GQ: "John McCain Is the Perfect American Lie"

[kpete]

"John McCain is the perfect American lie, a man who professes to be noble and fair and just while being none of those things."

I was duped when I gave McCain my pitiable little sum all those years ago, but I know better today. Everyone should know better. Everyone should realize that John McCain is the perfect American lie, a man who professes to be noble and fair and just while being none of those things. He served his country honorably in combat, but in no other fashion. And he serves out his time in the Senate, and here on planet Earth, as a pathetic enabler. Never the lion; always the sheep. For seventeen years, gullible people have been waiting for him to make his face turn, to make some grand defiant move for the sake of God and country. But that was always just clever branding on his part, and today should serve as a cold slap in the face to anyone who still thought he might have that kind of political courage left in him. He's a fucking disgrace.



More:
http://www.gq.com/story/john-mccain-is-the-perfect-american-lie

[RKP5637]

1. John McCain, the ideal republican. n/t

[Girard442]

2. There are no moderate Republicans.

If they were any kind of moderate they wouldn't be Republicans.

[Honeycombe8]

12. What used to be wacko outliers are now the establishment Republicans...

which some call moderates. But they aren't moderate, compared to Reagan's era.

Well, Susan Collins may be a real moderate and the exception. There may be a couple of others. The Senate should sell tickets to see them, since they are so rare.

[LovingA2andMI]

26. The Sometimes Sensible Republicans Are...

Collins and Murkowski. That's it. That's all.

[Rhiannon12866]

38. Exactly!

[CatMor]

3. One thing is certain

he will NEVER get the Profiles in Courage award.

[karynnj]

17. Actually he did for his work on McCain/Feingold.

which he likely did to make up for his role in the Keating 5 scandal.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/Events-and-Awards/Profile-in-Courage-Award/Award-Recipients/John-McCain-1999.aspx

[CatMor]

20. Whoops

Guess I should have done some research beforehand. Thanks for the info.

[karynnj]

22. One might say he has a career of being the most overrated person in public life nt

[CatMor]

27. Yes, he certainly is

he even dumped Sarah Palin on the country.

[still_one]

4. This is what McCain will be remembered for. Trying to take away healthcare from the most vulnerable

in our society

I recall when he was running for President he was asked the question "why he voted against a day honoring MLK"? and he replied something to the effect that he made a mistake in that vote. Honestly, voting for a day honoring one of the great Civil Rights leaders of our time is not a difficult decision, unless of course at the time you are trying to cater to the racist vote.

His healthcare vote should not be a surprise to anyone.

McCain has always been against publicly funded health care, universal health care, or health coverage mandates

Anyone who thought his current medical condition would somehow make him more sensitive to those most vulnerable in our society, were duped

[Not Ruth]

5. Perhaps the surgery damaged his brain

[chelsea0011]

6. He has always been a fraud and MSM has always allowed him to be mavericky.

Even Matthews was defending him last night "reminding us" that he was just voting for procedures after his entrance and grand processional to a standing O. And then his speech that the media gobbled up. I will not vote for this bill in it's form as it stands or something to that effect. So, and stupid little amendment change comes up in the next vote and votes "all in". So, it is a new bill and "not as it stands", so he gets to continue this BS. I remember Kennedy with same cancer showing up for an elderly health care vote and stood up for seniors and healthcare. He didn't push them under a bus like Mr. Maverick did. He had the chance to end the health care BS and he didn't. A total asshole he is.

[chimpymustgo]

10. He's always been a fraud and the MSM has fawned over his FAKE mavericky.

It's been a shameful decades-long dance.

[Scarsdale]

13. No hero to most of us.

Big FRAUD. He voted AGAINST ACA, not FOR anything. He STILL thinks he should have been president. WRONG, Songbird. Let us see his military records, the ones he keeps sealed along with his medical records. He has been hiding something for YEARS. If he had followed orders and turned around with the rest of his squadron, he would not have been shot down. Also, if he had been at the class on how to eject, he would not have broken his leg. His wife waited for him, not telling him about HER injuries in a car accident. Then he got home, and left her. Slimy little bastard now and always has been, with a temper like a viper.

[Siwsan]

25. I've been pointing out the exact same things, for years.

He's no hero, to me. Make no mistake, I give him credit for being a tough survivor, but he put himself in that situation by being a show off. That was his M.O. while in the Navy. What I'd love to see are his service records for the time before he was shot down. I wonder if you and I have the same suspicion about other problems his 'maverick' behavior might have caused.

[MyOwnPeace]

28. I'm with 'ya........

as being quite suspicious about it all. Like GW, some "trails" have been covered well.

[Demit]

29. How about the international incident he caused in Spain with his hotshot aviator antics?

Flying too low & hitting the power lines, causing a power outage for thousands of people. That's wrongly counted as one of the planes he lost—he didn't lose the plane, it made it back—but it was one of the incidents that showed he was a shitty pilot.

[Honeycombe8]

14. He got his health care. That's what matters (to him). He can't relate.

He's just an old rich white man who has lived an entitled, privileged life for decades. He came from a noteworthy family, too. He has no idea what it's like to be a regular middle class American.

[populistdriven]

31. he needs to receive a Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Denial Letter

some samples here
https://www.jennettefulda.com/2017/01/health-insurance-denial-letters-past-future/

[leftieNanner]

18. And the fact that

He has been on government paid health care his ENTIRE effing life doesn't seem to register in his tiny cruel brain.

