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struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 12:08 PM Sep 2018

Transcript of Meghan McCain's Eulogy

by LAUREN HUBBARD
SEP 1, 2018

... We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice, those that live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served ...

He was a great fire who burned bright ... A few have resented that fire for the light it cast upon them for the truth it revealed about their character, but my father never cared what they thought ...

Several of you in the pews that crossed swords with him or found yourselves on the receiving end of his famous temper or were at a cross purpose to him on anything, are doing your best to stay stone faced. Don't. You know full well if John McCain were in your shoes today, he would be using some salty word while my mother jabbed him in the arm in embarrassment. He would look back at her and grumble, maybe stop talking, but he would keep grinning. She was the only one who could do that ...

... He was shot down, he was crippled, he was beaten, starved, tortured and humiliated. That pain never left him ...

... The America of John McCain is the America of .. fighters with no stomach for the summer soldier and sunshine patriot ...

... The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great ...

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a22892378/meghan-mccain-eulogy-for-john-mccain-full-transcript/

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Transcript of Meghan McCain's Eulogy (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2018 OP
This one I'm sure was aimed straight at the orange cheeto MiniMe Sep 2018 #1
I'm pretty sure that America, and the world, knows this was aimed squarely at john657 Sep 2018 #2
Agree MiniMe Sep 2018 #3
And this: Ilsa Sep 2018 #4
K&R smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #5

MiniMe

(21,676 posts)
1. This one I'm sure was aimed straight at the orange cheeto
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 12:43 PM
Sep 2018

"We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice, those that live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served."

At least I saw it as an arrow at the cheeto

 

john657

(1,058 posts)
2. I'm pretty sure that America, and the world, knows this was aimed squarely at
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 12:47 PM
Sep 2018

the infant idiot in the WH.
What a great eulogy Meghan gave.

MiniMe

(21,676 posts)
3. Agree
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 12:51 PM
Sep 2018

I don't agree with Meghan about much, but it was a great speech and my heart goes out to her for the pain she is feeling

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
4. And this:
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 12:52 PM
Sep 2018

"The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort"

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