Rebecca Ann Burke March 21 at 6:00 PM My dear friends, I apologize. This is going to be long. I received an email solicitation from Mrs. McCain today (her email in the comments section below), seeking donations to the John McCain Institute. I am not so sure that this was not a PAC letter. It infuriated me. After trying to calm feelings after the President's recent remarks, I decided to express exactly where I stand. I hope you approve. What follows is my email response to Mrs. McCain. I am not happy about it, or speaking harshly, but it is true and her attempts to raise money off the most recent controversy sickened me.... Mrs. McCain: I am truly sorry for the passing of your husband. He, from all appearances, was a wonderful husband and father. However, I cannot, at any time, support any PAC or Institute using his name. His behavior in his last years was not something I am proud of nor can I admire, I believe it hurt our country. He took his antipathy toward our President to an ugly extent. He rushed a dossier, that I believe he knew was fake, to the FBI. From that action, a cascade of events followed which has at times paralyzed the national agenda, the one we elected the President to implement. The President's children have been enveloped by these investigations. Countless others have been negatively impacted simply by being associated with the President and his campaign, even briefly. The President's businesses which he has spent a lifetime building are under undue scrutiny. The President's wealth did not come from a wealthy wife and her family, he earned every dollar on his own. Your husband called out the President for unseemly remarks the President made in a private "locker room" talk with a single man, aired publicly over a decade later to hurt him. At the same time, Mrs. McCain, your husband was QUOTED in the media referring to YOU with the very ugly profanity that starts with "C." Your husband was also known to use "spicy" language not suitable to a woman's ears. He held others to a standard he never met. That cascade of events with the "dossier" has cost American taxpayers millions and millions of dollars in endless investigations, that have only revealed thus far that the dossier was an ugly, dirty, demented piece of fiction to undermine a sitting president. That is repugnant to me. I believe Sen. McCain could not have believed such an ugly piece of fiction. I believe he was aware of how it was written and that it was likely the ugliest of falsehoods. From THAT action of Sen. McCain, the President and his lifetime of work in business have become the subject of investigation. His children have been investigated and required to speak in private against THEIR FATHER. It is this private and public pain that causes the President to still, at times, speak out against the Senator. Let me add, I cannot afford my own health care due to changes since the "Repeal of Obamacare" failed due to last minute sabotage by Sen. McCain. He knew exactly what he was doing, after boasting for years that he and his colleagues would correct this if given the chance. I have had Cadillac insurance coverage my entire life. Now, I cannot afford that I am essentially "cash paying" due to high deductibles that are now the industry standard. Your husband was responsible for causing our families much pain and the loss of cash reserves because of his decision to deny the President a success on a campaign promise. NOTHING could have been a worse path than that under which we struggle every day with no repeal and no corrections. Sen. McCain took his vindictiveness to a height even those who had helped the Senator at one time, could not believe. In the face of death, Sen. McCain planned his funeral, including honors that are ordinarily reserved only for a president in death, which Sen. McCain decidedly WAS NOT. The President honored those wishes and even more, providing whatever dignified attention and support that were at his disposal. In an ultimate wicked slap in the face, the Senator made it clear that the leader of the free world, who outperformed in multiples, any run for office that the Senator had ever mounted, was denied welcome at the services. That alone was so undignified that I cannot ever imagine honoring in death, a Senator who carried to his grave, more indignities toward our President. Finally, not only were the President and his family excluded, but by design, Sen. McCain excluded Governor Sarah Palin. Perhaps the senator never understood reality, Gov. Palin brought life to his lifeless run for office. Because of her, we were energized about the Republican ticket. I know. I served as this leading Republican county's co-chair of Women for the McCain/Palin ticket. When he, facing death, expressed that indignity toward Gov. Palin, he lost me and many women who now deeply regret working for his ticket. Instead of sending out mass emails trying to recreate a dignified vision of Senator McCain, and soliciting funds likely to be used by his "Institute" or a PAC to work against the President, please save yourself time and save me the imposition of having to express these thoughts to you so that you may understand. I also understand a daughter defending her father. However, I find Meaghan's comments about the President to spread fuel on a fire. Her comments during her father's funeral were classless. They were clearly intended to cast dispersion on the President in his absence after he provided many exceptional funeral service honors. I hope you enjoy a retirement from politics. I, for one, and many like me, (don't underestimate how many we are) do not wish to consider any such pieces of correspondence on the Senator's legacy. His legacy will forever be pock marked by his final vindictive acts. I do not admire that. I wish to forget that. There is NOTHING in these experiences that would ever cause me to donate to the McCain Institute. I hope many others feel as I do. Respectfully, Rebecca Ann Burke WPT … (YAC) …
John Mcain, is a scar on Americanism. May he rest in peace, even after his dishonorable actions perpetrated on the average American. Roger C.
