Bless the man…..
Sen. John McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, has made the decision to discontinue medical treatment, his family said in a statement on Friday.
“Last summer, Senator John McCain shared with Americans the news our family already knew: he had been diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma, and the prognosis was serious. In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival. But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment,” the family of the Arizona Republican said in a statement.
McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, is a key voice in the Republican Party.
Although McCain’s colleagues had braced for the worst following his cancer prognosis a year ago, Friday’s announcement left them shaken. It effectively closes a tumultuous Washington career that included two unsuccessful presidential runs and saw McCain emerge as a singular political figure, an icon of the Senate and latterly as a vehement critic of President Donald Trump…..
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John McCain would not break under unbelievable physical pressure from the very sort of Stalinist totalitarian dictatorship that the President so admires. So what does Donald Trump call him ? A loser.
Michael Cohen broke under threat of prosecution and heavier sentences by the democratic republican country that Donald Trump says he wants to make Great Again (and for whom he demands symbolic loyalty by every athlete). What does the President call his former close adviser and fixer ? A rat.
Paul Manafort (friend to and agent of those Stalinist régimes that Trump so admires) does not break under threat of prosecution by that same America. What does the Chief Magistrate consider him to be ? A stand-up guy who may deserve a presidential pardon.
Not to mention Jane Fonda’s good friends as well…
At least Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden & co. travelled to Hanoi after the war in vain hopes of freeing some of their political and religious prisoners.
And at least Jane Fonda later apologized.
Donald Trump never will.
No, Trump won’t apologize (not that he pointed anti-aircraft guns at Americans like she did, he was too busy dodging STD’s at Studio 54), but when exactly did she apologize?
If she did, it sure took many years.
It appears she apologized last month. Better late than never I guess.
I didn’t share the politics of Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda at the time (I certainly knew that North Vietnam was a Stalinist dictatorship), so I’m not going to justify the tone of her trip to North Vietnam in the middle of a war, but for what it’s worth, here is what Wikipedia editors (i.e. readers who contribute) have compiled, which suggests (depending on one’s reading) that her regrets and apologies came a little earlier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda
¶ For the record, I only learned about her picture on top of an A/A gun from last year’s PBS documentary about the Viet-Nam War.
Donald Trump is about crooks and liars….
Does not respect others….
He’s always been one way
Just in case anyone thinks Donald Trump is gonna say anything nice and respectful about John McCain?
Forget it….
twitter….
Josh Dawsey
@jdawsey1
Trump has told White House aides he does not regret saying McCain is not a war hero. He tells advisers that McCain has a vendetta against him and that he wishes he’d step down. He doesn’t plan to say a laudatory word about the ailing senator.
Rest in Peace, John Sidney McCain III
Ditto.