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Meghan McCain contrasts father's legacy with Trump's 'cheap rhetoric'
CNN ^ | September 1, 2018 | Veronica Stracqualursi

Posted on 09/01/2018 12:50:43 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Meghan McCain on Saturday presented the legacy of her father, John McCain, as a sharp contrast to the conduct of President Donald Trump, with whom the late senator bitterly feuded.

Although McCain didn't mention the President by name -- and he was not present at the service, in accordance with the late senator's wishes -- she made several unmistakable and pointed references throughout her emotional remarks.

"We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served," McCain told the crowd of mourners at Washington National Cathedral, which included family, friends, former presidents, military officials and foreign leaders.

"The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great," she said, a not-so-veiled reference to Trump's 2016 campaign slogan. The line was received with loud and sustained applause in the cathedral.

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1 posted on 09/01/2018 12:50:43 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Everyone loves to talk about President Trump


2 posted on 09/01/2018 12:52:05 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Trump20162020

Have they got that guy in the ground YET???


3 posted on 09/01/2018 12:52:17 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Trump20162020

His record with the Keating Five?

Or his losing record running for president?


4 posted on 09/01/2018 12:52:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: madprof98

He’s mercifully getting buried tomorrow, Sunday.


5 posted on 09/01/2018 12:53:03 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Yeah, a lot of folks know about McCain’s “legacy”. Even at liberal Yahoo and whole LOT of people are on to McCain.

Not the liberals, mind you.


6 posted on 09/01/2018 12:53:11 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trump20162020

I love it when the classless complain that Trump has no class. As if he is the one using the death of mccaniac to attack anyone.


7 posted on 09/01/2018 12:53:34 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: Trump20162020

Zip it, Fatty. I respect your family grief, but not your preaching to me.


8 posted on 09/01/2018 12:53:47 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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hobbit


9 posted on 09/01/2018 12:54:03 PM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: Trump20162020

If his name was McCain,you’d be working at Chuckie Cheese!


10 posted on 09/01/2018 12:54:07 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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She just could not put it aside for today. Sad


11 posted on 09/01/2018 12:54:20 PM PDT by Rapscallion (THE REAL COLLUSION IS BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS.)
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To: AppyPappy

Does this black cow Megan ever shut up?? (rhetorical)


12 posted on 09/01/2018 12:54:33 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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Reminds me of this...

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I will return them next Saturday.
I come to bury Caesar because the times are hard
And his folks can’t afford to hire an undertaker.
The evil that men do lives after them
In the shape of their progeny
Who reap the benefit of their life insurance.....


13 posted on 09/01/2018 12:54:35 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Poor Meagan, she must be heartbroken, they expected the streets to be lined with mourners by the hundreds of thousands. Instead there was a mere smattering in Arizona, more people showed up for the Trump rally the same time the prior year.

They anticipated weeping and got only indifference. It had to be a shock


14 posted on 09/01/2018 12:55:48 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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Liar,.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0lwusMxiHc

15 posted on 09/01/2018 12:55:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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"The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great,"

That sounds like Obama and Andrew Cuomo. The New Normal thing and America was never that Great.

Do they have Poisonous Snakes out there because this sure sounds like it.

16 posted on 09/01/2018 12:55:55 PM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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This wasn’t a funeral for McCain. It was a Trump hate fest by the Swamp and Drive-Bys. Trump’s approval numbers will go up, not down. Thanks John McCain and Drive-Bys.


17 posted on 09/01/2018 12:56:00 PM PDT by freedom1st
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Liar,.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0lwusMxiHc


18 posted on 09/01/2018 12:56:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Trump20162020

There are many “men of cheap rhetoric.” The room was amply supplied with them at that moment.


19 posted on 09/01/2018 12:56:54 PM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: Trump20162020

Mcstain died as he lived, petty, vindictive, disloyal. His family continues his legacy.


20 posted on 09/01/2018 12:57:11 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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