March 22, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
DONALD TRUMP vs. (the
deceased) JOHN McCAIN: What is Really Going On?
Friends,
I have never much liked the famous early
twentieth century attorney Clarence Darrow. You may remember his character
portrayed by Spencer Tracy in the classic film Inherit the Wind as a valiant social and legal reformer. It was
Hollywood’s attempt—falsely and blatantly ideological—to portray on the silver
screen the famous Scopes Evolution Trial of 1925: progress and “science”
against “reaction” and Christianity [For a corrective view, see Richard
Weaver’s careful analysis in his study, The
Ethics of Rhetoric (1965): William Jennings Bryan destroyed Darrow legally
in the court case.]
But Darrow was responsible for a quote that
fits this column today: "I have never
killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." I
embrace that comment with reference to the late Senator John McCain.
In recent days there has been considerable criticism of President Trump
for his comments about the deceased senator. One is not supposed to
criticize the dead, we are cautioned, especially someone who died in such a
miserable way as the late Senator McCain.
Despite the huffy and pompous condemnations of the president by the
self-serving Mitt Romney and by Lindsey Graham (who was once McCain’s close
partner in Deep State machinations, but now cozies up to Donald Trump), and by
various other denizens of the GOP swamp, and the self-righteous indignation of
Fox News pundits like Marc Thiessen that somehow Trump was “insulting the dead”
and “not being presidential,” I believe the president was entirely justified in
his comments.
Although we are enjoined to pray for the dying and the dead, the president
was right to say what he said. He had good reasons to do so, and those reasons
involve the very concept and understanding of what this nation is all about, its role
in the world, and who actually governs and controls this county and its future.
My utter dislike for the Arizona senator and his vision go back at least
to the year 2000 when he was running against George W. Bush in the Republican presidential
primaries, and in South Carolina he flip-flopped ungraciously and dishonestly
on the issue of the Confederate Battle Flag flying at the South Carolina State
Capitol.
Over the years, I have collected dozens of articles and news stories
concerning the late Arizona solon. Without adding any further commentary, I
pass on a selection of excerpts, followed at the end by a summary piece written
by James Kirkpatrick, which I reproduce in full.
Mark Twain once quipped that he did not attend a certain figure’s
funeral, but did send a letter saying that he approved of it. Given the
incalculable damage John McCain did to this nation while he was alive,
thankfully Donald Trump did not have to attend the senator’s last rites…but
during these last few days, like Twain, he relayed his entirely just and honest
thoughts. And I could not agree more.
Here are some of the excerpts I have archived with dates and references:
McCAIN FUNERAL WAS AN EXPLICIT
SNUB AND ATTACK ON PRESIDENT TRUMP:
The tone at John McCain’s spectacle … the message
of hatred and contempt for the president was just as patent. The professional
NeverTrumper and Twitter activist Bill Kristol sniffed that “I don’t believe
the name of the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was mentioned
during the service for John McCain, and I’ll continue that practice, in
McCain’s honor, for the rest of the day. Today was a moment to celebrate,
appreciate and reflect on what is admirable.” https://amgreatness.com/2018/09/03/burying-the-dead-with-bile-filled-histrionics/ September 3, 2018
McCAIN, AFTER
DECLARING ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS THAT HE WANTED TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, VOTES TWICE
TO KEEP IT:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said in a
statement on Friday that he will oppose the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal
bill. McCain’s vote against Graham-Cassidy effectively tanks renewed efforts to
repeal Obamacare….This is the second time McCain saved Obamacare from repeal in the Senate. He first tanked Obamacare
in August when he and Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME)
voted against the “skinny” Obamacare repeal bill. The measure failed by one
vote. McCain added that he takes no pleasure in derailing legislation sponsored
by his friends Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy and hopes that Congress
