TenuredVulture wrote:Anyone (but especially any Democrat) who really believes that McCain's political legacy is either a positive one, or reflects a time of people who put country ahead of party has succumbed to our media's right wing bias. McCain was a corrupt warmongering right winger who among other things unleashed Sarah Palin on the American political system. The fact that many in his own party didn't like him does not make him some bi-partisan moderate. Just ask Ted Cruz.

JFLNYC wrote:The Keating Five.

Bucky wrote:His legacy to me will be as someone who didn't cowtail to the fuhrer.

TenuredVulture wrote:Anyone (but especially any Democrat) who really believes that McCain's political legacy is either a positive one, or reflects a time of people who put country ahead of party has succumbed to our media's right wing bias. McCain was a corrupt warmongering right winger who among other things unleashed Sarah Palin on the American political system. The fact that many in his own party didn't like him does not make him some bi-partisan moderate. Just ask Ted Cruz.

Bucky wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Anyone (but especially any Democrat) who really believes that McCain's political legacy is either a positive one, or reflects a time of people who put country ahead of party has succumbed to our media's right wing bias. McCain was a corrupt warmongering right winger who among other things unleashed Sarah Palin on the American political system. The fact that many in his own party didn't like him does not make him some bi-partisan moderate. Just ask Ted Cruz.

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TenuredVulture wrote:Anyone (but especially any Democrat) who really believes that McCain's political legacy is either a positive one, or reflects a time of people who put country ahead of party has succumbed to our media's right wing bias. McCain was a corrupt warmongering right winger who among other things unleashed Sarah Palin on the American political system. The fact that many in his own party didn't like him does not make him some bi-partisan moderate. Just ask Ted Cruz.

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, chief of staff John Kelly and other White House aides advocated for a detailed official statement that referred to McCain as a "hero" and gave him accolades for his military service, the Post reported. Aides wrote the statement and Sanders edited it over the weekend.

Trump declined

Finally came the comment from Gayle Quinnell, 75, of Shakopee, Minn., wearing the red shirt, who called Obama an Arab.

After the rally, a CNN reporter tried to explain to Quinnell that Obama’s father was a Muslim but that the candidate had always been a Christian.

“Yeah, but he’s still got Muslim in him,” she said.

Quinnell was parodied on “Saturday Night Live” a few days later in a skit that featured a crazed McCain-Palin supporter wandering through the “Weekend Update” set and proclaiming that Obama was “50 percent Egyptian. He’s gonna change the White House into a pyramid.” Quinnell said later that she found it funny.

Quinnell’s daughter told reporters that her mother did not have access to the Internet and had read that Obama was a Muslim during a visit to the library. At the time, Quinnell worked supervising children with mental disabilities during school bus rides.

When McCain responded to Quinnell, polls showed that about 12 percent of Americans thought that Obama was a Muslim. By late 2015, as Trump campaigned for the presidency, the number had surged to about 30 percent of the population, according to a CNN/ORC poll. A stunning 45 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of Trump supporters said Obama was a Muslim.

In the years that followed, Palin would become a Fox News and reality TV personality. Trump would first become a leading champion of the “birther” conspiracy, which played on suspicions about Obama to suggest incorrectly that he was not born in the United States. Eventually, Trump would slam Muslims, Latinos and immigrants as he made his way to the Oval Office.

Quinnell is 85 now and still in Minnesota. On a Sunday morning she picked up the phone at her house. Asked what had made her want to attend the rally 10 years ago, she said, “I like Palin.”

She then announced that it was too early in the morning to talk. She was tired. She hung up.

North Korean state media has accused the US of plotting to "unleash war" on the country while continuing to negotiate "with a smile on its face."

Sunday's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the ruling Worker's Party of Korea, called out "extremely provocative and dangerous" US military movements in the region.

The paper cited a South Korean radio broadcast claiming that US "special units" in Japan staged a flying drill in the Philippines simulating "the infiltration into Pyongyang."

It also claimed that the USS Michigan, a nuclear Navy submarine, transported Green Berets and other special forces from Okinawa, Japan to the Jinhae naval base south Korea in late July or early August.

The strongly-worded piece comes just days after President Trump canceled a planned trip to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Trump on Friday said the plans were halted because the North Korea had not made "sufficient" efforts to denuclearize and because of the trade war with China, the regime's closest ally.

On Monday, South Korea said that Pompeo's abrupt cancelation is having an "effect" on the inter-Korean liaison office that was slated to open this month.

"We were thinking of the opening of the liaison office as part of a smooth series of schedules including Secretary of State Pompeo's North Korea visit then the inter-Korean summit," South Korea's presidential Blue House spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom said Monday.