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Emotional John McCain slams 'half-baked, spurious nationalism' sweeping America
Daily Mail UK ^ | October 17, 2017 | Regina Graham

Posted on 10/17/2017 8:17:03 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Emotional John McCain slams 'half-baked, spurious nationalism' sweeping America in speech aimed at Trump as Joe Biden presents him with lifetime of service award

Sen. John McCain made remarks at his National Constitution Center Liberty Medal ceremony in Philadelphia Monday night

He took a moment to go a step further than the night's other speakers, who lamented what many described as a fractured political climate

He warned against the US turning toward 'half-baked, spurious nationalism'

He said: 'We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil.'

Sen. John McCain warned against the US turning toward 'half-baked, spurious nationalism' and jabbed at unnamed pushers of isolationist politics while at an event honoring the war hero's contributions.

The six-term Republican senator from Arizona made the remarks at his National Constitution Center Liberty Medal ceremony in Philadelphia after receiving the award for a lifetime of service and sacrifice to the country.

In addition to recalling his more than two decades of Navy service and his imprisonment in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp, McCain took a moment to go a step further than the night's other speakers, who lamented what many described as a fractured political climate.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: shotgun

He should go and take Hanoi Jane out for dinner after she recanted her earlier wishy-washy apology and now says she’s glad she went to North Vietnam.


21 posted on 10/17/2017 8:25:40 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: COUNTrecount

He said: ‘We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil.’

Well duh! That is where Americans derive our nationalism, you old coot.

And it’s really hard when your “good buddies” on the left eradicate the symbols, memorials, ideas, and national lore that is the DNA of our national identity!


22 posted on 10/17/2017 8:26:01 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: COUNTrecount
p20

You're not fooling anyone you know...

23 posted on 10/17/2017 8:26:30 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: COUNTrecount

This is McCain serving his globalist masters just like he was bought and paid to do.


24 posted on 10/17/2017 8:27:17 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Renegade

I did not really know about him until after 2008.

He’s an absolute scum bag.


25 posted on 10/17/2017 8:29:23 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: shotgun

Keep in mind that he virtue signaled and attacked the most pro American president since Reagan while literally accepting a medal from a leftist


26 posted on 10/17/2017 8:29:33 AM PDT by Stand W (My Name is Tucker Carlson and I am going to destroy you.)
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To: 1Old Pro

His family hates him and he hates them. It’s a family of convenience. Why would he want to spend his last days with them when he could be twisting the knife in the back of America?


27 posted on 10/17/2017 8:30:19 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: Jim 0216

The same reason Pelosi is in office. The same reason McConnell is still in office. The same reason Baghdad Bob stayed in office so long.

Constituents voting their wallets.


28 posted on 10/17/2017 8:30:35 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Enlightened1

“Once an America hero”

Does getting captured make one a hero. Sure, he didn’t want to be captured...but he was. I feel sorry he suffered at the hands of a brutal regime in Vietnam but that doesn’t make one a hero.

Most of the heroes are dead and buried... and those alive don’t act like John McLame.


29 posted on 10/17/2017 8:30:37 AM PDT by ThomasMore (To hell with the NFL!)
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To: COUNTrecount

“He said: ‘We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil.”

Ignorance. Yes, we have some ideals, but were some other set of ideals ruling this land, and we and our ideals on some minor piece of geography, our ideals would have had much less impact on the whole, and we would have had a lot different history, a history that would have “made” us whatever we became.

Geography cannot be ignored as a fact of life that can hinder or help you, whatever ideals you think you are advancing.

But once a set of ideals are achieved and advanced it is that soil and the blood shed for the Liberty provided on that soil that this nation gets “made” by those efforts.


30 posted on 10/17/2017 8:31:10 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: COUNTrecount

John McCain probably would have gotten all cosy with the corrupt characters depicted in the movie “Brubaker”.


31 posted on 10/17/2017 8:31:44 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: COUNTrecount

Translated, his complaint actually says he’s infuriated that the conservatives and patriots are still here.


32 posted on 10/17/2017 8:32:01 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: COUNTrecount

‘We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil.’

Said by the man who never met a war he didn’t like.


33 posted on 10/17/2017 8:32:18 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: COUNTrecount

Already posted 3 times in the last 12 hours.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3595761/posts

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3595673/posts

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3595640/posts


34 posted on 10/17/2017 8:32:43 AM PDT by Boomer (The dem party has become the North Korea of American politics; unreasonable, dictatorial, fascist.)
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To: Boomer

12 hours?

Did a search, many have not seen this article,I hadn’t, thanks for your research.


35 posted on 10/17/2017 8:36:14 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

I watched Joe Biden brimming with glee at the screed of John McCain. The Senator from Arizona plays his useful idiot role for the Left well.


36 posted on 10/17/2017 8:38:46 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: Boomer

Trump warns McCain: ‘At some point I fight back, and it won’t be pretty’

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3595776/posts

Now both posts are on the same screen, goes nicely, wouldn’t you say?


37 posted on 10/17/2017 8:39:04 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

“Sen. John McCain warned against the US turning toward ‘half-baked, spurious nationalism’...”

As opposed to the ‘fully-baked’ variety that the senator-who-never-saw-a-military-intervention-he-didnt-like peddles?


38 posted on 10/17/2017 8:41:04 AM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Oh shut up, McStain, you never miss a chance to spit your petty bitter venom at President Trump!!! Just shut the h*ll up!!!

There is GREAT cosmic justice in the fact that you are actively dying from stage 4 brain cancer.

Rooting for the tumor, rooting for the tumor.........


39 posted on 10/17/2017 8:43:29 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: COUNTrecount

McCain has never had a patriotic day in his treason filled life. A grifter, always for sale. A whore. Betraying everyone who ever trusted him.


40 posted on 10/17/2017 8:47:25 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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