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.
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.
Posted at Basil’s Blog
We all have our flaws. McCain could be infuriating. It often seemed that he went out of his way to be so. But, on balance, he was no worse than most men and better than many. Let us bury our rancor with him.
Good essay and good comment. I agree with both of you.
It’s still wrong to throw around any of that crap without proof but I do wonder if a lot of the questions about his service reflect on his later treatment of his political “allies”. Its somewhat hard for me to reconcile the idea that his service was perfect honorable given his actions later in life.
For those unable to forgive McCain’s shortcomings let me make this suggestion: Do not think ill of him – do not think of him at all. McCain demonstrated many times over the years that he preferred your opprobrium to your inattention. For someone with his ego being ignored is the worst fate.
What is odd is that, evidently in North Carolina a bunch of lefty students BIRM, chanted derogatory slogans about him and they were probably close to being the same things a lot of righties have been saying about him as well.
I too, with many misgivings, voted for McCain in 2008. I never could, however, shake the thought that he had received 6 years of post graduate studies in a Communist capital. What did they teach him?
I voted for Palin. I firmly believe he would have been worse than 0bama, because without 0bama we would never have gotten Trump. We’d have gotten the same socialism from McCain only it would be my fault and we’d never recover from it.
Maybe he should be buried at the Tomb of the Underwear-Gnome Soldier.
(1) Steele dossier
(2) ???????
(3) Impeachment!
The Steele dossier was a put up job by Clinton, the DNC, and Obama. McCain may have planted the idea but it was the Democrats that made it grow.
McCain also served as the Western Disunion courier of it.
If McCain were a young Airman again he would be a Drone Operator and would be playing it like an enthusiastic kid playing ‘Call of Duty’ for the very first time. “Take that you Commie Bastards!” “Can you feel my heat sensing laser guided smart bombs now”?!..as he commands his drone to do a quadruple triple roll.