Posted on 10/17/2017 4:21:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: John McCain has had it in for Donald Trump I dont know for how long. I think McCains had it in for Trump even before Trump ran for president. But you remember shortly after Trump announced, the name McCain came up, and Trump made it clear that he doesnt respect military people that get captured, you remember the fallout from that. I mean, the media, a lot of people were just aghast. How could you say that? This man is a national hero. He was tortured for his country. And Trump didnt back down from it.
So you can understand McCain seething about this and not letting it go. And he hasnt. He delighted in thumbs down his vote killing the latest attempt to reform Obamacare in the Senate. And now he made a speech. He made a speech, he just blasted nationalism and by extension he blasted Trump, and hes blasting everything about Trump that people like and support. It was in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center. McCain was awarded the liberty medal. And heres a portion of what he said.
McCain's full speech at Liberty Medal ceremony
MCCAIN: 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
CROWD: (cheers)
MCCAIN: is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.
RUSH: Okay. Now, lets parse this, because there are a lot of people and you heard the applause a lot of people who agree with McCain on this. To fear the world we have organized This is fascinating to me. McCain clearly is a member of the establishment. Hes a proud member of the establishment. Hes probably on the committee that determines who gets in and who gets thrown out.
He is demonstrating here a perfect illustration for anybody wondering what the establishment is and what they think. McCain has spelled it out for you. To fear the world we have organized Now, this stems from the belief that America is great, that Americas the good guys, that America is the solution to the worlds problems, that America is the last best hope of earth.
And that we have organized means we, as the beacon of freedom. We, as the nation which fights for it and which defends it and seeks it for anybody who wants it. We have fought our own wars. We have helped other nations in wars where their freedom was at stake. We have rebuilt Europe, the Marshall Plan. All of these things constitute what McCain means when he says the world we have organized. This is a profound belief in the power of the United States.
And then he adds, The world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century. Believe me, hes talking about the period of time basically post-depression, World War I, all wait to the end of the twentieth century. To refuse the obligations of international leadership, meaning we have shaped the world. We have organized it. We have determined the good and the bad. We lead the fight against bad and evil. We define the good.
But now Trump and his nationalism want to refuse the obligations to continue the leadership role that we gave ourselves in the past 75 years. And to refuse these obligations of international leadership and to refuse our duty (as a result of this leadership) to remain the last, best hope of earth, for the sake of some stupid nationalism like getting rid of NAFTA and putting America first, making America great again? Thats junk stuff to McCain!
There is no making America great. America already is great. What do you mean? Were the world leader of this. Were the world leader of that. We organized the world. The world is ours, and it bends to our will, and why do we want to abrogate? Thats what McCain thinks, and thats what the establishment thinks. And then he goes on to say this is unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans
Whats wrong with all this? Theoretically, its right on the money. But whats wrong with it all? I mean, the answers kind of leap out at you, dont they? Its not any great mystery. The world we have organized? Well, maybe we did, but its falling apart, nd we havent been leading the world in I dont know what area for however long. We have been led by people who want to diminish the role of the United States in the world, Senator McCain.
This is the problem. What youre missing, sir, about this nationalism that you despise is its real intention is to once again assert this leadership of the world, to assert this guiding light and beacon of freedom. Because for way too many recent years people in your club have been buying into the notion that whatever the United States has been doing the last 75 years has been hurting people. The United States is the problem.
The United States is blamed for climate change. What is that? Destroying the planet, no less! United States is blamed for this, its blamed for that. We have to sit here and listen to how socialist and communists worlds and nations are much preferable to ours. What world do we lead? The United Nations exists to fleece the United States, to blame the United States. Barack Obama openly admitted that his purpose was to transform the United States, which means cut it down to size.
It was Barack Obama who started this process of taking America out of the leadership role, and you couldnt say enough good things about him, Senator McCain. It was Barack Obama and his two terms and everybody he hired to work with him who set about to make Iran a nuclear power? How in the world would a United States-led world permit that to happen, for the good of humanity? Senator McCain, with all due respect, youve got this totally backwards.
Your club or members in your club were actively presiding over the decline of the United States as a leader in the world, as a beacon of freedom.
Your definition of open and leading the world is to open our borders and let the disadvantaged race in! Sorry. Thats not what leadership of the world means. But too many people think leadership of the world meant we need to act on our guilt. We have guilt that we are so wealthier, so richer, so more advanced than most nations on earth, it isnt fair, and so we must let the downtrodden in because weve made them downtrodden.
Thats what your club has started turning this country into, and thats why people are standing up against it.
