“John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I’ve ever known,” Obama wrote on Twitter. John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Obama defeated McCain in 2008, but the two men, who served together in the Senate, shared a cordial relationship. In a now-famous incident at a town hall a few weeks before the 2008 election, McCain corrected an attendee who claimed Obama was “an Arab,” during a period when some McCain supporters shouted personal and sometimes racist insults about Obama. Sen. Obama believes that, too.

Source: Huffington Post July 20, 2017 02:03 UTC