Edward Garland March 21 at 6:02 AM Dean Majkrzak A military officer sums it up best... Michael Kelley I am a former Navy Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer and a 100% Disabled Vietnam Vet. A “war hero” doesn’t finish 894th out of 899 and still get stationed at a Navy champagne unit and promoted ahead of all but two of his 898 other classmates. A “war hero” doesn’t crash three U.S. Navy jets out of sheer incompetence and ineptitude, including two during non-combat training sessions. A “war hero” doesn’t get written up on drunk-and-disorderly, fraternization, disobeying orders, and insubordination charges more than two dozen times in less than three years. Any other Naval Aviator would have been out of the service and on the street in short order. A "war hero" doesn't make repeated pro-North Vietnam propaganda broadcasts and come out of captivity weighing just a few pounds less than when he went in while other POWs came out having lost 30%-40% of their pre-captivity bodyweight. A “war hero” doesn’t get promoted to squadron commander of the air field named after his own grandfather immediately after crashing his third airplane. A “war hero” doesn’t have all the military records that cover his time in Vietnam and all disciplinary actions against him censored and sealed “as a matte r of national security. ”A “war hero” doesn’t get 28 medals awarded all after-the-fact “for bravery” for no other reason than being shot down and captured and then go on a celebrity public relations tour because he’s the son of two acclaimed Navy admirals.A “war hero” doesn’t repeatedly cheat on the wife who’s back in the states waiting for him, and then cheat on her more when he returns to the states, and then divorce and abandon her. A “war hero” doesn’t systematically vote against every single pay and benefit increase for military and veterans throughout his entire political career, all the while claiming to be “the soldier’s Congressman,” and then take credit for the passage of a G.I. benefits bill he that voted AGAINST. A “war hero” - McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by the impact coming to as the plane settled to the bottom. McCain’s second crash occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. “Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula,” Timberg wrote, “he took out some power lines [reminiscent of the 1998 incident in which a Marine Corps jet sliced through the cables of a gondola at an Italian ski resort, killing 20] which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.”McCain’s third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Timberg reported that McCain radioed, “I’ve got a flameout” and went through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees.McCain’s fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms an d a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi.For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals.“ McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat,” explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs — the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. “Since McCain got 28 medals,” Bell continues, “that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat.I spent ten years flying in the Navy and ended up with nine medals/ribbons including my Vietnam service, which was about normal for officers who didn't have their Admiral father writing commendations for them. McCain also proved his "character" when he returned from Vietnam to a wife who had been in a horrific auto accident and left disfigured and confined to a wheelchair while waiting faithfully for him for six years. Very shortly after he returned he divorced her and married the "trophy wife" who would enhance his political aspirations. We called McCain "Songbird" and you will have a hard time finding any Vietnam era Naval Aviator who did not loathe him. WPT … (YAC) …
I'm shocked, I'll tell ya, just shocked. This thread is a perfect pulpit for all the "Johnny Boy" apologists to come crawling out of the sewer. I, for one, would sure love to hear something nice about the Ol' Backstabber.
What can you say nice about a BACK STABBER? The nicest thing that could be said , is he was a very deceitful person. HE PULLED EVERY STRING HE COULD TO MAKE LIFE EASY FOR HIM AND THE HELL WITH THE REST OF THE PEOPLE. Roger C.