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RUSH: You know, Im glad Senator McCain made this speech, because this little bite here this 39-second bite is one of the greatest illustrations of what the establishment thinks. Well, thats not altogether true, because there are many in the establishment who dont think this way at all. Senator McCains view of the United States role in the world is probably one that was held by most people at least as recently as 1980, 85, and prior to that.
Although, the United States role in the world has always sought to be undermined and from inside our borders as well. The effort to undermine the United States began shortly after it was founded, and its had its ups and downs. Weve always had Americans who hate America. Weve always had columnists who didnt want America to be founded. So this is nothing new. But McCains view of the United States role in the world was at one time true.
You might have to go back to the fifties, actually, for this specific delineation of responsibilities to be accurate. But thats not Certainly, in the last 20 years, this is not at all at all what the United States role in the world has been, and especially the last eight years, the United States, the purpose was to cut us down to size and make us pay our price.
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RUSH: I want to go through this one more time. I really think this is important. Grab McCains sound bite. Were gonna start-stop this. Again, its last night in Philadelphia. McCain has a big problem with Donald Trump. Im sure that he personally despises him and professionally despises him and, in a way, I mean if somebody had said, I dont respect people that get captured, blah, blah, blah, I can understand it. But McCain holds grudges here and hes got a serious, serious problem with Trump.
But all that aside, this little excerpt, again, is so valuable in explaining what old establishmentarian guys, the way they viewed the role of the United States in the world and how it isnt any longer anywhere close to this. But McCain, as a dinosaur and a Jurassic Park resident, remembers the good old days when he came of age and joined this club. And it tells you so much about how McCain has voted on legislation. Lets quick start-stop. Well get back to the phones after this and well move on to reaction to this from other senators and Trump. But here it is.
MCCAIN: To fear the world we have organized
RUSH: Stop the tape. Stop the tape. What McCain is saying, you people that voted for Trump and Trump, you fear the world. You are afraid. But the United States organized the world. We are the power in the world. We are the superior. We organize this world the way it is. And he next says, And led for three-quarters of a century.
MCCAIN: led for three-quarters of a century to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership
RUSH: Stop tape. Stop tape. Were no longer advancing these ideals. Were not advancing anything. Were being cut down to size. The Barack Obama administration sought to blame the United States for most of the problems in the world, as does the United Nations, as does most every other unallied nation which is really just harboring feelings of jealousy and envy and hatred toward the United States because no matter what they do, they can never equate us.
They can never equal us. They can never outproduce us. They can never outcompete us. They couldnt beat us militarily. And so they have a degree of dislike, envy, or hate for us. But the ideals and there were days when the American ideal did lead the world, where the American ideal did shape the world.
Thats what were all trying to get back to. But before that can happen the United States needs to be reconstituted and rebuilt. We just had too many years of too many people believing that the United States is the problem in the world, that the United States has guilt or should have guilt over the great disparities in the world between ourselves and other nations: economics, wealth, these kinds of things. You look at most of the worlds problems and youll find the popular thing to do is blame the United States for it.
Climate change is the first thing on the list. We, our advanced lifestyle, just happens to be doing what? Destroying the planet. That is a serious, serious charge, destroying the planet, and they got all kinds of young people believing it. Whats the fix? The United States must downsize, the United States must admit its guilt, the United States must agree with whatever the United Nations claims and alleges and accuses us of doing.
And we must understand that theyre right and we must admit that theyve got a grievance and we must do what we can to apologize for the way we have structured the world and the way we have led the world, because we have imposed freedom in too many places. We have imposed and stood up for liberty in too many places, where liberty and freedom are not the choice of tyrants and dictators and other oppressors who lead most other nations on earth. Lets continue with this.
MCCAIN: 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.
RUSH: All right, stop the tape. We are trying to once again claim that mantle of last, best hope on earth. But Senator McCain, the United States is not the last, best hope of earth when, for example, we are forced to open our borders and let specifically the downtrodden into our country without any limit and without any concern. All of that is based on guilt, that somehow we have made them downtrodden, that we have enforced their poverty, that we are the reason they cant get ahead in life because we have shaped the world in this ill-gotten way.
And so we owe it to the people we have deprived to come to our country and get whats theirs because we have made sure that they cant get it. This is whats guiding immigration policy. Well, that and voter registration, of course. But the last, best hope of the world was being destroyed, was being chipped away. It was being torn down to size where it couldnt lead anything because Barack Obama was doing everything he could to cement the idea that the problems in the world originated with the United States from the days of our founding.
And all thats happening today, Senator McCain, is an attempt to bring this country back to these ideals you spoke so lovingly about, what we all want. We all believe the United States is a force or good. We all believe the United States is the beacon of hope and liberty for people in the world. We all believe the United States is the last, best hope. But it was being torn apart, it was being torn down, it was being blamed. And it had help from people inside our own country. And finally enough people have said, Stop, were not the problem in the world. We are the solution. And thats all thats happening here. I just think Senator McCain has lost track of whats been going on the last 30 years and certainly the last eight years.