[still_one]

19. not surprisingly Paul Ryan has that same mindset

[Alice11111]

44. For his family,too. Plus, they get their student loans dismissed

For their kids. Excellent retirement for life, with a defined benefit plan, while peons any more only get IRAs, 403bs and such.. Life insurance.

Nice work if you can get it.

And the scumbag, proudly walks in, like a hero, and announces ," Aye," to bring the vote to the floor. Maybe its the tumor, as he was nonsensical before they found it out.
What a legacy, McCain You will go down in history, way, way down, as an obsequious man fighting to take crumbs from the poor to stremghten the rich

Sleezer

[leftieNanner]

46. Well said Alice!

McCain - history will not treat you kindly.

[Alice11111]

47. Thank you

[SHRED]

7. K R

[Butterflylady]

8. No pity

Only shame for what he has done. I hold those that voted him back into office also accountable. Always remember, we always pay for the pain we cause others.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. God, I hope this is the ruination of his completely bogus rep

Utter swine

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five-6431838

[dalton99a]

11. Excellent article on the big-talking RW asshole

Last edited Wed Jul 26, 2017, 01:16 PM - Edit history (1)

[librechik]

15. no kidding!

more normalization

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Couldn't have said it better. nt

[KG]

21. A lifelong P.R. phoney, like colin powell.

[Solly Mack]

23. !!!K&R!!!

John McCain Is the Perfect American Lie

[Marie Marie]

37. That is how I always saw him.

All talk - no walk.

[Alice11111]

40. Sally's wound up on this!!

Let's get him. Expose his lies.

[Solly Mack]

41. It is the perfect description of McCain.

Not just him, but definitely him.

[Alice11111]

42. Yeah, sets fortb the pattern

[broadcaster90210]

24. Most don't realize his horrible role concerning our POWs.

He was instrumental in talking our Govt out of retreiving any remaining POWs in Vietnam. The man is an evil coward.

[Javaman]

30. mccain has always been an opportunist sycophant. nt

[central scrutinizer]

32. MINO

Maverick in name only. And thanks for introducing the Klondike Kardashians to big time grifting.

[Alice11111]

43. Remember when the reporters asked Palin if she was a maverick,

Like McCain
She said, "Yes. We are a whole heard of mavericks."

[Binders Keepers]

33. McCain lost me after the 2000 campaign

when the Bush campaign knifed him in the kidney with that scurrilous rumor to win the S.C. primary (without which Bush would not have gone on to get the nomination), and McCain swallowed his outrage and got on board w/ the Bushies once Bush became the party's standard bearer.

[Alice11111]

45. just like when DT said he wasn't a war hero...I like people

who aren't captured. Now, McCain is back to suck some more, even as his life shortens. I do think there may be complications from the tumor effecting his judgment.
The Republicans will leave him on life support, barely cognitive to get his last votes.

Rise up, McCain
We know there is a better you inside, which reveals itself occasionally. Make your legacy, devent, compassionate and count for something that your children can be proud of

[Wolf Frankula]

34. Remember the gush about McCain from the Shrub Years?

"He's a maverick! He's a straight talker! He follows his own mind!" That was always gushed by the Media about McCain, just before he docilely put on the White House Collar and voted Bush's way.

He's a fraud. He always has been.

Wolf

[NastyRiffraff]

35. Read this: (with hat tip to niyad)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016189986

From the very long, but informative article:

On his temper:

Over the years, John McCain has demonstrated a streak of anger so nasty that even his former flacks make no effort to spin it away. "If I tried to convince you he does not have a temper, you should hang up on me and ridicule me in print," says Dan Schnur, who served as McCain's press man during the 2000 campaign. Even McCain admits to an "immature and unprofessional reaction to slights" that is "little changed from the reactions to such provocations I had as a schoolboy."

On flip-flops:

In fact, his own statements show that he has been on both sides of a host of vital issues: the Bush tax cuts, the estate tax, waterboarding, hunting down terrorists in Pakistan, kicking Russia out of the G-8, a surge of troops into Afghanistan, the GI Bill, storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, teaching intelligent design, fully funding No Child Left Behind, offshore drilling, his own immigration policy and withdrawal timelines for Iraq.

On his POW experience:

But the subsequent tale of McCain's mistreatment — and the transformation it is alleged to have produced — are both deeply flawed. The Code of Conduct that governed POWs was incredibly rigid; few soldiers lived up to its dictate that they "give no information . . . which might be harmful to my comrades." Under the code, POWs are bound to give only their name, rank, date of birth and service number — and to make no "statements disloyal to my country."

Soon after McCain hit the ground in Hanoi, the code went out the window. "I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital," he later admitted pleading with his captors. McCain now insists the offer was a bluff, designed to fool the enemy into giving him medical treatment. In fact, his wounds were attended to only after the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a Navy admiral. What has never been disclosed is the manner in which they found out: McCain told them. According to Dramesi, one of the few POWs who remained silent under years of torture, McCain tried to justify his behavior while they were still prisoners. "I had to tell them," he insisted to Dramesi, "or I would have died in bed."

The article was written during McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, but it's still relevant. A long read, but worth it to understand McCain.

[benld74]

36. Call Goldwater Rule

His finished ability to think since his diagnosis needs to be brought forward

GOP wouldn't hesitate

[Alice11111]

39. Unfortunate, but his actions bore his disgrace out