We have all heard the stories about Senator John McCain’s exemplary military service. We have all been treated to the endless references to his wounds from the war that were inflicted through his agonizing years of torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese.
We are all, by now, through one term as a US Representative, five terms as a US Senator (and counting), and three presidential primary runs where he was expected in the early going in 1999 to be able to defeat Al Gore, familiar with his excellence in service to America. Of course, in that race, he ultimately bowed to the superiority of the Bush family when George W. came on the scene to wrap up the primary race in a big way and ultimately embarrass the senator with a win of 47 states.
McCain tried again in 2004 to a worse jumping-off point, but rebounded in 2008, winning the primary, only to be completely consumed by the massive and corrupt political activist machine powered by the cult of personality that was Barack Obama. You could almost call John McCain the slightly less feminine version of Hillary Clinton.
This is not to mention all the completely fawning press coverage that he has enjoyed over the decades since his return from captivity in 1973 (with the notable exception of his run against the hallowed personage of Obama…even the press is not going to cut their throats that deeply for a dirty Republican).
We now know that all of the lies that were told about his captivity were the first chapter in a mythology for the purposes of a long and lucrative political career. We know about how he and John Kerry paired to bury information about POW/MIA personnel to hide their own shameful past in the “prisons” of Indochina.
Allegations have been made by many that the hellish inferno aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967 that caused 134 sailors and airmen to lose their lives…all due to a PRANK by then airmen John McCain!
Spot on
YES
Yes he did. And multiple prisoners in Vietnam died because of him. There is no limit to the suffering he has that will make up for what he’s done. He is a POS and a deserves any all that fate has dealt him.
He’s got a lot of blood on his hands!!!!
You are probably not old enough to remember.. His Misdeeds were covered up by His high ranking Military Family.. He Came from a wealthy family too..Us Older Folks Remember it Well..
Not only his family, he married well too.
Married well, to his second wife. He dumped his first wife when he came home from Vietnam and discovered she had been partially paralyzed in a car accident while he was gone.
Yes Yes That POS did.. One As Him Was All so lucky to come from a wealthy High Ranking Military Family that Had Access And Covered up his B******t mess..Disgrace that he was given a presidential pardon..
This drives me crazy because I was not paying much attention back then, so now I hear two different versions of what happened. Since that can be confusing, I have to look at the man himself and his behavior. Going by his behavior over the years, I am going to have to side with the story that he is no hero, but a negative force to this country. He is NO R, but a D hiding behind an R. This man is NOW being consumed by his hate for Trump, putting that hate above the welfare of his country. Behavior is tell tale. He needs to step down. Because of him, Collins, Murkowski and other Trump haters, Trump has never had control of the senate.
Hell yes. did not follow orders.
I’ve seen this article somewhere before and tried to correct one piece of it. It states McCain was in the Navy for 23 years and started out as a 2nd Lieutenant and ended up as a Captain. The article states he only gained one rank in his career and must have been passed over many times. Having been in the Navy myself in the 60’s I know what the ranks are for the Naval and Marine officers. If McCain was in fact in the Navy and not the Marines then he could not have started out as a 2nd Lieutenant because that is not a Navy rank. It is a Marine rank. He may have started out as a Lieutenant junior grade and over the course of his career became a Lieutenant then Lieutenant Commander then Commander and finally Captain. For those unfamiliar with career officers average ranks that is an impressive achievement. Many career officers never get higher than lieutenant Commander or Commander. I believe McCain was in the Navy because his father and grandfather were Admirals. Had they been in the Marines (which is under the Navy) they would have been Generals. So I think the article is mistaken thinking McCain was just a Captain in the Marines. In the Marines the officers to Captain are First Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant then Captain. Captain in the Navy is much higher than Captain in the Marines.
A hero until you know longer need him. This is just because McCain does not want Trump at his funeral. In the words of Trump, SAD!