Quickly, Tom Cotton, Senator Cotton from Arkansas. Fox & Friends today, Brian Kilmeade interviewed him. He said, In a time where theres a lot of Republican and foreign relations sparring with the president, youre not. In fact, youre going the opposite way. Why is that?
COTTON: The American people elected Donald Trump to be our commander-in-chief. If we want to keep our country safe and secure, then its important that the commander-in-chief succeed. And I think Donald Trump by and large is getting things right. Hes certainly much more consistent with decades of bipartisan foreign policy leadership than Barack Obama was for the last eight years. So when the president does things like tells Congress and tells our allies that the Iran deal is not in the United States national security interests, Im gonna support him.
RUSH: Exactly. Because it isnt. Theres no world leadership. The United States is not organizing and leading the world for good when it allows the largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely acquire nuclear technology and ultimately nuclear weapons. What is the sense in that? What kind of leadership is that that you want to exude and praise? Thats just stupid! Thats just dumb! Its dangerous. And its rooted in this crazy belief, Well, as Obama said, Nobody told us when we wanted to do nukes that we could. Who are we to tell any nation they cant.
Well, wait a minute. Senator McCain used to be one of those guys that said for the sake of the world American leadership, we would determine who and who doesnt get these kinds of weapons. Were now trying to stop Kim Jong-un from using whatever hes got. Nobody has any opposition to that, but why are the same people eager for the Iranians to get theirs? And sadly one of the reasons is that people want to do business with them.
So theres a whole lot of stuff going on here. But this nationalism, this populism thats coming under assault, its real purpose is to once again reassert the United States as the leader of the world and the organizer of liberty and freedom in the world and the defender of liberty and freedom in the world, not to have the United States be seen as responsible for the worlds problems, which is what the swamp currently is constituted as, which is what the American elites, the United Nations, the Ivy League schools are all teaching! That the problems in the world are born of the United States dominance and thats what justifies cutting us down in size.
And there are a lot of Americans who dont think ill of our country. They still love it, think its great, the best place on earth, and want everybody place on earth to be as close as it can to becoming like the United States.
Thatd be the best thing could happen for the worlds population! A redistribution of capitalism all over the world would cause the simplest, fastest eradication of poverty known to man. But it isnt gonna happen if people like the New York Times get their way.
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RUSH: Back in July I think it was July of this year, might have been July of last year. Trump of us heading into Phoenix, and McCain said that Trump was coming in to fire up the crazies. So he called Trump supporters crazies much like Hillary called them deplorables, and Hillary and McCain are both from the swamp, and they both have this jaundiced view of the United States role in the world, leadership that weve set up.
And we continue, we have an obligation to continue to serve the world and lead it because we organized it. We determined whos an ally and who isnt. We determined whos gonna be a friend and who isnt. And at one time, folks, a long time ago thats exactly what happened. That was exactly what happened after World War II. Exactly.
But it was all done in the interests of the United States. It was all done with the national interests of the United States paramount, and that hasnt been the case for I dont know how long. But certainly the last eight years. Let me I could keep going on this for the rest of the hour. But you get the point. I need to get to the phones. Raleigh, North Carolina. Evan, youre next, sir. Hi.
CALLER: Rush, it is an honor targeting you. Im 39. Ive been listening you for basically since you started. So thank you for taking my call.
RUSH: I appreciate that.
CALLER: Just a couple You know, I was listening to McCain, and I was listening to the segment you had about Apple, and I think theres one disconnect that liberals have with conservatives or Republicans. People often say that this country is great because its diverse, and thats well and good. It is actually very great to have that diversity. But the origin of it is, our country is diverse because its great. If this was such a terrible place to be, nobody would have come here. We have all these diverse people and opinions because people wanted to come to this country because of the opportunities that it afforded everybody and I think thats just a pure, simple disconnect between the way I think of things and the way others do.
RUSH: Exactly right. I would say that the foundation for all that you said is freedom. Freedom was the magnet. Freedom and everything freedom entails. Without freedom, entrepreneurism doesnt exist. Without freedom, greatness doesnt exist. Without freedom, controversy doesnt exist. It was freedom that drew people to the United States, and it was our Constitution that guaranteed no limits on that freedom in the Bill of Rights.
It was specified. Things government could not do, that served as the magnet. And of course it drew all kinds of people here. But it is the Constitution and our founding and our founding documents that make America great. The left will tell you that what makes America great is our diversity and to them, we now know, all that means is skin color. The reason for that is they have an agenda. Their agenda is anti-anything in power.
