"civilized politics"... Back when they were behaving differently but lying just as much... And you miss it.

​@@frog382They've always lied but there had always been at least a base level respect between politicians of opposing parties. Better than the shitshow we currently deal with.

@@Lonniehands1 Different script, different times, same master of puppets.

@@frog382 missing the point.

@@michaeld.4521 I am absolutely past that point long time heretofore.

"WHAT do you mean YOU PEOPLE?!"-Robert Downey Jr.

@@MegrelMamba”What do YOU mean YOU PEOPLE?” - Alpa Chino

Because he was. As much of an utter disgrace that he could be at times with regards to his policies, he was at least at heart a moral and ethical human being. Bush Jr was the start of the downward trend of the GOP into their anti-truth anti-liberty attitudes, but McCain and to a lesser extent Romney were the last of the most famous Republicans that actually had somewhat of a moral compass

@@MegaHariboboy While I agree to an extent, I would include that the Democrats haven't had a moral compass for a while either, they just try to play off popular emotion which gives off a faux sense of caring about social issues

Lmfao fact. His reaction was very much “uhhhh tf you afraid of?….” 😂

"Nah nah nah nah, shut the fuck up you're done talkin'."

😂 love it.

"Obama is!! Is.... arab!!!" "Nope... nope.... give that back😭"

He only did that because he didn’t wanna handle the truth and that’s why he lost.

​@@fatassdogs8617 how tf is barrack Obama being an Arab the truth? Grow some brain cells

Agreed.

i second that......loved and respected him...such a loss not to have him around....true patriot that wanted the best for USA

@@hongkonger1775 well, in retrospect then.

I bet you were talking so much shit about him back in 08

@@adamwilliams9487 Yeah, probs. But who knew he'd look so great now.

Very humorous at times, too!

I've read Joe Biden's eulogy for McCain, that one is also beautiful.

one war pig commemorating another, nothing surprising

It was John McCain, himself to ask his family for Obama to do the eulogy

Biden’s is wonderful too

Amazing moment in this video 🎥- too bad the country is still being dragged kicking and screaming down the insurrection and conspiracy nutters road🚯. Lets go back to Respecting each other🇺🇸

@@openminds8765 I don't think it will last long, not the first populace movement in our history and certainly won't be our last. However I have faith in the founders and the founding documents that will survive these repeated times in human history.

@@trentp8035 King 45 and nutters went to far 🥜This literally came down to one man who stood up to a wannabe king and tyrant. I think Pence is a fool in his beliefs and politics but he did have the balls to stand up and follow the law. If Pence was on board with the lunacy we would be under King 45 and his nutter mob that stormed the Capitol One Man - One Man saved US Democracy... this time. Look King 45 and parts of the conspiracy fools still walk the streets as free men when they should be locked up already.

Well said

@@trentp8035 yeah.. from freedom to socialism from a racist black man... so civil.... fucked over millions upon millions of Americans. Should be hung for treason. osama was the worst resident in the oval office, of all time. Next to biden and carter.

Nothing says Decent family man like… invading sovereign nations

​@@MichaelJ44you obviously don't have anything to say

@@A_reasonable_individual42 War crimes

@@MichaelJ44 sorry but it will always happen when there are wars

@@A_reasonable_individual42 Apart from 2016-2020

This is a show of class. More reasonable times.

I swear to God he was blushing

I always liked Speaker Boehner. He seemed to always be genuine in his feelings, to the point of crying to numerous occasions.

That, and choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.

​@@Deere55he actually was leading obama in the polls until he chose palin

Bush certainly didn’t help him either. He really wasn’t in much of a position to win after that presidency.

He lost partially because of Palin, he certainly didn't lose because of his grace in this situation, he showed how a good and decent man should act, didn't matter anyway in the long run, 15 years later decency died.

His electoral loss had nothing to do with the decent parts of him.

Nothing better nothing finer nothing prouder nothing quite as powerful. Amen! 😎🇺🇲🥃

"I fear we have awoken a sleeping giant, and filled it with a terrible resolve." - Admiral Yamamoto, about the attack on Pearl Harbor. The last time the US was TRULY united

A* Despite starting with the letter U, the word united starts with a "y" sound, thus it is a united united states.

@@stoopidapples1596 Je crache sur la langue anglaise, quelle grammaire absurde!

@@sliftyy if there's one thing consistent, it's the inconsistency!

He has sex with children dude

I always thought that was just a Simpsons thing.

It’s worth noting that it was actually Jazz, not Blues.

