MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Hayley Britsky @ Axios.com, 3 hrs. ago
Sen. John McCain tweeted out a New York Times story Sunday morning, in which he was labeled the "unfettered voice against Trumpism." [....]
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Oh yeah, McCain is really laying into Trump. I just read this article.
“One aspect of the (Vietnam) conflict by the way that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur,” McCain — a former Navy pilot — said. “That is wrong. That is wrong.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 12:32am
Thanks. I checked and see he Re-tweeted a 2:19 min. video of that on his own feed:
So he is proud of it. The whole clip is a surprisingly subtle view, including on the protests. Surprising to me at least as I often find him more hawkish sounding.
Your quote is stated quite emphatically and the "wrong" is followed by "If we are going to ask every American to serve, then every American should serve".
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 1:13am
I like this meme, even though I don't agree with everything he sees, it's extremely thought-provoking:
Two Wounded Warriors
Senator John McCain and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly offered starkly different visions of service—and of America.
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 1:59am
Wait, I thought there was only 1 meme for america possible, but since i'm not military, what would I know?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 3:12am
It's amazing how often paraphrasing Bill's famous quote comes in handy: it all depends upon what your definition of a troop is AND then furthermore it all depends upon what your definition of support the troops is.
You know it's strange looking back over watching this meme played since "the blogosphere" ramped up only a couple years after Clinton left office. Because everyone in the left of the sphere hated Bushco dragging us in Iraq so much, they likewise not just loathed the whole "support the troops" game,a game actually meant to torture Clintonites, meant to hark back to supposed dissing of Vietnam vets. But by the time we got Obama, this strange switch seemed to happen. Because Mr. and Mrs. Obama, as loathe as they might be to like, wear flag pins, at least at the start, seemed to genuinely, genuinely want to put military life and the military families on a pedestal, from the getgo. As in: they actually seemed to admire the life. So all these liberals that once loathed the support the troops game, since they liked the Obamas, were all of a sudden "supporting the troops". And now we got generals in the White House that all Breitbart'ers are being taught to despise.
Even Hollywood couldn't do this culture flip flopping this fast. Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe it was all Tom Hanks' fault....
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 8:34pm
The follow through (a priority before he can't do it no more, I imagine?):
McCain calls for war powers debate after Niger attack
And Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford promised to ‘double my efforts’ to get Congress more information on the ambush.
@ Politico.com, 07:37 PM
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 9:13pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/24/2017 - 4:00am
McCain: We must fight 'propaganda and crackpot conspiracy theories'
By Jordain Carney @ The Hill, 10/30/17 10:40 PM EDT
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/31/2017 - 1:09am