I hope they hand out copies of this at his services https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/make-believe-maverick-20081016
Interesting read.
I hope they hand out copies of this at his services https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/make-believe-maverick-20081016
Isn't it ironic? McCain, is going the Hillary route, blaming Sarah Palin for his presidential loss...
Isn't it ironic? McCain, is going the Hillary route, blaming Sarah Palin for his presidential loss...
McCain Regrets Choosing Sarah Palin As His Running Mate
WTF would you want someone who's mocked your service and sacrifices to come to your funeral?
I'll just say having been to police funerals I have an extreme dislike for politicians attending funerals and then making political points or trying to make the funeral about them, not the deceased. I'd rather be rolled in a ditch and eaten by feral cats than be given a state funeral with (a particular person who's not relevant to this thread) making a speech. I don't truly hate many people, they aren't worth the energy, but (that particular person) I truly effing hate you. I'll leave it at that before going full rant.
I'll take, "Things Obvious to the Voting Public" for $500, Alex.
This 100% A funeral should be about friends and family showing their last respects and saying their goodbyes, shouldn’t be an opportunity for politicians to make an appearance and pose for cameras.
WTF would you want someone who's mocked your service and sacrifices to come to your funeral?
I'll just say having been to police funerals I have an extreme dislike for politicians attending funerals and then making political points or trying to make the funeral about them, not the deceased. I'd rather be rolled in a ditch and eaten by feral cats than be given a state funeral with (a particular person who's not relevant to this thread) making a speech. I don't truly hate many people, they aren't worth the energy, but (that particular person) I truly effing hate you. I'll leave it at that before going full rant.
Why does McCain need to invite a person to a funeral that obviously they both share a dislike for each other? The dead have no need for appearances.
^^^^ THIS. I think back to the first police funeral I attended. We were all in dress blouses, sweltering in a high school gymnasium in Kentland, and the governor was about 45 minutes late. Of course, everything had to wait for him to get there.
And the officiant, the departmental chaplain, delivered something that was about 40% eulogy, and 60% campaign speech for the governor.
It should be about the departed and his or her loved ones, and not about those supposedly in attendance who are actually making it about them, aided by sycophants.
Or uninvited?
I mean, you're gonna be dead. Why care who's there?
I figure there'll be people at mine, just making sure I'm really dead. Some of them might be ex-girlfriends.
Why'd we all get ticked off at the douchnozzles protesting at veteran funerals yelling about homosexuality and sin? The vet is dead. Because it's not for the dead. It's for your friends and family to mourn and remember you. Making a spectacle or being disrespectful the dead will cause pain to those there to grieve.
INGO: keeping it classy since 2010 (at least).
Why'd we all get ticked off at the douchnozzles protesting at veteran funerals yelling about homosexuality and sin? The vet is dead. Because it's not for the dead. It's for your friends and family to mourn and remember you. Making a spectacle or being disrespectful the dead will cause pain to those there to grieve.
...The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain....