Posted on 08/30/2018 9:44:30 AM PDT by Trump20162020
WASHINGTON — Not long after Senator John McCain learned last summer that he had terminal brain cancer, he began convening meetings every Friday in his Capitol Hill office with a group of trusted aides. The subject was his funeral.
He obsessed over the music, selecting the Irish ballad “Danny Boy” and several patriotic hymns. He choreographed the movement of his coffin from Arizona, his home state, to Washington. And in April, when he knew the end was coming, he began reaching out to Republicans, Democrats and even a Russian dissident with requests that they deliver eulogies and serve as pallbearers.
By the time he died on Saturday, Mr. McCain had carefully stage-managed a four-day celebration of his life — but what was also an unmistakable rebuke to President Trump and his agenda. For years, Mr. Trump had used Twitter and the presidential bully pulpit to mock and condemn the senator. In death, Mr. McCain found a way to have the last word, even quietly making it clear through friends that Mr. Trump was not welcome at the services.
“I think it’s fair to say that they have a very different view of this country and what this country means, here and abroad,” said Mark Salter, the senator’s longtime friend and co-author who sat with Mr. McCain — often with a lump in his throat — during the many discussions about his looming death. “His overall message was: ‘It doesn’t have to be this shitty.’”
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Actually, the “last word” belongs to the living.
McCain is dead but his ego lives on.
out of my tear ducts.
Only in media la-la land.
In other words, he was a sick f***!
There, fixed it.
Dead people never get the last word.
And Sarah Palin apparently. And all who voted for him because she was on the ticket.
“His overall message was: ‘It doesn’t have to be this shitty.’”
They why did he behave the way that he did? I’ve got a six-pack and a plane ticket. I just need to know his exact location in the Annapolis Cemetery.
When I am faced with my own demise, I will not be concerned about getting the last word in on anyone. I’ll be concerned about how God receives me.
Not sure where to start as the article has many false statements. Bottom line, if McCain thinks he got the last laugh, then that is about as ridiculous as saying he was beloved. Frankly, all this pomp and circumstance and week long “celebration” is quite the overkill for a mere senator, it really is an embarrassment and a reflection of his bloated sense of self worth.
Ummmmm......the man who dies last actually gets the last word.
This is confirmation of what I suspected all along: that McCain the narcissist was plotting an elaborate funeral fit for Caesar or a beloved, powerful king. There wasn’t a humble bone in McCain’s body. Too bad the massive mourning throngs in his imagination didn’t bother to show up.
Trump has plenty of words still in him, McCain has decaying body gases smelling up his coffin. Win to Trump.
McCain will be off the page by Monday.
Lets see how McSally’s voting record stacks up to what we’ve come to expect from McCain.
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