Here’s how McCain’s death has affected me, in a personal way – I’ve come to realize what a chicken shit I am – I stand on the sidelines criticizing the GOP, criticizing the DNC, criticizing the politicians who don’t support universal health care, criticizing the political leaders who have allowed corporations to take over our country, criticizing the politicians who aren’t giving shelter to those seeking asylum and the homeless, poor, and unemployed – I send my letters, post my blog posts, march in the marches, criticize my fellow human beings who aren’t doing what I think they should be doing – and what the hell?! It’s easy for me to stand on the sidelines and lob my criticisms at the people who are “in charge” – it’s a lot easier than actually stepping up to the plate and running for office myself. I am humbled because I realize I am lacking the courage to put myself out there in the fray and open MYSELF up to criticism, and the slander, libel, and rumors that always seem to circulate around people who are willing to shoulder our responsibility for us.
I am deeply conflicted about McCain. I find it hard to stick pins into a man who endured five years of torture – who refused to be released from prison so long as his comrades were still in there – and I can’t help but wonder how *I* might have been changed if I’d gone through the same circumstances. I’d like to think I’d be really noble about it all, and forgiving, and so forth. But I don’t know. I don’t know how an experience like that would have changed me.
There were things McCain did that were horrible. Horrible. I would agree with anyone who said that. But I find I don’t have it in me to hate this man.
Right now I find myself thinking about that moment when he cast his vote against dismantling the ACA. I find myself thinking about that moment when he stood up for his rival, Obama, against that woman’s prejudices and misinformation. I find myself thinking about how he refused to be released from prison until his comrades were released. I find myself thinking about the family who loved him.
This is the one thing I know, for sure, about McCain – he had courage. And I’m not sure I have it in the same quantity.
I don’t see how anyone’s anger towards this man is going to make the world a better place.
Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist 
As a dyed in the wool Democrat, I disagreed with his politics a vast majority of the time. I often questioned his policy. But, I’ve never questioned his character. I’m as anti-war as they come, but for the current president to not only criticize, but even insult, McCain for being a P.O.W.? Unbelievable. That man endured more suffering in 5 minutes than our esteemed Buffoon In Chief has in his entire life.
Find even one good quality in everyone, put them together and make ourself the change we want to see in the world.
Mystic Omran Michael Aivanhov said that:
“The only thing that the great initiates, those true alchemists, teach is how to become a bee.” Highly advanced disciples or initiates are bees because they extract the pure and divine elements from the people around them, like nectar from flowers, and prepare a food in their hearts for the angels.”