Posted on 07/29/2013 4:19:36 PM PDT by IbJensen
WASHINGTON - There was no conciliatory phone call, no heart-to-heart talk to soothe the tensions. No one knows exactly when President Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain went from bitter rivals in the 2008 presidential campaign and foes over health care and national security to bipartisan partners.
Yet in recent months, an alignment on high-profile domestic issues - not to mention an eye on their respective legacies - has transformed Obama and McCain into Washington's most unexpected odd couple. The Arizona senator is a regular visitor to the West Wing and in near-daily contact with senior White House officials.
McCain, in an Associated Press interview, said that he and Obama "trust each other." White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, among the Obama advisers who speak regularly with McCain, praised the lawmaker as a "refreshing" partner who "welcomes a debate and welcomes action."
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For Obama, the senator has become a rare Republican backer of important elements on the president's second term agenda, including immigration overhaul, stricter background checks for gun buyers, and perhaps a fall budget deal.
In return, McCain has secured increased access to the White House and an opportunity to redeem his reputation as a Capitol Hill "maverick." That image was tainted when McCain tacked to the right during his failed 2008 presidential run against Obama.
"I've told the people of Arizona, I will work with any president if there are ways I can better serve Arizona and the country," McCain said. "That seems to be an old-fashioned notion but it's the case."
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McCain said his stronger ties with the president on domestic issues won't keep him from challenging the president on national security issues..... "He is the president of the United States," McCain said. "You can strongly disagree and still be respectful."
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Why is it he cannot lift his arms more than a few inches? I have no doubt that he was tortured... but I also have no doubt that they broke him. I think that they scrambled his small brain and that it has caused the mental aberrations that we all see... his temper included.
LLS
They both did.
LLS
The plane crash? The beating he took when initially captured?
Compare and contrast: John McCain and Bud Day
GOPe: Comrade Juan McNuts ain’t a conservative?
Say it ain’t so!
Beat me to it. LOL
McCain loves being able to be the go-to guy. He’s in it for the power. Obama is just exploiting his weakness.
Is McCain's sucking up to Barack "fundamentally change America" Obama something that the GOP officially endorses?
Welcome to Free Republic.
You joined today to post that insult?
You are conflating John McCain’s service record with his career after he retired from the Navy.
I am a Vietnam vet, and I am not offended by his service.
What did you do during the war?
> Does McCain really have to cross the aisle to stand with Obama?
Yes so he can bend over for Obummer
McCain knew that the Senate resolution certifying his eligibility was not worth the trumpeting it was given He was born outside the USA controlled Panama Canal Zone. He also understood that if he did win the election Obama and his enablers would/could claim him ineligible in spite of the resolution and Obama would be in by default. Palin was a ploy to make the election look on the up and up. I believe that to this day McCain appreciates that Obama won the election.
McCain knew that the Senate resolution certifying his eligibility was not worth the trumpeting it was given He was born outside the USA controlled Panama Canal Zone. He also understood that if he did win the election Obama and his enablers would/could claim him ineligible in spite of the resolution and Obama would be in by default. Palin was a ploy to make the election look on the up and up. I believe that to this day McCain appreciates that Obama won the election.
LLS
God: "Good luck with that, Smokey."
Conservative Americans: "Thank you, John McQuisling, for validating what many of us have suspected all along -- that you were a globalist Commie-enabling patsy in 2008 who never intended to win. Just like Romney in 2012."
This is legacy building pure and simple.
McCain is a blue dog Democrat at best but he knows there is simply no place for him in the current Democrat party.
CHECK. CHECK. And, CHECK.
McVichy is a complete and utter fraud and collaborator.
Exhibit A
South Park was right.
His Communist masters from Vietnam must have called him up on the phone and told him what to do or else...
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