THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
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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 origins
A Critique of John McCain by Rania Khalek
4. See attached video
(C) Bolaji Aluko, September 2018
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