I know right. ❤

Sadly most of the people who voted for him in ‘08 would curse his name now, even though the poor guy has since passed. I’m from AZ, I don’t agree with all his politics but I am proud that he was from our state.

How? He left his first wife broken and was a liberal

​@cruzloera4931 Calling McCain liberal is like calling Massachusetts conservative. It makes no sense. He was a classical conservative. Not this new age, Trump nonsense. The party isn't conservative whatsoever anymore. They stand for nothing.

@@Dnttou0497 And the people who cursed his name then kiss his ass now

@@nestlesnipes1893 Cursed his name? Most of them at least gave him the respect he was due. Unlike far-right republicans.

We all as a country have much much more in common than we do different

We’re in the midst of a Hegelian Dialectic, a potent one. We simply have not reached at the synthesis yet.

I hope you’re right but I’m afraid trump opened up Pandora’s box and now there’s too much value in personal attacks and putting on a show these days among political opponents

I hope so but I mostly blame the rise of social media, so it may even get worse as it further encroaches on our lives

@@Bolthrower91 Someones been playing too much New Vegas lol.

Don't worry the internet gives a minority of people who think like this a voice,it does not represent how the majority of people think.

@@A_reasonable_individual42 so incredibly true

to add, there's really only so much that we can convey with only text, we throw away a basic politeness to shout rudely into each other's faces, and there is really only so much to convey with only our memes

More like an uneducated..incompetent..guy called tRUmp

Not Donald Trump or the Republican Party, seems like their more to blame

“What better way to get the last laugh than to make George and me say nice things about him in front of a national audience?”

Sadly most of these scenes are of a bygone era

@@oldworldpatriot8920 I am getting up there in years and so I don't see these videos as part of a bygone era. The Reagan era is a bygone era. But the last twenty years or so I think still counts as being contemporary times. Most of these videos are from the last twenty years.

@@christopherthorkon3997Reagan was a true patriot. Biden is a fool who should be impeached and his son should be jailed for his federal felony! I bet Hunter smuggled the coke into the White House. Kamala Harris is even more unqualified than Biden! Vote Trump in 24 and retire them both.

@@christopherthorkon3997 The new "norm" of political misbehavior, the pandering to the lowest elements who view politics like a small town high school football game, the deliberate and tactical decision to appeal to the motivated fringe instead of trying to be viable for the center, the expectations and demands among so many voters that their politicians practice scorched earth tactics and acknowledge/admit nothing (including objective verifiable facts) unless it benefits them.... these are just some of the attributes of the past 20 years, even if the process started closer to 30 years ago. They are responsible for the calculated death of comity and civility. They have normalized ad hominem insults and fallacy over policy disagreements. Americans went from disagreeing about how to fix the problems the facts indicated, to disagreeing about how to interpret the facts, to disagreeing about what the facts are and simply inventing new ones when they suit the situation. I know exactly who **I** blame, but that's tangential.... the point is so much has changed in such a short time it may as well have been half a century.

There *was

Absolutely. People nowadays have taken partisanship far too much.

absolutely agreed, we can fight the division through lovely moments of respect like this. we can help each other be better, we can be an even better country together ❤

Wish I could upvote this a million times. Choosing to focus on our common humanity and what we share is infinitely more productive and healthy than focusing on our differences... the only difference is that it is less exploitable for people in all sides of politics.

oof, 666 likes. Can't change that lol

where

Jeb is decent tho but as a Vice President though. But, Trump destroyed him literally in 2 minutes worse than Al Gore who was screwed up by electoral college.

@@rosec_rose6661 the same electoral college that saved Trump's ass in 2016

Jeb is a mess

Yes sir!

All do respect to John McCain. But this country needs more people like Jesus Christ.

@@brendaleonard8172 jesus christ would never run as a politician. The kingdom of God is not meant to be made with man's hands, we only submit to him after death. With all due respect, religion should never be in the government. It was never decreed in the bible, nor does it work out historically.

Yeah, it started with that phony "Trump/Russia Collusion" things as an "insurance policy" against Donald Trump getting elected.

Thank you for saying that. I live in az, and though I didnt agree with him on everything, he at least played fair.

But was way too much of a push-over to be elected president. Being nice doesn't help you all that much politically.

@@JVLeroy223 he refused to leave a north vietnamese prison camp until every member of his unit went with him, even though he was given the option to get released early during a prisoner exchange. mccain was by no means a weak man.

He was but the left pulled him down a lot.

