Yesterday, his daughter Meghan released a statement reading, “The cruelest enemy could not break him. The aggression of political life could not bend him. So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other.”
John McCain has stared death in the face several times in his life. He’s always made it through.
Well, Tom, you always make it through “staring death in the face” until you don’t!
Thought McCain was crazy decades ago - prefer to see positive stories like this rather than what the cretins who spit on a man’s grave because they have no class spout. Good post.
https://rightedition.com/2017/02/18/songbird-mccain-evidence-words-fellow-veterans-captors/
I wish Sen. McCain the best: remission, a few more quiet years in retirement with his family.
However, what a dumb headline.
McCain’s a brave man... he’s in my prayers.
Cancer doesn’t respect bravery... and McCain should not be forced to feel he didn’t ‘fight’ hard enough. He’s got an aggressive fast moving cancer - possible caused by cell phone use. He doesn’t need to carry the burden of letting down people who believe in him.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3226506/
“Risks after Prolonged and Heavy Mobile Phone Use”
“If exposure to RF fields through mobile phone use were tumorigenic, people using mobile phones longest and those who were the heaviest users would be expected to show the highest risks of brain tumors.”
McCain will be dead before the end of the year. You don't recover from the type of cancer he has. He might fight a little harder knowing that President Trump will be at his funeral but I'd say he's cooked by Thanksgiving.
He gave the American people Barack Obama, and for that he deserves our indifference, if not our scorn.
His commander in prison wanted him tried for treason........
Hero.......?
I’ve been often aggravated by McCain in the political realm, but he conducted himself in a stellar manner during his time in captivity. Adm James Stockdale lauded McCain’s steadfastness during that time. That Stockdale satisfactionwith McCain’s adherence to the Code of Conduct supersedes the words of anyone else on the face of the earth.
This article is nothing but schlock.
Some politicians don’t know when to get off the stage. I am placing my bet on cancer.
He’s already dead..
Really tired of the martial analogies with respect to fighting cancer. Grittiness may help on the margins, but your survival rate is almost exclusively determined by timing and treatment.
McCain won’t die from this. He’ll make a deal with the devil the result being more Americans dying. It’s his m.o.
“On the other hand, according to one source, McCain’s collaboration may have had very real consequences. Retired Army Colonel Earl Hopper, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, contends that the information that McCain divulged classified information North Vietnam used to hone their air defense system…McCain told his North Vietnamese captors, “highly classified information, the most important of which was the package routes, which were routes used to bomb North Vietnam. He gave in detail the altitude they were flying, the direction, if they made a turn… he gave them what primary targets the United States was interested in.” Hopper contends that the information McCain provided allowed the North Vietnamese to adjust their air-defenses. As result, Hopper claims, the US lost sixty percent more aircraft and in 1968, “called off the bombing of North Vietnam, because of the information McCain had given to them.”
https://rightedition.com/2017/02/18/songbird-mccain-evidence-words-fellow-veterans-captors/
I don’t see how the cancer makes a difference except for hypocrites.
If you liked McCain and believed his narrative before will the announcement of his cancer change that?
No, of course not.
He is still the same man but now with a terminal disease.
However, If you didn’t like him or had doubts about his narrative do you suddenly reverse your views of 45 years because he is now terminally ill?
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t act in a civil manner - it just means that none of the underlying facts that formed our opinions over the years have changed.
McCain will be fine: he’ll just side with the cancer, as he always does.
Cancer doesn’t know what it’s up against in battle with maverick
That being said, I wish Senator McCain the best.
Cant. John McCain’s one heroic act was refusal to be released from the hell hole our new friends, the VC held him as a POW. His navy career was tolerated and made possible by nepotism-—father and grandfather distinguished admirals DNA did not passion to last in his class John. Few people loved the cameras more than McCain and I have often considered that his opposition position to his own party was simply an opportunity to gain TV time for the 24 news channels.. Having lost my sister to this exact type of cancer, I know it the end will come swiftly and I wish you fair winds and following seas into your ultimate destiny and thanks for your USN career—your politics, not so much.
Karma caught up with the Sob
Nancy Reagan had no love of John McCain .