Posted on 08/27/2018 6:05:43 PM PDT by RightGeek
Full Title: Sen. John McCain's pallbearers to include Warren Beatty, Joe Biden, Gary Hart, plus billionaire Michael Bloomberg and FedEx CEO while his ushers include health and telecom execs
McCain's office announced his pallbearers and other aspects of three days of services for hero
Actor Warren Beatty will be among those serving as pall bearers
Vice President Joe Biden, a friend from the Senate, also will be there
Former Sens. Gary Hart, Phil Gramm, and Russ Feingold will join, as well Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Among those paying tribute to McCain at his memorial services will be Jeff Flake, Joe Biden, Megan McCain, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Henry Kissinger, Lindsay Graham, Joe Lieberman, Kelly Ayotte
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
No ISIS leaders?
Oh, they’re all dead.
Winning!
Who will the half time entertainer be ? Beyonce ? Lady Gaga ?
wonder if Biden will be trying to grope McCain with the open casket
The ghost of Charles Keating isn’t on the list?
For McCain, it would have to crash.
how does Warren Beatty fit into all this?
no Stormy Daniels??
Charting McCain's 'Suspended Campaign'Thursday, Sept. 25
9:15 a.m. McCain appears at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.“Former President Clinton introduces McCain and praises him for bucking his party and spending a lot of time on global warming.”
Why so many democrats as pallbearers? They are just doing the job patriotic americans refuse to do.
Hypocrites helping to bury a hypocrite. A double reverse cranial-rectum insertion.
Its a shame we never saw an MRI of McCains brain. I bet he and Biden had the most damaged brains in the senate.
I always thought the Vietnamese cooked his brains in one of those hot boxes.
Is Carol the ex?
Somebody please drop a bomb on that place during the lovefest.
You’re so vain.
Neil Kinnock, Jr.
Monkey Business
Hmmmm.
Long list of important people to speak about him. But right now it is just him and God..... or not.
We have the dynamics of another Paul Wellstone funeral where it was marred with grandstanding political speeches, open advocacy on political issues, and a giant beach ball batted around the crowd in the style of a beach party. What is alarming is I suspect leftist subversives are at work to turn this memorial service into an attack on President Trump.
Why do they say FedEx CEO? The man is Frederick W. Smith who is the founder and current CEO of FedEx. He was the Commanding Officer of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division in connection with operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam.
John McCain’s full farewell letter:
“My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for 60 years, and especially my fellow Arizonans,
Thank you for the privilege of serving you and for the rewarding life of service in uniform and service in public office has allowed me to lead. I have tried to serve our country honorably. I have made mistakes, but I hope my love for America will be weighed favorably against them.
I’ve often observed that I’m the luckiest person on earth. I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life. I’ve loved my life, all of it. I’ve had experiences, adventures, friendships enough for 10 satisfying lives, and I am so thankful. Like most people, I have regrets. But I would not trade a day of my life, in good or bad times, for the best day of anybody else’s.
I owe this satisfaction to the love of my family. No man ever had a more loving wife or children he was prouder of than I am of mine. And I owe it to America. To be connected to America’s causes — liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people — brings happiness more sublime than life’s fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but are enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves.
Fellow Americans, that association has meant more to me than any other. I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of the world’s greatest Republic, a nation of ideals — not blood and soil. We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance those ideals at home and in the world. We have helped liberate more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history, and we have acquired great wealth and great power in the process.
We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals rather than trust them to be the great force for change they’ve always been. We are 325 million opinionated vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country, we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.
Ten years ago, I had the privilege to concede defeat in the election for president. I want to end my farewell to you with heartfelt faith in Americans that I felt so powerfully that evening. I feel it powerfully still. Do not despair of our present difficulties. We believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit, we never surrender, we never hide from history. We make history. Farewell, fellow Americans. God bless you.
Very telling
I lcouldn’t care less and won’t be watching any of it.
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