9/23: Republican Cindy McCain Endorses Joe Biden for President

Senator John McCain's widow has a couple of reasons to dislike the Republican in Chief. In 2015, Trump dismissed McCain's remarkable long-ago leadership when McCain, then a pilot, was jailed in a VietCong prison along with other American military members. “He’s not a war hero," Trump sniffed. "He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”

When McCain died in 2018 of brain cancer, the president complained about the honors McCain received, such as lowering the flag to half mast. Then Trump bragged about "authorizing" McCain's funeral plans, which didn't need his say-so. Later, Trump said, "I don't care about this, I didn't get a 'thank you' and that's okay." This from a president who fled to a bunker in the White House, unused since 9/11, when shouts of "Black Lives Matter!" were audible from a protest nearby.

That's the same president who gleefully attacks the media as "enemies" of the government, which he seems to equate with himself. "Remember that beautiful sight? The street was a mess," Trump said, describing the demonstrations in Minneapolis after George Floyd's death. "That idiot reporter from CNN got hit on the knee with a can of tear gas, right? And he went down. ‘I’ve been hit. I’ve been hit.’" Trump mimicked the reporter. "Police brutality!" [It was a rubber bullet, not tear gas.] That's the guy who lacks the guts to face up to a crowd outside a closed, fans-only rally, making fun of the physical bravery of others.

Thank you for listening while I got that off my chest. Moving on:

While Trump was bloviating, bobbing, and weaving, McCain and Biden were continuing with a decades-long friendship that started with the day, back in the 1970s, that McCain was assigned to be a military attache to then-Senator Biden during an overseas trip.

Cindy McCain tweeted yesterday, “My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There’s only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden."
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