So here’s the thing. I won’t tell you how to feel if you don’t tell me how to feel.
I’m not taking back any of the things I’ve said about him. He’s been a camera whore, a self-brander, more than a bit of a hypocrite. His 2000 campaign was a total sell out of everything he ever purported to believe in in a quest for power, though even then he had his redeeming moments. He gave a good concession speech, for example, that was largely ignored. He was often led more by his own rage and bitterness than party loyalty, though he at least never stopped telling himself he put country first.
But when he goes, we lose a link to an era when there were people you disagreed with about everything and thought were hypocritical and move deeper into the era where all the people on the other side are actively devoted to the destruction of democracy itself. We move deeper into a world where we don’t have opponents, only enemies, that is in itself toxic to democracy.
Mean spirited people need to hate. They are the righteous extremists and they are all the same. They hate Muslims and Christians and Jews and Republicans and Democrats and whatever…
In a vacuum, all alone, you would realize your hatred is independent of everything but you. But there are no vacuums.
The world is a hugely flawed place, and you will always find a suitable target for your hatred, and you will always couch it in righteous “compassion” for victims of something. But the world knows you for what you are – just another hate filled soul looking for an excuse for their inner poison.
Thing is Sessions didn’t recuse until he got caught by testimony he gave Congress after he was AG… Trump thinks he went into the job with that intention which is bullshit. Trump has avocado mush for brains.
So, are democrats supposed to “toughen up” and copy republicans so they can win and doing so hurt and damage ordinary folk like republicans do? Screw that. Why not be truthful and work to get people what they need? Just show folks how republicans are damaging their lives. There’s mountains of material to use.
I never said I hated him, because I don’t hate him. I don’t even know him. Do you?
I said what he has been doing is evil. And taking healthcare away from poor people to give tax breaks to rich people is evil work. It is paid, premeditated, and cold-hearted killing, plain and simple.
Some people kill with guns and bombs and some people kill with pens and policies. John McCain has done both.
If you want to feel sorry for a killer like John McCain, that is your choice, but it isn’t mine.
As a long-term cancer fighter myself, I wish him every comfort and success in beating this glioblastoma. Since Sen. Kennedy’s time the cures have gotten much better, most noteworthy in the field of immunotherapies that spur your own immune system to fight the disease instead of giving you a chemical to kill the disease which brings near-disastrous side-effects that forever alter your way of living. From one Vietnam Vet to another, best of luck, John McCain!
@tiowally You can start feeling better right away because McCain does not have long to live. Til then, you can bring it a down a notch.
He probably has a year to live, not ten, and it will be a terrible death. Enjoy.
Mr. McCain, 80, has a glioblastoma, one of the most common but also one of the most malignant brain tumors. It can be treated with chemotherapy and radiation, but medical experts said it almost always grows back.
Medical experts said the type of tumor Mr. McCain has is particularly aggressive. The median survival of a glioblastoma is about 16 months, said Eugene S. Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts died in 2009 from the same kind of aggressive brain tumor.
From NYT reporting today. He could be dead within a year, and a painful death at that, and perhaps his kids have found that there is a genetic predisposition to becoming similarly afflicted. I see no reason for all the over the top cheering going on here.
Mr. McCain, 80, has a glioblastoma, one of the most common but also one of the most malignant brain tumors. It can be treated with chemotherapy and radiation, but medical experts said it almost always grows back.
Medical experts said the type of tumor Mr. McCain has is particularly aggressive. The median survival of a glioblastoma is about 16 months, said Eugene S. Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts died in 2009 from the same kind of aggressive brain tumor.
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@jimtoday@psychobroad@lafe19 Obviously no one expects anyone to wail and moan and gnash their teeth at the news someone you don’t personally know is dying, and feeling nothing is not wrong either but what’s going on here is unseemly. People cheering at the prospect of death sooner than later and an agonizing death at that.
The more I read about glioblastoma the more alarmed I become. The prognosis for McCain is terrible, and people need to reach inside and find something kind to say even if they otherwise despise him or just STFU. I’m sorry you lost your father. It must have been difficult.
I see nothing but lavish encomiums for a guy who has been an intensely ethically challenged scoundrel his whole career. It’s off-putting to me, knowing McCain’s often unsavory biography, and after years of his profane opposition and horrible votes, especially the one he was about to cast to strip 32 million of their healthcare.
People are allowed to feel as they do of course, and predictably there will be a spectrum. You can always mosey over to Sarah Palin’s Facebook page if you find the very few unflattering comments here too hardcore. Brace yourself.
I’m expressing compassion towards a man who is dying, not a politician I don’t agree with who is dying, doesn’t mean and never will that I’m a fan. You see no praise of him from me, just a sense that a fellow human being is going to die horribly and I see no reason to cheer that. Report back to me, why don’t you, on what Palin is saying. No, don’t.
