{"id":33507,"date":"2018-08-26T12:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T19:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33507"},"modified":"2018-08-26T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T19:11:45","slug":"goodbye-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/26\/goodbye-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye John"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator John McCain and I disagreed on most issues, especially when he was running for President in 2008.  After he chose Bloody Bullseye Barbie, aka Drill Baby Dingbat, as his running mate, I even nicknamed him McConJob, because he was supporting Palin’s TEAbuggery several times daily.  That said, if I could have him trade places with any politician or pundit in Trump’s Republican Reich, I would do so without hesitation.  I pray for your family and all, who mourn your loss.  Goodbye John.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Senator John McCain, R-AZ, died at home at his ranch near Sedona today. He was 81 years old. His family announced earlier this week that the senator, whose brain tumor diagnosis was made public last year, would not be seeking further medical treatment for his cancer.<\/p>\n

In his three decades in the Senate, McCain developed a reputation as the "maverick," voting according to his own principles instead of the party line. During his final years in office he stayed true to that designation by refusing to support the repeal of the Affordable Care Act last fall<\/a> and continuing to be an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, who once dismissed McCain’s heroism as a Navy officer in the Vietnam War who survived five and a half years of imprisonment and torture with the quip, "I like people who weren’t captured."\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026McCain retired from the Navy in 1981 and was elected to Congress the following year as a U.S. Representative for Arizona, where he served two terms before being elected to the Senate in 1986. He ran for president twice, losing the Republican primary to George W. Bush in 2000 and the 2008 general election, with Sarah Palin as his running mate, to Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

CNN reports<\/a> that McCain did not want Trump to attend his funeral<\/strong>, but he did request that Bush and Obama be invited to deliver eulogies.<\/p>\n

"John McCain and I were members of different generations, came from completely different backgrounds, and competed at the highest level of politics," Obama wrote in a statement posted to Twitter Saturday evening<\/a>. "But we shared, for all our differences, a fidelity to something higher \u2014 the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched, and sacrificed."… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Chris Mathews<\/a> reflected on McCain’s greatness.<\/font><\/p>\n