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John McCain’s complicated relationship with President Trump President Trump's acrimonious relationship with Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has been one of the defining features of his presidency so far. In remarks that started percolating on the campaign trail and have persisted in the years since, Trump has criticized the former presidential nominee, focusing on his military service and the time he spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Once he took office, the president targeted issues McCain voted on that opposed his policies –- and continued blasting McCain even after his brain cancer diagnosis. Trump’s fixation on the former presidential nominee seemed to begin well before he came to Washington. Back in 1999, Trump insulted McCain’s military service, a foreshadowing of his message on the campaign trail. “He was captured. Does being captured make you a hero? I don’t know. I’m not sure,” Trump said in an interview with Dan Rather that year. More than 15 years later, Trump reprised that broadside shortly after announcing his presidential bid. “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump repeated in 2015. In 1967, after McCain’s bomber was hit, the then-Navy pilot ejected himself and was captured by North Vietnamese combatants. McCain was imprisoned for five years, underwent torture and refused to be released early unless every man captured before him was also set free. The effects of the injuries from his ejection, torture and inadequate medical treatment left him permanently incapable of raising either arm above his shoulders. Besides McCain’s military service, the other major line of attack, which Trump kept as part of his stump speech after the senator announced he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, was on his vote against the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. McCain flew back from Arizona, where he was already receiving treatment, in July 2017, and delivered a body blow to the bill by brandishing a dramatic thumbs down -- the third and last Republican needed to sink the legislation -- during the vote on the so-called “skinny repeal” bill. It seemed to blindside the president, who he earlier had tweeted with the apparent assumption that McCain was returning to Washington to help pass the bill. Since then, Trump has made McCain’s no-vote a signature attack line in nearly every campaign speech, though never referring to McCain by name. His most recent use of this attack was in West Virginia, just three days before the McCain family announced he was stopping treatment, and only four days before the Arizona Republican died. “I will tell you [Obamacare] is being chipped away. We had it beaten, but one man, I'm sure nobody knows who I'm talking about, voted no, shockingly. To -- really surprising to a lot of people because he campaigned on repeal and replace -- but we've really knocked it out, including the individual mandate,” Trump said. These types of remarks were frequently met with boos and jeers from the audience. And the negativity directed at McCain seemed to trickle down through the rest of his White House. In May, a White House official, Kelly Sadler, remarked in a closed-door meeting that McCain’s opinion of CIA director nominee Gina Haspel didn’t matter because “he’s dying anyway.”  Honesty is the best policy. |
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Senator McCain was a Republican, but he had the integrity, dignity and core value that Sarah Palin and Trump don't have. Senator McCain invited his two rivalries, George W. Bush (Republican) and Barack Obama (Democrat) and VP, Joe Biden, to deliver eulogy at his funeral. McCain lost the presidential election in 2000 over George W. Bush and lost another presidential election in 2008 over Barack Obama. Honesty is the best policy.
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Complicated is the right word. What happens when a Maverick and an Outsider/Swamp-drainer cross paths, it get's complicated. That does not mean you have to choose one man or the other. John McCain was a Hero, as an old sailor I say that with conviction. The accomplishments of President Trump cannot be denied either, all economic statistics are near or are breaking records, we are respected by the rest of the world again, trade deals that benefit American workers are being made. So, they clashed, and did it openly for all to see. Neither men would have it any other way.
