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The politicization of this week’s funerals showed no R E S P I C T
Flopping Aces ^ | 09-02-18 | DrJohn

Posted on 09/02/2018 10:45:36 AM PDT by Starman417

I voted for John McCain in 2008. To this day I believe he would have been a better President than Barack Obama. None of us ever has the perfect candidate or the perfect President- unless you're a democrat. However, over the years John McCain became more and more of curmudgeon and he staked out some strange perspectives. McCain was part of the cabal that strove to derail Trump's campaign and then his Presidency. McCain also heartily endorsed the effort by the IRS to destroy the Tea Party. I I watched as McCain's fellow POW's say that they did not think that McCain was himself over the last year or two.

While I salute McCain's service to the country, I am less eager to celebrate McCain's later political life. I find myself bemused as I watch democrats like Chuck Schumer lauding the guy they called  "racist" in 2008. They speak glowingly of McCain only because he did not like Donald Trump. BTW, is the funeral over yet?

Meghan McCain used her father's funeral to take a shot at Donald Trump and in so doing became what she railed against.

"The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great."
Andrew Cuomo didn't think so.

The NY Times took the opportunity to slam Trump for playing golf during the funeral services.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1035989682461532160

Not sure if the Times knows it, but Trump wasn't invited to the funeral.

There was no love lost between McCain and Trump. McCain, however, could have proven himself the bigger man and invited Trump to the funeral, but he didn't. McCain's pettiness was highlighted by his snubbing of Sarah Palin. He asked Palin to be on his ticket, did not properly prepare her and then abandoned her. Then he snubbed her.

That was low. McCain was no saint.

Did I mention obama spoke at McCain's funeral?

He often called McCain a racist in 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKgidqBztn8

In 2012, democrats piled the racism charge on McCain

Several House Democrats on Friday attacked Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) as a racist, a sexist, and said that his criticism of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice amounted to mugging and battering.

“There is a clear, a clear in my opinion, sexism and racism that goes with these comments that are being made by–unfortunately–Senator McCain and others,” Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman Rep. Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio.) said in a press conference Friday on Capitol Hill.

“And I strongly stand by that statement.”

It was even worse at Aretha Franklin's funeral. That was a complete sh*tshow. A number of attendees used the funeral to score political points.

Michael Dyson made an ass of himself:

(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: arethafuneral; mccain; mccainfuneral; trump
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1 posted on 09/02/2018 10:45:36 AM PDT by Starman417
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Look at the face on Bill Clinton - seems like he has his eye on something *interesting*...

And the last thing on his mind is John McCain!!


2 posted on 09/02/2018 10:50:13 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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Louie looks more healthy than Jesse.


3 posted on 09/02/2018 10:55:40 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Hmmm.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Maybe because it’s Aretha’s funeral.

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4 posted on 09/02/2018 11:02:54 AM PDT by Mears
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The Pastor is in hot water after grabbing Arianna’s boob, and linking her name to a new menu item at Taco Bell. Classy.....


5 posted on 09/02/2018 11:04:04 AM PDT by GotMojo
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To: Starman417
I voted for John McCain in 2008. To this day I believe he would have been a better President than Barack Obama.

Hell, any small town dogcatcher would have made a better president than Obama.
The same cluelessness, tribalism, situational deafness and incompetence, with none of the bullshit... ...or the almost fatal damage to the Republic!

6 posted on 09/02/2018 11:07:07 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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“...They speak glowingly of McCain only because he did not like Donald Trump. BTW, is the funeral over yet?...”

That is the only reason this political charade even happened. The radical left and its useful idiots (MSM) are playing this for every moment of hate speech they can drum up AGAINST TRUMP. McCain’s passing is nothing but a TOOL for them.

Disgusting spectacle.


7 posted on 09/02/2018 11:07:33 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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respict?


8 posted on 09/02/2018 11:07:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Look at the face on Bill Clinton - seems like he has his eye on something *interesting*…

That would be Ariana Grande.

9 posted on 09/02/2018 11:11:01 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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Idiots.

Everyone knows it's spelled R-E-S-T-E-C-P.

10 posted on 09/02/2018 11:11:57 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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......" McCain was part of the cabal that strove to derail Trump's campaign and then his Presidency".....

And they all showed up front and center at McCain's funeral.


11 posted on 09/02/2018 11:12:12 AM PDT by caww
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Yeah. It feels like the Trumps getting involved, whether it was Trump’s daughter in attendance, using the Air Force 2 to transport the casket, etc. shows more love for the departed than many of those invited.


12 posted on 09/02/2018 11:12:30 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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More impressive is that Trump did it, knowing he’d get absolutely no credit for it.


13 posted on 09/02/2018 11:13:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The only ones lauding McCsin are Democrats and RINOs. I would love to ask if there was ever any Dem who crossed the aisle as often as McCain? Of course not! The day that happens would be the day we would find him late at night, shot in the back, on some DC street.


14 posted on 09/02/2018 11:13:35 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.a!)
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respict?

That's how Sharpton spelled it when talking about Trump. It was a dig on Sharpton.

15 posted on 09/02/2018 11:14:11 AM PDT by Boomer
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/al-sharpton-misspells-r-e-s-p-e-c-t-msnbc-segment-1135828
16 posted on 09/02/2018 11:15:12 AM PDT by Starman417
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When have the Left.. especially the Clintons.. ever Not use funerals for political gain? NEVER.


17 posted on 09/02/2018 11:34:52 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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These funerals showed the !back of etiquette in America. Individuals using this moment of grieving for the loss or the celebration of moving on to God to express their petty obsessions was in totally poor taste. DONE!


18 posted on 09/02/2018 11:38:33 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Starman417
While I salute McCain's service to the country, I am less eager to celebrate McCain's later political life. I find myself bemused as I watch democrats like Chuck Schumer lauding the guy they called "racist" in 2008. They speak glowingly of McCain only because he did not like Donald Trump.

I voted for McCain too - was sorry to see his funeral was used as a tool of hatred against Trump and Americans living in flyover... Guess McCain became a corrupt 'elite' in the end...

19 posted on 09/02/2018 11:46:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (ANYONE asking YOU to be violent is an FBI undercover cop or thug from the SPLC - YOU are warned...)
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Wellstone Memorial as practiced in DC - “bipartisan” only in the loosest sense, this was an outpouring by those who either are the Deep State, or are regarded as “benign” by the Deep State.

Donald Trump is definitely considered to be toxic by the Deep State.


20 posted on 09/02/2018 11:58:15 AM PDT by alloysteel ("No" is a complete sentence. On so many levels.)
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