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| I have to admire Sen . John McCain's 30 years of audacity . |
Of ALL the Republicans Sen. John McCain was a man of principle . An old guard Republican not like the spineless Republicans we have now . His legacy is perhaps a complicated one, given the span of his life: he was a former Navy pilot, (#)>>Vietnam prisoner of war, and Republican presidential nominee, and spent 30 years as a United States senator. What made McCain stand out , apart from his fellow Republicans a video of his time on the campaign trail in 2008 resurfaced. In it (1.1)>>he defended Barack Obama, his rival for the presidency, in the face of constituents spouting racist conspiracies about the then-senator from Illinois.“I can’t trust Obama. I have read about him, and he’s not, um, he’s an Arab,” a woman said to McCain at a town hall meeting in Lakeville, Minnesota in October 2008.McCain grabbed the microphone from her, cutting her off. “No, ma’m,” he said. “He’s a decent family man [and] citizen that just I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what the campaign’s all about. He’s not [an Arab].” If you contrasted the rest of the Republican party that was slowly being eaten up by the Tea Party movement , finally influenced by the Birth-er Movement that was initially started by President Trump . (1.2)>>Sen John McCain was not your average Republican , he stood up against his own party recently . McCain made a name for himself with a new generation of Americans by casting the deciding vote against a cruel and ill-conceived plan to strip tens of millions of Americans of their health coverage. He said at the time that the hasty, partisan process showed his beloved Senate had lost its way. In his last book, he made clear that under President Donald Trump, America, too, has lost its way.
What I found Objectionable about Sen. McCain.
No question McCain was a war hero , he was a not your average Republican . However Sen. McCain had a dark side that can't be best not forgotten. After September 11th 2001 , Sen McCain was was an unlikely leader of the (2)>>Senate’s pro-war caucus. He suffered in the Vietnam War, which was both mistakenly and incompetently waged. He presciently opposed President Ronald Reagan’s disastrous intervention in the Lebanese civil war, was sometimes skeptical of U.S. involvement in the Balkans, criticized turning Somalia into an exercise in nation building, and denounced the Clinton administration’s plans to invade Haiti. These positions suggested a focus on both America’s interests and its capabilities. However, in his last few decades in the Senate, he turned into one of its most ferocious advocates of military intervention, almost irrespective of circumstance. Afghanistan and Iraq Obviously every US senator (besides California’s Barbara Lee) voted to give president George W. Bush the power to invade Afghanistan following the events of September 11th. However, McCain wasn’t happy with just moving to invade Afghanistan. No, he had other targets on his mind as early as the day after the towers fell. Despite McCain’s claim in 2014 that “the Iraq war probably wouldn’t have happened” if he had won the 2000 Republican primary and then general election, this assertion seems ridiculous. On September 12th 2001, McCain appeared on MSNBC presenting a long list of countries he felt were providing a “safe harbor” to groups like al Qaeda. This list of course included Iraq and several other countries that appear later on this list .Since the dawn of the 21st century, Senator McCain has been among the most hawkish Republican political figures. That became evident in 2002 when McCain proposed that the United States openly threaten to use military force unless Pyongyang capitulates on the nuclear issue. “After first responding appropriately to North Korean violations of the [1994] agreement and refusing even to discuss with North Korea its extortion demands." Sen . John McCain was a "man of war" obviously , while he will be remembered for other things he did that were more outspoke against his own political Party the Republicans .
Further thoughts on Sen John McCain.