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Joe Biden: 'I'm a Democrat and I love John McCain' Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a deeply personal eulogy for his friend John McCain on Thursday. Speaking at McCain’s funeral in Phoenix, Biden captured the imagination of the crowd from his opening line: “My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democrat and I love John McCain.” Other speakers at the funeral included Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald Jr., who had developed what he called an “unlikely” friendship with the senator, family friend Tommy Espinoza, and Grant Woods, a friend and a former attorney general of Arizona. Biden’s speech, however, stood out. Drawing on the tragedies suffered in his own life — the deaths of his first wife and daughter in a car accident in 1972, and his son Beau from cancer in 2015 — Biden offered consolation to McCain’s family, calling his absence “all-consuming.” “I pray you take some comfort knowing that because you shared John with all of us your whole life, the world now shares with you the ache of John’s death,” Biden said. But the bulk of Biden’s remarks reflected on a friendship that “transcended” political differences. “I trusted John McCain with my life,” Biden said, later adding, “Whenever I was in trouble, John was the first guy there.” The frontrunner of early polls for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Biden gave a speech that was as a fitting tribute to his friend and a rallying cry to Americans put off by the divisive politics of President Trump, who was not invited to the ceremony. “I was thinking this week about why John’s death hit the country so hard,” Biden said, before adding, “I think it’s because they knew that John believed so deeply and so passionately in the soul of America.” Biden portrayed McCain’s life as equal parts metaphor and inspiration. “John’s story is the American story, grounded in respect and decency, basic fairness, the intolerance for the abuse of power,” Biden said. But Biden also proclaimed that “McCain’s impact on America is not over,” and left the audience with another prediction: “To paraphrase Shakespeare, we shall not see his like again.” Honesty is the best policy.
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Sarah Palin is NOT invited to senator McCain's funeral. Trump is NOT invited to attend the funeral either. Honesty is the best policy.
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Today, Aug 29, would be John McCain's 82nd birthday but he died few days before. Senator McCain asked his two presidential election rivalries, two former presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama to deliver the eulogy and they will deliver the eulogy on Saturday. Senator McCain didn't want Trump to attend his funeral. The VP, Mike Pence probably will be substitute for Trump. Honesty is the best policy.
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Senator John McCain's last words. My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow Arizonans, Thank you for the privilege of serving you and for the rewarding life that service in uniform and 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 have often observed that I am the luckiest person on earth. I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life. I have loved my life, all of it. I have had experiences, adventures and friendships enough for ten 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 anyone else's. I owe that 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 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. We have acquired great wealth and 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 have always been. We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five 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 the heartfelt faith in Americans that I felt so powerfully that evening. I feel it powerfully still. Do not despair of our present difficulties but 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, and God bless America. Honesty is the best policy.
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McCain, who has died at the age of 81, was a naval bomber pilot, prisoner of war, conservative maverick, giant of the Senate, twice-defeated presidential candidate and an abrasive American hero with a twinkle in his eye. The Arizonan warrior politician, who survived plane crashes, several bouts of skin cancer and brushes with political oblivion, often seemed to be perpetually waging a race against time and his own mortality while striving to ensure that his five-and-a-half years as a Vietnam prisoner of war did not stand as the defining experience of his life. He spent his last few months out of the public eye in his adopted home state of Arizona, reflecting on the meaning of his life and accepting visits from a stream of friends and old political combatants. In a memoir published in May, McCain wrote that he hated to leave the world, but had no complaints. He was an honorable man and a patriot. We will miss him. Honesty is the best policy.
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During the 2008 campaign, a woman said she couldn't trust Obama because “he’s an Arab.” John McCain shook his head. “No ma’am. He’s a decent family man and citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what this campaign’s about.” In spite of political differences, McCain stood-up to correct that woman's prejudice about Obama. In spite of Obama's skin color, McCain has respected his opponent, Obama. In contract to Sarah Palin (Tea Party) and Trump, John McCain was a man with integrity and dignity. He was a POW (Prisoner of the War) in Vietnam for five and a half years until his release on March 14, 1973. He loved his country, USA, served in military, endured torture in Vietnam and earned a "maverick" persona. How could Trump physically mock McCain as a disabled former prisoner of war?? Did Trump ever serve his military obligation?? I, as a U.S. citizen, I voted for a POTUS base on his or her personality, behavior, attitude, the proper language, the "core value", ..... I don't care about the money, wealth, the color of skin, .... I would voted for McCain in 2008, but he made a big mistake by choosing Sarah Palin (the former Alaska governor), a loud mouth, stupid woman as his running mate that cost McCain losing the election in 2008. I respect McCain contribution for this country. He was an "Honorable man". Honesty is the best policy.
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