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FreshStart1

(53 posts)
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 04:26 PM Aug 2018

The thing no one is saying about McCain.

To be honest, I was not a huge fan of him. I did applaud him for giving the middle finger to Trump, even in death, by not inviting him to his funeral.

However, no one seems to mention that his first wife was injured in a car accident, and due to this and other factors, McCain left her and several children.

This seems to make him less of a person, to me anyway.

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Squinch

(50,774 posts)
2. Their marraige lasted 7 years after the car accident. According to Fact Check
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 04:32 PM
Aug 2018

she has said they were friends after the divorce. So, no.

https://www.factcheck.org/2008/09/mccains-first-marriage/

And PS, you signed up to make an OP about this? Hmmmm....

dalton99a

(81,068 posts)
4. Well, because McCain refused to assimilate:
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 04:35 PM
Aug 2018
"Putin is not America's friend, nor merely a competitor. Putin is America's enemy — not because we wish it so, but because he has chosen to be."
- John McCain, July 12, 2018

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
7. He was cheating on her throughout those 7 years. According to McCain himself
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 04:37 PM
Aug 2018

His first wife said he was a 40 year old who wanted to be 25 and acted accordingly.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,705 posts)
10. Because he was in captivity all those years he wanted to feel alive again.
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 04:49 PM
Aug 2018

I certainly don't countenance infidelity but I can understand it in this instance.

world wide wally

(21,719 posts)
8. McCain probably made 10 votes that pissed me off for every 1 that pleased me, but..
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 04:38 PM
Aug 2018

I don't think he cast them out of the kind of hatred that Trump shows every day

JI7

(89,180 posts)
12. he had a good relationship with his kids from his first marriage
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 04:55 PM
Aug 2018

he had 3 kids from that marriage and 2 of them were kids she already had who he adopted.

his kids from both marriages get along with each other and with Cindy.

he did not abandon any of the kids.

and he was one of the few republicans who didn't preach of personal morals while condemning others.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. It made him less of a person to himself also, ultimately
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 05:07 PM
Aug 2018

no excuses for the enormous changes, separation, and stresses they'd both undergone. He was a good ex-husband to his two stepchildren and son, and he and his ex-wife maintained a friendly relationship. That last says a lot to me, despicable behaviors being so dreadfully common.

What reservations I have about him, and they're huge, are all about his political choices. I don't feel the details of his personal life choices are mine to judge, but it's very different when it comes to the big part he played throughout the massive betrayals of the Republican Party and its decline into extreme corruption. There were honorable conservatives in congress who refused to go along and were purged as a result. But not him.

"It was only when I lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her." John McCain

Ring of truth. It's only when our nation became increasingly, and ultimately gravely, endangered that I became truly proud of and grateful to the Democratic Party's role in our democracy. Before that, for over 40 years, I'd prided myself on really being "independent," seeing that as more admirable, and just saw registering Democrat as a pragmatic move to maximize the power of my vote through collective action.
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