AMERICAblog: Harry Reid on John McCain: "I just think he doesn't have the temperament to be president" -- and GOP Senators think that, too
2008
· 1 year ago
"John McCain is George Bush, but unstable, angry, abusive and dangerous. That's even worse than Bush."
WHAT?!! THAT IS BUSH.
It's just that Bush is faker and better at deceiving people into thinking that he's just a good 'ole boy. I'll never forget when Bush was debating Kerry and at one point Bush lunged at the moderator, Charlie Gibson. W.seemed completely moronic, VERY deranged, and unstable. He was flipping out at Charlie Gibson.... i.e. How dare you ask ME a question? And Charlie was, per usual, keeping on the kid gloves and oh so deferential to the President... What a freak Bush is and McCain has the same tendency! We gotta stop 'em!
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Does anyone remember a year or so ago the flap that went down between McCain and Obama??? I do not remember the details BUT I do remember much was said about McCain's hot temper and arrogance. I remember John Kerry ripping into McCain over this riff.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Do the google on "McCain Obama exchange letters on ethics reform." That was Feb 2006. McCain revealed himself to be a flaming asshole when challenged by what he considered to be the shoeshine boy from Illinois.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
Beyond the fact that McCain is rude in his letter, he seems to be incoherent, especially when you read Obama's response. McCain hasn't learned anything in his years in the Senate about the value of polite discourse. I.E.: be nice to everyone. You never know when you will want their votes. I wonder how much McSame drinks.
ClintonHater
· 1 year ago
That was delicious. It must kill McSame that Reid is the Senior senator from Nevada. Polls show that state is in a dead heat right now. Keep it up!
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
The polls are one thing. The voter registration is another. Because of recent efforts, there are 60,000 more Dems than Rethugs! I believe we will take Nevada this time. In 2004, northern Nevada voted 47% for Kerry which was unheard of and should have put Dems over the top. But southern Nevada, where there are more Dems, was not well organized and flopped. The man who did the organizing in northern Nevada is a friend of mine and Dems from the SF Bay Area went there to help register, canvas and get out the vote. So, everything is in place for a Nevada win.
markkram
· 1 year ago
Great work out west. I am HOPING for a 60/40 win AT LEAST I think the polls are just dead wrong right now, there is no way we can still be 50/50 in America.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Those polls now take into account Republican voter fraud to cover for it and pretend nothing is wrong, criminal and or below board. Media is crooked and so are the polling companies owned by the same right wing. As we saw in 2000 and 2004, it is nothing for the Republicans to upset an election, swinging the votes as many as 100,000 votes to their favor. In New Mexico, in one precinct, there were 50,000 voters, but the count showed 100,000 votes for Bush and 50,000 for Kerry. Although it got plenty of play in the blogs, not a squeak in the mainstream media and nothing was ever done ... results allowed to stand, nary a peep from the Yellowbellied Chicken Party sometimes known as Democratic Party or from Kerry.
ClintonHater
· 1 year ago
That was delicious. It must kill McSame that Reid is the Senior senator from Nevada. Polls show that state is in a dead heat right now. Keep it up!
tommytoonz
· 1 year ago
Great response by Senator Reid, we need EVERY response to be that direct, enough of the wishy washy "I honor McCain...", just say it straight up the guy is a hot head, unserious, cranky, mean, dim-witted on many issues and apparently can't define honor.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
this is so bizarre - the Time magazine interview where McTantrum gets pissy:
The proposed ban on same-sex marriage is trailing among California's likely voters, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Proposition 8, which would amend the state Constitution, was favored by 40 percent and opposed by 54 percent of those polled.
markkram
· 1 year ago
I have heard from those who have actually worked with Obama, both R's and D's in IL state and in Congress that he has a great ability to bring calm to a meeting set an agenda and lead the discussion in a unique manner that actually achieves results, and this was also noted by Caroline Kennedy the other day about the vetting process. So whoever wants to listen to bs from other's that may not even been able to work with Obama.. go ahead but your source may be WRONG.
jimnotjimmy
· 1 year ago
McCain’s “temper” – code for “mental instability” – has been remarked upon by any number of republicans: John Cornyn, Orren Hatch, Bill Bennett, James Dobson, Domenici ('I decided I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger,' Domenici told Newsweek in 2000." [AP, 2/16/08]) See http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2008/08/angry-m... Meanwhile, Democrats prate on about how McCain is a good man, my friend, a war hero. I’ve been deeply disappointed with Reid for allowing the Republicans to obstruct legislation by merely threatening to filibuster, rather than forcing them to stand up in front of the American public yammering away in an actual filibuster; but after these remarks by Reid about McCain’s mental instability, I gotta say, “Thank you, Senator, for telling the truth, instead of the politic but destructive lie.”
