Posted on 05/08/2018 7:13:04 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Arizona Senator John McCain, who for nearly a year has been diagnosed with brain cancer, has reportedly said that he does not want U.S. President Donald Trump attending his funeral.
Instead, McCain would like former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush reading his eulogy, NBC News said on Saturday based on a conversation with an unnamed source close to the 81-year-old politician.
"I don't know how much longer I'll be here," McCain separately says in an audio clip shared by NPR ahead of the release of his memoir, The Restless Wave.
Trump and McCain, who is a Vietnam war veteran and was a prisoner of war, have clashed over a variety of issues.
Trump controversially claimed during the run-up to the 2016 presidential primaries that McCain was only considered a hero "because he was captured" during the war, with the future president saying he prefers military heros who have not been captured.
McCain was said to be "deeply hurt" by Trump's comments, though in February 2018 his daughter Meghan, co-host of ABC's "The View," said in an interview with Politico that she does not expect Trump to continue criticizing her father's war service.
Mr. Trump] actually reached out to me and we had a very nice conversation and I feel comfortable going forward if he would say or do anything in the realm of talking about my father's war injuries in that nature, I don't think he would go there again," she said at the time.
"I don't think at this point in his administration it would be beneficial to him in any way."
The source close to McCain said that the plan is for Bush and Obama to serve as eulogists at the Arizona senator's funeral service, which is to be held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
McCain, who initially identified as an Episcopalian before starting to attend a Baptist church in Arizona with his family, lost the 2008 presidential general election to Obama.
The two had a strong rivalry during the campaign, with the LA Times pointing to a controversial ad from the Obama campaign at the time that poked fun for McCain not being able to send e-mail, which some noted could be interpreted to be making light of McCain's severe war injuries, which limit his use of a keyboard.
A spokesman for the Obama campaign later clarified that the ad was poking fun at McCain's age and his admittance of not being computer literate, rather than any disability.
McCain and Obama clashed on foreign policy issues during the latter's time as president, though they have also spoken in support of each other on several occasions.
Back in July 2017 following news reports of McCain's brain cancer diagnosis, Obama tweeted: "John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John."
>>How this creep got the GOP nomination I’ll never know.
Different times. Most Conservatives then didn’t understand the true nature of the GOP. It was trusted as the “at least they aren’t Democrats” party. But they showed their true Progressive colors when we handed them Congress and they chose to back Obama. Then Trump forced them all the way out of the closet, with McCain being fully outed as a communist Fellow Traveler.
Well . . . it’s OUR turn now. . . .
Makes sense. After all, it was his world-historical duty to lose to Barack Obama, and although it was frustrating, the nomenklatura in its wisdom decided that GWB simply had a better approach to executing the Five Year Plan.
With Trump, the Revolution is being delayed, and the Wreckers and Kulaks are seizing the opportunity to mount a counter-revolt. It simply won’t do.
I just want to know in which cemetery the John McCain memorial Urinal will be.
Might want to pack a lunch, the list could get longer...John Kerry, cough, cough!
The biggest mystery remains why he was a Republican.
This.
Removes all doubt about his RINO credentials.
McCain and Obama, on the same deep state team. Both on the wrong side of history.
Unlike magnetic poles, losers are attracted to one another.
I had left the R party just a few years before that when I was “woke”. The McCain nomination only confirmed what caused me to leave the party in the first place.
“Drink lots of water before you visit their graves.”
I was planning on black coffee and asparagus.
It was his turn which is how the deep state works.
He wants the guy that was so condescending to him after the election? “We won, John”. A military vet wants the guy that did everything he could to undermine the US military during his presidency - Ben Ghazi? the apology tours?
Guess what, Juan. We don’t want DJT at your funeral either.
I love it when a plan comes together.
>>I had left the R party just a few years before that when I was “woke”. The McCain nomination only confirmed what caused me to leave the party in the first place.
Same here. When I discovered that the Progressive Movement was started by Republicans, I began to dig and found that the history of the 20th century was largely the dismantling of American freedom for the construction of the Human Farm and the GOP and Democrats worked together on the project.
McCain doesn’t deserve this much attention.
McCain wins the ‘Sore Loser’ award for the century.... Hillary and Gore aren’t even close...
War hero???? He was an Navy Ace. He destroyed more US Navy aircraft than the North Vietnamese Air Force. Now that’s a hero? He did zilch as a POW, it was Stockton who was the leader. The comment by one of the POWs was McCain was the only one in interment who came out weighing more than when he went in. Maybe the Vietnamese did us a favor by keeping him, thus saving American lives. I’m sure the Vietnamese in Hanoi have his name on the honor roll along with Fonda and the purple heart collector Kerry.
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