Like, what was hung over his head.

I was a big fan of his in the mid-90s. He was a maverick and a decent human being.

Something happened between 98 and 2001 and he lost his friggin' mind.

Not to make excuses for him, he may have always been a warmongering asshole, but I didn't see it back in the day, and I was already looking across the aisle to see him as a decent human being.

Rarely do I get snowed by politicians. I chalk it up to living in Hawaii for my formative political years. Nothing like seeing the rat race from the outside...

Peace

... for all you listed and more. I will defend McCain, who suffered tremendously and courageously as a POW, from attacks by Cadet Bone Spur. But I'll never call him a "hero" and certainly almost everything he's done while in office — including voting against rape victims — is at least bad, often appalling and sometimes downright criminal.

from the face of the earth, the better off the world will be. How many hundreds of thousands of innocents in foreign nations have suffered death and destruction from the wars and conflicts he has enabled, encouraged and fomented?

The world would now be a much better place had he never returned from Vietnam.

The sooner that fucking warmonger is six feet under the better.

If you think these words are too harsh, then tell me ONE good thing McCain has accomplished in his entire lifetime.

The following is going to be that SOB's final legacy:

S.3336 - Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2018

If Putin was not the reasoned statesman he is, that Bill would be tantamount to an act of war against Russia.

I give you the following as his well deserved eulogy.

Despite What the Press Says, “Maverick” McCain Has a Long and Distinguished Record of Horribleness

What sort of person takes a break from taxpayer-funded cancer treatment and flies 2,000 miles to cast a vote that could result in 22 million people losing their health insurance and tens of thousands of them also losing their lives, then makes a big speech about how messed up the whole process is?

Perhaps the same sort of person who relentlessly agitated for an invasion and occupation of Iraq that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and led to millions of others being displaced from their homes?

Or maybe the same sort of person who put personal and party interests ahead of the national interest when he picked the know-nothing, far-right demagogue Sarah Palin, the ur-Trump, as his running mate in 2008?

Meet John Sidney McCain III: veteran Republican senator from Arizona and former GOP presidential candidate, who endured horrific torture and abuse at the hands of the Viet Cong between 1967 and 1973, and who was tragically diagnosed with brain cancer last week — and who has also been a loathsome human being for most of his eight decades on this planet.
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Rest in anguish, McCain.

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