- We appreciate the grieving widow, but that should not be an excuse or shield for elevating the political grinding widow
- DLH responds to Cindy McCain’s extension of the family’s funeral oration:
Well, Cindy, I am sincerely sorry for your loss. However, I’m not sure I, and a good part of this nation, will “ever get over” what a spiteful and dishonest old man John McCain became.
If it was a delayed result of the brutal treatment he received at the hands of his captors many years ago, for that, too, I, and I’m sure most Americans as well, are deeply sorry.
In my opinion, though, your late husband did far more damage to this country later in his life than Donald Trump could ever do with his comments. Through his ineptitude and perfidy as a presidential contender, he helped immensely to bring to this great nation one of, if not the most, destructive presidents/public figures in history to the White House…Barack Obama.
In his last months, Senator McCain made promises to voters (re: Obamacare) which he publicly and proudly then repudiated when he returned to office. I doubt that I am the only one who believes this act of treachery was committed out of spite, possibly in return for the Trump ‘comments’ you still hold in your heart.
So, while I’m sure your pain is sincerely felt, it seems to only serve to further deepen and extend the spiteful impulses which your late husband harbored until his passing.
Nonetheless, for his service to our country and whatever good he likely did in his life, may he rest in peace. DLH
John McCain’s widow will “never get over” President Trump attacking her late husband’s record as a war hero because he was “captured,” she said Wednesday.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it to be honest but I’m the wife — that’s my prerogative — I don’t have to,” Cindy McCain, 64, said in an interview with the BBC.
While on the 2016 campaign trail, Trump said McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down over Vietnam, was only considered a hero because he got captured.
“I like people that weren’t captured,” Trump had said.
Cindy McCain called the comments “inappropriate and wrong.” “It hurt the family and it hurt the other men that served with John.”
McCain also explained why Trump wasn’t at her husband’s funeral, which was attended by former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, and former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle.
“Even though it was a very public funeral, we are still a family and for all of us and for the sake of my own children, I didn’t want any disruption,” she said. “This was about John, not about anything else at all, and our country. It was important to me that we kept it respectful and calm and not politicize it. It sounds funny coming from a political family in a political country, but it was important that we kept it with dignity.” . . .
R Mall piles on
This is practically Scarlet O’Haraish for Mrs McCain
“Political family” – – the admission that is at the heart of the dis-invite
“No disruption” — get serious — the town shut down and security, given former presidents in attendance and much of Congressional leadership was hardly an extra issue
“Not politicize it” — your daughter either did not get the memo, or more likely, was your partner in politicizing it
The whole thing was largely an orchestrated neverTrump event, unbecoming the whole dignity thing. Tom Harkin wish’s he had as much platform at the Wellstone funeral.
My Cindy is a pretty girl
My Cindy is a peach;
She throws her arms around my neck
And hangs on like a leech.
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Not a pretty prospect
The Iraq war, the press’ coverage of it, and “W’s” placid acceptance of the criticism doomed any Republican in 2008.
In a way, I’m glad McCain got the nod. I’m thinking the race was unwinnable. I’m not sure McCain even wanted the job. He had a self-righteous streak that was better served by the moniker of honorable loser than it would have been as Commander in Chief.
A loser can say he’d have done a great job without ever having to prove it.
Trump will always be remembered fondly by his supporters. McCain will be remembered fondly by his opponents.
Opponents only like the people they either defeated or co-opted. The dems did both to McCain. Until this article, I hadn’t thought of him in months.
A brief but very insightful analysis of “The Loser”, Gene. Nicely done.