McCain The Politician was an inherent contradiction. He chose Palin on a reckless whim but then was one of the only people to try and keep her populism in check. He purported to be an aisle crosser, and yet he presided over one of the more racist, backwards states in the nation.
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Most of his heroic moments of throwing agains the GOP freight-train were not born out of idealogical decency, but because he was a knee-jerk incarnate who didn't want to be told what to do.
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McCain The War Hero was an inspiration. McCain The Man seemed decent enough. But McCain The Politician was GOP hypocrisy in a nutshell. He just gummed up the works some times. Sadly, that may have been enough. R.I.P.
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He talked of bombing / invading arab countries left and right. He said, “I hate the gooks," McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. "I will hate them as long as I live." I will not reconsider. I will instead tell you to face truth.
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I appreciate you trying to deconstruct the complexities of the man, but I think in the case of the Obama defense video you might be taking things too literally. He was simply trying to derail her, IMO, before her hate train got going too fast.
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I can't find a link, but I saw another video of his - from Fox News I believe - where he criticized the hosts for sensationalizing the phrase "allah 'akbar." It was a part of a video package where something was shot down...a drone I think, but I could be wrong.
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Anyway, McCain asked them if he'd have a problem if they were Christians saying "Thank God," because it was essentially the same thing. Now I know Muslim != Arab, but, I have a hard time seeing that intentionally denigrate Arabs and then defend Muslims.
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