Flashback: McCain tells supporter Obama is 'a decent...
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A CNN clip from an October 2008 rally where John McCain takes the microphone from a supporter and tells her Barack Obama is a decent family man.
Used as an example of civil political conduct, contrasted with today's politics, and posted after McCain's death.
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6 comments from Hacker News
I've found 1 clip so far [1]; would you happen to have more? I'd love to be able to refer back to these in the future. [1] [VIDEO]
He tried to do the right thing. Sometimes it came out a bit awkward like the infamous "He is a decent human being" comment, but his heart was in the right place [VIDEO]
Somewhat yes [0]: [VIDEO] But it was also that the great recession was a bit painful for enough of these people.
> I am not even American but I remember McCain more and more when I hear about this. he was so much better than this. Very true. [VIDEO]
We live in a world where the sitting president calls January 6 a day of love, and has pardoned the rioters, and then says that people protesting ICE are "domestic terrorists". We live in a world where federal prosecutors are choosing to quit rather than following his orders. Remember John McCain defending Obama[0]? Do you genuinely believe that the people heading the Republican Party today would ever do that? Contrast McCain's humility and grace in his concession speech[1] with Trump's constant refusal to accept that he lost 2020, and his insistence on exacting revenge on the people who "wronged" him. No, this is not a "vigorous political process" in action. It's something else entirely. 0. [VIDEO] 1. [LINK]
Extremely great post with detailed examples > So, without a generation of leaders able to recognize and understand the role of history and those traumas and empathize with the other sides we're trapped in those loops of aggression. The sad reality (imo) about this truth is that the qualities needed to be a leader aren't empathy. There was a vid about it which went more into detail but When you observe leaders, you find that they are extremely weird and sometimes psychopathic. To me it also feels like if a leader is emphatetic towards the other part, other leaders more extreme would spring up saying that he's an enemy from within or something equivalent to it. The empathy of the leader is one of the most disregarded qualities. I would go so far as to say that leaders aren't even empathetic towards the general population of their own nations/community sometimes. It's really sad but the Empathy you mention and cowardice can look the same to many & the Empathatic leader would get booted out of/not given a chance. For example, within America itself, I feel like John mccain was a good guy and I would consider him empathetic in the sense that I remember seeing interviews of him saying that he and Obama just have some minor differences in policy making when there were people attending his rallies asking that they don't feel safe about Obama. I am just gonna say that This leader of republican party was lost for what is now Donald Trump. Oh I just watched the rally/interview again[0],