Cindy McCain on Trump: "Our country needs a strong leader, not a negative Nancy"
Source: CBS News
November 16, 2018, 8:09 AM
Cindy McCain believes her late husband Sen. John McCain would be "terribly frustrated and terribly distraught" by the current state of political discourse. She shared her feelings about the lack of civility in politics today and President Trump with "CBS This Morning" co-host John Dickerson in her first interview since the senator's death in August.
McCain told Dickerson she hopes Mr. Trump will learn from the midterm elections and realize "the country needs a strong leader, not a negative Nancy."
"It's very humbling to lose and I hope he learns from it," she said. "We need our president. We need a White House that's strong, we need a White House that's not sparring with each other. And right now I think we're -- things are in disarray, and I would hope through this that he does learn."
Sen. McCain, a military hero and longtime lawmaker, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in July 2017. But he remained an outspoken member of Congress even as he fought the disease.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cindy-mccain-interview-john-mccain-would-be-terribly-distraught-by-state-of-political-discourse-wife-says/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=59730284
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,432 posts)But as long as he does it, projecting a positive attitude, we'll be ok with it.
PennyK
(2,302 posts)Is this a comment on Ms. Pelosi?
Bfd
(1,406 posts)You've been throu a lot.
Take your time .
Cha
(297,742 posts)She doubly got trump.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)negative nancy
In 1966 President Johnson spoke of "Nervous Nellies" to refer to critics of his Vietnam policy, and the phrase caught on. Nervous Nellie acquired the connotation of "naysayer" and gave rise to similar terms like Negative Nellie, Naysayer Nellie, Negative Ned and Negative Nancy.
Where did the phrase Negative Nellie originate? - Quora
https://www.quora.com/Where-did-the-phrase-Negative-Nellie-originate
snacker
(3,619 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)Cha
(297,742 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)She should just shut down for a bit and take in the political landscape. By now, she should know that Trumpy is NOT going to learn anything, and will spiral downward, just as he's been doing for months. Instead, she sounds like one who is longing for an autocrat to take over the nation. Poor girl. Her mental cylinders are misfiring.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)But, since she's speaking up...Isn't she the one who stole all the pain killers from some AID Charity she set up to send "old pills' to Africa? Or was that someone else?
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Bfd
(1,406 posts)That Nancy could show him how to manage an entire country of negatives & positives.
Move outta the way temper tantrum Trump
Negotiating Nancy Pelosi 2019 💙
procon
(15,805 posts)In that context, who does she mean?
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)McCain is neither using an anti-gay slur nor is she calling Trump gay. Negative Nancy grew out of debate over the Vietnam War of all things, used against critics of the war.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Negative Nancy is an old figure of speech and has absolutely nothing to do with sexuality.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Good nickname, too bad Ms Pelosi's first name is that.
Ford_Prefect
(7,921 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)DBoon
(22,401 posts)and Trump's base would be confused by all the big words
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Maeve
(42,289 posts)Daddy would be so....not proud.
BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)detailing how it was possible that Hitler could become so popular in a short period of time.
The historian explained that a characteristic of the German society was the family dynamic that revolved around a strong father.
This is the same syndrome that is allowing Dum-fuck to amass so many that blindly follow him. I suspect that their childhoods were marked by a dominating, if not abusive male figure.
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)is just about as USELESS as her daughter Meghan
In what year does Cindy live in, 1970? Negative Nancy? Da Hell.
Plus, the ignorant, pussy-grabbing, misogynistic, racist, pathologically lying, treasonous, old, ill-tempered HOG in the White House she's speaking of made FUN of and MOCKED her husband--someone who actually manned up, went to war & was tortured for our country--up until he took his last BREATH, and she actually thinks he's going to LEARN anything from the embarrassing and sent a BLUE TSUNAMI, mid-term message to orange Fatso-In-Chief in the White House?
Oh Cindy, honey
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)Isn't he the leader she apparently pines for?
I don't know why she is concerned about who Dems will elect as their leader.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Do any of the remaining McCains have brains?
Javaman
(62,534 posts)oh that's right she did...um...something...ah, with...I got nothing.
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)I just learned that from an earlier poster.
LuckyLib
(6,821 posts)You have zero credibility to weigh in on anything.
cstanleytech
(26,322 posts)that are in power now so its complete bullshit to claim he would feel distraught over whats happening unless she means distraught over the Repugnants getting their asses handed to them in the House.