Trump refuses to pay tribute to Senator McCain

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  1. Sandy Shanks

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    President Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet before posting one Saturday night that did not include any kind words for the late Arizona Republican.


    Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and other White House aides advocated for an official statement that gave the decorated Vietnam War POW plaudits for his military and Senate service and called him a “hero,” according to current and former White House aides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. The original statement was drafted before McCain died Saturday, and Sanders and others edited a final version this weekend that was ready for the president, the aides said.


    But Trump told aides he wanted to post a brief tweet instead, and the statement praising McCain’s life was not released.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ee063e14538_story.html?utm_term=.9fa4e5fe00ab
     
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    Why didn't you just whine in on one of the half dozen threads on this topic? There is nothing Trump could say that would satisfy the unhinged malcontent lefties anyway, so less is more.
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Trump should take this opportunity to praise our pilots who are actually good enough not to run into a missile.
     
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    Trump prefers heroes who don't lose.

    McCain was a pimple on the buttcheek of republicans for far too long, and I'm honestly happy to know that his seat will now be open for somebody who might actually be a conservative.
     
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    That's okay. Trump was told to stay away from McCain's funeral. That was Barbara Bush's request also.
     
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    LOL! Typical of lefties who think they can talk to the dead.
     
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    That's not cool.
     
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    This is the most craven pathetic position I have seen since I read the president's thoughts on McCain and his heroism.

    Maybe you ought to pick up a book about the Bataan Death March, or the Hanoi Hilton, or any account of POW's. Your position is shockingly ****ed up. You have no respect for what it means to be in harm's way.
     
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    I'm sorry but McCain was a failure.

    He graduated near the bottom of his class at the military academy, he crashed one plane and was involved in a number of other flying incidents.

    It is not surprising he got shot down, what is surprising is that the military let him fly in the first place.

    His failure is what led him to be a POW and be called a "war hero" by you folks and its not justified.

    A real hero would have know the threat he poses to his fellow soldiers and stayed away but McCain didn't care.

    So laud your praise on the man if you want but I look at reality.

    He was never in the military to protect America, his past performance shows that, he received over 100 demerits a year while in military college, a record, he did not care about any respect for the military, it was about his ego.

    He was cited for reckless flying many times once in the military, good pilots do not do that.

    The man was a cancer on our military.

    Ironic words huh?
     
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    Something in english would be a good start.
     
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    OMG! OH MY good GAWD!


    Your total disrespect for our troops and what they did and what they sacrificed is just as stupid and pathetic as that slimey coward Trump's....the yellow bellied coward who couldn't hold a candle to any of our military and wasn't good enough to lick McCain's feet...



    I'm sure the families of those who were maimed and/or died for your sorry ass will not appreciate your complete lack of gratitude and patriotism....
     
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    Spooky said:
    Trump should take this opportunity to praise our pilots who are actually good enough not to run into a missile.





    I agree.... but hey, that's a TrumpDump supporter......love Trump/Hate America and our troops...
     
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    Ahh yes, your hero worship for all people in the military.

    I'm sure this little girls family shares your sentiment.

    Sailor convicted for trying to have sex with a 15-year-old girl

    https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...r-trying-to-have-sex-with-a-15-year-old-girl/

    Everyone in the military is a hero to you.

    That is pathetic.
     
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    McCain said Republicans need to set aside partisan rigidity and work with Dems. Good idea - hopefully, some day they will adopt this way of thinking.
     
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    I suppose this is how one gets to most conspiracy theories. Take something in a different universe from your own understanding, place a personally held emotion on it, assume a level of understanding way above actual experts, then derive whatever conclusions you would like to be drawn from whatever selfish motives you have, pepper with a healthy disregard of human suffering, and... voila.

    That being said, this is pretty gross even in trump land.
     
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    Dispute the facts.

    Does that sound like someone who cares about the military?

    If it does then the problem is probably with you.

    Not me.

    Would you choose a man for a hero that constantly breaks rules, doesn't study his work, is involved with multiple accidents while flying?

    If so.....well I guess you have a low standard for heroes.

    There are many questions about the incident and how McCain got shot down and many believe it was his reckless flying, not going to protocol and being a "Maverick".

    And he had a clear record of doing that in the past.

    All the while he was putting his fellow airmen at risk.
     
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    You have 1/1000th of a point here, but you are so massively out of your depth it's like a monkey with a rubik cube, and you know it too.
     
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    Nice troll post devoid of any facts.

    If you would like to debate me then feel free to.
     
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    This thread offers yet more reminders of the profound sickness that dwells at the heart of American Conservatism. Unvarnished hate pretending it is some sort of ideological position.
     
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    He was a bit of a hot dogger when he was younger, and it even cost an airplane. In modern days that's very frowned upon. Everything else was bs or irrelevant.
     
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    And you wonder why he got shot down?

    Sorry but this is real life not Top Gun.

    You mess up you get a missile up your ass for real.
     
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    So, every soldier, marine, airmen, or sailor who gets wounded killed or captured was because they were a failure?
     
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    Of course not.

    But those that do because of reckless behavior I have no sympathy for.

    You would have thought that getting poked with a stick for five and a half years would have taught him something but he was just as bad in congress.
     
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    And your reason for thinking it was because of reckless behavior?
     
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    Given his record what is your reasoning for thinking it wasn't?
     

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