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Meanwhile, Democrats prate on about how McCain is a good man, my friend, a war hero.
What we have been forgetting lately is that McCain won because all the other candidates did themselves in, one way or another. Thompson just flamed out, Guiliani's past caught up with him. Romney couldn't stay on message or live down his previous Massachusetts positions.
Huckabee came the closest but he just didn't have the stature. It was McCain by default. No wonder the Repubs are staying home.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Going to be a lot of dead Republicans in the voting booths who suffocated while holding their noses to vote for McCain. Wouldn't surprise me at all if Hillary and Bill were among those found suffocated in the voting booths.
devis1
· 1 year ago
LOL!!
GrMtGirl
· 1 year ago
This is one election when each and every voter needs to take the time, truly look at the "big picture", forget Party and vote for what is best for America. The results will dictate our future for 4 long years. America cannot survive another 4 years of the same . . . .
leo
· 1 year ago
So apparently the only 'party unity' on the Republican side is a shared desire to flee the sinking ship.
Hope the press picks up on this sometime soon -- like before 11/4.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
We can write letters to our local newspapers and quote the L.V. Sun article.
jcgraham77
· 1 year ago
We need to approach the comfor level a lot of Americans have with McCain. Many people are going to vote for him simply because he doesn't seem too threatning to their lifestyle--he is an old white man. They are used to it. We need to make them realize that they voted for an old white man last time and now we are nearing bankruptcy and a collapse of the middle class along with war war war. Being comfortable with your vote isn't always a good thing. Pushing yourself to explore something different than what you are used to is. A new slogan should be "Give Change a Chance".
econprofes
· 1 year ago
If anybody saw McCain in the Saddleback forum, just about every answer he gave made reference to Vietnam or Iraq. If you study McCain's life he was an under achiever who never lived up to his daddy’s expectations. You can look at our current President and see what happens when we have a President who try’s to prove something to his father.
EmGD
· 1 year ago
Know nothings with hair trigger tempers and a penchant for incoherent belligerent statements with no thought for repercussions shouldn't be President? Well wax my back, now I've heard everything. Next you'll be saying this Bush guy might not have been a good President.
This is the kind of thing more visible Dems need to say, precisely to provoke a blowup...take a leaf out of Rove's book. Take a strength (McCain was a tortured POW) and turn it into a liability.
Hannah
· 1 year ago
Last line of article: Bill Riggs, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said, "Barack Obama's own running mate knows he's not qualified to be commander in chief." ~~~~ Changing the subject as usual.
Obama may not have the experience that John McCain has, but Obama DOES HAVE the right temperament: calm, listens to all sides, open-minded, measured. And the smarts. That is why I trust him to be president.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
There is the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. McCain's experience left him an angry, mean, black-and-white-thinker.
jr
· 1 year ago
"John McCain was a POW. You hate America if you say anything bad about him"-Tom Brokaw
devlzadvocate
· 1 year ago
I believe this is Reid's attempt to say McCain has pre-senile dementia. Joe pointed out his tendency to anger, abuse and instability which are traits of dementia.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
It certainly might be the onset of dementia. It might also be too much booze.
canuck55
· 1 year ago
Remember the book, "Bush on the Couch", essentially a psychoanalysis of W? It would be fascinating for a psychiatrist to write a magazine article (or blog post) about the mind of McCain. PTSD, dementia, depression, misogyny, etc. - lots a potentially interesting diagnoses and their impact upon the safety and security of the country and the world.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
Interesting discussion, All. It's 100 degrees here in Wine Country (could be hard on the cabernets and zins), so I am signing off and turning off my computer until tonight or tomorrow. I hope you will continue enlightening.
AngryWriteMail
· 1 year ago
Hi AmericanBlog, As a social and usually political conservative, I'd like to occasionally share what we conservatives REALLY believe. Not what you've been told by the likes of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi - propaganda that you yourselves could easily debunk - but it requires a memory of current events that stretches beyond last Tuesday.
QUESTION: Why didn't political conservatives support John McCain during the primary?
ANSWER: He has too often partnered with Democrats on bills that don't reflect conservative values. His views are often too liberal for us. NOT because he's got a temper! Hillary & Bill Clinton have tempers.
You guys are now slamming the very John McCain you embraced with open arms only two years ago, and who Joe Biden offered to run with in 2008. McCain is by far the best Republican friend the Dems have. He is certainly a man of integrity, who has never thrown in with the Republican vote if it violated his core values. And to link him with George W. Bush, as the DNC has been doing all week - is to us, laughable!
