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McCain chides Trump for undermining U.S. values in new memoir
The Globe & Mail ^ | May 3, 2018 | Phil Stewart, Reuters

Posted on 05/03/2018 4:25:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

U.S. Senator John McCain rebukes President Donald Trump in a new memoir, accusing his fellow Republican of failing to uphold U.S. values by showering praise on international “tyrants,” discrediting the media, ignoring human rights and demeaning refugees.

“Flattery secures his friendship, criticism his enmity,” wrote McCain in The Restless Wave, which he co-authored with longtime aide Mark Salter.

“It is hard to know what to expect from President Trump, what’s a pose, what’s legitimate,” McCain said in the book that is due to be released on May 22. An advance copy was sent to Reuters by publisher Simon & Schuster.

McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, remains one of the strongest voices in his party on foreign policy, despite a battle with brain cancer. He has been credited with championing civility and compromise in Congress during an era of acrid partisanship in U.S. politics.

The 81-year-old Arizona lawmaker, who has served in the Senate since 1987, has also been both a critic and target of Trump, who during his 2016 presidential campaign disparaged McCain’s war record by saying he was not a hero after enduring 5-1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam....

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TOPICS: Arizona; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; johnmccain; mccain; restlesswave; strawberries; therestlesswave; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“We are citizens of a republic made of shared ideals forged in a new world to replace the tribal enmities that tormented the old one. Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that awesome heritage and the responsibility to embrace it.” – John McCain

McCain is an unrepentant globalist.

21 posted on 05/03/2018 4:38:38 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: raybbr

line forms behind me ;-) Convenience stores in the vicinity are bracing for a boom in the sale of large-size drinks after the scumbag finally kicks.


22 posted on 05/03/2018 4:38:52 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like the Keating 5 values?
Or like the never show up to vote values?
Or the never resign your seat values?

I will be glad when this SOB is gone.
We need that Senate vote.


23 posted on 05/03/2018 4:39:46 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: packrat35

When a Republican votes with Dems, he is called a great compromiser or a statesman. When a Dem votes with Republicans, he is called a traitor. Of course this doesn’t happen except when it doesn’t matter.


24 posted on 05/03/2018 4:39:56 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
" . . . failing to uphold U.S. values by showering praise on international “tyrants,” discrediting the media, ignoring human rights and demeaning refugees."

"showering praise on tyrants" - By calling the leader of North Korea "little rocket man"? By offering a "reset button" to Putin? (Whoops, that was Hillary/Obama.)

Discrediting the media" - they discredit themselves.

"ignoring human rights" - How? Where?

"demeaning refugees" - By enforcing federal immigration law?

25 posted on 05/03/2018 4:40:03 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: max americana

McSwain doesn’t have brain cancer, or any other malady.

He’s seen he’s in deep doo-doo and is staying away.

He’ll be around a year from now giving head to any microphone nearby.


26 posted on 05/03/2018 4:41:25 PM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: sanjuanbob
"You wish to speak to Senator McCain?"


27 posted on 05/03/2018 4:41:33 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

President Trump is wiping ISIS off the face of the earth and making peace between North and South Korea but to this douche bag that is considered a bad thing


28 posted on 05/03/2018 4:41:50 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think McCain senses he isn’t long for this world, so his anti-Trump tirades are basically an effort to insure that he gets good press clippings when he’s gone.


29 posted on 05/03/2018 4:42:15 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pretty rich coming from Songbird MaCain


30 posted on 05/03/2018 4:42:23 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: sanjuanbob

This may be similar to the last weeks of Steven Hawkings life. Many were not quite sure if the many opinions expressed under Steven’s name were actually from him or someone close who had a particular political bias. If any one is doing any
‘projection opinionating’ I would suspect either his daughter Megyn or his wife Cindy.


31 posted on 05/03/2018 4:43:08 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

20th Century Values?

Like the “two” parties, sitting down together, planning war without end, spending as far as the eye can see...

No Thanks, Senator.


32 posted on 05/03/2018 4:46:09 PM PDT by CharleysPride (Peace, Freedom and Prosperity. Thank you, President Trump.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wrote a book so the vile will still be cited by the MSM after his demise.
Lot of hate in that little man.
Terrible pilot will never be remembered.


33 posted on 05/03/2018 4:46:49 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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McCain chides Trump for undermining U.S. values in new memoir

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Fewer politicians have turned out to be bigger, covert traitors than McCain. He can flash his military service all he wants, but this “no-borders”, war-mongering, globalist POS has little respect for the waste of U.S. money and blood.


34 posted on 05/03/2018 4:47:56 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Restless Wave is listed on Amazon as a Best Seller.
However, the book is also (already!) being sold at a 40% discount;
Hardcover from $30. now priced at $18.00.
Get it while it’s hot!


35 posted on 05/03/2018 4:49:04 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

McQueeg is faking a glioblastoma in the hope that it will keep him from being indicted.


36 posted on 05/03/2018 4:50:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

McCain/Feingold

Trying to squash the 1st Amendment focusing on political speech is not an American value, McLettucehead!


37 posted on 05/03/2018 4:51:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The wannabe man is filled with self hatred for his unspeakable acts in the past.


38 posted on 05/03/2018 4:51:36 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU)
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To: RooRoobird20
Yo McSnake...it's your turn.


39 posted on 05/03/2018 4:52:03 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Figures. Vacuous, superficial, rhetorical comments. The Press? What the... they deserve every pejorative commentary that can be heaped upon them. Mcjerk is a globalist MSM cuckholed twit.


40 posted on 05/03/2018 4:52:57 PM PDT by Lent
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