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Eulogizing McCain? Barf. That's like seeing how far you can fire shit in the air with a cannon.

Nauseating shameless publicity stunts re-writing history show you who the assholes really are.

Had to remind my Black Liberal leaning friend today that part of the Liberal mind fuck is they've got him defending John McCain and his right to a Presidential Burial through hive thinking .

After he thought about it, he was quite disgusted with himself. When we remembered the shit that his party said about McCrapstain during the 2008 election.

Eight years ago this month, John McCain took the New Hampshire primary and was favored to win in South Carolina. Had he succeeded, he would likely have thwarted the presidential aspirations of George W. Bush and become the Republican nominee. But Bush strategist Karl Rove came to the rescue with a vicious smear tactic.

Rove invented a uniquely injurious fiction for his operatives to circulate via a phony poll. Voters were asked, "Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain…if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?" This was no random slur. McCain was at the time campaigning with his dark-skinned daughter, Bridget, adopted from Bangladesh.

It worked. Owing largely to the Rove-orchestrated whispering campaign, Bush prevailed in South Carolina and secured the Republican nomination. The rest is history–specifically the tragic and blighted history of our young century. It worked in another way as well. Too shaken to defend himself, McCain emerged from the bruising episode less maverick reformer and more Manchurian candidate.

https://www.thenation.com/article/dirty-tricks-south-carolina-and-john-mccain/

Lovin' the Media today

"Why, we didn't Wellstone the Funeral. We just spent all day talking about how great Meghan McCain ripped into Trump and how dare Trump play golf when he wasn't invited to a funeral and not mentioning that Snide old Snickery McCain disinvited his 2008 Running Mate who never said an unkind word about him."

A pox on Obama and Bush for their petty attacks.

There's nothing like a captive audience to a couple of politicians. It's like a bottle of cheap vodka dangled in front of a Sterno bum, irresistible.

Ironically, I don't think McCain would have minded one bit that his eulogy be used to attack someone that he hated.

We can at least be satisfied that the voters have soundly rejected the ideology of all three, McCain, Obama and Bush.

Their anger is really at the American voters but they like most people direct their anger at the winner of the election, they need someone to personify the voters.

Everyone who is wrong feels the same way; why don't people understand me and appreciate what I am doing?

Marcus, do you think it will be Tuesday or Wednesday when the tombstone rolls aside as the Risen McCain will emerge in all his Glory?

This really has become quite the alt-right forum.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Marcus, do you think it will be Tuesday or Wednesday when the tombstone rolls aside as the Risen McCain will emerge in all his Glory?

He'll probably accidentally set fire to thirty or forty innocent bystanders with his halo then yell at them for getting in his way.

Bush and Obama will be the gift that keeps on giving to your grandchildren.

They'll be paying taxes to cover the interest payments on the huge debt both ran up; Bush with $6 trillion in dictator toppling, Obama in "regime change" and welfare and windmills.

clambo says

A pox on Obama and Bush for their petty attacks.

I take it these are what constitutes "petty attacks" in your book ?

OBama with this ?

"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. It's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but in fact is born of fear. John called on us to be bigger than that. He called on us to be better than that."

or this ?

"But John understood that our security and our influence was won not just by our military might, not just by our wealth, not just by our ability to bend others to our will, but from our capacity to inspire others with our adherence to a set of universal values, like rule of law and human rights, and an insistence on the God-given dignity of every human being."

or this ?

"John cared about the institutions of self-government, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, rule of law, separation of powers, even the arcane rules and procedures of the Senate. He knew that in a nation as big and boisterous and diverse as ours, those institutions, those rules, those norms are what bind us together. They give shape and order to our common life, even when we disagree. Especially when we disagree. John believed in honest argument"

Or perhaps especially this ? (referring to the time McCAin defended him as a decent family man citizen in the 2008 campaign)

"And I’m certain that in those moments that have been referred to during the campaign, he saw himself as defending America's character, not just mine."

Here is what I presume must be what you think was Bush's petty attacks.

"John was, above all, a man with a code. He lived by a set of public virtues that brought strength and purpose to his life and to his country.

He was courageous – with a courage that frightened his captors and inspired his countrymen.

He was honest, no matter whom it offended. Presidents were not spared. (Laughter.)

He was honorable – always recognizing that his opponents were still patriots and human beings.

He loved freedom, with the passion of a man who knew its absence.

He respected the dignity inherent in every life - a dignity that does not stop at borders and cannot be erased by dictators.

Perhaps above all, John detested the abuse of power. He could not abide bigots and swaggering despots. There was something deep inside him that made him stand up for the little guy – to speak for forgotten people in forgotten places."

In my opinion, if any of the above can be seen as an attack (let alone a "petty attack) on Donald Trump, I would argue they are things that sorely needed to be said by true patriots. None of those statements should be seen as an attack against any President that deserved to be President of the US.

Only a disloyal unamerican deplorable asshole of the worst kind could deny that I'm right about this.

clambo says

Bush and Obama will be the gift that keeps on giving to your grandchildren.

This from a guy who I assume thinks that under Trump while spending increases from Obama levels, the tax cuts going mostly to high increments of income are just wonderful.

Guess what it's doing to the deficit ? Next republicans go after social security and medicare. IT's so awesome, right ?

marcus says

the tax cuts going mostly to high increments of income are just wonderful.

That's because those are the people who pay the majority of the taxes NOW.

Pretty basic knowledge that even a math teacher should understand.

Somehow, the Dems think the people paying zero federal taxes now, should get a bigger tax cut.

MrMagic says

Somehow, the Dems think the people paying zero federal taxes now, should get a bigger tax cut.

How about we just don't borrow money and give it to the top .01%? And not let the Federal deficit grow out of control. Is that a possibility?

LeonDurham says

MrMagic says

Somehow, the Dems think the people paying zero federal taxes now, should get a bigger tax cut.

How about we just don't borrow money and give it to the top .01%? And not let the Federal deficit grow out of control. Is that a possibility?

Sorry, you just don't understand that those people are just keeping more of their OWN money. They're not being given anything. Why do Democrats have such a hard time understanding that? Which part of keeping money that you worked for and earned is such a difficult concept to understand?

Worried about the deficit, tell the Liberals and Socialists in your party and tell Bernie to stop giving away so much free shit like free healthcare, free college and all the other welfare programs your team loves.