yes. why? we know they don t like each other. we know on policy matters the president has been mad at senator mccain for having a thumbs down on the obamacare vote. that has long been his view of the draft and the unfairness of the draft. but he worked on the bone spur on purpose. he did. a lot of it is because the two men have fundamentally different world views in addition to all the personal disagreements, and mccain tried to push the republican party toward his view of the world, more aggressive role foreign policywise, and as mccain laid out rather starkly in his speech last week, saying that he s concerned about this growth of spurious nationalism, a real shot at the president. he didn t mention the president there, but it was very clear he was talking about the president and people close to the
she shared her story on abc about the call she received from the president after the death of her husband. he couldn t remember my husband s name. the only way he remembered my husband s name is because he told me he had my husband s report in front of him. that s when he actually said, la david. i heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband s name. and that s what hurt me the most, because if my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risks his life for our country, why can t you remember his name? and that s what made me upset and cry even more. emotional interview there. the president responding quickly on twitter, disputing mrs. johnson s account. quote, i had a very respectful conversation with the widow mrs. johnson and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation.
i believe senator mccain is making those points because of basically the similar reason we re hearing bob corker speak out and former president george w. bush and susan collins and several speak out against the president because what we ve seen over the last few months have caused a number of republicans to take a gut check and ask, do they want to be seen in the history book as being complicit as their party drifted toward, as mccain said, spuriosm and nationalism. john mccain not only wore the uniform, he spent five years in a vietnamese prison as a prisoner of war where he was beaten and toured, and he refused an early release offer because his dad was an admiral. to the point you said earlier, should we be talking about, should the president be responding on twitter to the widow of a grieving soldier who