Posted on 08/26/2018 5:56:17 AM PDT by Lazamataz
So, Arizona Senator John McCain finally passed on.
As the left's favorite "Republican" Senator, the headlines and opinions in the left-wing News Misleadia are predictable and cloying. A small sampling is listed below:
The content of the articles are even more obsequious than the headlines. I expected as much. McCain was the left's favorite Senator -- a fake Republican, globalist, and diehard #NeverTrumper who could be counted on to obstruct any of the agenda the right or nationists would embrace.
My mother always told me I should never speak ill of the dead. However, I routinely ignore my mother's advice.
There are factors about his behavior and life that have long been extremely disagreeable, and others that put him in stark opposition to the political party to which he swore allegiance. There are three subjects I will explore: His temper, his grudges, and his policy.
HIS UNCONTROLLED TEMPER
Even before his brain tumor -- when erratic behavior could be better explained -- John McCain was a mercurial and explosive person who reacted to various situations with uncontrolled rage and inappropriate behavior. In 1992, in front of three reporters, McCain called his wife a "c***". Another incident of volatile, unstable behavior was when . There are so many examples, that colleagues in the Senate were quite concerned about his stability.
He was, however, very aware of his unpredictable and anger-fueled behavior, admitted he had a temper problem, though he did so in a manner that absolved him of personal responsibility.However, it's said that a picture says a thousand words. Here is one, taken during a debate, in which his inner rage is briefly visible.
HIS LASTING GRUDGES
McCain, a petty man who held lifelong grudges, he never forgot slights politicians gave him. Chuck Hagel refused to endorse McCain in 2008, and opposed him during votes surrounding the Iraq war, saw McCain withhold the single vote that would have made Hagel the Defense Secretary.
Of course, his blood feud against President Trump continued to his dying day. He remarked that he hoped that Trump succumbed to the Washington establishment and laughably suggested that Trump was responsible for the Syrians using chemical weapons. He admits he was the primary source of the infamous and specious "Russian Peeing Prostitute" dossier that started the baseless, year-long Special Prosecutor investigation that goes on to this day. Yet, he was proud of his shameful behavior, defiantly telling critics of his actions to 'go to hell'
His vendettas were only punctuated by his disloyalty. His former vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, had backed his reelection effort. For her steadfastness, McCain returned a gut-punch, stating that he regretted choosing Palin as his running-mate.
HIS GLOBALIST AND LEFTWING POLICIES
John McCain was described, often, as a maverick who bucked his Republican party principles. However, a case could be made that he actually was not a maverick, but was consistently on the side of the opposition party. That makes him less of a maverick and more of a betrayer. It was his one vote, cast proudly and with a sense of defiance, that preserved Obamacare. He was a diehard globalist who consistently pushed his Gang-of-Eight amnesty proposals. And, as a stalwart NeoConservative, there were very few military entanglements he did not gladly support.
John McCain's opposition to Conservative Republican ideology was troubling, but his temper and his willingness to provoke and attack our international enemies were terrifying. It is for this that I often remark that we dodged a bullet in 2008. While Barack Obama was a destructive and tragic President, at least, unlike McCain, he did not leave the world a smoking, radioactive ruin.
McCain's role was to be the "designated loser," and he played that role well.
My TV is off today because I cannot abide the wall-to-wall fawning. I’m not remotely interested in his life and don’t care to relive it via the media’s filter.
Thank you, but you should ping me when you're posting to me. :)
My incredibly fragile ego is crushed. :)
It is not clear why he returned to the bombed area after releasing his bombs.Battle damage assessment?
Proper BDA is done by a photo plane coming by AFTER the bomb smoke and dust is cleared away, by a higher speed reconnaissance plane at low level coming in AFTER the strike from a different direction at an “unpredictable” time.
The slower strike planes are hindered by no camera's, higher drag of their external bomb racks, slower flight speed of the strike aircraft (compared to the F-102 Voodoo fighters or Navy recon planes for example), and because the gunners are already at their posts and are tracking the attack planes if they circle back or come in twice.
Also, a strike bomber who “missed” the first time will likely fly back over the same target and “miss” again - because he would be using the same visual clues and same aiming points to try to look at the original target! He would see the bomb blast of course - he's looking at the place where he put his own bombs, right? That's why they required independent photo evaluation by a different plane briefed on the target and flying independently. Doesn't prevent errors of course, but deliberately resets the table to reduce them from being repeated by the same guy who has no equipment, and who is violently acting to reinforce his original error by justifying his hits.
That's why the umpire calls balls and strikes. Not the pitcher, not the hitter.
We’ll remember him for what he was. Look at it objectively: One down. How many to go?
John McCain was appointed “Senator For Life”.
The enemy has never allowed a breather after a school shooting f'rinstance, when the now almost a senatoral candidate David Hogg came on the scene.
President Trump has indeed been a true leader .... hit first if you can but definitely hit back.
That was the second best. The best thing he did was leave us. ‘Nothing in life became him so much as the leaving of it ....”
Got racism much ?
Thanks Laz. Almost brought me to tears.
Just one of McCains’ diverse accomplishments-
Aftermath
Forrestal put into Cubi Point in the Philippines to be patched before returning to the United States, where she was drydocked for eight months of repairs.
The fire left 134 men dead[30] and 161 more injured.[2] It was the worst loss of a life on a U.S. Navy ship since World War II.[20] Of the 73 aircraft aboard the carrier, 21 were destroyed and 40 were damaged.[31]
Twenty-one aircraft were stricken from naval inventory: seven F-4B Phantom IIs (BuNos 153046, 153054, 153060, 153061, 153066, 153069 and 153912); eleven A-4E Skyhawks (149996, 150064, 150068, 150084, 150115, 150118, 150129, 152018, 152024, 152036 and 152040); and three RA-5C Vigilantes (148932, 149284 and 149305).[1]
Interesting... sounds like he had the 'look at me - look at me' thing going most of his life...
That pretty much sums him up.
Am I still on the list? I didn’t see the ping.
If not, please add me again.
I’ll check.
I can’t retire because of Obamacare, which he prevented from being repealed, but I will speak no ill.
That is not what happened.
McLame was parked on his deck spot, not waiting in line. A rocket from an F-4 on deck fired due to stray voltage (malfunction) and that rocket hit one or two other aircraft, Knocked a fuel tank loose which caught fire and touched off plane munitions.
The guy was a douche but he didn't cause the Forrestal fire. Anymore than the other pilots who were sitting in their planes.
“As he lay comatose on his deathbed in 1936, King George V was injected with fatal doses of morphine and cocaine to assure him a painless death in time, according to his physician’s notes, for the announcement to be carried ‘in the morning papers rather than the less appropriate evening journals.’”
Coincidence? The announcement of McQueeg’s death came one day after they said he had “bravely” discontinued treatment — just before the weekend and Friday news dump. Now we will have “All McQueeg, all the time” from now until he is six feet under — maybe not even then. Media Whore to the end.
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