Democrats and John McCain

What Democrats Said About McCain That They Now Want You to Forget https://t.co/J9Rbri7kQJ via @LifeZette

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 28, 2018

From LifeZette:

Democrats including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are falling all over themselves to heap praise on McCain, who died Saturday.

But look how differently these same Democrats talked about McCain not that long ago.

...During one of their debates, Obama said, “John, you are absolutely right, presidents have to be prudent about what they say. But coming from you, who in the past have threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran, I don’t know how credible that is.”

But accusing McCain of being a reckless bomber was just one of the many insults Obama hurled at his Republican opponent. There was, according to Obama, the McCain disconnected from the pain of real Americans: “I don’t believe that Sen. McCain doesn’t care what’s going on in the lives of Americans — I just think he doesn’t know.”

And there was the selfish McCain catering to heartless corporations that shipped American jobs overseas. Obama, by contrast, promised that “Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship our jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.”

Not only was McCain a tool of the Fortune 500, Obama insisted, he was also slavishly loyal to President George W. Bush: “The record’s clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time. Sen. McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush was right more than 90 percent of the time?”

And worst of all, according to Obama, McCain had nothing but smears for Democrats: “Sen. McCain and his operatives are gambling that they can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They’d rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up. That’s what you do when you’re out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time.”

Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi are also on the record attacking John McCain.