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   From: Leper@MolokaiColony.com   
      
   On 5/6/2018 4:09 PM, Brewster wrote:   
   > Senator Lindsey Graham once described his friend John McCain as   
   > someone who would “run across the street to get in a good fight.”   
   >   
   > McCain’s final battle came straight to him.   
   >   
   > I’m not talking about the one against brain cancer, which has kept the   
   > 81-year-old senator at home in Arizona for months and prompted many   
   > friends, including Joe Biden, to travel there recently to see him,   
   > possibly for the last time. I’m talking about the one against Donald   
   > Trump.   
   >   
   > McCain has waged it in public remarks since Trump’s election,   
   > including a speech in Philadelphia last October, when he pushed back   
   > against the “half-baked, spurious nationalism” that was gripping too   
   > many Americans and lamented the abdication of America’s moral   
   > leadership in the world.   
   >   
   > He wages it in a forthcoming book, “The Restless Wave,” an advance   
   > excerpt of which includes his complaint that Trump fails “to   
   > distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of despotic   
   > ones” and that he prioritizes “a reality-show facsimile of toughness”   
   > over “any of our values.”   
   >   
   > Riiiight.  And they absolutely positively look the other way when   
   > confronted with the crimes of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy   
   > Pelosi and any other shitbag Democrats.   
   >   
   > RINO John McCain, may your final days be spent in horrible pain and   
   > suffering.  May you remember every moment.  Remember, pain is good.   
   > Extreme pain is extremely good.   
   >   
   > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/opinion/sunday/john-mccain-trump.html   
      
   Mr McCain   
   Those that didn't survive the Hanoi Hilton due to your little songs will   
   have a welcoming committee waiting on the other side. Those that lost   
   their lives in that Carrier fire will be there too.   
   >   
      
      
   --   
   Machiavelli wrote:It is necessary for the state to deal in lies and half   
   truths,   
   because people are made up of lies and half truths. Even Princes.' And   
   certainly, by definition all Ambassadors and politicians   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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