That means victimizing anybody that isnt in power. So they have been on the attack against while the men and women who are Christian. Thats basically what the lefts enemy, who the lefts enemy has been. Now, they dont specify it that way. They specify it with different terminology. They talk about power versus weakness, discrimination, inequality, unequal-ness and all of this kind of stuff.
But if you look at who theyre attacking and if you look at who they fear, its very clear, and so dividing people is also paramount in liberalism. You have to divide people. You have to create the chaos. You have to create victims. You have to create people who are willing to blame everybody but themselves for whatever is wrong in their lives. Once you do that, then you can set up bogeymen, and the two bogeymen that have been the most successful for the left are the Republican Party and conservatives.
They have been those who have caused all these victims such pain by way of racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, and discrimination, and you name it. And so dividing people by things that dont really matter in terms of who a person is, is simply how they create numbers for their strength in battle, because it stands to reason. Take all the minorities and add them together and youre gonna have a greater power, greater force than whatever majority that you are fighting.
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RUSH: Trump has reacted to McCain. Trumps doing one syndicated radio show after another today, radio row is what they call this. Snerdley came in today and said, By the way, they called me at the White House today.
I said, Why?
To tell you that they know you dont do guests and they didnt even offer the president because they know that you can probably say what hes gonna say better than he does anyway, so dont be offended that
I said, They said that?
Well, pretty much, yeah. And thats true. Radio row, I would not be there. Anyway, Trump is there, and he responded to McCain. Here, grab sound bite number 22. You can listen to what Trump said here. Its this afternoon. He was asked about McCains criticism, the sound bite that we played. Heres what he said.
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, well, I hear it. People have to be careful because at some point I fight back, you know. Im being very nice, but at some point I fight back, and it wont be pretty.
RUSH: Well, we know that. (laughing) Im being very nice right now, but, you know, you keep it up and I fight back. And it wont pretty.
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RUSH: Trump had a press conference with the prime minister from Greece. His name is Alexis Tsipras. Its a joint presser. And John Roberts, the White House correspondent for Fox News said, Mr. Prime Minister, with respect to the president, March of 2016, you said that the potential of a Donald Trump presidency, quote, I hope we will not face this evil. And Im wondering, if after spending time with the president you have changed your mind, if you are the same mind. Now, thats the question, but it is answer here is Trump, not the prime minister. So heres what Trump says.
THE PRESIDENT: A number of countries were a little bit nervous at the beginning, and I have very good relationships with the leaders of virtually every country Ive dealt with. But the reason they were concerned was because I will not allow our country, the United States of America, to be taken advantage of by so many other countries all over the world.
If you look at our trade deficits, massive trade deficits with virtually every country. You look at our jobs moving out to certain countries, and the companies are leaving and theyre firing the people and the product is made elsewhere and then its sold back into the United States. Im not gonna be allowing that, so I can understand how certain countries and the leaders of certain countries may feel. But were just not gonna allow the United States to be take advantage of.
RUSH: There you have it again, in a nutshell. So you have McCains worldview that we created the world that we wanted and weve been leading that world for 75 years and our responsibility is to keep doing that, and Trump is trying to abrogate that. McCain is so out of touch on this.
What Trump is pointing out is we have been taken advantage of for, what, 40 years, however long weve been blamed for all the evils in the world and the lack of prosperity and so forth. All Trump is saying is those days are over. And were gonna put America back into that leadership position that McCain so values but doesnt realize weve lost.
And, you know what? A lot of other swamp dwellers dont realize weve lost it because theyre content with the idea that America is to blame and that America needs to be cut down in size for whatever reasons. So this all has come together pretty well today.
Since President Trump is so buddy-buddy with Vald, Putin has probably already shared the Songbird GRU file with President Trump.
It's only natural, given that McCain is an internationalist-globalist like his buddy George Soros and Trump and his supporters are American patriots.
""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 "
My understanding was that rat McCain admitted he's a globalist. Each time McCain won re-election he swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. He was not elected to preserve and protect/defend global interests above those interests of the US.
To his everlasting shame, McCain's characterization " as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past Americans consigned to the ash heap of history" suggests his disdain for our Constitution which just so happens to be the spurious nationalism he abjures. He should be impeached.
Waiting for McCain to assume room temperature - to match his IQ.
As the son of a WWII POW, I have no use for McNuts! Never have! ESAD, already, McNuts!
It’s high time for pushback on the maverick. Enough to make an example.
What patriotic American would suggest restricting speech during elections? Much less co-author a law to do it.
McCain/Feingold
I guess the 1st Amendment is some of that tired dogma.
I love his cartoons.
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