I am watching McCain on Ken Burns "Vietnam" on PBS

[BigmanPigman]

and I would like to see him be a hero in civilian life and come out and say right now, "NO, I will not repeal the ACA!" instead of his BS grandstanding AGAIN!

[dalton99a]

1. Well, he said he loved his wife

[jmowreader]

9. Which one?

[mobeau69]

2. BP, we shall see.

Will he be a true profile in courage? One last shot for the old pilot that the asshole mocked.

[msongs]

3. it escapes me how anything he did in vietnam makes him a hero beyond surviving which

millions of other people did

[BigmanPigman]

5. His "heroism" as a senator is about equal to that of an

overpaid celebrity sports figure who is also a "hero" for some reason that escapes my logic.

[HDSam]

7. Millions

Of other people survived five years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton?

[GeoWilliam750]

8. Although I will disagree with most of McCain's views

I do not doubt his love of the United States, and as to being a hero, I find it hard to call a man otherwise when he has won a Silver Star, three Bronze Stars, two Legions of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and two Purple Hearts.

And yes, I hope that he again shows the bravery necessary to defend the United States from the current threats.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Well, he was kept prisoner of war for 5 years, and supposedly volunteered to stay...

.....when others got freed.

So your opinion, consciously or not, comes off sounding a lot like Donald Trump's infamous opinion.

I don't agree with a lot of McCain's politics, but I think it's pretty much settled he went above and beyond the call of duty during his time in Vietnam and deserves praise for that.

[MrPurple]

4. I'd really like to see President Warren or President Franken or President Booker

award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ken Burns. He'd be a very worthy recipient - have learned a wonderful amount of nuanced, textured American history due to him.

[haveahart]

11. I still really want to see President Hillary Clinton.

Despite what many here say, she is an awesome woman, who was robbed in so many ways of the win. All the new information coming out now makes Trump more illegitimate than ever. And he knows it.

[Little Star]

12. Ditto

[BigmanPigman]

13. Double ditto!

[MrPurple]

15. No doubt, but going forward, someone else is going to have to carry the torch

Lots of people here slam him for being too corporate, but I could see Cory Booker playing like an identity politics vote for a 3rd term of Obama and I think that might be the option that would get the best results. It's obviously way too long away to know, but a natural thought.

[Bradshaw3]

6. Is he a hero because he wanted regular order?

That's why he said he voted against it, not because of the harm it would do.

[Guilded Lilly]

10. Every Congressperson who already takes a non-grandstanding position...

And is voting NO is more politically heroic in my eyes, than McCain.
I don't trust, like or respect political John McCain.

I am horrified, saddened and cringe at the horrific abuse he endured to return home after his imprisonment and can't fathom the agony he and his loved ones endured during that time. His survival commands a sincerely patriotic pride within me.

While I wholeheartedly applaud and recognize his personal courage and resolve to survive such barbaric inhumanity, while I wish the very best for him in his current physical fight against a disease that will ultimately be the victor (as it was with my veteran father at a much younger age) I cannot praise or condone his political performances.

He serves John McCain's ego. In my eyes, he grandstands at every opportunity. When that grandstanding falls in favor of the ideals I support, I must begrudgingly be grateful to that outcome.

But he is no political hero. Not to me.