US Senator John McCain, who is fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer, was in a military hospital Wednesday to treat “normal side effects” of his therapy, his office said.
The 81-year-old former prisoner of war and 2008 Republican presidential nominee was diagnosed in July with a brain tumor known as a glioblastoma, after doctors found a blood clot over his left eye during a routine checkup.
It’s not in poor taste to mention that connected, elite Senators like John McCain, enjoy benefits most of the rest of us will not.
It’s not the fact that he did better in life that’s his crime. Some people do better than others. That’s just the way it is, and it’s usually if not always because of one’s efforts that one does better.
It’s the fact that as a career politician, John McCain did so on the backs of productive people, all so he could advance his career and whatever neurotic sense of superiority or “self-worth” he gains from such a faulty enterprise.
Adding insult to injury, this man cast one of the deciding votes against repealing Obamacare, something that he campaigned on doing and promised to do for the last 7 years. Obamacare would be history now, were it not for John McCain. He will never pay for the price hikes, heightened red tape and delays, or the other negative consequences of socialized medicine/Obamacare, because as a career politician and elected official he can vote himself immune to them all — and happily did so. Criticizing him while he’s sick, getting treatment that most of us would not, is the most appropriate time to criticize him.
It’s actually in good taste to point out injustice and wrongdoing, whether the person guilty of the wrongdoing is sick with cancer, or not. The man has done untold damage to millions by breaking his promise to repeal Obamacare, and will never pay the price he has imposed on others for his actions. Morally, he’s worse than Obama and the others who imposed Obamacare on us in the first place, because at least they warned us, while he promised to get rid of it and did precisely the opposite.
John McCain is not only a reprehensible, dishonest, disingenuous and unjust man. He is also an all-too-eloquent illustration of exactly what has gone wrong with so much of our government and society. The depravity, the hypocrisy, the sneering self-righteousness rationalized by a sense of unearned importance … all these awful qualities show on his tired face. And since people keep sending him back to office, they are his accomplices.
Good for John McCain for getting the best treatment available to keep him alive. Shame on John McCain for doing everything in his power to ensure that the rest of us must live under socialized medicine and Obamacare, something he will never have to do. And shame on the majority of Americans who continue to evade the fact that we are the ones permitting and encouraging our government to turn the most productive of us into victims.
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