Gov. Daugaard Calls For Flags At Half-Staff To Honor Sen. McCain
PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Dennis Daugaard is asking that all flags in the state be flown at half-staff immediately to honor the life of Sen. John McCain.
“From his service in Vietnam, to his years in Congress, to his two campaigns for President, John McCain distinguished himself as a true American hero and a statesman,” said Gov. Daugaard. “I ask all South Dakotans to fly their flags at half-staff this Saturday and Sunday in honor of Senator McCain.”
In accordance with the President’s proclamation, the Governor asks that flags remain at half-staff until sunset on Sunday, Sept. 2. McCain’s funeral service will take place on Saturday, Sept. 1, at Washington National Cathedral. He will be interred the following day at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Our governor has more class than our president. Way to go Governor.
John McCain was a POS wake up !
You shouldn’t talk about president bone spurs like that. McCain has more integrity in his little toe than all of Trump’s administration combined.
McCain was a liberal running under the R.
McCain was a war hero who put his country over his party. Something that is lost on our leaders these days.
We never know the motives of others.
Because we can’t discern the motives of others, especially those we don’t know, let’s stick with what we can state with confidence.
McCain was a war hero, he is a sinner and not perfect, and he didn’t fit in an ideological box so we agreed and disagreed with him often on political issues.
I thought war heroes were people who did not get captured? At least that is what the guy apologists bend over backward to cheer for said.
And you were in war, how many times?
McCain represents more Americans than either party does. A majority of us are not right or left, we are somewhere in the middle. This idea that all repubs must be republican on every topic or all Dems must be Dem on every topic is hogwash. These litmus tests do no one good.
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McCain’s service record is a matter of great debate. As a fellow veteran who has met genuine heroes in my time of service, I am not comfortable applying that honorific to McCain.
Elaborate.
About the genuine military heroes I’ve had the honor of meeting or about the questions regarding the quality of McCain’s service record?
The latter.
As a fellow veteran myself, what makes you think you are knowledgeable enough to judge who is or isn’t a hero? If there is one thing that tells me how crappy a person is, it is when they act like being a veteran gives them some sort of leg up on judging other vets. Get over yourself. At least he served unlike our current Coward in Chief.
Have you looked in a mirror lately? I didn’t judge McCain. I simply stated I think there is enough controversy surrounding his service to make me uncomfortable calling him a hero. I brought up my own service not to bring attention to myself, but to express gratitude at having been afforded the opportunity to meet heroes whose quality of character and service are beyond question.
Say what you will about Sarah Palin; her eulogy was among the most moving on record:
“Senator McCain is now a shining star in God’s immortal heaven. In fact, I can see him from my house.”
he picked her, we didn’t
One of the few good decisions he made that year. It’s a shame he treated her in such a dishonorable fashion after he lost to Obama 2-1.
Interesting that he heaped praise on Obama over the years while doing his best to besmirch Palin’s good name.
Sarah was the only reason I even considered voting for him that year
OH RIGHT after nine intense months of fox news highlighting michelle obama’s “baracks gonna make you work” speeches, and probing the connection to hippie radicals bill ayers and bernadine dohrn, and all the questionable islamic connection, and congregational church reverend wright’s anti-american speeches, and joe biden’s idiotic “slow motion kobuki dance” speech not meant for release where he promised that social change would be slow-steamrollered over the traditional government, AFTER ALL THAT you just weren’t even going to cast a vote against obama if mccain hadn’t selected sarah palin, you were just going to let obama win and not vote that day. excuse me while i laugh my butt off at your comment.
You realize that’s EXACTLY what happened, don’t you? Much of the base stayed home in 2008.
it was a horrible decision, either he left it to his horrible campaign staff, or he himself decided to fall on his sword and lose in 2008. i don’t see any other possibility.