​@@JVLeroy223L take

​@afterburner9209Yep, also to reassure New Yorkers. People were really scared after 9/11 that there would be more terrorist attacks

And he threw a strike while wearing tons of Kevlar

@@deathstar2294From the rubber, no less. So cool and collected: Ice water in the veins.

Trump plays a caricatured version of himself to shock/organic market and get free publicity. He's been doing that for decades. He got billions of dollars in free media coverage in 2016. He's not an idiot.

You know, I’ve been watching a lot of clips I never saw from the 2016 and 2020 race. He may not be perfect, but he acted like that more often than I think many of us have seen. One I saw recently was kind of similar to the McCain speech (in its own regard), near the beginning of this video. This was during 2016. Trump VS Clinton. Basically they were asked if they think positively of one another or respect one another. If I recall correctly, Hillary basically said: she respects his kids and how he raised them, but not so much respect for him as a person. Then Trump spoke, and to summarize he basically said, he respects Hillary and how hard she fought for her campaign, and how he disagrees with her on many important topics but he has nothing against her as a person. I was really thrown off. A beautiful sign of respect. I want to see more moments of respect in this 2024 race.

​@howlinallen7720 trump is a cheat and a liar and does everything in the name of his own self-preservation.

Her last request was that they wait until the election to appoint her successor, and trump did it anyway

Something happened to trump that turned him crazy

lmaooo

Me too im so glad we can all still identify with the one thing that makes us the same… the country we are from

That moment was electric. Made me feel something

The problem with this is, Trump is a big proponent of the hostility we are currently seeing in politics, not just in America, but around the western world. He verbally attacks opponents, spread lies about Obama being born in Kenya, demanding Clinton be put in jail, refusing to concede defeat, and turning against Pence overnight because he refused to say the 2020 election was stolen. He has made some pretty misogynistic comments over the years also, which kind of flies in the face of his tribute to the female representatives in this video. I'm not saying he is the only politician to engage in this sort of behaviour, because he certainly is not. But he has certainly stoked it and emboldened his supporters to behave in the same way. We need to return to an era where political debates focused solely on the political issues, rather than the people and their families. And an era where opposing leaders respectfully disagreed with each other, but never resorted to personal insults. And above all, America needs to remember that the peaceful transfer of power is one of the crowning achievements of any civilised nation! Unfortunately I can't see these things returning anytime soon, especially if Trump wins the GOP nomination next year, which he looks almost certain to do so.

F J B

@@vitesse_arnhem-I love the FABULOUS JOE BIDEN too 🇺🇸😎

Why would they boo him?

@@Rylee_DJ Yankee fans are a tough crowd… if he threw a bad pitch they’d boo him. Jeter knows

@@k.d-ux3um ah, I see. but still this was in reference to simply bouncing the ball, is that considered bad or would the crowd see it as bad and if so, why?

We were united during the 1940s, that’s why we won the wars. They are scared of a united country.

A small moment was when Republican Richard Riordan won the mayorship of Los Angeles in the aftermath of the LA riots. He had an Asian opponent who was more politically experienced and just hammered Riordan in the debate. As a fellow Asian left of center, it made me uncomfortable. In Riordan's acceptance speech, he said with the utmost sincerity he would welcome Democrats, Republicans, independents, people of every race, creed, color and sexual orientation to his administration. I'm not from LA but it was another wholesome moment that resonated with me.

Also, Al Gore acknowledging, as president of the senate, his 2000 defeat to George Bush

@@ernestabrogar4658did he actually do it though?

Jimmy Carter thanking Gerald Ford during his inaugural address in '77.

@@dodgy1779 There's a KZfaq video of coverage of his funeral. It appears he was a beloved mayor for the most part.

No wonder it’s 4 times longer

I agree. And I'm going to end it watching this. I'm not going to lie to myself that politics is perfect but I never knew how much this video was needed.

As an Arizonan and an American, so do I. Teared up when I saw his motorcade on his journey to lie in state. A great man and leader.

@@williamwenzel6915 🇺🇸🌵

I don't agree with his policies, but I have immense respect for him as a person.

@@lucask4377 This is why it is so important to protect our nation at any cost. We have the freedom to not only disagree with those in positions of power but can also be vocal with our opinions.

Vote and get the current nut cases out of Congress 🇺🇸 What an embarrassing group they are to democracy.

You can thank people on both the left and right.

@@nestlesnipes1893 Realllllly - did both sides Storm the US Capitol, show young people its OK to make fun of handicap people or to grab a women by the pu$$y, openly support conspiracy theories, say the elections were stolen, etc... Nope only King 45, MTG and the other nutters in that party.

