Anyway Ani,
You’re being objective and rightfully defending him from unfounded accusations about the incident.
I am just enough of an asshole to want to believe that he fucked up out of panic and facilitated a disaster that ended up killing over 100 sailors and then received special treatment and his negligence was swept under the rug.
Then there’s the whole suckering me into voting for him crap.
I hate Mitt Romney and George W. Bush for the same reasons.
I've come to loathe McCain the politician but I've always separated his military service, speaking of loathsome, what Trump said about being captured. But that's water under Long Biên Bridge at this point.
From everything that I've read, McCain served honorably and the North Vietnamese, when learning who his father was, offered to release him early and he refused until all his men were released. It's only recently that I've heard the songbird stories or literally just yesterday that he was at fault in the Forrestal disaster. I wanted to find out for myself and learned more about him in the process. Before a maverick in the senate, he was literally a maverick in a skyhawk. And the bravery of that crew - literally picking up bombs by hand and tossing them overboard before they exploded while in the midst of an inferno and explosions.
Anyways, yeah, he needs to step down. I do feel bad for his family and what he's going through though, regardless if he's politicizing his own funeral. smh.
peace.