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Old 26-08-2018, 12:46 AM #1
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Default USA : Senator John McCain has Died aged 81
It was that horrible brain tumor
that took him.
He had refused further Cancer treatment
just last week.


https://news.sky.com/story/john-mcca...ancer-11482440
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Oh wow... I had read yesterday or the day before he had stopped treatment? It didn't seem like he was declining that quickly...

Such a great man.
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Trump must be delighted.
Pity, one of the very few principled republicans left is gone when most needed
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Great tragedy but not unexpected at 81 years of age.

RIP.
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RIP to one of my fave american politicians
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Trump must be delighted.
Pity, one of the very few principled republicans left is gone when most needed
Do you REALLY envisage Trump being 'delighted' that this man has died?
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Pity, one of the very few principled republicans left is gone when most needed

No he tweeted
he was not delighted.


Also its a Vote number he needed
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Poor man such an aggressive form of cancer
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Come off it, Nicky - I bet you think that he is the character from the 'Die Hard' movies.
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Do you REALLY envisage Trump being 'delighted' that this man has died?
It'd be naive not to. He was a thorn in trumps backside for years
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No he tweeted
he was not delighted.


Also its a Vote number he needed
Like the healthcare bill which McCain killed for him?

Trump doesn't respect his own people let alone those against him
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Come off it, Nicky - I bet you think that he is the character from the 'Die Hard' movies.
no, i also knew he was in the army during the Vietnam war

he escaped death, on the USS Forrestal fire (idk if i am correct about that ship's name)
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Like the healthcare bill which McCain killed for him?

Trump doesn't respect his own people let alone those against him

Sure that was the important one he blocked.
But "Other Votes" went ahead.

Yes Trump is like no other President
that's why he won.
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Another great man lost to that awful disease.
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Didn't he make oven chips?

Why was he a great man? I thought he was a warmonger? an establishment opportunist making money from death?
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Rest in Peace Senator McCain, one of the few bipartisan politicians left in a country that is screaming out for them.

Arizona will find it tough to find someone who can live up to him.
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I opposed him when he ran for president but he did his damnedest to stand against Trump and I respect that. One of the few respectable Republicans.
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It's telling ungracious of trump not to acknowledge his passing, however from the comments he made regarding Mccains time as a POW it's for the best ... It wouldn't be taken seriously from a draft dodger.
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The left absolutely hated McCain until he opposed Trump, and now.

Trump derangement syndrome is real.
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The left absolutely hated McCain until he opposed Trump, and now.

Trump derangement syndrome is real.


Yes as he was against Trump
the left Respect him
he was a Vietnam war hero
Tortured for 4 or so years.
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It's telling ungracious of trump not to acknowledge his passing, however from the comments he made regarding Mccains time as a POW it's for the best ... It wouldn't be taken seriously from a draft dodger.

He did tweet respect to his family
you are Wrong Kizzy

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you are Wrong Kizzy
When was that tweet?... I was not 'wrong' he made no mention of the death in the speeches he made following his death, as was noted by the media at the time.
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When was that tweet?... I was not 'wrong' he made no mention of the death in the speeches he made following his death, as was noted by the media at the time.
Yesterday
shown on EVERY TV NEWS
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Yesterday
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It was a tweet! at 1.44am ... are you suggesting that is adequate acknowledgement? I disagree.


"The President has inexplicably shown our adversaries the deference and esteem that should be reserved for our closest allies," McCain said. "Those nations that share our values and have sacrificed alongside us for decades are being treated with contempt. This is the antithesis of so-called 'principled realism' and a sure path to diminishing America's leadership in the world."

Wonderful Mcain quote, maybe it was the realisation of his own mortality that allowed him to frame his perspective so clearly?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/25/trum...in-cancer.html
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