Farewell statement from Senator John McCain

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transporter

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Farewell Statement from Senator John McCain

Thank you for the privilege of serving you and for the rewarding life that service in uniform and in public office has allowed me to lead. I have tried to serve our country honorably. I have made mistakes, but I hope my love for America will be weighed favorably against them.
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I owe that satisfaction to the love of my family. And I owe it to America. To be connected to America’s causes – liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people – brings happiness more sublime than life’s more fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves.

“Fellow Americans” — that association has meant more to me than any other. I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of the world’s greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance those ideals at home and in the world. We have helped liberate more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. We have acquired great wealth and power in the process.

We weaken our greatness when we confuse our nationalism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.
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Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.
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This_person

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Whoever wrote that for him did not understand the Senator's actions. Great stump speech, too bad he didn't live it.
 
Yooper

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transporter said:
Farewell Statement from Senator John McCain



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As presented by transporter, all this shows is a man who disintegrated in both body and mind. Transporter's edits show McCain to be a pathetic, churlish boor; that he decided not to go out with words of encouragement but with a ridiculous, pedantic, essentially self-praising, and self-serving, post-parting shot at The American People.

So if Transporter was hoping to show McCain as some sort of American hero I'm afraid to say (s)he's accomplished the exact opposite.

In reading what transporter decided to select I don't feel chastised by McCain; instead, I feel sorry for him. A man who claimed he was never anyone's tool in life is now being used as one by the Left in death.

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