citing newly uncovered Obama administration documents.
The documents were reportedly provided to the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Freedom of the Press Foundation via the Freedom of Information Act.
McCain's Twitter account, which was launched in 2009, doesn't appear to contain any mentions of these spying efforts. It does, however, contain praise and congratulations for Obama:
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Not to mention a litany of criticism against the current "dictator" in chief …
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As demonstrated by the latter tweet, McCain especially disliked it whenever the president spoke out against the alleged abuses carried out by the Obama FBI and DOJ.
"The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests — no party's, no president's, only Putin's," he said in early 2018. "The American people deserve to know all of the facts surrounding Russia's ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller's investigation must proceed unimpeded."
"Our nation's elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin's job for him."
The comments were made after Trump called the Russia probe "a disgrac"” and accused the Obama FBI and DOJ of having improperly used the aforementioned dossier of anti-Trump smears to justify spying on his 2016 election campaign officials.
It's since been confirmed that the Obama administration did indeed spy on his campaign after obtaining permission from a U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Moreover, last month Attorney General Bill Barr launched an official investigation to determine whether the spying had been predicated on legal justifications.
Was Obama part of his dictator list?
Precisely
Lol...where’s the missing quart of strawberries????
We didn’t call him McQueeg for nuttin.
To make the stupid claim that John McCain knew the evils of Donald Trump.
Klobachar has no credibility in the stupid claim.
McCain was a drunken “tail gate” pilot when it came to decorum. He was a lout. She’s trying to make him out to be some visionary political shaman - and that he was not!
I tend to agree that Klobacher would be a formidable candidate...in the general election. Of course, she has no chance in the primary
McLame could’ve won had he attacked OCommie for his many flaws
But Johnny wanted to be good, be good
And I agree, he was jealous Trump proved attacking is the road to victory
She needs to finish in the top three in Iowa. Right now that doesn’t look likely.
He did not deserve a hero’s burial.
We are supposed to speak good about the dead, it’s good McCain is dead.
McCain is dead, long die McCain!
The puke is still making news from the grave.
He’s dead, bereft of life, an ex person, gone to join the choir invisible.
Damn his hide and let’s get on with our own lives!
I submit that McCain was not even a good pilot, drunken or sober. He was a disaster to Naval Aviation. Without his Admiral father and grandfather he would not have even been in the Navy. He went to Annapolis and made no impression, pilot training, no impression, active on a carrier, killed shipmates with his carelessness, destroyed at least two airplanes due to his recklessness, shot down and imprisoned in North Vietnam, actually no impressive behavior there. He had no choice but to remain with his fellow captives.
I knew all of this and still voted for him. The option of the dark stranger from Kenya was not acceptable.
I submit that McCain was not even a good pilot, drunken or sober. He was a disaster to Naval Aviation. Without his Admiral father and grandfather he would not have even been in the Navy. He went to Annapolis and made no impression, pilot training, no impression, active on a carrier, killed shipmates with his carelessness, destroyed at least two airplanes due to his recklessness, shot down and imprisoned in North Vietnam, actually no impressive behavior there. He had no choice but to remain with his fellow captives.
I knew all of this and still voted for him. The option of the dark stranger from Kenya was not acceptable.
Please excuse me for the double entry.
Bitter old POS would love the idea that he’s still making headlines almost a year after his death.
Guess what, John? Nobody cares. I certainly don’t. Because you’re dead. Long gone. Irrelevant. About as relevant as Caligula. And not as nice.
More evil from deranged traitor McQueeg.
The world is a safer place now he's past tense.
He had brain cancer.....his mind wasn't working right for quite some time.
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