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Old 04-30-2018, 11:20 AM   #446
sebastian_dangerfield
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McCain

If you have Apple News on your phone, there's an excerpt from his soon to be released book that's worth reading. Because it's an Apple exclusive, there's no way for me to link it here (or I'm just that hopeless a Luddite).

Anyway, it's about the necessity of compromise and bridge building. Remaining naive about the possibility of moderate control and compromise, I dug the article.

Nothing revelatory. But compromise isn't a "eureka" concept.

And it's worth reading because, based on news stories, McCain is truly circling the drain. It'll be interesting to see how the media and Trump react when two moderate, unquestionably dedicated servants like H.W. Bush and McCain exit the stage over the next months to year or so.

I never cared for McCain's war-mongering, but he couldn't have been worse than Bush (who despicably beat him with that racist campaign in the South in 2000). It's hard not think the world would have been a lot better off if it had been McCain v. Gore in 2000, and either one of them had won.

And it's damn hard not to see the brilliance of H.W. in stopping short of removing Saddam in Desert Storm.

McCain also refused to play the "secret Muslim" card on Obama, or engage in the other dog whistles, in 2008. When he corrected the woman who called Obama a socialist and a Muslim on stage and said, "No, he's a good man. We just disagree," isn't that How We're Supposed to Do It? They ought to force kids to watch that at the outset of every Poli Sci elective.

It's a good book excerpt, in you have an Apple News feed.
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