McCain praises former rival (President Obama)

[sabra]

Source: CNN

(CNN) - Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain issued high praise for President Obama's Wednesday address that honored victims of the Arizona shootings.

In an op-ed set to publish in the Washington Post Sunday, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee said his former rival gave a "terrific speech" and echoed the president's sentiment that political discourse should be "more civil than it currently is."

"Our political discourse should be more civil than it currently is, and we all, myself included, bear some responsibility for it not being so," McCain writes. "It probably asks too much of human nature to expect any of us to be restrained at all times by persistent modesty and empathy from committing rhetorical excesses that exaggerate our differences and ignore our similarities."

He added that it is not beyond America's "ability and virtue to refrain from substituting character assassination for spirited and respectful debate."

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/14/mccain-praises-former-rival/#more-143113

[livetohike]

1. Sounds like he jumped off the Palin band wagon n/t

[asjr]

3. I don't know if he ever was on it. I think she was

chosen for him. He has, at least to me, seemed to be old enough to think women should still be in the kitchen. I wish he and Palin both would retire.

[old mark]

2. K&R- I guess this didn't apply when he was running for President

and had people in the crowd yelling,"Kill him!" referring to Mr. Obama. I guess he was not so "restrained" then...he was being a Maverick...


mark

[Kali]

7. actually I think he did

there was something where he had to tell some guy in the audience to calm down and defended candidate Obama. It was a little late - after months of ramping it up but I remember the discussion that he was going to have a hard time controlling that problem now that it was already getting out of hand.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

4. but he also is reported to have stated...

"Imagine how it must feel to have watched one week ago the incomprehensible massacre of innocents committed by someone who had lost some essential part of his humanity, to have shared in the heartache for its victims and in the admiration for those who acted heroically to save the lives of others - and to have heard in the coverage of that tragedy voices accusing you of complicity in it."

in clear reference to his former running mate.

Yet he mentions nothing about two full years of Nazi signs, Hitler mustaches, birther slams, monkey cartoons, and cries of "socialist."

McCain is still a shameful hypocrite and way, way past his prime.

[Overseas]

16. +1.

[Control-Z]

5. A lucid moment.

I honestly didn't think he had any left in him.

[arcane1]

6. I'll give him small credit...

when his town hallers were calling Obama a Muslim, etc, he actually tried to correct them. Well, at least once.

[K8-EEE]

8. Rambling "Juan McLame" hate-a-thon on FR in 3-2-1... nt

[RhodaA]

9. I don't trust him. I heard he may be thinking about

running for Pres again. So this would be a way to try to distinguish himself from Palin. He's switched on several things lately, e.g., about a week after he said it was a "sad day" that DADT was repealed, he turned around and publicly embraced it. Something's going on ....

[MindandSoul]

10. Do you think this guy could have multiple personality disorder???

[Hestia]

12. No, some sort of age-related dementia

[Brother Buzz]

11. John, you idiot, that was a cc email Roger Ailes sent you

[Tx4obama]

13. It was nice that McCain acknowledged that he also bears some responsibility

"Our political discourse should be more civil than it currently is, and we all, myself included, bear some responsibility for it not being so," McCain writes. "It probably asks too much of human nature to expect any of us to be restrained at all times by persistent modesty and empathy from committing rhetorical excesses that exaggerate our differences and ignore our similarities."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/14/AR2011011403871.html

The article he wrote/released was actually pretty good.

[Phoonzang]

14. McCain: "................psych!!"

[otohara]

15. Sarah Are You Reading This

probably not!!