John McCain's Inglorious DADT Moment

[ProSense]

Garance Franke-Ruta

John McCain's Inglorious DADT Moment

In the end, eight Republican senators cast their votes to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. armed forces, repealing the 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

But Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) did not join them and used his time on the Senate floor Saturday to stand athwart history yelling stop.

"Today is a very sad day," McCain announced, detailing his continuing opposition to allowing gay and lesbian soldiers to be open about their sexuality.

"There will be high-fives over all the liberal bastions of America," he predicted, from "the elite schools that bar military recruiters from campus" to "the salons of Georgetown" and the "talk shows" where people -- "most of whom have never have served in the military" -- will crow over the law's repeal.

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McCain's vigorous opposition to the DADT repeal is not the first time he's found himself swimming against the tide of history. As a congressman in 1983, he voted against the creation of a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- a vote he later regretted.

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[Phx_Dem]

1. Bitter old man. I can only imagine what crazy Palin will say.

It turns out those two were pretty well suited for each other after all.

[Kdillard]

2. They were too kind. Inglorious doesn't even begin to describe his bile.

[GoCubsGo]

3. What a dick!

I am sure his wife and daughter are embarrassed.

[MBS]

4. He's always been very conservative, and I never bought the "maverick"

meme about him. Even so: it's been striking to me how fast his descent into smallness and meanness and bitterness has accelerated over the last two years.Inglorious is the word, alright.

But I am so glad that McCain and his ilk are in the MINORITY on this issue!
A sweet victory today.

[Andy823]

8. He is still pissed

That he lost the election, and he just can't get over it! He didn't have a chance in hell of winning, even before he picked that lame brain from the frozen north to be his running mate, but she did take him down even further! Now all he can do is be a pain in the ass, and do his best to screw things up in congress! His family needs to find him a nursing home, lock him up and throw away the key! :evilgrin:

[jesus_of_suburbia]

5. "in 1983, he voted against the creation of a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."

all we need to know.

history will show he never learned any lessons.....

just a bitter old man to the end.

[tomm2thumbs]

30. not so long ago - yet his brain is still 'oh so far away' /nt

[nmbluesky]

6. People of Arizona

Why do people still vote him for another term..
he is worst!!!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. The Same Groups You Tried To Co-opt In Your Maverick Days

"There will be high-fives over all the liberal bastions of America," he predicted, from "the elite schools that bar military recruiters from campus" to "the salons of Georgetown" and the "talk shows" where people -- "most of whom have never have served in the military" -- will crow over the law's repeal.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Today both John McCain and Barack Obama reminded us

why the American people elected Barack Obama instead of John McCain to be President.

[Pisces]

10. This guy has ruined his legacy with Palin and his post candidate behavior.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Inglorious Bas-turd

[msongs]

12. mccain = serial adulterer and US military failure. what does he know...grrr nt

[rasputin1952]

13. McCain...one of the Walking Dead...

soulless bastard that gets just about everything wrong.

For the record, Goldwater absolutely despised McCain...heard him call McCain a "shithead", and an "asshole" on numerous occasions...:D

[livetohike]

14. McCain is in a downward spiral that has yet to bottom out

apparently, his no vote on this is pitiful.

[RagAss]

15. Senile, bitter cretin...who gives a fuck what this guy said ?

[AtomicKitten]

16. That cantankerous old fart is yet again on the wrong side of history. nt

[zulchzulu]

17. He further went on about how people who will support ending DADT didn't serve...

... like he accused Vietnam vet Sec. of Defense Gates of not serving in the military.

Karma, paging karma. Aisle three, we have an angry old turncoat named Johnny Songbird who needs to be... um...

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Imagine this old fuck in the White House, along with what's-her-name?

D-i-s-a-s-t-e-r.

[beac]

19. Drop dead, McCain. Seriously, do the world a favor and stop eating up oxygen that human beings

with a soul and/or a conscience could be breathing.

I wish we could amend the START treaty to make mutually assured destruction of Mc5planes part of the deal. The sooner that a-hole dies, the better.

[MiniMe]

20. They missed Grampy's floor speech about the soldiers with no legs

That was a really sad moment.

[jenmito]

21. I watched that today on C-Span 2, waving and pounding his arms, flailing around,

and just making up crazy excuses to be against DADT repeal.

[Monk06]

22. It's past time that politicians be retired at 65. End the tyranny of 70 yo white men. n/t

[cali]

23. say goodbye to Bernie then. And Tom Harkin and Barbara Boxer

and Pat Leahy.

[Monk06]

29. And why not. I have ten yrears left if I'm lucky. Why should I deternmine the world my children

and grandchildren live in. They will have to live in it
not me.

[DemocraticPilgrim]

24. We got thete in the end, woowee giving birth must be more easy. So glad it was in this congress and

not next year. Democrats are the peoples friend the process is uber slow but it gets thete. Patience is the virtue to being a loyal Dem, it doesn't matter who leads it they always set the ship of state to a better place.

[RBInMaine]

25. This OLD DRIED UP ASSHOLE is a fear-monger lost in the dark ages. FUCK HIM !

[dbmk]

26. Did they actually vote to end it?

Or just to allow an actual vote on it?

(Same same in the end, but I am just trying to make sure I understand the process correctly and where we are in it wight now)

[RBInMaine]

27. They voted to end it, and like all laws, the executive will now begin the process of implementing

it which will take some time as they phase it in (the bill calls for a process, as it should), but it is happening. It is law. And it is morally right.

[RBInMaine]

28. Actually, I guess there is the one more final vote that only needs 51 votes.

[Diamonique]

32. They've already had the final vote. 65 - 31 in favor of repealing DADT. nt

[political_Dem]

31. McCain is truly an ugly man who has displayed the worst of his character.

I shudder to think what might have become of this country if he became POTUS. What is worse, he might have treated this country the same way he treated the fighter planes he crashed.

If anything, his bigotry and truly detestable actions against anyone who is on the margins is a matter of public record. His descendants along with the rest of the country will know what a dishonorable man he was not only in the military, but also in the halls of Congress--especially when it came to matters of civil rights.

He should be ashamed of himself.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

33. He's just pissed

that Obama beat him (again)!

:rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

34. Out of touch, out of power, and out of Time...he lingers on as a fraud....