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rottingjohnny
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Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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May 27, 2018 - 09:47am PT
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McCain is supertopo's rodney dangerfield...
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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May 27, 2018 - 10:15am PT
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You betcha!
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yosemite 5.9
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santa cruz
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May 27, 2018 - 05:02pm PT
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I repeatedly saw John McCain's angry outbursts on TV over a period of years and as a result I voted for Obama the first time that Obama ran for President. I have believed for many years that John McCain has an anger management problem.
John McCain's war hero presidential campaign did not provide the definition of how he would govern that I needed to hear. It was quite ineffective I thought. I was surprised that the Republican party, or at least those crafting his campaign, thought it would be effective against Obama's raising of hope as a primary issue for the future.
I appreciate his service, but I wish he would have resigned a few years ago,
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Topic Author's Reply - May 28, 2018 - 10:24am PT
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John McCain’s Gratitude
By KYLE SMITH
May 28, 2018 6:30 AM
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/tv-review-john-mccain-documentary-grit-and-dignity/
"Duty, honor, country. McCain embodies these ideals, but if there’s one word that summarizes the conservative spirit, it is not these but (as Yuval Levin says) gratitude. "
"Other politicians speak of selfless public service, but few have enacted it as nobly as John Sidney McCain III."
...and in the very same article...
"He may not have made the best president..."
"In a town-hall discussion from the 2008 campaign, McCain is seen advising his audience that they needn’t be scared of an Obama presidency. (Loud booing ensues.) To the HBO filmmakers and their intended audience, this is evidence of McCain’s fundamental decency; to conservatives it looks more like page one in the How to Lose an Election manual."
"McCain might have been, like Nixon, a big-government Republican eager to “get things done,” meaning: sign bipartisan bills that codified progressive goals. He might well have nominated spineless conservatives or even liberals to the Supreme Court."
This kind of view is central to the polarization and partisanship that paralyzes our politics and country. Anything that remotely resembles bipartisan, or an effort to find compromise, finds absolutely no traction from either side, and is seen as uninteresting at best...extremist at worst. The only acceptable solution to the left or the right is the most extreme.
McCain's longtime locus of eschewing the most negative rhetoric and politics has made him a 'maverick'. So sad that a willingness to find common ground and have respectful dialogue is considered unusual in US politics and culture.
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 16, 2018 - 01:23pm PT
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Trump publicly sides with Putin on election interference
By MATTHEW NUSSBAUM 07/16/2018 05:46 AM EDT Updated 07/16/2018 03:50 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/trump-russia-putin-summit-722418
Perhaps the harshest criticism came from Sen. John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee who has been among the GOP's most open critics of the president. McCain, a POW during the Vietnam War whom Trump once suggested was not a war hero because he had been captured, called the president's meeting in Helsinki "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."
"The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake," McCain, who has been away from the Senate for months as he undergoes cancer treatment, said in a statement. "No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant."
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Jul 16, 2018 - 02:04pm PT
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All this russophobia these days, I feel like I'm . . .
[Click to View YouTube Video]
"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant."
Wow, how many presidents have abased themselves before the tyrants in Saudi Arabia? Give me a break McCain.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jul 16, 2018 - 04:38pm PT
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"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant."
To be fair, McCain made a comment on this pic.
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Jul 17, 2018 - 07:14am PT
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All US presidents bow to the Saudi King
It's always disgusting!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 17, 2018 - 08:39am PT
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ATG...instead of dissing an honerable man, show some guts and posit a defense for the moron of a president you seem to worship...nothing comes to mind, eh.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 17, 2018 - 12:43pm PT
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Yes it is, and you choose to pollute it by denigrating the thoroughly honorable man this thread is about because he has the guts that few of his republican colleagues have shown.
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Karkoekstan, Former USSR
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Jul 17, 2018 - 07:23pm PT
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mothdaa f*#kaa killed more people than anyone else in US history
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Jul 17, 2018 - 11:14pm PT
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Beholden to the arms manufacturer's, McCain seldom, or ever, saw a foreign conflict he didn't think we should join. He certainly graduated with honor from the class of "The Keating five".
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michaeld
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Beta Sprayer at your Gym
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Aug 24, 2018 - 04:43pm PT
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How many of you are here virtue signaling because he's anti-Trump? McCain is always and has always been a war hungry neocon.
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WBraun
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Aug 24, 2018 - 05:12pm PT
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John McCain is a disgusting excuse for a human being for carrying out the
slaughter of all those innocent civilians in Ukraine by his hired Neo-Nazis ......
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Aug 25, 2018 - 05:34pm PT
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Another good man gone. Did not agree with most of his politics but I had great respect for him
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 25, 2018 - 05:34pm PT
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John McCain, towering senator and GOP ‘maverick,’ dies
John McCain, a Vietnam War hero, two-time Republican presidential contender and towering figure in Congress known for his bipartisan deal-making during six terms as an Arizona senator, has died. He was 81.
Reflecting in September on his cancer diagnosis, McCain appeared at peace with his own mortality, declaring that “Every life has to end one way or another.” Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper how he wants to be remembered, McCain responded: “He served his country and not always right. Made a lot of mistakes. Made a lot of errors, but served his country. And I hope we could add honorably.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/25/john-mccain-obituary-legacy-297689
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Aug 25, 2018 - 06:14pm PT
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Another good man gone. Did not agree with most of his politics but I had great respect for him.
+1
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