John McCain Appreciation

He's that Guy wrote:

J Gray wrote:

Outrageous nonsense. He was not only a public figure, but a powerful politicians who affected billions of people. Nobody should be intimidated into moderating their comments under any circumstances. People shouldn't go out of their way to cause offence to grievers, but the public sphere is completely different. Critics shouldn't turn up to the funeral, but grievers shouldn't follow critical discussion in the news if they only wish to hear that he was a hero. It is truly sickening that people on here are trying to draw attention away from his gargantuan crimes on the flimsy premise that it might cause offence to his relatives.

..until someone in your family passes away, then it's new rules..

There are no rules. People can say what they like. Nobody will get in trouble for telling the truth about McCain and nobody will get in trouble for saying it's in poor taste to tell the truth about McCain.

It's disgraceful that people would use his death to try to intimidate and silence debate. People are allowed to be disgraceful shills for the military-industrial complex and people are allowed to criticise them.

456 wrote:

FFF wrote:

As a Democrat, and former D1 runner

Ok, I get the Democrat part. But what does a D1 runner have to do?

456 wrote:

FFF wrote:

As a Democrat, and former D1 runner, RIP American hero John McCain.

Ok, I get the Democrat part. But what does being a D1 runner have to do with any of this?

Gonna guess it was an inside joke playing off the recent "as a D1 runner" threads.

Classless Clintonetter supporter identified! wrote:

Classless Trump supporter identified! wrote:

Found the classless Trump supporter ^here. What’s even better is he probably voted for McCain in 2008...and possibly in 2000 too. You Trumpers really yearn for authoritarian rule don’t you? #sad

You Clintonettes really yearn for free programs and free ride, don't you? Sad.

Guesser wrote:

456 wrote:

Ok, I get the Democrat part. But what does being a D1 runner have to do with any of this?

Gonna guess it was an inside joke playing off the recent "as a D1 runner" threads.

OK genius, can you explain the "hero" comment?

grumpyoldman wrote:

And, I think he was a supreme jerk for not resigning his seat so someone can actually represent AZ residents.

The citizens of Arizona elected McCain to the Senate 7 times and to Congress before that. If he wasn't representing their views they had many opportunities to elect someone else. They knew exactly who they were getting.

Weiselberg wrote:

Guesser wrote:

Gonna guess it was an inside joke playing off the recent "as a D1 runner" threads.

OK genius, can you explain the "hero" comment?

You seem to be confused between two words which, while having similarities, are different.

"Guesser" and "genius" both start with the letter "g". Both have one "e" and one "u". And both have at least one "s". So they do have a lot in common.

Still, they are different. The first clue for you should have been that the second letter in "guesser" is a "u" while the second letter in "genius" is an "e". A good rule of thumb is that words whose second letter is not the same are not the same words.

You could have just said "no"

This may surprise you, but if you are logically consistent and call yourself a right winger you to should be anti war. For the state/tyranny grows the most during times of war. I'm as far right as you can get on the political compass and I am extremely anti war(it's called thinking for yourself, being logically consistent and rejecting the duopoly). You can't be for a small government and be pro war.

Avocado's Number wrote:

Yes, he was a great man. wrote:

Remember during the 2008 campaign when, at one of his rallies, a bat-$hit crazy old lady starting going on and on about how Obama was a Muslim and McCain stopped her mid-sentence and corrected her. I believe he even said Obama was a “fine man” but that he disagreed with almost all Obama’s policies.

When I think of John McCain, that's the first thing that comes to my mind. Here's a clip of that exchange, and a similar one that took place on that same evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrnRU3ocIH4

This is what McCain's response should have been (if he actually wanted to win the campaign).

Women; "he's an Arab"

McCain; "You're misinformed ma'am, he's not an Arab, he's a half-white progressive that will bring our country to the brink of catastrophic socialism. You don't need to claim he's an Arab to argue he'll be a horrible president, Barak will be a horrible president all on his own." (Mike drop. Crowd goes wild.) Then MSM talks about McCain's inappropriate comments for the next 2 weeks, all the while giving you free press and repeating the same insults you just said about Obama. This has the effect of making people repeatedly hear Obama, Socialist, Arab, Horrible President, Half-white, repeated over and over to their subconscious mind for the next 14 days. Also, the "half-white" insult would make Blacks question their kinship with Barak, and it sounds like "half-wit." People would have that in their mind every time Barak takes his long pauses in the midst of his completely boring sentences, and people would be subconsciously thinking "he sure thinks slowly."

That's how you win a campaign in our post reality-TV culture.

Lets all take a moment to thank a true American patriot and all he’s done for the good of the country. Thank you John Mcains brain tumor for ridding us of that war monger, songbird, Obamacare loving, globalist controlled opposition, abandoner of disabled wives nightmare of a senator.

Fixed that for you

Appreciator of Patriots wrote:

Lets all take a moment to thank a true American patriot and all he’s done for the good of the country. Thank you John Mcains brain tumor for ridding us of that war monger, songbird, Obamacare loving, globalist controlled opposition, abandoner of disabled wives nightmare of a senator.

LOL

NewtotheSouthSide wrote:

I hope that my children will have better heroes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

I guess he did not love his first wife as much as he loved his country

douglas burke wrote:

The 2 things that impressed me the most about McCain was when he was a prisoner of war and they used every torture technique on him imaginable to try to get information, the only information he gave them was his name, rank and that he loved his country so much, he would never tell them anything and he NEVER DID.

The other thing that was impressive was when Trump said McCain was not a Hero for being captured (Which is true, McCain was a hero because he never caved when he was tortured) McCain never let that bother him and he never tried to get back at Trump in any way.

McCain was a truly Jingoistic Patriotic American, who went through life totally in love with the USA.

He did try to get back at Trump. He started the Steele Dosier, AND he voted against what the overwhelming majority of the conservative constituents wanted (the obamacare vote) because of his petty grudge against Trump.

In the last 2 years of his life, McCain soundly earned the hatred that real Conservatives have for him. It's sad that this is the case, but your reap what you sow.

More evidence of this “patriots” legacy...

If everyone who has posted here/Facebook/twitter/etc about what an amazing man, what a great leader, what a devoted servant to the US had actually voted for him, McCain would have been the first nearly unanimously elected President of the United States.

I think someone should have started a John McCain criticism thread for the people that don’t know what respect and appreciation are.

I disagreed with McCains’s politics and did not vote for him.

I can still respect people that I disagree with.

McCain was unique and maybe a throwback to a time where elected officials would act on country over party.

I can appreciate that he cast the vote that would sink the ACA repeal.

I can appreciate that he carried himself respectfully.

The things that he pursued that I disagreed with were things he believed, vs. things to get votes or toe the party line.

How can you respect someone with what he did as far as foreign policy is concerned? This isn't disagreement on petty issues. Put yourself in the shoes of those in the middle east on the receiving end of the us war machine.