Kevyn

When it came to the portion of his speech about America’s place in the world, McCain gathered himself and delivered a blunt denunciation of the nationalist forces around the world, but most particularly of those at home:

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.

We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil. We are the custodians of those ideals at home, and their champion abroad. We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did. We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don’t. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn’t deserve to.

plainlogic

Looks like he forgot about the Clintons, Obamas. The man needs to retire.

the waker Loc: 11th freest nation

So what great good have we done in the last 20 years exactly?
Invaded Iraq
Invaded Afganistan
Invaded Syria
Went back in Iraq
Abandoned Isreal and sided more with Pakastan
Strengthen, N. Korea and Iran

...and are losing the battle of our dollar as a world currency.

Am I missing something, can you name one great good?
McCain is a CFR puppet, just following orders, period.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

McCain has been a ineffective blow hard for too long... Donald Trump is right... he's a loser... McCain only cares about his self...yes he should have retired twenty years ago...all he has done is keep his chair warm...he is not for the people and that in itself makes him a liberal progressive...

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Having you praise him is definitely a resume killer. Thanks but most conservatives already know McCain's a POS.

the waker Loc: 11th freest nation

EL Loc: Massachusetts

An easy guide: If McCain says it, you know it's wrong.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

McCain was a part of the "make the world like us" campaign of wars. Don't act like he is some sort of saint.

Radiance3

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McCain is so jealous that he did not become president and Trump did. He divorced his first wife while she was gravely ill due to an accident. Now, he is doing all he can destroying Trump and the GOP. He lingers at the Senate but for destruction of the GOP party and especially president Trump.

While having the last presidential debate with Obama, McCain praised Obama, perhaps to avoid portrayal of being a racist.

Sassy Lass

McCain doesn't have any -- class. He's a spokesperson for the military complex. There isn't a war McCain doesn't like.

ron vrooman Loc: Now OR, born NV

well said. When his peers from the military rat him out as they did John Kerry you get a good idea. Yes graduates, adherents, proponents to the CFR, UN and Tri-Lateral are the enemy of we the people in our Constitutional Republic.

MalG

Not one of the above comments repudiated the points McCain made, they merely knee-jerked a typical RW jerk’s negativity. Do these hate-loving respondents deny that ‘we live in a land of ideals’? That in spite of the efforts of those here who despise democracy the USA has done great good in the world for over 75 years, and I have been here to see it, to benefit from it. I guess some of the respondents might have been happier if the Nazi and Nippon forces had won, or if the US had not helped devastated countries recover. I did not vote for John but he would have been thousands of time greater than the insecure Mumpsimus we are currently stuck with. What a bunch of selfish pinheads you guys are. Crawl back into your KKK holes.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Typical libtard response. Because we don't like a RINO like McCain we are suddenly racists. Didn't know McCain was black. We dislike McCain (at least me personally) because he runs as a Conservative to get elected and legislates like a left of center moderate.

MalG

No, you didn't become racist suddenly. You probably learned it from your good christian (LC deliberately) environment. Libtard? Not a very original or creative label. Oh, so witty.

MalG

No, you didn't become racist suddenly. You probably learned it from your good christian (LC deliberately) environment. Libtard? Not a very original or creative label. Oh, so witty.