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How McCain Got the Last Word Against Trump
The New York Times ^ | Aug. 29, 2018 | Michael D. Shear

Posted on 08/30/2018 9:44:30 AM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: Trump20162020

If you leave this Game of Life concerned with getting the last word, you’ve already lost.

If your life had worth to it, people will know and you won’t have to convince them. If it didn’t, no amount of smart ass statements will convince them otherwise.

If your life didn’t have much worth, accept that you didn’t accomplish what you wanted to in life. Be at peace knowing you have atoned for it, if you confessed your shortcomings to God, with a sincere heart.

Folks, when it’s over, it’s over. Accept that.

John McCain couldn’t. He died a very twisted unhappy man grasping at that one last chance to one-up someone.

He lost big. While he probably deserved that, it’s still a very sad way to flame out.


61 posted on 08/30/2018 10:35:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Trump20162020

Trump has the last word. He’s President and alive. McCain is neither.

President Trump will make a much more positive, lasting impression on this country than McCain will leave as his “legacy”.

The pompous ceremony planned by McCain is the funeral McCain thought he deserved which confirms what we already knew about him: consumed with his own self-importance.


62 posted on 08/30/2018 10:38:45 AM PDT by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP!)
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To: Trump20162020

Too bad he didn’t die on a ship & get buried at sea.


63 posted on 08/30/2018 10:40:59 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: McGavin999

Watched the live feed... Helicopter shadowing the hearse on the way to the venue...picture in picture...like OJ in the white Bronco. 5 full lanes of traffic blocked off for the procession...


64 posted on 08/30/2018 10:42:24 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Trump20162020

Makes me glad my AdBlocker Plus keeps me from viewing the rest of this puke fest article.


65 posted on 08/30/2018 10:45:09 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Steely Tom

John McCain...a legend in his own mind.


66 posted on 08/30/2018 10:45:39 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: brownsfan

I sure hope Johnny got the disappointment of his life when he showed up at the Pearly Gates. When I get there, the f’er better not be inside.


67 posted on 08/30/2018 10:47:13 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: jersey117

On Monday, PDJT should, during the time Songbird’s funeral is happening, lay a wreath at some REAL hero’s grave, like Audie Murphy in Arlington.


68 posted on 08/30/2018 10:47:45 AM PDT by fredhead (Duty, Honor, Country.....Honor, Courage, Commitment)
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To: Covenantor

Anyone standing on the side of the road? There were only about 3500 at the church they say. Doesn’t sound like much


69 posted on 08/30/2018 10:49:20 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: Qiviut

All this orchestrated fuss over McCain makes me think about Reagan’s funeral and the spontaneous outpouring of love and respect from the entire nation.

Even today, I get a lump in my throat.

McCain will soon be forgotten.


70 posted on 08/30/2018 10:49:48 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: mass55th

Why do I get the feeling that I will NOT meet him when I leave this world for the next?


71 posted on 08/30/2018 10:50:19 AM PDT by fredhead (Duty, Honor, Country.....Honor, Courage, Commitment)
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To: Bonemaker

I wonder if the first Mrs. McCain was invited to the funeral. I see his two adopted son’s were there. I didn’t know that the son’s were from his first wife’s first marriage.


72 posted on 08/30/2018 10:53:39 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Trump20162020
First, what an ego! Why not let others take care of the funeral arrangements? How much should the funeral matter to the person about to die?

Second, McCain sent an aide, Kramer, to the UK to meet with Steele for a briefing in advance of receiving a hard copy of the Dossier. What was McCain's responsibility for peddling this garbage, this politically motivated defamation?

Third, in the midst of the hagiography, can anyone please mention the Keating Five?

Fourth, does it matter to anyone how consistently wrong McCain was about foreign policy and how many people in the world are dead as a result of policies he advocated?

Fifth, you would think the contemplation of imminent death would induce a man to abandon petty grievances. Sad that McCain did not do that.

73 posted on 08/30/2018 10:54:27 AM PDT by Stingray51
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To: Intolerant in NJ

McCain was a fair-weather friend. He only knew you when he needed something from you. A very fickle person to the end.


74 posted on 08/30/2018 10:55:24 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Trump20162020

Have they actually buried this pile yet?


75 posted on 08/30/2018 10:55:26 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as wll say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: McGavin999

They kept tight focus on the single file of LEO Honor Guard...no panning shots to show approaching hearse with cycle out riders. No civilians lining curb. After the coffin was moved inside, then they showed Cindy with 2 sons in uniform leading the procession followed by Gov and wife, and remaining members of the family and car entourage. If there was accrowd I’m sure they woukd have shown it.


76 posted on 08/30/2018 10:56:00 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: raybbr

Nope....on to the Washington DC Friday where he will be displayed, the USNA in Annapolis, IIRC


77 posted on 08/30/2018 10:59:47 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: 1Old Pro

MSN hone page is promoting the eulogies on CBS - dipping in just to check.

Joe Biden has been talking about himself for what seems like an hour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


78 posted on 08/30/2018 11:12:57 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: Trump20162020

What a self centered egomaniac.


79 posted on 08/30/2018 11:17:38 AM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: 1Old Pro
Lets hope that it is false. Right now, I am glass is half empty with him. He hurt my family badly with his no vote on the Obamacare repeal. It was unforgivable.
80 posted on 08/30/2018 11:19:13 AM PDT by dhs12345
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