- Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:48 am
#95374
John McCain received the Philadelphia Liberty Medal yesterday and gave the following speech:
John McCain: To fear the world we have organized and led the three quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last, best hope of earth, for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems, is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.The Orange Baboon immediately challenged McCain and said he better back off or his retribution would be swift and fierce. This is an example of nothing attaching an honorable man. I am a veteran also but, compared to McCain, I am lost in his dust.
John McCain: We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil. We are the custodians of those ideals at home and their champion abroad. We've done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did. We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don't.