Monday, September 25, 2017

AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN McCAIN


Senator McCain, thank you for helping defeat this latest attempt to modify Obamacare.  I believe that modification is in order and could be very beneficial, but to work it will have to be a product of mature, bipartisan deliberation, and not some frantic push to satisfy a campaign pledge.  Just as you have said.

Senator, I regard you as the best thing that has happened to the Senate in my lifetime.   I supported you for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, and again for President in 2008.  You lost both times, of course.  However, I firmly believe that, had you won, the world would have been and would continue to be, a better place.  Possibly much better.

Glioblastoma is a terrible enemy.  However, you survived the Hanoi Hilton on shear guts.  Maybe, with the help of our best oncologists, a little luck, and those same guts you can beat it.  I hope so.  And, I can scarcely imagine, there can be any truly thoughtful Americans who would disagree.  Senator, we need someone of your caliber to lead the fight for rational, bipartisan, centrist policies.  God knows, we do.

Please get well.

1 comment:

  1. A year later, and you are still serving your country. Thank you, Senator

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/us/politics/trump-senate-russia-sanctions.html

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