Thread: McCain: 'This is my last term'

McCain in book excerpt: 'This is my last term'

By Daniella Diaz, CNN
Updated 3:01 PM ET, Mon April 30, 2018

Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. John McCain, who is battling brain cancer in his home state of Arizona, says in his new book that his current term is his last and, as a result, he feels he can open up about how he sees the current political climate.

"This is my last term. If I hadn't admitted that to myself before this summer, a stage 4 cancer diagnosis acts as ungentle persuasion," he wrote in his book, "The Restless Wave," according to the excerpt published on Apple News on Monday. "I'm freer than colleagues who will face the voters again. I can speak my mind without fearing the consequences much. And I can vote my conscience without worry."

Referring to President Donald Trump, McCain wrote, "He has declined to distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of despotic ones. The appearance of toughness, or a reality show facsimile of toughness, seems to matter more than any of our values."

McCain said he wants to see the nation's politics "return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history" and says, "you're damn right, I'm a champion of compromise."

"I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different," he wrote. "We are citizens of a republic made of shared ideals forged in a new world to replace the tribal enmities that tormented the old one. Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that awesome heritage and the responsibility to embrace it."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/polit...ess/index.html

He should retire now.

But he won't, he'll be there until the end of his term which will be in 2022, 4.5 more years. He was re-elected in 2016 for a 6 year term.

Sen. John McCain has a glioblastoma tumor
www.latimes.com/.../la-sci-sn-glioblastoma-treatment-mccain-20170720-story.html
Jul 20, 2017 - This is the news that longtime Arizona Sen. John McCain got after he had a blood clot removed above his left eye on Friday. A glioblastoma is the same type of tumor that killed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 2009. It also was responsible for the death of Beau Biden, son of then[-Vice President Joe Biden, ...
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Survival rates and life expectancy. The median survival time with glioblastoma is 15 to 16 months in people who get surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment. Median means half of all patients with this tumor survive to this length of time.May 15, 2017

Glioblastoma: Survival Rates, Treatments, and Causes - Healthline
https://www.healthline.com/health/brain-tumor/glioblastoma

How many Senate votes has he already missed because of his illness? If he can't do his job, he needs to allow the Governor of Arizona to assign someone that can until an election can be held. Bow out gracefully now, "illegal alien lover" McCain.