bearrock Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Thank you for all of your service Senator McCain. May you rest in peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 RIP, Senator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 I hope there's truth to rumor he wants Obama to give his eulogy. I remember him defending Obama while campaigning against him, has my respect. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 6 minutes ago, Renegade7 said: I hope there's truth to rumor he wants Obama to give his eulogy. I remember him defending Obama while campaigning against him, has my respect. RIP Bush and Obama are rumored to have been asked to give the eulogy. His 2 political rivals. Since my friend's husband has the same thing, contacted her this evening to see how her husband was doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Springfield Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 I’m almost in tears. He was a tremendously good man. May not have agreed with everything he did politicallly but what he did, he did with conviction, and I have the utmost respect for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Statement from former President Barak Obama: "John McCain and I were members of different generations, came from completely different backgrounds, and competed at the highest level of politics. But we shared, for all our differences, a fidelity to something higher - the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched, and sacrificed. We saw our political battles, even, as a privilege, something noble, an opportunity to serve as stewards of those high ideals at home, and to advance them around the world. We saw this country as a place where anything is possible - and citizenship as our patriotic obligation to ensure it forever remains that way. "Few of us have been tested the way John once was, or required to show the kind of courage that he did. But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own. At John's best, he showed us what that means. And for that, we are all in his debt. Michelle and I send our heartfelt condolences to Cindy and their family." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 1 hour ago, redskins59 said: Really a guy who should have been president. RIP. He really should of been the guy to win the 2000 election. Not W. McCain was an incredible man. No doubt about it. Shame there aren't more public servants like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Evil Genius Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Fair winds, Senator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 A good man, an honorable public servant, and hero. I've had plenty of disagreements with his policy decisions and beliefs but I always had tons of respect for him. That was more true than ever after he became one of the lone dissenting congressional R voices against Trump. RIP, Senator McCain. You will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hersh Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Had picked up McCain's most recent book but had not started it until a couple of hours ago. He definitely takes not so subtle hard shots at all things Trump and the white nationalist following. Good read so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SoulSkin Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 I really can't think of anyone in my lifetime who better represented America. and it's ideals. He suffered and sacrificed greatly for them, and fought for his view of what they meant to him until the end. A true living, breathing hero, of the likes we may never see again. I am truly sad.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ExoDus84 Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 While I certainly didn't agree with some of his policies, there's no doubt he stuck to his convictions and always did what he thought was right. In an era of toxic, selfish politicking, he stood above it. He was a genuine American. RIP Senator. Thank you for your service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 I hope he passed without pain and in peace. It seems he and his family knew his time was over. He passed so quickly once they cut the treatment off. He was the candidate I liked best in 2000. I was angry with him when he backslid and compromised his position on torture during the Bush years. He wasn't perfect, but sometimes he was a voice of reason and very often I think he tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 RIP Sir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 I can't think about the death of John McCain without nearly crying. Perhaps I'm over-emotional. I graduated high school in 2000. In my junior and senior year I was very politically "aware". I took AP Government because I was interested in US government and all of its workings. In my formative years, there was nobody I held in a higher regard than John McCain. As a young adult, my views skewed conservative and McCain represented the level headed, even keeled conservative that I tried to embody. McCain would compromise, something of a political nuance that has been lost in today's spectrum. It was my hope that McCain would make the presidential ticket in 2000 and go on to be president. Sadly, Bush's spin machine caused his downfall and Bush went on to run the country and challenge my political leanings (but that's the subject of a different story). Through my college years and 20's my beliefs changed. While I still idolized McCain, I couldn't bring myself to vote for him (and that nut job Palin) in 2008. Barack Obama shared many of the characteristics that I admired in McCain and was speaking in a tone that I truly believed. So Obama solidified my political identity in my late 20's into today. McCain is still someone who I've had the highest level of respect over those years though. I'm sad that he's gone, there aren't many in government at this time who represent what McCain represents. Reading about his loss is like a dagger in the gut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 McCain is equally reviled by both the far-left and the far-right. That’s quite a badge of honor and something we should all aspire to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jumbo Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Through the woodland, through the valleyComes a horseman wild and freeTilting at the windmills passingWho can the brave young horseman be He is wild but he is mellowHe is strong but he is weakHe is cruel but he is gentleHe is wise but he is meek Reaching for his saddlebagHe takes a battered book into his handStanding like a prophet boldHe shouts across the ocean to the shoreTill he can shout no more I have come o'er moor and mountainLike the hawk upon the wingI was once a shining knightWho was the guardian of a king I have searched the whole world overLooking for a place to sleepI have seen the strong surviveAnd I have seen the lean grown weak See the children of the earth Who wake to find the table bareSee the gentry in the countryRiding off to take the air Reaching for his saddlebagHe takes a rusty sword into his handThen striking up a knightly poseHe shouts across the ocean to the shoreTill he can shout no more See the jailor with his keyWho locks away all trace of sinSee the judge upon the benchWho tries the case as best he can See the wise and wicked onesWho feed upon life's sacred fireSee the soldier with his gunWho must be dead to be admired See the man who tips the needleSee the man who buys and sellsSee the man who puts the collarOn the ones who dare not tell See the drunkard in the tavernStemming gold to make ends meetSee the youth in ghetto blackCondemned to life upon the street Reaching for his saddlebagHe takes a tarnished cross into his handThen standing like a preacher nowHe shouts across the ocean to the shore Then in a blaze of tangled hoovesHe gallops off across the dusty plainIn vain to search againWhere no one will hear Through the woodland, through the valleyComes a horseman wild and freeTilting at the windmills passingWho can the brave young horseman be He is wild but he is mellowHe is strong but he is weakHe is cruel but he is gentleHe is wise but he is meek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busch1724 Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Very sad to see this happen to such a good man. Beal said it pretty well a few posts ago. The Senator will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 5 hours ago, Springfield said: I can't think about the death of John McCain without nearly crying. Perhaps I'm over-emotional. This brings back memories from my first summer in college when I had an American Government class back in 2000 and the teacher would often bring up McCain and and his ideas for campaign finance reform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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