Celebrating the signing of the 2019 military authorization funding bill at Fort Drum in upstate New York on Monday, President* Donald Trump New York made no mention of the man whose name is attached to the legislation: John McCain.Trump is a petty little excuse of a man. There are canines pooping in the park who are more dignified than Trump.
The John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 was named in honor of the longtime Arizona senator and former prisoner of war who is chair of the Senate Armed Service Committee and currently battling brain cancer.
It would have cost Trump nothing to have a moment of magnanimity for McCain. But that's not Trump; he has the temper and self-control of a toddler boy and the prickly sense of personal self of a tweener girl.
And as to why he can't seem to bring himself to condemn Nazis, I suspect it's less a matter of kowtowing to his base and more a matter of Trump sympathizing with them.
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On the one hand, you are correct....On the other, there is a train of thought that says McCain should be tried as a traitor.
While it would have cost nothing to mention him, I don't think he deserves the honor.
Neither, apparently, does TheDonald.
B, if you're referring to the attempt to tar McCain's reputation with the "songbird" moniker I can only say that my older veteran friends, nearly all of them very conservative, summarily reject that idea. They all disagree with his politics these days but they've talked to the POWs who served with McCain and all say his conduct was wholly honorable.
You can also check Snopes for a more fact-based debunking. Although I suspect the far-right will start condemning that site soon as its commitment to truth doesn't jive well with Trump...
McCain isn't Republican enough anymore. If you aren't in lockstep with neverserved radio hosts and the more extreme right, you are a RINO.
And yes, Snopes has been called unreliable by those shown to not be factually correct.
Ask the 134 sailors who died on the USS Forrestal what they think about "Hot start johnnie "
In all the time he has been a U.S. Senator, I have agreed with John McCain about perhaps two things and still strenuously disagree with him about everything else. Nevertheless, he is an authentic war hero and deserves respect and honor as such. To those who call McCain a traitor, I challenge you to endure the prolonged pain and torture he went through. My guess is, you'd be sniveling like a baby in two days, not two years. Or like a rich, spoiled draftee with bone spurs in his feet. Uh, make that alleged bone spurs.
Incidentally, why is it that so many who insist that "torture works" so ready to condemn a man who endured months and years of it before he finally broke — and only then a little? He is also the hero who refused to be liberated until his fellow prisoners were also liberated.
But hey, go suck up to President Bone Spurs. You deserve one another.
Yours with extreme crankiness,
The New York Crank
Yours with extreme crankiness,
The New York Cfrank
Richard, that's even smellier BS than what B's laying down. You're really going to trot out that old fake? You only have to go as far as the Wikipedia page to debunk that one. And of course Snopes has that one too.
If this stuff is the best you can come up with...
Richard:
STFU.
McCain handed Fergus an embarrassing legislative defeat (that also just happened to save the health insurance of a large number of his constituents) that got in the way of the massive tax cutting program the Republicans had backed Fergus to get to, and Fergus will never forgive him or forget the slight, because above almost everything else, he's a narcissist, and wouldn't give a rat's ass if McCain had single-handedly won the war, because it's all got to be about him before he cares about it at all.
-Doug in Oakland
bmq215 and 3383 And you depend on snopes an Wikipedia for your accurate information ?? As the Donald would say "Sad"
Where do you get yours, R?
Ladies and gentleman, I give you... the modern-day right wing!
So the official USN report on the events of that day are wrong, eh Richard? Please enlighten us upon your source for the “real facts”.
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