Instead of Criticizing McCain, Trump Should Embrace Kindness, Humility

The Daily Signal ^ | March 21, 2019 | Cal Thomas

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

President Donald Trump made a rare appearance at a church last Sunday. It’s a safe bet the sermon was not based on Proverbs 15:1—”A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” If it was, it didn’t appear to have much effect.

Before and after church, the president engaged in a tweet storm that insulted several people, including the late Sen. John McCain.

Trump accuses McCain of being complicit in the leak of the Steele dossier, a private intelligence report compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele for the political research firm Fusion GPS, which, among other things, alleges that in Moscow Donald Trump booked ” … the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Michelle Obama (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia,” and, while in the company of prostitutes, defiled the bed.

According to Newsweek, ” … major parts of the dossier have been verified by subsequent investigations into Russian election meddling.” Trump’s behavior at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow, however, remains unverified.

The president referred to McCain as “last in his class at Annapolis.” This was too much for McCain’s daughter, Meghan, who said on “The View” that the president is leading “a pathetic life,” adding, “He spends his weekend obsessing over great men, because he knows it, and I know it, and all of you know it, he will never be a great man.”

This is the problem with insults and anger. They invite similar responses. Nothing is affected by harshness, except a general degrading of the office and of the people who shoot rhetorical arrows at others.

[RooRoobird20]

Angry obese Meghan is just like her dad—bitter, petty, spiteful, and cluelessly believing that her dead POS father is a nationally beloved icon.

[Elsie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#Commanding_officer,_liaison_to_Senate_and_second_marriage

 

 

McCain was reunited with his family when he returned to the United States. His wife Carol had been crippled by an automobile accident in December 1969. As a returned POW, he became a celebrity of sorts.^[60]

McCain underwent treatment for his injuries that included months of physical therapy.^[61] He attended the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. during 1973–1974.^[62] He was rehabilitated by late 1974 and his flight status was reinstated. In 1976, he became Commanding Officer of a training squadron that was stationed in Florida.^[60][63] He improved the unit's flight readiness and safety records,^[64] and won the squadron its first-ever Meritorious Unit Commendation.^[63] During this period in Florida, he had extramarital affairs and his marriage began to falter, about which he later stated, "The blame was entirely mine".^[65][66]

 

McCain served as the Navy's liaison to the U.S. Senate beginning in 1977.^[67] In retrospect, he said that this represented his "real entry into the world of politics and the beginning of my second career as a public servant."^[60] His key behind-the-scenes role gained congressional financing for a new supercarrier against the wishes of the Carter administration.^[61][68]

 

In April 1979,^[61] McCain met Cindy Lou Hensley, a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, whose father had founded a large beer distributorship.^[66] They began dating, and he urged his wife Carol to grant him a divorce, which she did in February 1980; the uncontested divorce took effect in April 1980.^[22][61] The settlement included two houses, and financial support for her ongoing medical treatments due to her 1969 car accident; they remained on good terms.^[66] McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators William Cohen and Gary Hart attending as groomsmen.^[21][66] McCain's children did not attend, and several years passed before they reconciled.^[24][61] John and Cindy McCain entered into a prenuptial agreement that kept most of her family's assets under her name; they kept their finances apart and filed separate income tax returns.^[69]

 

 

 

One reporter later recounted that, "McCain talked all day long with reporters on his Straight Talk Express bus; he talked so much that sometimes he said things that he shouldn't have, and that's why the media loved him."^[136]

Golly; sounds like Trump!!

[Elsie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#Commanding_officer,_liaison_to_Senate_and_second_marriage

 

 

Early life and education

John Sidney McCain III was born on August 29, 1936, at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, to naval officer John S. McCain Jr.(1911–1981) and Roberta (Wright) McCain(b. 1912). He had an older sister Sandy and a younger brother Joe.^[1] At that time, the Panama Canal was under U.S. control.^[2]

McCain's family tree includes Scots-Irish and English ancestors.^[3] His father and his paternal grandfather, John S. McCain Sr., were also Naval Academy graduates and both became four-star admirals in the United States Navy.^[4] The McCain family followed his father to various naval postings in the United States and the Pacific.^[1][5]

Altogether, he attended about 20 schools.^[6] In 1951, the family settled in Northern Virginia, and McCain attended Episcopal High School, a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria.^[7][8] He excelled at wrestling and graduated in 1954.^[9][10] He referred to himself as an Episcopalian as recently as June 2007 after which date he said he came to identify as a Baptist.^[11]

McCain at the Naval Academy, 1954

Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, McCain entered the United States Naval Academy, where he was a friend and informal leader for many of his classmates^[12] and sometimes stood up for targets of bullying.^[4] He also fought as a lightweight boxer.^[13] McCain did well in academic subjects that interested him, such as literature and history, but studied only enough to pass subjects that gave him difficulty, such as mathematics.^[4][14] He came into conflict with higher-ranking personnel and did not always obey the rules, which contributed to a low class rank (894 of 899), despite a high IQ.^[12][15] McCain graduated in 1958.^[12]

 

 

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Given this LATEST scandal involving higher learning, and that payoffs are discouraged and may even be illegal; I'm sure that 'influence peddling' will still be permitted.

 

 

 

[Elsie]

I almost typed “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”, but thought I’d better check first.

[grania]

I’m more than okay with whenever the “war hero” stuff is brought up that we bring up McCain leaving his disabled wife for young, rich, Cindy. Even for those who would forgive McCain (only because they’re irrational about Trump), it doesn’t excuse Cindy and their despicable spawn.

[Elsie]

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_McCain#Marriage_to_John_McCain

 

Her ex-husband would later state that he felt the demise of his marriage was due to his "selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was entirely mine." Regarding her divorce, McCain said, "The breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident or Vietnam or any of those things. I don't know that it might not have happened if John had never been gone. I attribute it more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again than I do to anything else."^[32] John McCain's biographer Robert Timberg wrote, however, "Vietnam did play a part, perhaps not the major part, but more than a walk-on."^[37] Ross Perot gave his own assessment of the McCain divorce: "After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol McCain] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona [Cindy McCain] and the rest is history."^[25] McCain's three children were initially upset with their father about the divorce, but later reconciled with him.^[23]

 

 

If you'd not looked THIS up; you would had THIS image in your mind about Carol...

 

 

[grania]

My image about the first wife was that she walked with a limp. There's only one place to put blame, and that's with McCain, whether or not VN was a factor. Anyone who tries to ignore the fact needs to be reminded of the key element. His first wife waited for McCain during his POW years. The divorce is all we need to know about McCain's character.

It's a big deal. Femnazis can't defend McCain without looking totally hypocritical, if this issue is primary.

[rjsimmon]

Wikipedia...