McCain Responds To Report That He Attacked Congressman

Dyslexia = a perennially frustrating condition. Correction: And so McCain repeatedly reminds us during the interview....

And so McCain repeatedly reminds us in during interview what "the point" really is. And of course the Fox News blond doesn't repeat her question which was, in fact...uh...the point.

Cliff Schechter is my hero for writing this book. He is risking a lot of backlash, but isn't courage a quality necessary (and sadly lacking these days) for good journalism? There will be many who will say his book is just mudslinging. The sad truth is, there's an extraordinary amount of mud surrounding McCain.

As much as we would like to hold up the nobility of the American electorate, we all know how many everyday non-blogging voters are astonishingly lacking in insight about the personal shortcomings of our leaders. GWB is in office still, and it took most Americans a long time to see what the rest of us saw immediately. They couldn't tell Nixon was corrupt or that Reagan was senile. If Schecter's book helps reveal to the semi-informed, even to a small degree, that the real McCain is a frighteningly unstable man behind a gentlemanly facade, then I say bravo Cliff.

When are people going to wake up -- especially the MSM and McCain's colleagues and even enemies. They seem to feel compelled to preface every comment they make about McCain to the effect that he's a "brave and honorable man" blah, blah, blah.

He flew or so 20 missions over Vietnam, dropping bombs, killing God only knows how many. A hero?!!! Many men have been held as prisoners of war and tortured, many not living to tell their heroic stories. Lots are being held by our government as "enemy combatants" for years, tortured, and not even charged with a "crime". Habeus Corpus gone, not just for them, but for us as well.

He has believed and promoted his own myth so fervently that he's sold everyone else his bullshit. He's a cocky little pissed off idiot. We've had almost 8 years of that insanity. We want more of the same?!!!! HELP.

We can all see some of the humor in having Senator McCain running for president. The really frightening thought is that he could win. George Bush has been an embarrassment for many reasons, but McCain will turn the U.S. into an object of pity. McCain is not remotely intelligent; he is belligerent; he is very poorly informed; and his health - both mental and physical - is a major concern. Are his memory problems just a function of stupidity or aging, or are they symptomatic of something more serious?

I just can't get behind McCain. Sure his Mom is ninety something, but his Dad passed away at McCains current age. He has had some medical issues and was tortured. While graduating 5 the from the bottom of his class in Annapolis out of 975 plebes his was never the brightest bulb, but lately he has had several major brain farts. The temper, the C word, and the probability that he was fooling around with that lobbyist just give me pause.

At least his wife is wealthy and will not be running around collecting bribes under the disguise of "speeches" . Have we ever, ever, ever had a candidate or person in elected office where the spouse is allowed to fly in, shake hands, deliver some remarks and fly back home to the joint checking account with bundles of CASH!

What is it with this guy? Why do people like him? Is it because he looks like Bruce Dern, the actor, who often portrayed insane people? He sounds crazy as a bed bug.

You can't expect moral behavior from immoral people.

He is a bitter angry old man who in my opinion is very dangerous to the health of the world much worse than Bush.

'Colorful'? what is this, the South Korean parliament? This is America. Stop covering up and minimizing McCain's problems. He's up for the Leader of the Free World. Always known as 'a loose cannon' , McCain is the LAST thing our nation needs after Bush's trashing of our good name.

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So McCain is colourful. So what?
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Will someone please pull the Senate voting records for 2004,2005 & 2006. Every vote I watched was all republican senators voting together in one big block. This could help to squelch the bi-partisan, reached across the isle talk.

...oh great! a bipolar president with psychopathic features... just what we need to make peace in the world....

McInsane's bid for the presidency has the potential of developing into a movie plot that the likes of Federico Fellini would envy.

Why does McCain get to say things like :

"I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live." ( http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml )

But Senator Obama is guilty of racism just by association. McCain tried to worm out by saying he was speaking of his captors but are any in the black power movement given such leeway when speaking of "White Racists"?

End of story. If you can't trust Fox News who the hell can you trust?

Someone running for the job of President has to expect to have his personal life looked at closely. If Bush's longtime cocaine-use allegations had been looked at more closely, maybe we wouldn't have been stuck with him these last 7 years.

Got to love it!! ROTFL
Would have paid money to see "...McCain repeatedly addressed two new members, congressmen Trent Franks and Rick Renzi, as 'boy.' Finally, Renzi, a former college linebacker, rose from his chair and said to McCain, "You call me that one more time and I'll kick your old ass." McCain lunged at Renzi, punches were thrown, and the two had to be physically separated."

It's fascinating that Americans seem prepared to endorse and possibly elect a person who is clearly a psychopath. I'm surprised that McCain's age and repeated errors over recent incidents in Iraq hasn't alarmed any commentators, but I'm more surprised that both Obama and Clinton (and their partners) come in for nano-level scrutiny, while McCain - who would be sacked from any other workplace and possibly charged for his psychologically demeaning (referring to grown men and colleagues as 'boy') and violent (physically beating a colleague) behavior seems to get a free pass. Where is the media outcry and scrutiny over a man who beats up his colleagues? A violent and out of control temper is a symptom of profound personal and inter-personal short-comings, and one doesn't need to be a psychotherapist to deduct that. Add in the early-onset Alzheimer's and his delusory, insane determination to drive the Iraq death mill quagmire into eternity and you have a recipe for disaster. Perhaps the time has come to ask whether an ageing war-monger who resorts to physical violence at the drop of a hat will make a better leader than one willing to engage in dialogue and long-term diplomatic solutions to foreign policy.

McCan't only sounds alive when he is angry. Also, when he is in front of the TelePromter, he sounds "electrifying". I am going to love the debates with Obama.

From Jim Geraghty:
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A Vile Tale, From Unnamed Sources, Exciting the Blogs on the Left

It will come as a great shock to you that liberal blogs are spotlighting a tale from a book by "Netroots author Cliff Schecter" that cites "reporters from Arizona on condition of anonymity" who claim McCain said something quite nasty to his wife on the campaign trail back in 1992. You can find the exact language at the link, but basically it's mocking her appearance and using a vulgar term for a woman that will usually get a speaker slapped.

Because, you know, Arizona reporters would never report that at the time. A sitting senator up for reelection using that kind of language to his wife's face, in front of reporters, just wouldn't be newsworthy. Those reporters would hold onto that story, and keep it secret, as McCain became a prominent national figure in the 1990s, throughout the 2000 race, throughout McCain's campaign of the last year and a half, just so they could reveal it now to "Netroots author Cliff Schecter" " because his book is the right venue to reveal this shocking outburst. Obviously, it's extremely plausible that these three reporters would tell Schecter this instead of reporting on the outburst themselves, because journalists are well known for casually giving away shocking scoops to other reporters. It happens all the time. Yes, this field is one big happy scoop-sharing cooperative.

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