I haven’t said much about John McCain’s death. Heck, before now, I haven’t said anything about it. Not even to people privately.

There’s not anything I could add to what people have said. I will say that I voted for John McCain for president in 2008 because he was a better choice than the idiot the Democrats nominated. I had some strong online disagreements with some people at that time. They said he was no better than Obama. I thought just about anybody would be better than Obama. I still feel that way.

I don’t regret my 2008 vote. McCain wouldn’t have been the president I wanted, but he would have been a better president that what we got. I thought that then, and I think that now.

I wasn’t a big fan of his throughout his political career, but I did respect his service. I’ve seen people online trashing his service, and I don’t particularly care for that. Don’t like his politics? Fine. I’m right there with you. Don’t like his service? I’m not gonna join you on that.

One thing in particular that’s been going around again relates to the aircraft carrier fire that killed 134 service members. Yes, McCain’s plane was the source of the fuel that fed the fire. No, McCain wasn’t responsible. The Navy determined that a missile was accidentally launched from elsewhere on the carrier, that the missile hit two planes (including McCain’s) and started a spill that was ignited by the missile rocket engines, and that the missile landed in the ocean without exploding.

[The YouTube]

How much of those statements about McCain are from misinformation or people that just don’t care about the facts, I don’t know. I’m not a fan of either.

What I’d rather focus on are the good things. Like I mentioned, I didn’t always agree with McCain on some things, many things, in fact. But let me conclude with this appearance on Saturday Night Live, from back when it was funny.

[DailyMotion]

Posted at Basil’s Blog