We should be however be thankful that Sen. Obama defeated him to that political point in 2008. While Sen. John McCain was not your average Republican . Perhaps his choice for a VP is best demonstrated in Sarah Palin. Here McCain drifted away from the all male inclusive club of Republicans . I honestly thought it was a sort of gimmick to get the women to vote for him . While Palin was the wrong woman , she was a great embarrassment for him . But Palin personified a dangerous new strain. She (infamously) didn’t read much; put forth few policy positions beyond “drill, baby drill”; excelled at whipping up crowds into a frothing frenzy; and attacked Barack Obama in brazen, personal terms. Stylistically, she seemed to be almost completely at odds with McCain, a deeply conservative traditionalist who prefers military wars to cultural ones. The GOP love for Palin showed up on FOX NEWS nightly. There was no end about the Hockey moms , the sexist Piggy with the lipstick . Its hard to fathom John McCain as President , but I honestly caution that if Obama lost , we would be at war right [ really at war not joking ] now in the Middle-East . In foreign policy, McCain would probably keep active US involvement in the Middle East, which of course will cost billions. The more democratic of the Arab Spring governments/uprisings would probably get much more American help, while the military regimes get support of they can keep the terrorists at bay. McCain also would probably strengthen ties to NATO and Taiwan. He [ McCain] would have probably had a melt down over Russian and China . In Washington, he spent 35 years making policy. And in New Hampshire, he redefined how politicians ran for president, ensuring that more citizens got direct access to the next leader of the free world. Sen. Obama's 2008 win of the Presidency changed the course of our history . We should be glad how providence looks after the Nation . While John McCain lost . That defeat made him a much better man .
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(#)>>Vietnam prisoner of war. During the Vietnam War, McCain was held prisoner at the Hoa Lo Prison, which literally translates to "hell hole." The facility was better known as the Hanoi Hotel or the Hanoi Hilton as an ironic reference to the horrors that really occurred there. What the Arizona Senator went through in the service of his country is no secret. John McCain’s time as a POW is well-documented, thanks to accounts from McCain himself along with fellow captives.The inhumane treatment of POWs at the Hoa Lo Prison in Vietnam included solitary confinement, starvation, and outright torture in an effort to “break” prisoners. Many captives, including McCain, reached their personal breaking points, and beyond. As his captors tore at his clothes in the wake of the crash, McCain recalls realizing the extent of his injuries. When he noticed the injuries to his right leg –- which he says had fractured at the knee –- one of his captors slammed a rifle butt into his right shoulder, shattering it, the account said. He was then bayoneted in the abdomen and foot.Over the next few days, he “lapsed from conscious to unconsciousness” while the North Vietnamese interrogated him, he said. “I refused to give them anything except my name, rank, serial number and date of birth,” McCain said in the U.S. News report. “I was in such a bad shape that when they hit me it would knock me unconscious,” he said. (1)>>Sen John McCain was not your average Republican. John McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” barreled down what has become the road not taken for the Republican Party.McCain’s dramatic Senate floor thumbs-down repudiation of the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare turned less on his antipathy to Trump and more on his disgust with a broken party-line legislative process. McCain’s 2000 bid for the GOP presidential nomination is best remembered for his irreverence in the hours he spent happily jousting with reporters on the bus while his campaign strategists abandoned any hope of controlling, much less directing, his message.After losing a long-shot attempt to defeat George W Bush for the Republican nomination in 2000, Mr McCain returned to his service in the Senate, where he became a vocal critic of the way in which Mr Bush conducted the Iraq War, and, at the same time, a staunch supporter of continued American operations in the Middle East. (2)>>Senate’s pro-war caucus. Here are 11 countries that McCain wanted to destroy for his bosses. He recklessly promoted Georgia against Russia in those two countries’ short-lived war, advocated striking North Korea militarily, and sang about bombing Iran in a little ditty set to the Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann.” He proposed creating a no-fly zone in Sudan and intervening in Nigeria against the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. Last year, he urged the Trump administration to “choose the Kurds” over Iran and Iraq, since for decades the United States “has protected them from attacks, both from within and outside Iraq.” Ukraine was a disappointment, causing him to lament: “I do not see a military option, and that is tragic.”
What I found Objectionable about Sen. McCain.
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| While Sen. McCain takes a Visit in Syria , here he has a photo Op with members of ISIL (ISIS) . or a group of Syrian rebels Who were our allies trying topple the Assad regime . |
Further thoughts on Sen John McCain.
