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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Attention NBC News: MAGA doesn't need an interpreter'
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/memo-to-nbcmsnbc-maga-doesnt-needHow Far We Have Fallen...my words
'I placed the concession call for John McCain to Barack Obama. It was my honor to do so. The result was clear in a free and fair election. Here is what John McCain said that night in a speech written by Mark Salter:
My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Sen. Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.
In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans, who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president, is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving.
This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.
A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to visit to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.
Sen. Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her Creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise.
Sen. Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country, and I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.
I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited. '
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'Attention NBC News: MAGA doesn't need an interpreter' (Original Post)
Joinfortmill
Mar 24
OP
McCain would have had a better chance at winning if they had let him speak on his own
twodogsbarking
Mar 24
#7
GreenWave
(6,757 posts)1. They need freedom corals.
Just round up the herd and brand them with C-19 vaxes.
Irish_Dem
(47,119 posts)2. This is called true leadership and public service.
Brought tears to my eyes.
What a contrast to the MAGAs and Trump.
SheilaAnn
(9,708 posts)3. Senator McCain was a very classy man. RIP. n/t
CrispyQ
(36,474 posts)4. Send a copy to Lindsey Graham.
Would McCain be a never Trumper? Could one man have kept the weaker congress critters like McConnell & Graham from caving & thereby stave off the cult? So many questions.
GAJMac
(166 posts)5. A textbook example of true class
McCain was a good man to the end.
Wild blueberry
(6,634 posts)6. Whole article is excellent
Salter's speech for McCain is one for the ages. Graceful, historic, and deeply patriotic.
Schmidt makes a good case for NBC's perfidy in hiring a liar and traitor.
twodogsbarking
(9,754 posts)7. McCain would have had a better chance at winning if they had let him speak on his own
and not given him his running mate. Obama wins.