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(Conservative Tribune) – John McCain’s actual election rivals may have been George W. Bush back in 2000 and Barack Obama in 2008, but you’d be forgiven for wondering if they were all on the same team after the late senator’s funeral on Saturday.

“The same team” is even how former President Obama described himself and McCain as he addressed the gathered crowd at the senator’s funeral.

The Arizona lawmaker may have been gone, but the figures he approved to speak at the service definitely seemed to be on the same page when it came to using the memorial service as a platform to join forces against the sitting president of the United States

Nobody mentioned Donald Trump by name, but as Joseph Curl pointed out at The Daily Wire, it was clear that three of the main speakers — Meghan McCain, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush — were of one mind when it came to backhanding the current president.

“We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness — the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served,” McCain’s adult daughter Meghan chastised from the podium.

It was a cheap shot directed, without a doubt, at the billionaire Trump.

“The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great,” Meghan McCain continued, obviously hammering at Trump’s famous slogan of “Make America Great Again.”

Remember, this was supposed to be a funeral.

Obama joined in when his time came.

“So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage,” he declared pompously.

“It’s a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born in fear. John called on us to be bigger than that. He called on us to be better than that,” stated the former president who beat the deceased in 2008 aided in large part by a media that slandered McCain constantly.0

Then George W. Bush, a man who reportedly refused to vote for Trump against Hillary Clinton, took the stage.

“John was above all a man with a code,” Bush stated.

He led by a set of public virtues that brought strength and purpose to his life and to his country. He was courageous, with a courage that frightened his captors and inspired his countrymen,” Bush said.

“He was honorable, always recognizing that his opponents were still patriots and human beings,” Bush continued, without clarifying what the definition of a patriot was or if every opponent met the criteria.

“He loved freedom with the passion of a man who knew its absence. He respected the dignity inherent in every life, a dignity that does not stop at borders,” Bush continued, likely taking a swipe at Trump’s push for border security.

One Republican president jabbing at another for daring to enforce the nation’s borders, at a funeral. Welcome to 2018.

In response, Trump could have gone on a rant. He could have pushed back against the almost certain efforts to chide him by establishment politicians who have had power for decades — basically, the very people he was elected to counter.

Instead, Trump posted just four words on Twitter on the evening of McCain’s funeral.

      Donald J. Trump

  @realDonaldTrump
  

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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Exactly! Why bother? The left is going to jump on anything he says or does, lie, like the lie about him refusing to lower the flag, and do their dirty deeds-the way they talked about Ivanka and her husband because they attended the funeral. So, let the "perpetually offended and aggrieved at the tiniest thing" party just stew. They are now openly proud of being violent, hypocrites, bigots, and racists.

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Exactly! Why bother? The left is going to jump on anything he says or does, lie, like the lie about him refusing to lower the flag, and do their dirty deeds-the way they talked about Ivanka and her husband because they attended the funeral. So, let the "perpetually offended and aggrieved at the tiniest thing" party just stew. They are now openly proud of being violent, hypocrites, bigots, and racists.

Why even bother Republicans with facts. It's not like they're gonna stop lying and tell the truth.

“The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great,” Meghan McCain continued, obviously hammering at Trump’s famous slogan of “Make America Great Again.”

OK...if the left thinks America was always great, why didn't they call Michelle Obama on her statement (among a few other things)..."For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country, because it feels like hope is making a comeback …

Gee, odd thing to say about a country that you think was always great, right liberals?? And to think, at the funeral of the now beloved McCain George gave her some candy, and it made them all smile, even though they were at a supposedly sad and somber occasion. I felt like hope had died when Obama was elected, and rightful so. Trump breathed life back into it, and hopefully we can go on and MAGA.

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McCain was from a past Republican party. Old Republicans who accomplished things to make America a great country. Republicans who compromised and moved America forward. The new Republicans, evidenced on these forms, can only hate liberals and any policy implemented by Democrats. They can't make any policy or accomplish anything they've whined about for the past 8 years.

The way the left treated the funerals of both John McCain and Aretha Franklin as political events was atrocious.  Ranked down there with that of Horst Wessel.  In front at Aretha's was the notorious anti-Semite Louis Ferrakhan, a stand in for Adolf's at Wessel's, I guess.  Dam, I still like Aretha, but not those who defamed her by inviting Calypso Louis. 

Again, I don't see why Trump even bothers!!

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Despite our differences on policy and politics, I respect Senator John McCain’s service to our country and, in his honor, have signed a proclamation to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff until the day of his interment.

I have asked Vice President Mike Pence to offer an address at the ceremony honoring Senator McCain at the United States Capitol this Friday.

At the request of the McCain family, I have also authorized military transportation of Senator McCain’s remains from Arizona to Washington, D.C., military pallbearers and band support, and a horse and caisson transport during the service at the United States Naval Academy.

Finally, I have asked General John Kelly, Secretary James Mattis, and Ambassador John Bolton to represent my Administration at his services.

Washington television station WUSA described the flight that carried John McCain to Washington for the last time:

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MD — Members of the National Guard loaded the flag-draped casket into the familiar state blue and white aircraft, a symbol of American power serving presidents, vice presidents and first ladies for 20 years.

The aircraft normally designated “Air Force Two” carried John McCain and his family to Washington, D.C. as he made his final flight across the country.

The plane arrived with clear airspace just before 8 p.m., as President Donald J. Trump held a campaign-style rally in a different time zone, 700 miles away.

McCain’s Air Force Boeing C-32A is indeed equipped to carry the president on short-range trips, and is usually reserved for the vice president or first lady.

McCain’s motorcade left Andrews for an undisclosed location, awaiting the casket’s procession to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

The trip marked the first time McCain returned to the Washington area since he left for Arizona, a week before Christmas 2017.

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