Re - "The contrast of John McCain with Donald Trump makes the former look like an angel."
How come? It's difficult enough imagining either McCain or Trump looking angelic. To begin with, both are men and look like men ( without wings) ,not angels, ate and even hate, hated, like men. But from his own vantage point of view, Apostle Aluko ("No man or woman is perfect") is probably still hinting at, probably comparing and contrasting President Trump or indeed Senator John McCain with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob in mind and maybe also Jesus and the Prophet of Islam, for charisma and depth of character.
Strange things happening in the United States these days.
Sad about McCain's premeditated wish to not invite his former running mate Sarah Palin to his funeral ( I could well imagine her still gushing )
Even more difficult to believe : The sitting President Donald Trump, expressly not invited to McCain's funeral
However, Trump was magnanimous enough to tweet this : "My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. Our hearts and prayers are with you! "
As to who is greater – Trump or McCain, well, Trump succeeded where McCain did not. Trump became President of the United States of America: President Trump . Trump beat a field of twelve rivals to win the Republican nomination and then went on to defeat " lyin' Hillary " who had been previously beaten by Brother Obama who won the Democrat nomination that year. So, who is greater, Lyin Hillary or Trump?
Lastly, Obama took advantage of his new situation - McCain inviting the eloquent Mr. Obama to praise him at his funeral and to there handed the opportunity to Obama on a platter to spite Trump - and that's exactly what Obama did even before the funeral , contradicting Trump, kicking him in the shins, telling the American people that McCain, "he was a warrior, he was a hero" . No love lost between them.
I was thinking about this kind of erroneous contrast when I read the piece in which Baba Kadiri rebuts dear Trump labelling President Buhari as "lifeless" - also fake-news and still literally untrue since President Buhari is very much alive and vivaciously so in China this very moment, representing Africa's great economic potential and Africa's most populous nation - a huge market, 180 million alive and liveth – as in the phrase I learned in Nigeria : "my redeemer liveth" - unlike John McCain who he says cannot be properly deemed to be a war hero, when all he did was to get himself "captured" in Vietnam: Trump : "He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
(I've heard the same specie of argument invoked about Jesus : "So your Messiah cannot even save himself, winds up being nailed to a tree ? ")
Trump's argument about McCain remains, so what's heroic about getting captured? I don't even know if captured is the right word – once there was such a terrible controversy about "the right word", and perhaps with a little help about the correct English word from lexicography's Kperogi ( Nigeria's Dr. Johnson) we could settle the issue. It was about Gilad Shalit - a live and direct group discussion much nicer and faster than writing or even lightning. "He was NOT CAPTURED " - thundered Brother Harvey Cropper who had served in Korea as an ambulance driver in the US Military, during the US engagement there in the Korean War , " he was ABDUCTED !", continued Harvey and went on to explain the difference , it seems in purely military terms, that Gilad Shalit wasn't kidnapped either, you guessed it right, it was " abduction" - exactly that which is prohibited by the eighth of the ten commandments : Do not steal
McCain's plane was shot down. The rest is history
On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:33:21 UTC+2, Bolaji Aluko wrote:
THOUGHT FOR TODAY:------------------------------------ Senator John McCain died at age 81 on August 25, 2018 at Page Springs near Sedona, Arizona, and was finally buried in Annapolis. Maryland September 2, to great week-long fanfare. He was an AMERICAN hero, but certainly not an INTERNATIONAL hero of the mould of Dr Martin Luther King.Most American heroes and sheroes under scrutiny are very flawed - like Abraham Lincoln or John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan, even Obama, whose war/drone policies abroad are subject to severe criticism. However The contrast of John McCain with Donald Trump makes the former look like an angel. He will also be remembered for civility towards Obama and his legacy through two acts: pushing back against a racist characterization of Obama's origins during the 2008 US presidential campaign, and saving from Trump a large portion of Obama's health care program by his dramatic thumbs down congressional vote.No man or woman is perfect. R.I.P. John M Cain.On Obamacare:On Obama's originsA Critique of John McCain by Rania Khalek4. See attached video(C) Bolaji Aluko, September 2018
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