Is this level of honor normal? It just seems excessive to me that he lays in state in Arizona for days and then comes to the Capitol. This seems more like what you would do for a president, not a Captain and a Senator.
(09-01-2018 11:01 PM)bullet Wrote: Is this level of honor normal? It just seems excessive to me that he lays in state in Arizona for days and then comes to the Capitol. This seems more like what you would do for a president, not a Captain and a Senator.
Maybe not to the full degree, but the man did serve during the Vietnam War so as a combat veteran, one would expect that he would be buried with full military honors. So yes, some of it is indeed warranted and actually expected considering the circumstances.
(09-01-2018 11:01 PM)bullet Wrote: Is this level of honor normal? It just seems excessive to me that he lays in state in Arizona for days and then comes to the Capitol. This seems more like what you would do for a president, not a Captain and a Senator.
Flights on Air Force Two as well. Apparently much of it at the Drumpfs direction.
So, all this crap about flags are up, flags are down, flags are at half staff, not at half staff...
(09-01-2018 11:01 PM)bullet Wrote: Is this level of honor normal? It just seems excessive to me that he lays in state in Arizona for days and then comes to the Capitol. This seems more like what you would do for a president, not a Captain and a Senator.
It is a bit above and beyond. But what is really above and beyond the norm is the media coverage. I don't remember that Ted (Blond in the Pond) Kennedy got this much, and he was the Lion of the Senate.
I find it ironic that he is now lionized by many of the same media who treated him as the spawn of the devil when he ran against Obama. Amazing how much media cred you can buy by going against Trump. I guess they follow the enemy of my enemy is my friend philosophy too.
(09-01-2018 11:01 PM)bullet Wrote: Is this level of honor normal? It just seems excessive to me that he lays in state in Arizona for days and then comes to the Capitol. This seems more like what you would do for a president, not a Captain and a Senator.
It is a bit above and beyond. But what is really above and beyond the norm is the media coverage. I don't remember that Ted (Blond in the Pond) Kennedy got this much, and he was the Lion of the Senate.
I find it ironic that he is now lionized by many of the same media who treated him as the spawn of the devil when he ran against Obama. Amazing how much media cred you can buy by going against Trump. I guess they follow the enemy of my enemy is my friend philosophy too.
that's the beauty how DJT has exposed 'their transparency'.....
it couldn't have played out any better....
this is how you play 10982356910846102436D chess.....you simply keep the pedal to the metal w/o the dippos having a chance to react in time....
#buhbyetimingchain
#crunkedengine
(This post was last modified: 09-02-2018 10:14 AM by stinkfist.)
Personally I think all the coverage that's been devoted to McCain's services actually shows how petty he was. And it seems to have carried over to his family.
But at least it seems like the extreme nature of the services have had a similar effect on many Americans.
(09-01-2018 11:01 PM)bullet Wrote: Is this level of honor normal? It just seems excessive to me that he lays in state in Arizona for days and then comes to the Capitol. This seems more like what you would do for a president, not a Captain and a Senator.
It pays to be an anti-Trumper. Even if you are dead.
"...During the 2000 Republican presidential convention in Philadelphia, I went to a tony restaurant to attend a reception. By accident, I stumbled into a room chock-full of top-shelf media types: Dan Rather of CBS, the late Peter Jennings of ABC, Tom Brokaw of NBC, Arthur Sulzberger of the New York Times. After a few minutes, I realized I was at the wrong event. It was a birthday party for John McCain. I recall telling Peter Jennings that it was a strange party for a politician to have. As far as I could tell, there were no family members present, no donors, no party officials. In a deadpan tone, Jennings told me: “Well, this is really the first meeting of John McCain’s next precinct-organizing committee.”
But when McCain ran a more conventionally conservative campaign in 2008, competing with the media’s new heartthrob, Barack Obama, the pundits turned on him with a vengeance. According to the Pew Research Center, between the Republican National Convention’s close on September 4 and the final presidential debate on October 15, McCain’s media coverage was negative over positive by a 4-to-1 ratio.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd complained that McCain had “turned on his former base, the news media.” He now had feet of clay: “Even some of McCain’s former aides are disturbed by the 73-year-old’s hostile, vindictive, sarcastic persona....”
Article talks about his churlishness while saying the writer got along just fine with McCain. And concludes by saying it does a disservice by not talking about the whole man.
An asshoole in death just as in life and just as in life the ******* never did anything that wasn't best for John McCain and that includes joining the military. If he really did design his own funeral the same goes for death. Never liked the man and I voted for Obama over him. No reason to change my views with his death.
(This post was last modified: 09-03-2018 10:07 AM by WKUYG.)
