Idle Speculation

Will the McCain family now get frequent flyer miles on US government planes?

His funerals aka Let Us Now Glorify Saint John lasted longer than a Barbra Streisand Farewell Tour.

I really racked my brain on this, thinking senility had final snuck under my radar, but I researched thoroughly and John McCain was never a US President.  But do admit, it was confusing …

A commentator in the Daily Mail, UK, remarked on Meghan McCain's long, lush false eyelashes.  What I want to know is did she use surgical glue to keep them on through the gusts of tears?

Also of note, I never found any mention of a food service after any of them.  Someone should have told the family that if you have to sit through several hours of "funeral" it's only fair to reward the audience with a little something to nosh on!  Very cute clip of Bush, Jr. slipping Michelle Obama a handful of candy during a eulogy which was really bad taste.   Especially since they had a little giggle together.

For a contrast in styles, Aretha wins.  The people that attended her rites genuinely loved her and they showed it.  Showman to the end she also gave back to her fans with the three day wake and three different outfits.  It may be a Detroit burial custom, but I've never seen it in Kansas City, Huntington, NY, or California where the coffin lid is open all the way down and any holes in the soles of your shoes are going to be noticed (and discussed by viewers behind fanned out fingers on the way back down the aisle.)  

McCain's rites did establish however that it is in roaring bad taste to turn a solemn ritual of life  into a  political rally.  Beyond tacky.

To be fair, Bill Clinton ogling Ariana Grande's butt at Aretha's rites is hardly a good example.

Ah, well.  Life goes on and I close with a hearty, "Thank God you're finally in the dirt, John McCain.  The circus tent has been struck and put back in storage for the next display of utterly bad taste and worse manners."