McCain is relishing his role as chief Trump critic

By artappraiser on Sun, 10/22/2017 - 4:36pm |

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:

TONIGHT - @SenJohnMcCain talks about the Vietnam War's legacy on C-SPAN, at 6 & 10pm ET. pic.twitter.com/WnZT0n8Mcn
— American History TV (@cspanhistory) October 22, 2017

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 Eliot A. Cohen @ The Atlantic, Oct. 22

[....] But the speeches that will last—that historians will recall, that will live well beyond the moment—were delivered by two badly wounded warriors, one torn in body, the other in spirit. Senator John McCain, bearing the wounds of years of torture in a North Vietnamese prison, with an incurable cancer in his future, spoke while receiving a medal. John Kelly, grieving for his son lost in battle and for others like him, surprised and stunned reporters in a White House press conference. Their contrasting visions of this country, of military service, and of our future bear reflection [....]

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

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday seized on the deadly ambush in Niger to call for a new congressional authorization for U.S. military operations overseas.

McCain told reporters Monday that he and the Armed Services panel’s top Democrat, Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, are working on a proposal to update the broad war powers Congress gave the commander in chief after the 9/11 terrorist attacks [....]

“We’re going to have to have” an updated authorization for the use of military force, said McCain, who has previously called for a new war powers resolution [....]

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 9:13pm

It's time we lift the national dialogue, stop insulting each other & start respecting each other. @TheView pic.twitter.com/SdE3e7hQam
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) October 23, 2017

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

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took aim at the current political environment, including apparent veiled swipes at President Trump, during a speech on Monday night.

"We have to fight against propaganda and crackpot conspiracy theories. We have to fight isolationism, protectionism, and nativism. We have to defeat those who would worsen our divisions," McCain said at the Brigade of Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman added that "we have to remind our sons and daughters that we became the most powerful nation on earth by tearing down walls, not building them."

I believe in Americans and the American dream, but it’s time we wake up. pic.twitter.com/QmSIqP0TEs
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) October 30, 2017

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by artappraiser on Tue, 10/31/2017 - 1:09am

McCain is relishing his role as chief Trump critic

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