Posted on 09/04/2018 6:06:49 AM PDT by C19fan
Funeral services are not for the benefit of the defunct, who is beyond our praise or condemnation, but for the living, who know before long that they will follow the honored dead into a cold grave.
Senator John McCains funeral was the most ostentatious that Washington has accorded except for a president, and much grander than the 2006 funeral of Gerald Ford, for example. The American Establishment took the opportunity to mourn a world that it imagined but never inhabited.
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Spengler nails it.
Note that most people from Arizona were indifferent.
The guy pretended that he was a representative of that state.
In reality, he simply used the state as a way to get back to DC as a Beeg Man.
He really was the Senator from Nowhere.
Well, truth be told, one pilot did...
Title of the article says it all.
This was a funeral for a man and his followers whose faith begins and ends with the State.
They can have it. They may as well have laid McCain's body on top of a pile of driftwood and set it on fire.
If ever there were a former military aviator and Senator who deserved a state funeral, it was John Glenn. McCain should have taken his cue from there, and not tried to best the funerals of Presidents.
Are we going to have to do this forevermore, when people like Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and Chuck Schumer pass, simply because they've been in Congress for a lifetime?
-PJ
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Wait til one of the Clintons croaks...
Quite a take down of the McCain legacy. Calm and rational, a well written piece.
Yes, a pilot, but not Navy.
Ive kinda noted that no Navy pilot, POW member, or shipmates....were speaking there.
Very telling. I think they knew what he did in his run for president, and how he sold out after losing so they wanted no part to do with the political theater of the service..
Also, they would have never let the sitting President be excluded to the deference of Obama, and Slick Willy who did little or nothing to honor the Services that allowed the freedom for fools to elect excuses like them to lead our country.
Wait til one of the Clintons croaks...
Especially Willy..... he will be fawned over......
That ‘Bush-league’ pilot you referred to....wasn’t he sent out of the national guard?
It was only for the lowest of the low:
Politicians and Journalists
Navy pilot?
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