Maybe “the dead” shouldn’t speak ill of the living

John McCain through his wife and daughter refused to go peacefully into the night. Having done so he perhaps would have lended a modicum of superficial credence to the PR about him of being the guy who reached across the aisle and all that poppycock.

He was a fighter, we can give him that, but for who  . . . and how much was upfront,  . . . how much was narrow and how much merely politically opportune . . . or was he too often fighting to burnish his own opinion of himself? His attitude and snideness towards others, on display by his daughter in the funeral proceedings, predated anything said about him in any outburst by Trump or anyone else.  He loathed and was bitter toward his actual political opponents. Not Obama or what he did to the country.

We were willing to let his garish play to immortality in the funeral proceedings go and simply accept, as like us all, he was a complicated person.  And then his daughter opened her mouth as if dad was speaking from the coffin and with all his snideness.  Just look at how she drenched the podium with that snideness as she attacked the Trump campaign’s slogan.   She spoke of “John McCain’s America” as one of confidence, hmmm, OK, regardless of her dad’s frequent policy fecklessness or his attacks on political speech, he could be confident the media would cover for his excesses.  And those who interpret Senator McCain’s interventionist approach to foreign policy to belligerence, projecting America’s greatness, might have something to say about John McCain’s America “speaking quietly.”

With the McCain’s, it seems, it is all about them and vitriol over rhetorical slights they have received

Further, from the AOL News feed:

Meghan McCain seemed to make several veiled references blasting Trump while eulogizing Arizona Senator John McCain at Washington National Cathedral. 
“We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness—the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served,” she said.

So America is no longer great with the Senator’s passing?  That is not what she meant, we charitably guess, but then charity is not attacking “your” critics in such a setting.

never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly

John McCain risked sacrifice willingly certainly, taking it willingly is a bit of a philosophical stretch. The aged and the infirm, the isolated, of which there are legions,  rather than do something unethical would all qualify. It should be noted that critics of John McCain among them, including other military men, are not unheard of.

Oh well, finally John McCain, rest in peace and may your family have peace, and give this country some.

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