tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post9189829401661561613..comments2024-03-29T10:49:30.514-04:00Comments on THE BLOG: STRONGER IN BROKEN PLACES Rumpolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08380575650255695462noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-45562427632646932022018-08-29T21:54:59.186-04:002018-08-29T21:54:59.186-04:00One can only hope and pray that some folks enterin...One can only hope and pray that some folks entering politics will understand the principles that the Lt. Commander held so dearly throughout his life. Semper Fi my Navy friend and true American hero. I go into battle with you. Our country is better because of you. Thanks<br />SAO5Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-89665092318113433042018-08-28T12:08:03.127-04:002018-08-28T12:08:03.127-04:00One of my favorite trivia facts about John McCain ...One of my favorite trivia facts about John McCain is that he is a distant relation of George Washington--I saw this on one of the genealogical shows. Hopefully, his passing is not symbolic for the passing of American democracy itself.earl rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10086680477875042758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-8075567699669799002018-08-27T12:54:53.676-04:002018-08-27T12:54:53.676-04:00What a beautiful post. Captures my feelings so elo...What a beautiful post. Captures my feelings so eloquently. Thank you for honoring a man I so respect but did not vote for. <br /><br />His concession speech to Obama still brings tears to my eyes. But I will forever love him for how unselfishly he answered his supporter at a town hall meeting who called Obama an "Arab". How easy it would have been to have said, "I dont know about that" and moved on. Instead he choose to not only deny it but tell her what a good and decent man Obama was although he did not always see eye to eye with him.<br /><br />RIP Senator McCain. You are now immortal. History will honor you forever. I am privileged to have lived in your era and bear witness to your bravery, heartbreak and courage.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-68714996609757776742018-08-27T11:32:11.010-04:002018-08-27T11:32:11.010-04:00From my Constitutional Calendar for December 9:
...From my Constitutional Calendar for December 9:<br /><br /> On December 9, 2014, Sen. John McCain broke ranks with his party’s leadership to commend the release by the Senate Intelligence Committee of its report on the use of torture by the CIA in the “war on terror.” Himself a former prisoner of war and torture victim, McCain concluded his speech with these words:<br /><br /> But in the end, torture’s failure to serve its intended purpose isn’t the main reason to oppose its use. I have often said, and will always maintain, that this question isn’t about our enemies; it’s about us. It’s about who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be. It’s about how we represent ourselves to the world.<br /> We have made our way in this often dangerous and cruel world, not by just strictly pursuing our geopolitical interests, but by exemplifying our political values, and influencing other nations to embrace them. When we fight to defend our security we fight also for an idea, not for a tribe or a twisted interpretation of an ancient religion or for a king, but for an idea that all men are endowed by the Creator with inalienable rights. How much safer the world would be if all nations believed the same. How much more dangerous it can become when we forget it ourselves even momentarily.<br /> Our enemies act without conscience. We must not. This executive summary of the Committee’s report makes clear that acting without conscience isn’t necessary, it isn’t even helpful, in winning this strange and long war we’re fighting. We should be grateful to have that truth affirmed.<br /> Now, let us reassert the contrary proposition: that is it essential to our success in this war that we ask those who fight it for us to remember at all times that they are defending a sacred ideal of how nations should be governed and conduct their relations with others – even our enemies.<br /> Those of us who give them this duty are obliged by history, by our nation’s highest ideals and the many terrible sacrifices made to protect them, by our respect for human dignity to make clear we need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war. We need only remember in the worst of times, through the chaos and terror of war, when facing cruelty, suffering and loss, that we are always Americans, and different, stronger, and better than those who would destroy us.<br /> Thank you. <br /><br />Fair winds and following seas, John McCain.Milt Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09935704912195748305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-79472965685693160752018-08-27T09:27:05.199-04:002018-08-27T09:27:05.199-04:00John McCain is the reason I registered republican ...John McCain is the reason I registered republican when I was 20 - because I believed in him and wanted to vote for him in the 2000 primary. I stayed a registered republican until earlier this year (I could no longer stomach the slime leading the party, and am now an independent). America needs more like him. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-85591009625181500692018-08-26T21:12:39.289-04:002018-08-26T21:12:39.289-04:00I have never voted for a republican.
I have never...I have never voted for a republican.<br /><br />I have never felt more respect for a republican than I feel for John McCain.<br /><br />He is a hero. I did not always agree with him but, I am sure glad he was a senator.<br /><br />I am so glad he was an American.<br /><br />RIP, John Mc Cain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com