McCain says American leadership was better under Obama: report - Polidicks

[quote] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said American leadership was stronger under President Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama, according to a Guardian report published Sunday. Asked if the country stood on sturdier ground under Obama's leadership, McCain said "yes," according to the report. “As far as American leadership is concerned, yes," said McCain, who also vocally criticized many of the Obama administration's foreign policy decisions. McCain also lost to Obama when he ran as the GOP nominee in the 2008 presidential election. The top Senate Republican was also asked what "message" the president delivered to the U.K. last week when he publicly criticized London's mayor, shortly after a terror-related attack that left eight people dead and many more wounded. “What do you think the message is? The message is that America doesn’t want to lead,” said McCain, chairman on the Senate Armed Services Committee. “They are not sure of American leadership, whether it be in Siberia or whether it be in Antarctica,” he added. [/Quote] [URL="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/337340-mccain-says-american-leadership-was-better-under-obama-report"]The Guardian[/URL]

Is this a result of that stroke he clearly had during the Comey testimony? Or are we just going to see more of McCain talking about being possibly concerned?

More empty words

At this point I'm really at the end of my rope with McCain. Do something about it already or shut up. The rhetoric is worthless without any action to back it up.

Yeah, no fuckin' shit.

I want to respect him for saying this but I'm unaware of anything he's done to oppose the current administration has he?

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[QUOTE=J!NX;52343239]I want to respect him for saying this but I'm unaware of anything he's done to oppose the current administration has he?[/QUOTE] No. He pretty consistently verbally bashes the Trump administration while going along with literally everything it does.

[QUOTE=AtomicSans;52343279]No. He pretty consistently verbally bashes the Trump administration while going along with literally everything it does.[/QUOTE] What a giant bitch-boy lmao

And tomorrow he'll release a public statement saying he [i]meant[/i] to say that he's only mildly disturbed by Trump's leadership style, and then go back to interrogating Comey about Clinton's emails.

I honestly wonder if McCain really has many of his faculties left, or if they're mostly gone and the GOP is just using him as a seat-filler, and basically running his show through his staff.

hey mccain, stop fucking rubber stamping trump's agenda and then saying stuff like this. pony up and take a stand against him, ryan, and mcconnell, be the leader of the real conservatives.

Holy shit you could have a televised debate of McCain vs McCain with how often he contradicts himself.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;52343344]I honestly wonder if McCain really has many of his faculties left, or if they're mostly gone and the GOP is just using him as a seat-filler, and basically running his show through his staff.[/QUOTE] I alternate back and forth between wondering this and thinking that he's actually still mentally competent, but the Republicans have just taken his spine.

I'm convinced many of the more-moderate Republicans are stuck, unable to take real action, because there exists compromising or embarrassing information about them and that they're blackmailed into towing the party line. Almost like Trump's golden kompromat - the amount of times I've seen reasonable Republicans vocally criticize the Trump administration and then get into their seat in Congress and vote straight party-line is absurd. You can't justify that cognitive dissonance - there has to be some other factor, at least for these more genuine characters and not the slimy fucks like McConnell.

[QUOTE=.Isak.;52345451]I'm convinced many of the more-moderate Republicans are stuck, unable to take real action, because there exists compromising or embarrassing information about them and that they're blackmailed into towing the party line. Almost like Trump's golden kompromat - the amount of times I've seen reasonable Republicans vocally criticize the Trump administration and then get into their seat in Congress and vote straight party-line is absurd. You can't justify that cognitive dissonance - there has to be some other factor, at least for these more genuine characters and not the slimy fucks like McConnell.[/QUOTE] It could be the realisation that the minute they admit Trump is guilty, or bad for the country, their party is basically facing electoral oblivion

"The leadership is weak!" says man with tongue numbed from boot licking. [QUOTE=killerteacup;52345494]It could be the realisation that the minute they admit Trump is guilty, or bad for the country, their party is basically facing electoral oblivion[/QUOTE] What they don't realize is that going along with Trump only firmly straps them in for the ride into electoral oblivion if it's revealed that Trump [B]has[/B] been doing shady shit after all.

[QUOTE=Zero-Point;52345526]"The leadership is weak!" says man with tongue numbed from boot licking. What they don't realize is that going along with Trump only firmly straps them in for the ride into electoral oblivion if it's revealed that Trump [B]has[/B] been doing shady shit after all.[/QUOTE] Absolutely, although I think some of the moderate ones are probably smart enough to realise. Damned if you do, damned if you don't sort of situation.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;52343762]Holy shit you could have a televised debate of McCain vs McCain with how often he contradicts himself.[/QUOTE] The 2024 election will be between Democratic McCain and Republican McCain. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9pVfNg9.png[/IMG]

No shit we had better leadership under Obama. Any leadership at all is better leadership than the nonexistent crap we get from Trump. [QUOTE=Govna;52343859]I alternate back and forth between wondering this and thinking that he's actually still mentally competent, but the Republicans have just taken his spine.[/QUOTE] I think that getting your spine surgically removed is a requirement for joining the Republican party.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;52345702]The 2024 election will be between Democratic McCain and Republican McCain.[/QUOTE] Running against himself is a move only a maverick could make.

[QUOTE=J!NX;52343239]I want to respect him for saying this but I'm unaware of anything he's done to oppose the current administration has he?[/QUOTE] He's done fuck all. [img]https://period.pw/sc/2017-06-12_07-35-26.png[/img]