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Obama, Bush Asked To Speak At John Mccain's Funeral; Trump Told To Stay Away by Ijaya123: 5:03pm On Aug 27, 2018
Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have reportedly been asked to deliver eulogies to the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

McCain, who died Saturday at the age of 81, had asked that the former presidents speak at his funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral on Saturday, according to CBS News. Vice President Mike Pence is expected to attend.

President Donald Trump will not be invited to McCain’s funeral, at the request of the late senator. The White House was told of McCain’s wishes by family members before his death.

Both Obama and Bush defeated McCain in races for the presidency. Bush bested him in the 2000 Republican primary and Obama won the presidency in 2008 against McCain. But both men deeply admired the Arizona senator.

Obama said McCain had the “courage to put the greater good” above his own.

Bush called McCain “a man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order.” Some lives, he said, “are so vivid, it is difficult to imagine them ended. Some voices are so vibrant, it is hard to think of them stilled.”

McCain will lie in state at the Arizona State Capitol on Wednesday, his birthday. Vice President Biden is expected to speak the following day at a service in the North Phoenix Baptist Church before McCain’s body is transported to Washington to lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda on Friday. Bush, Obama, McCain’s family and others are slated to speak at a full-dress service on Saturday in the National Cathedral.

A private ceremony will be held on Sunday at the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland, and McCain will be buried at the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery next to Naval Academy classmate and long-time friend, Admiral Chuck Larson.

“I want, when I leave [to] just have a couple of people that stand up and say, ‘This guy, he served his country,’” McCain told Leslie Stahl last year on “60 Minutes.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-bush-john-mccain-eulogies_us_5b838678e4b034858601cf7e

Re: Obama, Bush Asked To Speak At John Mccain's Funeral; Trump Told To Stay Away by Ekez(m): 5:38pm On Aug 27, 2018
Make una no forget say buhari is the only lifeless president to visit america.
Re: Obama, Bush Asked To Speak At John Mccain's Funeral; Trump Told To Stay Away by Ijaya123: 6:38am On Aug 28, 2018
Ekez:
Make una no forget say buhari is the only lifeless president to visit america.

And what has that got to do with the death and burial of McCain?

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