“I originally planned a much more furious, ranting, nearly profane editorial....”
How does this “eulogy” resonate?
I’ve been working on my McCain “eulogy” for a while, and though I’m not totally satisfied with it just yet, and I am admonished to not speak ill of the dead, I’ll get it out there anyway:
John McCain was a dishonest, disreputable, self-serving, self-aggrandizing, skirt-chasing womanizing son of a bitch!
He was a liar, a cheat and a thief!
He was a rotten Naval Officer, a terrible pilot, a miserable Congressman and a total failure as a US Senator. He was a stain on the Body Politic!
I don’t know how many times he took an oath to “. . . support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. . . .” over the course of his life, but he certainly did not pay any attention to it! He was an oath breaker! In many different ways and on many different occasions!
[Most of us who served in the military were and are “Oath Keepers!”]
There are rumors that “Songbird’s” time in the Hanoi Hilton was tainted by treasonous behavior. Manchurian candidate, indeed!
We are VERY fortunate that he got his ass kicked every time he ran for President!
He will not be missed, and the USA is better off now that he has died!
We can only hope and pray that he is roasting in Hell!
I find it VERY DIFFICULT to understand why this noxious, venomous asshole’s sins have been forgotten so quickly!
I did not like John McCain! His behavior as a Naval Officer and as a “public servant” professionally and personally offended me greatly!
It REALLY offends me that people who know better insist on making him into a person that he most definitely was not! Those people who laud McCain will be on my personal shit list until the day I die!
I’ll not hold my breath waiting for someone to write the true story exposing this man’s perfidy and treason!
And then, there is this:
In response to MayflowerMadam who suggested the above was Pulitzer material, I responded:
Thanks!
I have intensely disliked John McCain ever since he divorced his first wife a few years after he returned FRom his POW experience. Read all about it at https://people.com/politics/john-mccain-daughter-sidney-first-wife-discuss-divorce/. He married the heiress to the Arizona Budweiser distributorship fortune.
For the record, I knew about his lack of character when I was a serving Naval Officer - he was a known heavy drinker and notorious philanderer before he got shot down - his reputation preceded him.
My knowledge of McCain’s character is second-hand, and inadmissable in a court of law, but the Navy grapevine is generally pretty accurate, and he was roundly disliked and FRequently gossipped about in Naval Aviation circles.
I cannot recall ever hearing a positive comment about him, even during his POW years. Many snippets of gossip were “snarks” about his daddy and granddaddy being four star admirals and his ability to escape his self-caused difficulties because of that fact. He seemed to be his own worse enemy, but skated due to his family connections.
He never disabused me of my long-ago assessment of his lack of character!
I have assiduously followed Rev. King’s advice and did not judge him by the color of his skin!
And, to end this diatribe, I submit this evidence of McStain’s treason (Hattip to FReeper Founding Father for this important lead):
Thank your very much for your effort to set the record straight! America and the world need to know the true character of this miserable excuse for a “man!”
Excellent review. Somehow the Navy seemed to generate a bevy of political puss balls. John Kerry and his purple heart for a small piece of shrapnel in his butt cheek is another. Thank goodness for Swift boating, or we might have had Lurch in the oval orifice.