can strike a bipartisan deal on the future of health care. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/22/mccain-saves-obamacare-again-tanks-graham-cassidy-obamacare-repeal-bill/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20170922 September 22, 2017
McCAIN WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN FACILITATING THE DEMOCRATIC
OPPOSITION FAKE “STEELE DOSSIER” TO THE FBI AND PROBABLY TO THE MAINSTREAM
MEDIA…AND THUS PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE “RUSSIA HOAX”:
David
J. Kramer, a former State Department official and longtime associate of John
McCain, reportedly invoked the Fifth Amendment to get out of testifying before
the House Intelligence Committee regarding the infamous, largely discredited
35-page dossier on President Donald Trump. FoxNews.com reported: “Kramer, who is a central
player in how the unverified Trump dossier made its way to the FBI in late
2016, testified before the committee in December in a closed-door session,
indicating he had information about the dossier’s sources. A subpoena was
issued for mid-January, as first reported by the Washington Examiner. The law
enforcement source confirmed, however, that Kramer did not appear and has exercised
his Fifth Amendment rights”…. On January 10, CNN was first to report, based on leaked
information, that the contents of the
dossier were presented during classified briefings one week earlier to
then-president Obama and president-elect Trump. Just after CNN’s January 10
report on the classified briefings about the dossier, BuzzFeed published its full unverified
contents.
Last October, McCain denied
providing the dossier to BuzzFeed and said that he only gave the material to
the FBI. “I gave it to no one except for the director of the FBI. I don’t know
why you’re digging this up now,” McCain told the Daily Caller during
what the news website described as a testy exchange.
Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that Kramer received a
copy of the dossier directly from Fusion GPS after McCain expressed interest in
the document. McCain then reportedly passed the dossier directly to FBI
Director James Comey. Those details marked the clearest indication yet that
McCain may have known that the dossier originated with Fusion GPS, meaning that
he may have knowingly passed on political material to the FBI.
McCAIN HAD LONG BEEN A SUPPORTER OF AMNESTY AND
SUPPORTED IT:
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Chris Coons, D-Del., will
introduce a bipartisan citizenship plan on Monday for young immigrants known as
Dreamers in order to reach a budget deal before funding for the federal
government runs out this Friday, The Wall Street Journal reports. The proposal, though, doesn’t
include funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border like President Donald
Trump has asked for. "It's time we end the gridlock so we can quickly move
on to completing a long-term budget agreement that provides our men and women
in uniform the support they deserve," McCain said in a statement Sunday. https://www.newsmax.com/politics/john-mccain-chris-coons-dreamers-daca/2018/02/04/id/841388/?ns_mail_uid=61377180&ns_mail_job=1777291_02052018&s=al&dkt_nbr=010502mbkma2 February 4, 2018
McCAIN INSTITUTE RECEIVES FUNDING FROM GEORGE SOROS:
….where
did it come from? John McCain keeps hiding and refuses to answer that
question! What we do know, thanks to an
investigation by The Daily Caller, is that the McCain Institute for
International Leadership received a VERY GENEROUS donation from none other than
George Soros. The institute is intended to serve as a “legacy” for McCain. It
“is dedicated to advancing human rights, dignity, democracy and freedom”. It is
also a tax-exempt non-profit foundation with assets valued at $8.1 million and
associated with Arizona State University…. The institute has accepted
contributions of as much as $100,000 from billionaire liberal activist-funder
George Soros and from Teneo, a for-profit company co-founded by Doug Band,
former President Bill Clinton’s “bag man.” https://stonecoldtruth.com/sen-john-mccain-refuses-questions-on-9-million-dollars/ September 4, 2017
McCAIN COMPARES TRUMP TO HITLER:
Arizona Sen. John McCain delivered a
series of attacks on President Donald Trump Friday during a speech in Germany,
and at one point he compared today's political atmosphere to the Nazi years of
the 1930s and 1940s….While making his case, McCain — who like Trump is a
Republican — mentioned Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist. Von Kleist was part of the
group that plotted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. "What would von
Kleist's generation say if they saw our world today?" McCain asked.
