Obama's eulogy to McCain is unequalled
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Anonymous
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I’m a progressive and I like trump more than mcstain
Trump makes me laugh sometime with his absurdity and I like that in the long run he is poisoning the R brand. Mcstain is just poison through and through |
Anonymous
I don't know if the decision not to invite Palin was his or the family after he died. But the reason they did not want her there is obvious. It was the first major decision he made after he won the nomination and he f-ed it up royally by selecting someone who was clearly not qualified to be vice president. The family did not want Palin there as a reminder of his screw up. What is more amazing is that he did not invite any of his chief campaign aides like Steve Schmidt or Nicole Wallace. |
Anonymous
In other words, she was equally qualified to be V.P. as McCain was qualified to be President. Which is--not qualified. As exemplified by the fact that he chose her. One of the most important actual functions of a chief executive officer, is picking the right people to serve under him or her. In any event, that was ten years ago, it wasn't her fault that he picked her, and the point is that while perhaps you could justify not inviting Trump if you find him distasteful (still not an excuse when the funeral was purported to be the functional equivalent of a "state funeral" not a private citizen funeral), nothing we know about Palin suggests that she is similar to Trump in having distasteful personal habits such as molesting beauty queens and porn stars. So--failing to invite Palin completely negates any "point" McCain and his family thought they were trying to make about "this great country" by not inviting Trump. It confirms that the real reason neither was invited was McCain's personal pettiness, and failure to take responsibility and own up to the fact that he just wasn't a very good candidate. |
Anonymous
They did an awful job for him. |
Anonymous
| I don't think McCain deserved a state funeral but I was glad he got it because it made rumpus positively green with jealousy and he knows no former president will ever eulogize him. |
Anonymous
Democrats and liberals didn't vilify him in 2008. Palin was a terrible choice for VP and unfortunately, it was hard to take his candidacy seriously after that pick. But most liberals I know very much respected McCain and his fundamental decency as an opponent and his prominence as a patriot and leader. It's sad that so many McCain haters / Trumpkins are manufacturing crap to erode McCain's legacy - a legacy that is supported by Americans across both parties. I didn't always agree with his politics, but always respected the man. |
Anonymous
+1 I seriously considered him until he picked Palin. -D |
Anonymous
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Mcstain has more innocent blood on his hands than trump.
Facts. |
Anonymous
Two morons. |
Anonymous
Your comment says more about you than Obama. |
Anonymous
And so who hired Schmidt and Wallace? You see? Did they really deserve to be snubbed and disinvited? No. McCain is a b.s. artist who tried to create a completely false "legacy" by erasing inconvenient people, and facts, and disavowing responsibility for himself. That's why leftists like him so much, and why he liked leftists so much. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
The capacity of liberals for revisionism is amazing. Here was what Democrats said about McCain when he was running for president in 2008: The Republican nominee for president didn’t have the “temperament” to be commander in chief, charged Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, adding that he “can’t stand” the guy. Moveon.org called him “reckless” and “dangerous.” Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., warned that the GOP candidate was a modern day George Wallace and his rhetoric “is playing with fire.” Donald Trump in 2016? No, John McCain, 2008. Call it the McCain conundrum. Through much of the last two decades, McCain, who died a week ago, was the darling of Democrats and a beloved figure to political reporters, whom he jokingly referred to as his “base.” When he had a bite at the Oval Office, however, those groups abandoned him, and treated him as they’ve treated so many other conservatives. “When he was taking on George Bush or Donald Trump, he was every Democrat’s favorite Republican. When he was running against Barack Obama, not so much,” said Dan Schnur, a professor at Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications, who was communications director for McCain’s 2000 campaign. During the 2008 campaign, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the GOP nominee for president “an unappealing candidate” who has “done great things for our country, but he doesn’t particularly empathize with the plight of the average person.” Ten years later, but mere hours after McCain’s death Saturday, Schumer announced on Twitter that he would introduce a resolution to rename the Russell Senate Office Building for McCain. “His dedication to his country and the military were unsurpassed, and maybe most of all, he was a truth teller — never afraid to speak truth to power in an era where that has become all too rare,” Schumer said. “If Bob Dole dies tomorrow, Schumer’s not proposing naming the Hart (Senate Office) Building after him,” Olsen said of the former Republican senator from Kansas. Dole rose higher in the august body, first as Senate minority leader, then Senate majority leader. And like McCain, Dole is a war hero who was severely wounded in combat and never regained the full use of his arms. The difference, as Olsen sees it, was that Dole, who endorsed Trump in 2016, did not hector Republicans as McCain at times did. https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/mccain-was-darling-of-democrats-until-he-ran-for-president/ |
Anonymous
I almost forgot how many times an orator could say “I” in a speech. Thank you Barry for reminding me. |