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McCain Slams 'Half-Baked Nationalism' in Receiving Liberty Medal from Joe Biden
Newsmax ^ | 17 Oct 2017

Posted on 10/17/2017 7:43:25 AM PDT by mandaladon

Sen. John McCain on Monday slammed what he described as "spurious, half-baked nationalism" rising in the United States and elsewhere.

Many took the remarks as veiled jabs at President Donald Trump and one of his former key White House advisers, Breitbart publisher Steve Bannon. McCain made the remarks as he accepted the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal in Philadelphia. Former Vice President Joe Biden presented McCain with the medal.

"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.

McCain's words were interrupted by loud cheers and applause.

"We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil," he continued. "We are the custodians of those ideals at home, and their champion abroad. We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did. 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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The six-term Republican senator from Arizona was awarded the medal for his "lifetime of sacrifice and service" to the country. McCain said the country has a moral obligation to spread the values of the Constitution, and he's humbled to join the ranks of past winners, who include the Dalai Lama, Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Pakistani human rights activist Malala Yousafzai, The Hill noted.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This award, most likely, is a reward for voting with the Democrats, while Pretending to be a Republican.
1 posted on 10/17/2017 7:43:25 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Says a man who’s brain was half-baked BEFORE it started to rot!


2 posted on 10/17/2017 7:46:06 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: mandaladon

So the Liberty Medal is about as respectable as the Nobel Peace Prize?

IOW, not worth the metal from which it’s made.


3 posted on 10/17/2017 7:46:16 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: mandaladon

We want FULL-Baked Nationalism, dunce.

Liberty Award from Joe Biden? Next step down must be the Nobel Peace Prize.


4 posted on 10/17/2017 7:46:46 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: mandaladon

“We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil...”

What does this mean? We live in a land today that is a reality, not built on a pipe of dream of “Hope and Change.”

It’s time for this guy to retire. I’ll wait to see how he votes on the tax bill coming up, but if it’s like we’re hearing, ie that he will not vote for it, then heck with him.


5 posted on 10/17/2017 7:47:09 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Let's get Newt in there to help...)
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To: mandaladon

What is half baked has been John McCain. Still just a lying corrupt sleazy dirtbag.


6 posted on 10/17/2017 7:47:11 AM PDT by boycott
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To: mandaladon

NCC is hosting Khizr Khan!!!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 10/17/2017 7:47:15 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z)
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To: mandaladon

Those are not invalid points, but those ideals don’t have to come with open borders in a time where that very thing allows the enemy inside. And they don’t have to come with repeated nation building that continually provides us death and dumbness with no reward.

There is a middle ground to the moral ground.


8 posted on 10/17/2017 7:47:50 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: mandaladon

That glioblastoma sure is slow.


9 posted on 10/17/2017 7:48:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
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To: mandaladon

Medals and awards have nt meaning any longer. Obama’s “Nobel Peace Prize” was one example. This is another.


10 posted on 10/17/2017 7:49:06 AM PDT by HarleyD ("There are very few shades of grey."-Dr. Eckleburg)
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To: mandaladon

What a disgrace this man has become. He gets weirder and weirder every day and is allowed to keep his job, fancy that.


11 posted on 10/17/2017 7:49:11 AM PDT by Pilated (.)
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To: mandaladon

Nothing says patriotism like supplying arms to jihadists and encouraging the invasion of the country by illegal aliens......../s


12 posted on 10/17/2017 7:51:45 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: mandaladon; ExTexasRedhead
“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." Buy a clue John, those of us who have contributed our blood and treasure to a largely ungrateful world and egalomanialcs like you are tired of those two roles. Just look at how Europe has pissed on us (and themselves) after what we did for them in two world wars! Can't wait to read your obituary. MAGA!
13 posted on 10/17/2017 7:52:15 AM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: mandaladon

His brain has been half baked for decades.


14 posted on 10/17/2017 7:52:25 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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Liberty Medal from Joe Biden

             

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15 posted on 10/17/2017 7:52:38 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: mandaladon

“We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil...”

He’s gone.


16 posted on 10/17/2017 7:53:18 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: mandaladon

‘spurious, half-baked nationalism’.......coming from the guy who used “Country First” as his Presidential campaign slogan in 2008.


17 posted on 10/17/2017 7:53:37 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: mandaladon

This McCrap is on the front page of the Philthadelphia Inquirer this morning. I refuse to even look at it.


18 posted on 10/17/2017 7:53:48 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: nikos1121

Between him and Cochrane, it seems Mother Nature is helping America.


19 posted on 10/17/2017 7:54:44 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: mandaladon

I guess all those guys on the Forrestal were fully baked, John.................


20 posted on 10/17/2017 7:55:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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