"I fear that much about it would be all too familiar for them. And they
would be alarmed by it"…."They [i.e., the anti-Nazi opposition] would
be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal
values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism. They would
be alarmed by the hardening resentment we see toward immigrants, and refugees,
and minority groups, especially Muslims," McCain said. "They would be
alarmed by the growing inability, and even unwillingness, to separate truth
from lies. They would be alarmed that more and more of our fellow citizens seem
to be flirting with authoritarianism and romanticizing it as our moral
equivalent." http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/mccain-blasts-trump-policies/2017/02/17/id/774297/?ns_mail_uid=61377180&ns_mail_job=1712560_02182017&s=al&dkt_nbr=lfwlr466 February 17, 2019
McCAIN PREFERS OBAMA TO TRUMP:
Anti-Trump
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has told a left-wing newspaper that he believes
“American leadership” was better under President Barack Obama than President
Trump — the latest in a series of shots the failed 2008 presidential candidate
has taken at his fellow Republican. According to the Guardian, McCain was “visibly irked” when asked about comments Trump made last
week in the wake of the terrorist attack in London, in which he criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan for his
response to the atrocity. “What do you think the message is? The message is
that America doesn’t want to lead,” McCain said. “They are not sure of American
leadership, whether it be in Siberia or whether it be in Antarctica.” Then,
when asked if America’s international standing was better under Obama, McCain
reportedly responded: “As far as American leadership is concerned, yes.” http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/11/report-john-mccain-says-american-leadership-better-obama/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20170612 June 11, 2017
McCAIN PUSHES TO PRESERVE THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND GLOBALIM:
US
Senator John McCain said on Friday that the world desperately needs the US and
Europe to “unite once more to preserve globalism and the new world order.” The
current chairman of the armed services committee in the US Senate
said that Washington should restore cooperation with the EU [European Union] —
long one of America’s “most important alliances.” The remarks came
at the Brussels Forum, a conference organized by the transatlantic,
globalist think tank, German Marshall Fund. The globalist ideologue, who once
was a presidential candidate for the Republican Party, has once again put
himself in direct opposition to President Trump….http://www.hangthebankers.com/new-world-order-war-monger-john-mccain/ March 28, 2017
McCAIN
DESTESTED THE TEA PARTY AND CONSERVATIVES IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY:
Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain's team is on a campaign to rid the Arizona
Republican Party of tea party officials, replacing them with allies to the
senator in advance of an expected bid for a sixth term in 2016. According to Politico, which spoke to nearly a dozen sources, McCain's
team has been working with strategists and fundraisers across the country to
undermine the standing of conservatives in his state who could pose a challenge to his political future. "There's been a
huge organizational effort that I've never seen before," Gordon James, an
Arizona public relations executive and McCain ally, told Politico. "A lot
of the party folks who were hostile to John McCain have been marginalized, and
that's a good thing."
In January, members of the state committee lead by tea party supporters formally
censured the 2008 GOP presidential nominee for not being conservative enough, particularly
on the issues of immigration and the Affordable Care Act. Since then, McCain's team managed to
oust the man who authored the censure resolution, Timothy Schwartz, who had
been serving as a GOP legislative district chairman.
"It's very clear what's going on," Schwartz told Politico, blaming his ouster on McCain. "Look, John McCain has prominence and money and influence and because of that he thinks he can ramrod us." http://www.Newsmax.com/Newsfront/mccain-re-election-2016-arizona-tea-party/2014/12/30/id/615598/#ixzz3NU8ovpHN December 30, 2014
"It's very clear what's going on," Schwartz told Politico, blaming his ouster on McCain. "Look, John McCain has prominence and money and influence and because of that he thinks he can ramrod us." http://www.Newsmax.com/Newsfront/mccain-re-election-2016-arizona-tea-party/2014/12/30/id/615598/#ixzz3NU8ovpHN December 30, 2014
McCAIN COVERED UP WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICAN POWs MISSING IN
VIETNAM:
Eighteen months ago, TAC publisher Ron
Unz discovered an astonishing account of the role the 2008 Republican
presidential nominee, John McCain, had played in suppressing information about
what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Below, we
present in full Sydney Schanberg’s explosive story.