We should be however be thankful that Sen. Obama defeated him to that political point in 2008. While Sen. John McCain was not your average Republican . Perhaps his choice for a VP is best demonstrated in Sarah Palin. Here McCain drifted away from the all male inclusive club of Republicans . I honestly thought it was a sort of gimmick to get the women to vote for him . While Palin was the wrong woman , she was a great embarrassment for him . But Palin personified a dangerous new strain. She (infamously) didn’t read much; put forth few policy positions beyond “drill, baby drill”; excelled at whipping up crowds into a frothing frenzy; and attacked Barack Obama in brazen, personal terms. Stylistically, she seemed to be almost completely at odds with McCain, a deeply conservative traditionalist who prefers military wars to cultural ones. The GOP love for Palin showed up on FOX NEWS nightly. There was no end about the Hockey moms , the sexist Piggy with the lipstick . Its hard to fathom John McCain as President , but I honestly caution that if Obama lost , we would be at war right [ really at war not joking ] now in the Middle-East . In foreign policy, McCain would probably keep active US involvement in the Middle East, which of course will cost billions. The more democratic of the Arab Spring governments/uprisings would probably get much more American help, while the military regimes get support of they can keep the terrorists at bay. McCain also would probably strengthen ties to NATO and Taiwan. He [ McCain] would have probably had a melt down over Russian and China . In Washington, he spent 35 years making policy. And in New Hampshire, he redefined how politicians ran for president, ensuring that more citizens got direct access to the next leader of the free world. Sen. Obama's 2008 win of the Presidency changed the course of our history . We should be glad how providence looks after the Nation . While John McCain lost . That defeat made him a much better man .
NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(#)>>Vietnam prisoner of war. During the Vietnam War, McCain was held prisoner at the Hoa Lo Prison, which literally translates to "hell hole." The facility was better known as the Hanoi Hotel or the Hanoi Hilton as an ironic reference to the horrors that really occurred there. What the Arizona Senator went through in the service of his country is no secret. John McCain’s time as a POW is well-documented, thanks to accounts from McCain himself along with fellow captives.The inhumane treatment of POWs at the Hoa Lo Prison in Vietnam included solitary confinement, starvation, and outright torture in an effort to “break” prisoners. Many captives, including McCain, reached their personal breaking points, and beyond. As his captors tore at his clothes in the wake of the crash, McCain recalls realizing the extent of his injuries. When he noticed the injuries to his right leg –- which he says had fractured at the knee –- one of his captors slammed a rifle butt into his right shoulder, shattering it, the account said. He was then bayoneted in the abdomen and foot.Over the next few days, he “lapsed from conscious to unconsciousness” while the North Vietnamese interrogated him, he said. “I refused to give them anything except my name, rank, serial number and date of birth,” McCain said in the U.S. News report. “I was in such a bad shape that when they hit me it would knock me unconscious,” he said. (1)>>Sen John McCain was not your average Republican. John McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” barreled down what has become the road not taken for the Republican Party.McCain’s dramatic Senate floor thumbs-down repudiation of the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare turned less on his antipathy to Trump and more on his disgust with a broken party-line legislative process. McCain’s 2000 bid for the GOP presidential nomination is best remembered for his irreverence in the hours he spent happily jousting with reporters on the bus while his campaign strategists abandoned any hope of controlling, much less directing, his message.After losing a long-shot attempt to defeat George W Bush for the Republican nomination in 2000, Mr McCain returned to his service in the Senate, where he became a vocal critic of the way in which Mr Bush conducted the Iraq War, and, at the same time, a staunch supporter of continued American operations in the Middle East. (2)>>Senate’s pro-war caucus. Here are 11 countries that McCain wanted to destroy for his bosses. He recklessly promoted Georgia against Russia in those two countries’ short-lived war, advocated striking North Korea militarily, and sang about bombing Iran in a little ditty set to the Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann.” He proposed creating a no-fly zone in Sudan and intervening in Nigeria against the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. Last year, he urged the Trump administration to “choose the Kurds” over Iran and Iraq, since for decades the United States “has protected them from attacks, both from within and outside Iraq.” Ukraine was a disappointment, causing him to lament: “I do not see a military option, and that is tragic.”
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