I’m afraid this phrase is too tame for what actually happened. It was a plan for espionage made with an unfriendly government, almost like using climate change instead of the far worse global warming.
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A zillion, hundred gazillion yeses.
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He said it that morning when he saw his lumpy oatmeal, and it seemed to work just fine 'cause he got a replacement. Thought he’d drag it out again.
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I meant that facetiously, in case that wasn’t clear. McCain has playacted a supposedly serious person for most of his career. It never means anything. Nor does it mean anything when GOP figures furrow their brows and declare they are “troubled” about Trump’s latest outrage or find it “concerning.” That doesn’t mean anything either.
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I believe it’s a misnomer to call this a “back channel”. It was a covert channel, entirely different and espionage-like.
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“I coulda been somebody.”… Indeed, I’ve said 3, 4 times in this forum that pops could be in position of a revered national and Senate leader. Instead, he’s just another GOP pol and a not very respectable one at that.
“…instead of the bum which I am…”
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Say it! Say TREASON, you chickenshit.
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“I think ISIS can do terrible things,” he said. “But it’s the Russians who tried to destroy the very fundamental of democracy and that is to change the outcome of an American election.” (And if Trump and/or his people were complicit with the Russians, they are worse because they betray their own)
But Hillary used a private email server and called Klansmen “deplorables”, for God’s sake.
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John Sidney McCain was appointed to the Naval Academy by an Admiral. Grampa Admiral, that is. And after a skunked academic performance, he went to Naval Aviator school, which was normally filled by the highest achievers at Annapolis. He went on to become a reverse ace by taking out five American aircraft. & so on. And here he is today still attached to the government tit he was born sucking.
I would like to mention Joe Coriz. Who at the age of 17 after lying about his age to enlist found himself a Ranger assaulting the cliffs at Normandy on D Day. He lived until a few years ago and never overcame his nightmares. May he rest in peace with his brothers in arms.
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Is that headline verbatim? If so, it sounds like a carefully worded statement. Almost sounds like he is going against the norm by making that statement.
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Poor Mattis. He looks as unhappy as the pope in his shot next to Trump.
Hey but at least Francis didn’t have to listen to the idiot singing.
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Sen. John McCain could easily have derailed Donald Trump’s candidacy at ANY point last year. He did not. He repeatedly said he “supported my party’s nominee”, so really he’s a hypocritical turncoat now, and nothing more! Sad.
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Of COURSE! The NY Times is STILL berating DEMOCRATS for not being nice enough to the “white working class” who were FORCED to vote for Trump because we say words like “flyover”, “butt crack”, and “Deplorables”, yet of course it was actually the racist MIDDLE class white voters (real working class voters went for Hillary!) who actually voted for Trump, thinking a trust fund BILLIONAIRE is somehow “one of them”???!!!
We live in a crazy time.
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"[I]t’s the Russians who tried to destroy the very fundamental of democracy and that is to change the outcome of an American election.”
Yep. Now, what are you going to do about it, Senator?
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Someone who went through what Sen. McCain did while in captivity, and had a lot to do with many of his brother airmen coming home on their feet made up for any use of connections or screw-ups he may have made.
Way to put your foot down Senator…in a couple of weeks you can label it an unfortunate indiscretion,as you explain away the next unbelievable act of treachery.
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##The Milquetoast Maverick™ Rides Again!
(Yeah, I know, that’s what I say every time McCain opens his pie-hole. And you know what? I’m gonna keep doing it. Because it fits, and because he’s not worth any greater effort.)
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Forget about standard, McCain. It’s not even sane to suggest that this was anything but a foreign agent setting up a means for a nation that had been sanctioned by our Congress and Executive branch to get easier access to all American intel.
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in an embarrassing hot mic moment, McCain was overheard to say “Nivea. You got any Nivea? All this hand wringing… you got any Nivia?”
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Serious person who chose Sarah Palin as his running mate.
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