Almost as striking is the
manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and
McCain’s role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain’s military
service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the
Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t
talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.
The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small.
There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness
depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to
use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers
given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted
twice by Washington—and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that
“men were left behind.” This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large
number—the documents indicate probably hundreds—of the U.S. prisoners held by
Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and
Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S.
McCain. http://www.unz.com/article/mccain-and-the-pow-cover-up/
May 25, 2010
AND AN EXCELLENT SUMMARY BY
WRITER JAMES KIRKPATRICK:
Profile In Treason: The Inconceivable Evil Of John McCain—“Man Of Blood”
James Kirkpatrick October 17, 2017
There is no hatred more complete and no malevolence more fanatical
than that held by the American political class for the American people.
The commissar’s rage against the kulaks, the jihadist’s fury against the infidel, the inquisitor’s wrath against the unbeliever, all of this pales in
comparison to the genocidal bloodlust Senators and Congressmen have against their own constituents. And even as they gleefully
promote the outsourcing of jobs, the importation of cheap labor, and the ruthless extirpation
of property, wealth and liberty, these shameless parasites demand their slaves
die to export their filthy System all over the world.
The most contemptible and dangerous of these vermin is Senator John McCain. In a political career marked
by near constant betrayal and hypocrisy, there are only two constants to his bloody
career. The first is a passion for war, any war, for any reason, which can only be termed pathological. The second is the desire to replace the people of his own state and the voters of his own party. Like a dying venomous snake, McCain is using his final moments to strike at
President Trump and those who supported him.
To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of
a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse
the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last
best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism
cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as
unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that
Americans consigned to the ash heap of history. [Read John McCain’s Liberty Medal ceremony speech, Boston Globe, October 17, 2017]
It’s worth noting McCain gave his comments while accepting an
award from…Joe Biden. Much like McCain’s
“patriotism” consists of deconstructing the Historic American Nation
itself, Biden poses as a champion of the “working class” because he rides Amtrak but supports “constant, unrelenting” immigration, outsourcing, anti-white racial preferences and endless, nihilistic
wars. McCain and Biden, are, in all essentials, practically identical.
One aches to ask Senator McCain directly what “problem” he thinks
will be more effectively “solved” by importing the Third World. National security? Health care? Collapsing wages? Rising inequality? Crumbling infrastructure?
McCain’s mumblings are practically self-discrediting. But as
American journalists exist to serve power and suppress dissent, it’s unlikely the Senator has
been or will ever be asked to defend such ludicrous claims. McCain draws a
distinction between “nationalism” and “patriotism,” with the former being
defined by the concrete realities of history and heritage and the latter formed
by mysterious abstractions.
“We live in a land made of
ideals, not blood and soil,” he explained. “We are the custodians of those
ideals at home, and their champion abroad.”
These ideals, as is customary when they are invoked, are not defined.
Yet given McCain’s tributes to the “immigrant’s dream,” the land which
“reinvents itself,” and the current “international order,” his remarks are
being hyped as a rebuke of “Trumpism” and celebrated by Leftist journalists who
suddenly claim the right to define what is “conservatism” or “Republicanism” [John McCain just delivered a total and complete takedown
of Trumpism, by Chris Cillizza, CNN, October
17, 2017]
McCain’s ideals would be unrecognizable, not only to the Founding
Fathers, but to practically any other American generation in history. Would the
Father of Our Country have countenanced endless interventionism? Would
either Jefferson or Hamilton have recognized a moral imperative for
self-annihilation? Would any Federalist or anti-Federalist celebrate the
replacement of the very people who had just won independence from the British
Empire?
