Joe Biden to Eulogize John McCain – Everyone Forgets Their History

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A serviceman pays his respects at the casket of US Senator John McCain during a memorial service at the Arizona Capitol on August 29, 2018, in Phoenix. (Photo by Jae C. HONG / Pool AP / AFP) (Photo credit should read JAE C. HONG/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s hard to say what this is an example of. Is it old friends and former enemies making up? Is it a dirty friend stabbing you in the back, then sobbing emotional panegyrics at your funeral?

I’d argue the latter, and I don’t mean to sound insensitive.

This week, the late Senator John McCain is being laid to rest, first in Arizona, then in Washington, D.C. Already, the funeral is courting controversy, as a number of high-profile figures have been either banned from attending or denied an invitation. (RELATED: Sarah Palin Reportedly Not Invited to John McCain’s Funeral.)

One would think the death of an important figure in our national life would be a time of coming together. But McCain’s funeral gets stranger by the day, especially with the selection of one public figure to eulogize the former prisoner of war.

I’m talking about none other than gropin’ Joe Biden, the frisky former Vice President. Not only does Biden have a lurid history of, for lack of a better term, fondling young ladies, but his past with McCain makes it questionable why he’s delivering plaudits at all. (RELATED: 10 Times Joe Biden Has Touched People Against Their Will.)

From the Daily Mail:

Retired senator and former vice president Joe Biden will offer a tribute to John McCain in Phoenix today at a celebration of life service that will precede the late lawmaker’s transport to the nation’s capital to lay in state.

Biden and McCain served in Congress together for more than two decades, forging a friendship that withstood the test of time and brutal presidential race that pitted the senators from opposing parties against each other.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with two members of opposing parties duking it out in Congress and being friends outside the battleground. But I’m old enough to remember the nasty things Biden said about McCain when he was running for president against his running mate, Barack Obama.

Biden called McCain an “angry man” who wanted to take the “low road to the highest office in the land.” He relentlessly trashed McCain for supporting the Iraq War, despite voting for it himself in Congress. Biden even accused McCain of trying to harm the troops by cutting their funding – a heinous charge given McCain’s unwavering support for our soldiers.

Anyone with an attention span not corrupted by the small-brained media knows how ugly the 2008 presidential race was. (RELATED: Remember When Obama and His Supporters Hated and Mocked John McCain?)

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Perhaps McCain and Biden made up over time. But we shouldn’t forget the awful things Biden and the entire Obama campaign accused McCain of. Some things aren’t forgivable.

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