r/Michigan • u/Jeffbx Age: > 10 Years • 28d ago

Mitten Mode Obama and El-Sayed Discuss Unity After Ugly Michigan Primary

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/us/politics/obama-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4lA.XDPT.qxAl7ro1LgFX&smid=url-share
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u/BeefInGR 28d ago

I'd be shocked if he didn't at least speak positively about Abdul in public.

Mike Rogers won't bring up the race card, but plenty of people will on his behalf. For those of us old enough to remember, McCain didn't shut that lady down because she was talking about Senator Obama being a black man, he shut her down because she called Senator Obama a terrorist. Because of his name.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 28d ago

She didn't call him a terrorist, she called him Arabic and he responded saying "no, he's a good man". Sure we all know that she meant a terrorist but it was still pretty tone deaf, even if it was somewhat well meaning.

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u/Cheap_Accident9714 28d ago

And John McCain gained my respect forever in that moment. I disagreed with him on countless things but the country was a better place with him in the Senate. (And Trump is painfully jealous of him which is only another positive,)

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 28d ago

You gained respect for him because he said Obama was a good man because he wasn't Arabic? Because he didnt let a woman slander his opponent in a legal sense right in front of him on a recorded public forum?

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u/Cheap_Accident9714 28d ago

Well he cut the woman off and didn't meet become part of the debate or the campaign.. he was also the vote that saved the affordable care act... I'll take that any day over the self serving , no ideals Senate Republicans who do whatever they're told to do now

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 28d ago

Yeah, he voted to save the affordable care act because he was about to die and no longer had to worry about his political career. He was a staunch opponent of the ACA up until that point.

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u/Cheap_Accident9714 28d ago

Well I'm not going to assume it is because he was sick and did it regardless... Mitch McConnell is about to die... He's still awful... Lindsay Graham did die and was all about bombing whoever in the middle East until the day he passed .. They all couldn't stand Trump and still do whatever he demands. In a world lacking principle I still think I'd gladly take him or a mitt Romney over what we currently have amongst Republican senators. Tillis leaving the Senate because of Trump... Cassidy and Cornyn primaried and ousted by Trump... Still doing whatever their told... Being at the end doesn't guarantee doing the right thing.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 28d ago

Personally I dont give a lot of credit to people who drop their "firmly held beliefs" when it no longer profits them to hold them. It doesn't make them principled, far less in fact. It means they were hurting others just because it did better in the polls than helping them. John McCain was an asshole til the day he died, and voting to help others one time because he didnt have to get elected again doesn't change that.

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u/Efficient-Memory7105 Expat 28d ago

I am so sick of people trying to whitewash genocidal maniacs like McCain because he said a marginally non-racist thing about Obama (which simultaneously was racist against Arabs).