McCain’s denunciation of “nationalism” is also selective. McCain
is quite eager to defend the borders of other nations. “We are all Ukrainians,”
he declared on one occasion [Senator John McCain: “We Are All Ukrainians, by Jay Newton-Small, Time, February 28,
2014]. “We are all Georgians” he pronounced on another.
It is only when it comes to
America that McCain’s “patriotism” becomes abstract and imaginary. Indeed, it
seems every people on earth has a right to “blood and soil” which must be
safeguarded by American arms, except Americans themselves.
Even as this is written, Kurds and Iraqis are on the brink of war
[The Kurdish War with Iraq, by Thomas Ricks, Foreign Policy, October 17,
2017]. If it erupts, once again, the tribal hatreds and border conflicts of peoples
who should be of interest to us only in anthropology textbooks
will be cause for the death of American soldiers. The sacrifice of our military
is framed as “leadership.” “That leadership has had its costs, but we have
become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did,” McCain gloats. And he is
right, in speaking of his peers; he and his fellow parasites are indeed
incomparably powerful and wealthy.
But such power and wealth does not trickle down to those he
ostensibly represents. The wages of working Americans have stagnated for decades, and even skilled workers can barely earn a wage
sufficient to support a family. And “power?” The tyranny of George III that our
forefathers rose against would be a glorious boon for ordinary Americans of
today, as their lives, families, communities, and property are forfeit to
the whims of unelected bureaucrats, publicly funded “activists,” or sadistic
reporters eager to rouse a mob. McCain’s tribute to America’s “power” and
“wealth” is reminiscent of an Ottoman sultan boasting about shared victories to
the janissaries he’s kidnapped from Eastern Europe.
The democratic system McCain pledges Americans to defend is a form
of government in which elected officials blatantly lie to their constituents
and then taunt them at the very moment of betrayal. Consider McCain himself. He
campaigned on repealing Obamacare, and then gleefully voted to save it [Mr. McCain Goes To Washington, by John Fund, National Review, July 30,
2017] He promised to “complete the danged fence” but instead
has done his best to make sure Arizona ceases to be an American state in any
meaningful sense.
One may disagree with monarchy
or some other form of unelected leadership, but it seems vastly preferably to a
system where political power is awarded to the most outrageous liar. Such a
system should not be tolerated, let alone fought for.
Besides, the liberal international order McCain defends is nothing
of the kind. The Western world is not free. [The Liberalism That Isn’t, by Costin Alamariu, Daily Caller, September 7,
2017] East Germany in the 1980s was in some ways more free than contemporary Germany is today: it would not have
occurred to Erich Honecker to expose his subjects to mass sexual assault at the
hands of Muslim invaders and then arrest anyone who protests. [Married couple sentenced for migrant critical Facebook
post, by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, July
8, 2016]
The Occupation Government in Washington has presided over
the Death of the West. The world order McCain defends
is, quite explicitly, built on the dispossession of the European-Americans who
actually created the American polity. If our civilization or country is to
survive in any meaningful sense, that order must be destroyed.
And that means replacing the political class, the enemy
collaborators, exemplified by the likes of Senator McCain. His warmongering
against a nuclear armed Russia is unhinged. His desire to hurt our own nation is so
unrelenting and energetic one wonders if he is working under duress or threat of blackmail. I almost hope so. To think he
actually believes these ideas is a terrifying possibility.
It is not polite to speak ill of the terminally ill. Yet this
cruel, murderous and thoroughly despicable character poses a threat
not just to the existence of the American nation, but to the very lives of
people all over the world.
I wish the Senator no harm. I
only offer a desperate prayer in self-defense that his retirement will be
forthcoming and his media megaphone removed.
The political life not just of our country, but of the world, must
be rid of this Man of Blood, this sociopathic butcher—who,
shuffling to his grave, seems determined to drag us all down with him.
https://truthunsealed.com/conspiracy/john-mccain-was-executed-for-treason/
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