I know right.

What are you talking about? The Trump stuff is less than four years ago. Politics is always divisive to an extent. We're nowhere near as divided as the civil war.

Sarah Palin

If he had been nominated in 2000 or 2004 I would have seriously considered it.

@@danashanebetter than Kamala

Shows you how much a liberal he was.... Failure

Lefties like you wanting to vote for him pretty much sums up why he failed

Well said! 👏 🇺🇸

I'm not American and damn, is this historical

Boston Red Sox won that series, along with the New England Patriots (both had been on a loosing streak since as far back as I could remember- born ‘66 in Boston - that was just unreal to us - 9/11 & Massachusetts the start of the American Revolution)

I came here just to say this. This was mere weeks after 9/11.

Fun Fact: Bush actually wore a Bullet proof vest under his FDNY Jacket. I think you can find images of this on google.

MAGA movement started with Pat Buchanan. Everyone laughed at him, he was racist, sexist, holocaust denialist. But his ideals sadly prevailed over the GOP

Gingrich was the epitome of what a speaker should be...once Dick Morris got into Clinton's ear....tons of wild stuff got done!

@@hayeshumphries311Newt fkn Gingrich? That slimeball? Lmfao

Yeah, he was a RINO. That is why we have the problems we have. Why don't Democrats give a little, too? Oh, that's right. You only like it when it is Republicans who are conciliatory.

Couldn’t agree more. The respect between him and Pres Obama was legendary.

He spoke from the heart for once and was human

He didn't know what to say

Are you kidding? No one has divided this country the way Bush and Obama did. That's the entire reason Trump even became President. If they hadn't destroyed this country from the inside, Trump firstly wouldn't have ran and even if he did, he wouldn't have won even the nomination.

He was very reasonable during an interview in 9/11. I believe that if he just stayed that way instead of the persona he is today, I think many people, including myself, would come to respecto him more

how in the fuck could you disagree with everything he stands for unless you were told to do so?

aint no way you think therye decent 😂

Bipartisan corruption

Unfortunately not anymore I believe

Don't worry, this crap happened like in the mid 19th century. We will overcome, we will prevail, and we will be united and civilized again

I know, it’s so sad and discouraging. I miss so much when everyone wasn’t so polarized and people were actually nice and polite to each other

? wtf? He was a traitor lol. He sold out his troops in Vietnam and publicly shamed the greatest President since Lincoln. He's rotting in hell lol. Such a push over pansy.

@@georgejohnson8674 He publicly shamed FDR? When?

@@extremegrieferbible ? I said the best not a socialist.

​@@georgejohnson8674 "Everything I don't like is socialism/woke/Soros." - Trumpsters since 2016.

@@extremegrieferbible lol, name one reason you came up on your own why you hate the greatest potus ever, Trump? Not you were told Not cause cnn said You name a reason. Try it 🤡

Or the Pope chairing a session of Congress, 50 years ago they would have thought we were communist

Pope Francis addressed that joint session of Congress in 2015. Fifty years before 2015 was 1975. The United States had a Catholic president as early as 1961 (John F. Kennedy), which arguably is 'better' than a Catholic vice president (president of the Senate). The United States had a Catholic speaker of the House of Representatives as early as 1962 (John McCormack).

He's a great man, sometimes I feel he's not evil enough for politics

Sarah Palin as VP would have been a nightmare though lol

@@mackstewart4203 I can't disagree. What a misstep that was on McCain's part.

@@mackstewart4203remember when we thought Palin was the craziest the Republicans had to offer? lol

Palin was a disaster in wait.

Yeah, there are good people both in the Republicans and in the Democrats There are also people that cannot respect the others in both sides As a non american, i might disagree both with the Republicans and Democrats but i respect most american politics, if they respect the people and each other

If your opponent advocates for medical segregation and is funding a proxy war.. I’d say that’s along the lines of enemy.

What the hell is medical segregation? No one is forced into any medical program? What point are you trying to make?

@@tony84. Except the Austrian government who mandated the (cough) just LAST YEAR. Here in the UK, the Government was about to introduce V passports to enter stadiums, pubs and nightclubs. In Russia the V was mandated to visit Pharmacies. Either you’re ignorant, uneducated on this subject, or you’re for Segregation. Which is it?

@@MichaelJ44 Well FYI, I don't live in the UK. I am an American in the United States, and what the hell you're screwing up over there is not my fault. So, all the best to all of you correcting your mess.

The Democrats have gone the same route but FAR worse, Honestly We should discuss politics in a civilized manner.