Sen. John McCain's dying wish is for President Trump to stay far away from his funeral

[SteveG]

'McCain withdrew support of Republican nominee Donald Trump last month after a lewd exchange between Trump and Billy Bush from 2005 surfaced.'
-11/08/16


Trump isn’t invited to brain cancer-stricken John McCain’s eventual funeral
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics...-1.3973241

Sen. John McCain's dying wish is for President Trump to stay far away from his funeral, according to friends of the Arizona Republican. The funeral is expected to take place at the Washington National Cathedral, according to The Times.

Those close to McCain — who is battling brain cancer — have already told the White House they plan to invite Vice President Pence, and not the President, to McCain’s eventual funeral services, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

McCain, who has repeatedly sparred with Trump, holds nothing back in his forthcoming memoir, "The Restless Wave." In the tome, the one-time prisoner of war — whom Trump in 2015 dismissed as "not a war hero" — laments Trump's made-for-TV tough guy image, indicating that he believes it's all bluster and no bite. "He has declined to distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of despotic ones," McCain writes. "The appearance of toughness, or a reality show facsimile of toughness, seems to matter more than any of our values."

In the book, McCain also reflects on his 2008 presidential bid. He expresses regrets for not choosing former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat turned independent, to serve as his running mate. McCain writes that the decision to choose former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin over Lieberman was "another mistake that I made."

[hal]

god, I hope his funeral doesn't turn into another political football

[Sarcany]

hal wrote:
god, I hope his funeral doesn't turn into another political football

I think it just did.

[max]

Is his dying wish is to bomb some other 3rd world country?....

[bfd]

Like Houston?

[samintx]

Good for you John!

[Speedy]

Even Humphrey welcomed Nixon.

[cbelt3]

I would have preferred and invitation to join the coffin on the dais. Only if Trump was in his own coffin.

[freeradical]

This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.

In its broad strokes, McCain's life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives' evangelical churches.

In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.

This, of course, is not the story McCain tells about himself. Few politicians have so actively, or successfully, crafted their own myth of greatness. In McCain's version of his life, he is a prodigal son who, steeled by his brutal internment in Vietnam, learned to put "country first." Remade by the Keating Five scandal that nearly wrecked his career, the story goes, McCain re-emerged as a "reformer" and a "maverick," righteously eschewing anything that "might even tangentially be construed as a less than proper use of my office."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne...k-20081016

[Dennis S]

Speedy wrote:
Even Humphrey welcomed Nixon.

Nixon was a competent but flawed human being. Trump is a psychopathic piece of shit.