About John McCain and us
Look, I am not going to lie. John McCain is still the man I was angry at for being a member of the "keating five." He is till the man that wanted to put Sarah palin a heartbeat from the presidency, who let yahoos trash Obama, and who indeed lured some of the PumA dems into being useful idiots, until,l Hillary had to scream "no way, no how, No Mcain." I have no desire to pour libations.
So why am I also saddened at the way some democrats want to grave dance?
No, it has nothing to do with Vietnam, let that corpse rot, especially as Vietnam seems as scared of China as we are.
NO, it has to do with his vote to save Obamacare.
Look, as much as we can talk about Politics, the main point is to have someone vote our way when we need them to. Democrats to the left of Dennis Kucinich and the right of Joe Manchin have, at many times, been the ones that did NOT Vote for what we needed, and they came to us with excuses that were as thick and smelly as a tower of Bull Manure. Yet, whenever they get attcked, we say "we have to rptoect them, we need them, their vote may count someday."
Well a certain man dying of brain cancer literallly got off hos hos[pital bed and made a vote that trump still rails about.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/26/trump-cant-stop-dissing-john-mccain/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f9717dec7efe
I can hate his mistakes, which even he admits he made, but I can also say he had enough of a core to vote when it counted, and because of that, while I will not lionize him, I will not demonize him either.
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Thank you for this thoughtful post... 
No one is perfect, we all make mistakes. McCain is dying, that doesn't make him a saint but no need to pile on him either.