Posted on 10/16/2017 9:51:09 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Senator John McCain blasted “half-baked” nationalism and praised international cooperation in a speech Monday night that appeared to contrast President Trump’s emphasis on putting “America first.”
The former POW and Arizona Republican called the United States “the last best hope on earth” while giving an acceptance speech for the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal, according to Politico.
McCain said it was the country’s duty to lead instead of blaming others for our problems.
“To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,” Mccain said, according to the paper.
McCain added that the United States has a moral obligation to continue our tradition of spreading American ideals and would suffer if that commitment was not met.
“We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil,” he said.
“We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don’t. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn’t deserve to.”
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He should just declare as a Democrat. NOW!
Old cancer brain is at it again!
What exactly is McCain for???
It seems to me, simply advancing globalism and progressive corporatism around the globe, the resulting chaos be damned!
Well...we know from pictures taken in 2012....he was pro-ISIS and hanging out with the thugs.
nothing half-baked about my nationalism, McStain. Please die already.
Half-assed Senator, fully nuts.
Hes against everything Trump is for.
That tumor is eating him up on the inside
McCain: “Patriotism is unpatriotic”
I’ll take half baked nationalism over half baked internationalism / globalism any day.
... never mind whole hog internationalism....
Seriously?
Are we supposed to be ORGANIZING the world?
Sounds like a totalitarian thing....
Who’s the Wacko Bird now?
For what? Least number of viewers at an airport?
“We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil,” he said. …Blut und boden, really? He went full Godwin. You never go full Godwin. He’s further left than the Dems at this point, with the whole “all nationalism is national socialism” canard. Guess he’s at the “nothing to lose” stage now.
Better yet, I wish he’d move to Libya.
He helped make the place a living hell for the folks there.
Admitted his NWO membership. And ‘we’ doesn’t include us flyover folk.
I guess he considers ripping off the American people with taxes and family bank breaking, sub par healthcare is patriotic? Or is giving American citizens jobs to foreigners patriotic?
Like it isn’t half-baked to arm jihadists and to encourage illegal aliens to invade the country......../s
Don’t forget, illegal aliens have constitutional rights and are entitled to a redress of grievances in a court of law, at YOUR expense.
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