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McCain voted against the MLK

NCD — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:06:14 +0000

McCain voted against the MLK holiday in the 80s, our own MW had a CNN column on McCain's 'showers horror' at the ending of DADT in 2010.

Pentagon surveys showed openly gay troops were not going to be a problem, and they haven't been. 7 or 8 GOP senators voted to end the DADT nonsense, not McCain

Anyone with a modicum of cognitive social awareness who has been in the military, knows gays were serving with them and along side them, and didn't give a crap "as long as they could shoot straight" - a quote from Barry Goldwater.

He caved to the right wing loons by picking Palin.

He has more use of his arm than Senator Daniel Inouye ever did after his arm was blown off by a German grenade in Italy.

Inouye was in the all Jap-Am 442nd, the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of American warfare.

All while their families were put in concentration camps. Every one of those volunteers understood what America was about more than McCain, the son of an admiral, who has had government medical care his whole life, yet was counted on as a vote to take health care insurance away from 32 million.

What lasting imprint McCain has left for future generations, aside from his indomitable survival as a POW is not clear to me.

If he is on his way out, or

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 04:38:50 +0000

In reply to eh, I don't know, call me

If he is on his way out, or whenever that time comes, I hope it is painless or can be made that way. I know that he suffered already more than any person ever should. Physically and psychically. The effects of both have long been evident. When he does pass he will be hailed a national hero. I will disagree.

So far he's resisting Trump

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 04:34:00 +0000

In reply to eh, I don't know, call me

So far he's resisting Trump on Russian collusion and I think health care. Trump's smartass comment as he went into surgery will probably piss off McCain more. Hope he stays around.

eh, I don't know, call me

artappraiser — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:57:45 +0000

In reply to Hopefully he will live long

eh, I don't know, know you're being facetious, but even so....call me cynical but when you do your own health care Rambo style while a P.O.W., including not being treated for all kinds of broken bones and torture, so for the rest of your life you have handicaps like you can't raise your arms above your waist, you might not be so sympathetic to someone with like, an stye on their eyelid or even limb paralysis. It's a known tough guy thing that I happen to abhor: quit yur whining, push through the pain, know plenty of guys who have lived through a lot less and think it, the type that don't believe in most of what doctors do. I suspect he might have a bit of this attitude, to sum up: too much health care bad for people.

Hopefully he will live long

NCD — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:44:48 +0000

In reply to Sen. John McCain has brain cancer, aggressive tumor surgically removed

Hopefully he will live long enough to create from scratch and sponsor that long fabled Republican health plan that will magically cover all at freedom prices and without one billionaire taxed a dime to pay for it.

I mostly don't agree with his

artappraiser — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:44:08 +0000

In reply to I never liked this Senator;

I mostly don't agree with his political and general world views either. Nor some of his political tactics. But unlike with perhaps 80% of the people who share those views, I believe he holds them because he thinks they will result in good for people in general. That he wants to serve. That he has integrity. That is because of what he went through in Vietnam; I believe no one who survives that kind of horrific life changing experience wastes time on bullshitting people. They know how important every human life is. (Especially someone who was a party boy before undergoing the experience) Without him and few others supporting conservative views, I might not even consider them genuine beliefs at all. So someone like him challenges my views, whereas with others I just dismiss them as not genuine or not informed or that they are just not good human beings.

That said, the most disappointing thing he ever did for his reputation with me was select Sarah Palin for a V.P. running mate! I still can't get my mind around that mistake and synch it with what I know about him. Maybe the brain tumor was already pressing on a certain part of his brain....

P.S. I heard O'Donnell say Mom McCain was 105! 105! Another thing: strange, as per the CNN article, that this is the same exact cancer that took down Ted Kennedy.

I never liked this Senator;

Richard Day — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 02:30:32 +0000

In reply to Sen. John McCain has brain cancer, aggressive tumor surgically removed

I never liked this Senator; he voted with repubs 99 percent of the time out of loyalty.

But he is and was a gooooooooood American!

His mom is like 97? And still alive.

I wish him the best.

John McCain is an American

artappraiser — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 02:09:09 +0000

In reply to Sen. John McCain has brain cancer, aggressive tumor surgically removed

John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 20, 2017