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Senator McCain was honored to be invited by the Navajo Nation to meet with tribal and community leaders and to speak at the celebration of the Navajo Code Talkers on Friday. It was a great visit and he received a very warm reception from the Navajo community in Window Rock. He certainly wasn’t ‘chased off’ the reservation – this small group of young protesters had no practical impact on his productive meetings with top tribal leaders on a range of key issues, including the EPA’s recent Gold King Mine spill which threatens to contaminate the Navajo Nation’s water supply.
As McCain attempted a backdoor exit, the activists chanted in the hallway with their arms linked. Once they noticed McCain’s convoy making an escape, the group began chasing on foot. They were temporarily blocked by law enforcement but eventually made their way out of the building, chasing the cars as they exited the Navajo nation.
www.tucsonweekly.com...
So what do you do with widely loathed legislation that would boost one of your big donors (According to OpenSecrets.org, McCain is perennially the top Congressional recipient of Rio Tinto campaign contributions) and screw an old adversary—in this case the San Carlos Apache Tribe, with whom the senator has reportedly shared a long, bitter relationship?
Well, you do what Sen. McCain did (with help from Arizona's other senator, Jeff Flake), which meant tacking the land exchange onto a mammoth defense-funding bill virtually assured of final passage in December.
originally posted by: OpenMindedRealist
McCain was a war hero after his courage and sacrifice during the Vietnam war. Then he came home, and slowly devolved into an politician.
That's what Trump's comments were about. McCain has sullied his own reputation by supporting questionable and sometimes outright stupid policies.
originally posted by: Isurrender73
a reply to: jude11
The practice of tacking crap on to something else to get it passed is ridiculous. Each action should require a separate vote. The long list of BS tacked on to other bills that have nothing to do with the original bill is stupidity at it's finest.
Our government makes a mockery out of themselves.
A government of greed, for greed and by greed. Anything for money.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: Isurrender73
a reply to: jude11
The practice of tacking crap on to something else to get it passed is ridiculous. Each action should require a separate vote. The long list of BS tacked on to other bills that have nothing to do with the original bill is stupidity at it's finest.
Our government makes a mockery out of themselves.
A government of greed, for greed and by greed. Anything for money.
Yes, and people wonder why this or that congressional party refuses to vote for this or that bill? Usually it's because of crap like this. Someone or other tacks on a rider that includes dirty dealing or some pork or other and to vote for the bill is to vote for that crap.
But when it's held up ... OMG! You hate the poor! You want them to die! You hate our military and want them to die! And so it goes.
originally posted by: jude11
originally posted by: OpenMindedRealist
McCain was a war hero after his courage and sacrifice during the Vietnam war. Then he came home, and slowly devolved into an politician.
That's what Trump's comments were about. McCain has sullied his own reputation by supporting questionable and sometimes outright stupid policies.
It goes a little deeper than that actually.
Coward and traitor are the terms now being thrown into the ring. And by Vets just to be sure:
www.veteranstoday.com...
Jude
originally posted by: boncho
If someone has legitimate concerns with enough evidence to support it, by all means.
originally posted by: boncho
originally posted by: jude11
originally posted by: OpenMindedRealist
McCain was a war hero after his courage and sacrifice during the Vietnam war. Then he came home, and slowly devolved into an politician.
That's what Trump's comments were about. McCain has sullied his own reputation by supporting questionable and sometimes outright stupid policies.
It goes a little deeper than that actually.
Coward and traitor are the terms now being thrown into the ring. And by Vets just to be sure:
www.veteranstoday.com...
Jude
Complete BS propagated by someone pushing their own agenda I think.
www.politifact.com...
Really, we are going to bash prisoners of war now because it helps political aspirations or political support, etc? Thats really bad.
If someone has legitimate concerns with enough evidence to support it, by all means. Otherwise POWs are a subset of people that should just be left the #### alone.
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
a reply to: jude11
I wonder what would Patton would say to this lying traitor?