BECAUSE PRESIDENT TRUMP said John McCain was not a hero – Trump NEVER said McCain was a coward, contrary to Democrat lies – McCain’s daughter and a few others used McCain’s lying in state as a bully pulpit to castigate the president.
If the late Arizona senator wanted to, as he claimed, “bring the nation together,” she chose to speak enthusiastically against his hope.
MCCAIN invited political foes to eulogize him, which they did, and specifically did NOT want President Trump at his lying in state.
- We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness; the real thing," McCain said. "Not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served."1
Interesting. She could have been reviling invited speakers Obama and Bush. Obama never saw a day of military service and Bush dodged real service by joining the Texas Air National Guard. Obama keeps company with fellow Democrat Wm. Clinton.2
Vice President Pence, like Obama and Clinton, also managed to avoid military service3. Joe Biden “got a draft notice but flunked the physical due to asthma,” according to a 1987 Washington Post profile.
No argument that McCain served in the U.S. Navy as a pilot. Also no argument that being the son and grandson of Navy admirals McCain had “Vitamin P” that helped get several wrecked Navy planes forgiven4 and gained for him special treatment in the Navy.
It is true that McCain refused repatriation (early release) from a Vietnamese prison believing it unfair to other prisoners. There are those who suggest that McCain may have earned the Vietnamese offer due to his father’s position.
If bombing people you cannot identify from a fast moving aircraft is heroic, then John McCain was a hero.
McCain, on return from Vietnam, was promoted to Navy Captain (O-6) and assigned to Washington D.C.5 He and his first wife divorced and he married an Arizona woman whose influential father helped his new son-in-law enter politics.
McCain twice ran for president in GOP primaries.
In 2008, after winning a majority of delegates in the Republican primaries, he selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate for Vice President.
He lost to Obama in the general elections. It might be suggested that the election was race vs. sex (Obama the mulatto and Palin the woman.)
In both cases, McCain kept his seat in the Senate.
Interestingly, while McCain supported normalization with Vietnam, he was against President Trump’s efforts to denuclearize North Korea. McCain’s daughter, who vilified Trump at the lying in state,
- slammed President Trump on Tuesday (6/12/18) for his "buddy-buddy" meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whom she denounced as a "dictator."6
The cohost of ABC’s “The View” and daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said from her bully pulpit that, though she was initially on board with the summit, she was disturbed by the symbolism of both nations’ flags flying together in Singapore.
“We are not the same,” she continued. “[Kim’s North Korea] is completely and utterly the closest thing to Hitler’s Germany that exists in modern time. My problem was how far it went with the buddy-buddy, and there was no talk whatsoever of the human rights violations going on in that country.”
No doubt her description of North Korea’s government is correct, but someone had to open communications with China (Nixon) and look what that got the U.S. Her father pressed for normalization with Vietnam despite its treatment of him and other U.S. POWs. The U.S. still deals with Saudi Arabia – in fact Obama bowed to a Saudi price (but he bowed to many people).7 It also deals with a host of undemocratic governments that suppress human dignity. The only “excuse” is that no progress can be expected if there is no communication between governments.
You can’t catch a fish unless you go where the fish live.
I understand McCain’s daughter’s pain at the loss of her father, but using the lying in state as an opportunity to castigate her father’s sometime political opponents was unfortunate and in bad taste. For once Trump showed some restraint (something he should practice more often).
Sources
1. http://tinyurl.com/yawg6jvp
2. http://tinyurl.com/qjumhq5
3. http://tinyurl.com/y7xvyppz
4. http://tinyurl.com/y959bgwp
5. http://tinyurl.com/y8fu22nr
6. http://tinyurl.com/ybpvmxsu
7. http://tinyurl.com/ya7983kz
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.
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