Harry Reid: "John McCain has voted with George Bush 90% of the time". Well, Big Deal, Harry. The Democrats have voted 90% with John McCain. Why? Because the vast majority of votes are minor non-pasrtisan issues, such as honoring an American veteran, naming a national park, or declaring it National Pickle Week. So, of course they are going to be in agreement...and Harry Reid knows this - but he hopes YOU don't figure it out.
Isn't it obvious to any of you that these recent DNC slams on McCain don't jibe with the loving praise they piled on him right up until he chose to run for president as a Republican? Like I said, it requires a memory of current events that stretches beyond last Tuesday.
All Comments
WHAT?!! THAT IS BUSH.
It's just that Bush is faker and better at deceiving people into thinking that he's just a good 'ole boy. I'll never forget when Bush was debating Kerry and at one point Bush lunged at the moderator, Charlie Gibson. W.seemed completely moronic, VERY deranged, and unstable. He was flipping out at Charlie Gibson.... i.e. How dare you ask ME a question? And Charlie was, per usual, keeping on the kid gloves and oh so deferential to the President...
What a freak Bush is and McCain has the same tendency!
We gotta stop 'em!
McCain hasn't learned anything in his years in the Senate about the value of polite discourse. I.E.: be nice to everyone. You never know when you will want their votes.
I wonder how much McSame drinks.
I believe we will take Nevada this time.
In 2004, northern Nevada voted 47% for Kerry which was unheard of and should have put Dems over the top. But southern Nevada, where there are more Dems, was not well organized and flopped.
The man who did the organizing in northern Nevada is a friend of mine and Dems from the SF Bay Area went there to help register, canvas and get out the vote. So, everything is in place for a Nevada win.
I am HOPING for a 60/40 win AT LEAST I think the polls are just dead wrong right now, there is no way we can still be 50/50 in America.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,859...
he's gonna go nuke-yaler any day now.
The proposed ban on same-sex marriage is trailing among California's likely voters, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Proposition 8, which would amend the state Constitution, was favored by 40 percent and opposed by 54 percent of those polled.
See http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2008/08/angry-m...
Meanwhile, Democrats prate on about how McCain is a good man, my friend, a war hero.
I’ve been deeply disappointed with Reid for allowing the Republicans to obstruct legislation by merely threatening to filibuster, rather than forcing them to stand up in front of the American public yammering away in an actual filibuster; but after these remarks by Reid about McCain’s mental instability, I gotta say, “Thank you, Senator, for telling the truth, instead of the politic but destructive lie.”
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Huckabee came the closest but he just didn't have the stature. It was McCain by default. No wonder the Repubs are staying home.
Hope the press picks up on this sometime soon -- like before 11/4.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
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Changing the subject as usual.
Obama may not have the experience that John McCain has, but Obama DOES HAVE the right temperament: calm, listens to all sides, open-minded, measured. And the smarts. That is why I trust him to be president.
It's 100 degrees here in Wine Country (could be hard on the cabernets and zins), so I am signing off and turning off my computer until tonight or tomorrow.
I hope you will continue enlightening.
As a social and usually political conservative, I'd like to occasionally share what we conservatives REALLY believe. Not what you've been told by the likes of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi - propaganda that you yourselves could easily debunk - but it requires a memory of current events that stretches beyond last Tuesday.
QUESTION: Why didn't political conservatives support John McCain during the primary?
ANSWER: He has too often partnered with Democrats on bills that don't reflect conservative values. His views are often too liberal for us. NOT because he's got a temper! Hillary & Bill Clinton have tempers.
You guys are now slamming the very John McCain you embraced with open arms only two years ago, and who Joe Biden offered to run with in 2008. McCain is by far the best Republican friend the Dems have. He is certainly a man of integrity, who has never thrown in with the Republican vote if it violated his core values. And to link him with George W. Bush, as the DNC has been doing all week - is to us, laughable!
Harry Reid: "John McCain has voted with George Bush 90% of the time". Well, Big Deal, Harry. The Democrats have voted 90% with John McCain. Why? Because the vast majority of votes are minor non-pasrtisan issues, such as honoring an American veteran, naming a national park, or declaring it National Pickle Week. So, of course they are going to be in agreement...and Harry Reid knows this - but he hopes YOU don't figure it out.
Isn't it obvious to any of you that these recent DNC slams on McCain don't jibe with the loving praise they piled on him right up until he chose to run for president as a Republican? Like I said, it requires a memory of current events that stretches beyond last Tuesday.