During a speech Monday night accepting the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called on American leaders to reject “spurious nationalism” and maintain the United States’ role leading the world, in an apparent reference to President Donald Trump.
“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,” McCain said to applause in the crowd, “is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.”
The senator called for the U.S. to defend the country’s ideals.
“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,” he said. “We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn’t deserve to.”
McCain did not mention Trump’s name, but his speech appeared to be aimed at the President’s “America first” approach, as Trump has withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement, threatened the Iran nuclear deal and pushed to nix international trade deals.
Watch a clip of McCain’s speech via CNN:
That’s fine John, now what about the fucking moron in the White House? You can’t continue to dance around his GD name.
“is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past…
Nice hat tip to Lincoln there, Senator (and speechwriters). I wonder if the Trumpkins will accuse him of plagiarism.
This will spur Trump to new levels of assholery.
“Sen. McCain and I have our disagreements, but I will be there to call Cindy McCain when he passes from cancer… which might be soon. Brave man”
That is all well and good. But it is also meaningless if McCain continues to caucus with the Republican Senate which thus far has completely supported the agenda he is supposedly railing against.
All of this seems to be designed to bolster McClain’s unearned supposedly Maverick persona.
Unless McCain shows real action, instead of words that he hopes to then again talked about on Sunday on Meet the Press, this is just BS.
Exactly
Which one of you fucking Republicans other than Corker will call out the Orange Shitgibbon
We all know what you are saying in the back rooms.
Did you even listen to the incoherent babbling yesterday.
Just hang your head in shame before you are forced to tell us after the fact.
“I should have said something, I should have done something”
Party before country always