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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Did you hear him speak? He’s had a stroke or something. He’s lisping and slurring words.
In other words, there isn’t a SINGLE American principle enshrined in our Constitution, for which this decrepit, half-wit traitor and coward is willing to die. Maybe he once was, but no longer.
Much more concerned about his mental health now. He didn't have great judgement to begin with, but now its worse.
Lots of manure fertilizer in the House as well, e.g., Cummings, Hank Johnson, Airhead Waters, et al.
How about we make a list so we’re all on the same page??
0vomit’s court fool Uncle Dirty, giving a traitor a medal..another day for communists and Antifa RINOs to be enthralled by their own plolitical hallucinations..
Did he invite Palin? As it turns out, McC was for Obama and Biden, not McCain and Palin.
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