"Above all, John detested the abuse of power. He could not abide bigots and swaggering despots," [GW] Bush told mourners, before recounting a story from McCain's days at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where he will be buried Sunday.
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"He respected the dignity inherent in every life - a dignity that does not stop at borders and cannot be erased by dictators," the former president added.
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"So much of our politics, public life, public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast, and insult, and phony controversies, and manufactured outrage," Obama told those gathered at the National Cathedral.
"It's the politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear," Obama said. "John called on us to be bigger than that. He called on us to be better than that."
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And they said Trump would have made it all about himself. He would have. But the others did a pretty decent job of it for him, albeit in a different light."America does not boast because she does not have need to. The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great," [Meghan] McCain said to applause at Washington National Cathedral.
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"The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege," she added.
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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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