It gave him the only serious bump he managed to force out of the polls. His campaign was abysmal. His personal performance was laughable. Blaming Palin for his failings is despicable.
all the palin fans scream about how they would have stayed home if palin wasn’t vp. HA. data from 2008 and romney ryan in 2012 show gop conservative grass roots to be the strongest and most consistently motivated voter bloc there is. mccain’s pick of palin drove away the feckless centrists he might otherwise have won.
He chose Palin because he realized the base wasn’t with him and he had no chance of competeing with Obama for the hearts and minds of so called centrist voters. He hoped picking a firebrand would activate the base and that picking a woman would sway just enough undecided Ushuaia moderates to make a difference.
Mushy moderates.
anon 10:46 you are nuts. just nuts. mccain HAD the middle, he was leading obama in the polls up til convention time. that is a fact. his troubles began after he announced his choice, and the media campaign to destroy her kicked into high gear. buh bye. no wonder the stace nelson tin foil hat crowd has such trouble working the process, you are all nuts.
If he had the middle, why did he get his butt kicked?
PALIN helloooooooooooooooooooo he had it then it went the other way.
Enquirer,
Maybe you laugh but I don’t think it funny as it shows how little these so-called conservatives really care or have principle.
If they really cared they would have been engaged in the primary AND in defeat accepted they may not have effectively articulated their view AND then understood the superior budget, regulatory, and foreign affairs/defense positions of McCain as compared to Obama.
Instead they stayed home. Their admission they stayed home is an admission they are as responsible for Obama, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, the rise of ISIS, Iran nuclear agreement, and the stagnation we experienced for 8 years as Elizabeth Warren and Occupy Wall Street. They are liberal pawns and don’t know it.
i laugh so that i do not cry.
btw i continue to challenge the notion that conservatives stayed home in any great numbers in 2008 or 2012. my observation is that palin caused a fatal shift away from mccain. the 2012 turnout numbers for romney ryan showed as great a support and turnout for a ticket ‘conservatives just don’t like.’
review of 2008 polling shows that a centrist mass moved decidedly away from mccain after palin was picked for vp. BUT i now see that a number of mccain-hating conservatives just stayed home in 2008, there was lower conservative turnout in 2008 than 2012. so ok you win, even palin wasn’t enough for you.
Troy cares more ! Who’s more conservative ,Troy or John ?
“John taught us how to lose,” his friend and colleague Lindsey Graham said on the Senate floor Tuesday.
lol i missed that between the sobs.
Enquirer,
Maybe they didn’t stay home like they said, I just take them at their word.
And, you have to remember they killed the Trump/GOP partial repeal/reform of Obamacare. They said it didn’t go far enough so we get to keep the entire thing.
On the other hand, the simplest explanation is they are really fake conservatives and want liberal policies. That is the result of their actions.
i rechecked all available data on polling and interpretations from 2008. i’m somewhat right, that until palin’s unveiling mccain still had much access to the centrist mass of voters, then it seriously went away for good with double digit margins in obama’s october lead – – but i will eat my words on mccain-hating conservatives voting anyway. they really just staying home and let obama win in 2008. to quote charlton heston from a famous science fiction film, they did it – they really did it.
Exactly, and that is why McCain says Palin was a mistake. The conservatives still stayed home and it cost him the middle. No gain and only pain.
BTW, I think SP has gotten the biggest bum rap in politics. She may not speak with the fancy words the liberals like to hear but her extraordinary common sense and astute policy decisions (made often against the advice of those close to her) proves her to be very bright.
so it’s sad, then, that the “big-C” Conservatives, the self-proclaimed membership-revoking chest-thumping edict-issuing stace nelson crowd – – are by the evidence comfortable with misleading, lying, and breaking deals that they make with hated non-conservatives. glad we settled that. robert a. heinlein, the deceased sci fi writer also wrote a lot about politics and said the only good politician was the one that stayed bought and honored their deals and made their word valuable. that was mccain, like him or not.
of course he DID break his own campaign promise to repeal and replace the affordable care act, but he was enraged at the president so there was that i guess. given he made promises to his fellow gang members maybe he shouldn’t have made the campaign promise.