Indestructible \u0026 # x27; loser \u0026 # x27; John McCain

washington - The conservative American soldier and politician John McCain became war hero as a prisoner of war and a powerful politician, despite unsuccessful attempts to become president. He came from a family of navy people and both his father and grandfather were admiral. He was born in the Channel Zone of the US in Panama at the end of August 1936. McCain also seemed to spend his entire life with the Navy for a long time.

After completing his education in 1958, he fought among other things as a navy pilot in the Vietnam War. He nearly lost his life twice and was taken prisoner in 1967 in North Vietnam. He suffered 5.5 years of torture and imprisonment, two years in solitary confinement. McCain refused to release an offer from the North Vietnamese in 1968, because his father had become commander of the American troops in the region. McCain demanded that all prisoners of war who were caught before him should also be released.

He returned in 1973 as a war hero. In 1977 he became a contact between the Navy and the Senate. With his second marriage in 1980 with a wealthy Arizona woman, Cindy Lou Hensley, McCain's political career really took off.

In addition to money, marriage also brought him connections and a base that remained loyal to him: Arizona. McCain was elected to the House of Representatives in 1982 and in early 1987 he became a Republican Senator in Washington on behalf of Arizona. He stayed that until (shortly before) his death.

The generally very conservative McCain sometimes turned out to be a dogged non-conformist who took positions that many Republicans did not appreciate. He did not always belong to the 'mainstream' Republicans when he talked about immigration, tax cuts or the climate.

When he was the presidential candidate in 2008 and had to take on the Democrat Barack Obama, he elected the right-wing governor of Alaska and politically plodding politician Sarah Palin by his side. He was often seen with President Bush. It did not help. The financial crisis of that year also put the Republican years under President George Bush (2001-2009) in a daylight. McCain lost a shame.

He did not accept that, however. He remained an influential senator who spilled criticism on fellow party member Donald Trump, even after he became president. McCain was also chairman of the powerful Senate Commission of Armed Forces since 2014. In the summer of 2017 an aggressive form of cancer was found in the brain.