(08-27-2018 04:17 PM)tigergreen Wrote:  

(08-27-2018 02:00 PM)miko33 Wrote:  

(08-27-2018 01:35 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(08-27-2018 01:20 PM)tigergreen Wrote:  

(08-27-2018 09:09 AM)miko33 Wrote:  I can appreciate his military service to his country. I won't call it a sacrifice because IMHO he was richly compensated for serving in Vietnam when you look at how his life played out afterwards.

Wow. That's the most offensive AND ridiculous statement I've seen regarding McCain since his death.

Yea, that pretty ridiculous. People are awful.

OK... No one on this forum gave 2 sh!ts about McCain until he died - and it's even more blatant in the media who were only too happy to call him one of the devil's own children when he ran against Obama. McCain changed a lot from the time he was a prisoner in Hanoi vs what he became spending more than one career in the senate. Be they Dems or GOP'ers - ANYONE who spends more than 2 terms in the senate is not doing so to make a difference. It's all about ego, corruption and a lust to have power.

If I'm a rotten person because of that view...so be it.

Um, I seem to remember a lot of us raking someone on here over the coals - maybe it was you, maybe not - about their disparaging remarks about him even before he was too ill to be in DC.

...and yes; stating that his being a successful senator after returning home cancels out his sacrifice as a POW does, indeed, make you a rotten person. Bigly. Yugely.

Nope - wasn't me you were raking over the coals. I'm just bemused by people feeling offended over a man they otherwise paid no real attention to before or after. My point was that McCain doesn't become who was as a senator without being a POW. That and his connections thru his father ultimately made him the senator. Doesn't matter because in a few days no one will really think much about him aside from those who were close to him.