DISQUS

AMERICAblog: Wash. Post confirms 2006 McCain-Renzi battle first reported in Cliff Schecter's book while McCain says his temper problems ended long ago

  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Insane McCain: Submediocre-Rich-Boy 2.0
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    O/T
    'Vast right-wing conspiracy' leader's paper backs Clinton

    PHILADELPHIA - Could it be the "vast right wing conspiracy" is having second thoughts? Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Sunday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whose owner and publisher, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, personally funded many of the investigations that led to President Clinton's impeachment in 1998.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080420/ap_on_el_pr...

    I can't wait for her to reject and denounce this endorsement.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Wonder if McCain is on valium for his behavioral problems?
  • Wisconsin Liberal · 1 year ago
    I am not a McCain man, but what do you mean by "temper" , there are many different types of temper, or is it something to be afraid of? So before we go and do what the media has said about Obama's use of the word "bitter", we had better be careful.

    We "liberals" had better use the facts of what he has said he wants to do like end employer sponsored healthcare insurance, or privatizing Social Security, etc. Or it could backfire.

    Remember, this is the Democrats election to lose. Not that they aren't trying.
  • Webster · 1 year ago
    I said it way back when the Corporate MSM forced Edwards out of the race and I'll say it again: The CorpMSM will in no way allow anyone into the White House who is not white, rich, and male. They want to maintain the $tatu$ quo, and anyone who even resembles a progressive who might interfere with their business-as-usual will not become president if they have anything to say about it--and unfortunately, they have too much to say about it.

    As I said then as well: Mark my words.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Not only a 'temper' problem.....but a 'lying' problem as well.

    MoreWar McCain = More Lies
  • Webster · 1 year ago
    I said it way back when the Corporate MSM forced Edwards out of the race and I'll say it again: The CorpMSM will in no way allow anyone into the White House who is not white, rich, and male. They want to maintain the $tatu$ quo, and anyone who even resembles a progressive who might interfere with their business-as-usual will not become president if they have anything to say about it--and unfortunately, they have too much to say about it.

    As I said then as well: Mark my words.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    OT

    Too funny:

    Obama: Clinton Throwing "The China" At Me

    "You know over the last several weeks since she fell behind, she's resorted to what's called 'kitchen sink' strategies," Obama said, per ABC News' Sunlen Miller.

    "She's got the kitchen sink flying, and the china flying, and the, you know, the buffet is coming at me."

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/20/obama-...
  • Webster · 1 year ago
    Sorry, stupid "edit" thingie...
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    Grandma: Right again!!
    "Not only a 'temper' problem.....but a 'lying' problem as well.
    MoreWar McCain = More Lies"

    How can you tell when McCain is lying? His lips move!

    The lies dribble out of his mouth just as excrement from the anus of a person with diarrhea. Constant and never-ending. Everything about him is a lie.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    LOL...

    Why didn't George ask McCain...why he wasn't wearing a flag pin today?

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  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Wanna bet George didn't ask McCain today because George KNEW McCain would of done that scene we have all seen on the SIMPSONs
    Homer Simpson with his 2 hands strangles Bart around the neck.
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  • devis1 · 1 year ago
    I recorded 'This week..' and just finished watching it. For some reason, my local ABC station, WVEC in Norfolk, VA had their station ID full screen and then finally cut into the show at the 10 minute mark. They cut out again while McCain was in mid sentence at around 25 minute mark. Very annoying. McCain did not look good. This is a Navy Town. Sure it was just the feed problems--guess they could have used Hillary this AM.
  • shanobama · 1 year ago
    The McHales Navy re-run crowd does NOT have a problem with McNasty. They think this behaviour is the real he-man American iconic of male manliness.

    Good, they say, when this is pointed out. Battering is always a better tactic for them than diplomacy, hashing out the issues, coming to consensus. All part of the authoritarian mindset. Wish they would attach themselves to a better mythic stereotype.

    The big bad American daddy one is not working for me or for the world stage.
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    McCain is a neocon. All neocons are crazy. Period.



  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    35,000 people to see Obama Friday night in Philly.

    They won't be able to get a crowd above 5,000 for McCain. That's why McCain will showing up at NASCAR events all summer long. (just my guess)
    And you know he'll be in Orange County every other week....private events...no cameras.
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    Bob Schieffer: Flags pins are no substitute for true patriotism.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-4elxJouBY

  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Bill, Hillary, Chelsea: Clintons' closing act

    The Clinton family will make its closing argument to voters in Pennsylvania by sharing the same stage tomorrow night in Philadelphia, the first time in the six-week campaign that the three have appeared together.

    The event will take place at the University of Pennsylvania, Palestra, at 8 p.m.

    The rally is sure to draw a sizable crowd, and the Clinton camp will no doubt want to counter the estimated 35,000-crowd that showed up for Obama's event in Philadelphia Friday night.

    http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...
  • Hack · 1 year ago
    Yeah...Right.
    In the past. Uh-huh.

    So's my ex-wife problem.
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    The conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review endorses Senator Clinton. That's says it all, eh? Channelling Rush Limbaugh
    http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/...

  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Good, they say, when this is pointed out. Battering is always a better tactic for them than diplomacy, hashing out the issues, coming to consensus. All part of the authoritarian mindset. Wish they would attach themselves to a better mythic stereotype.

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    Agree.

    I made the mistake of showing a list of McCrazy's blow ups to a salesman in our office. Of course, that was the first time he saw any redeeming value in McCrazy.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    I knew a lot of naval people when I was very young (I married one) back in the late 50s, early 60s. The really gungho types were what we called "rude, crude, blued and tattooed." McCrazy might have developed a certain veneer of respectability in his public persona, but at heart, we all know how he is--he's going to stretch those "glory days" of his youth into something sinister in his old age. He's nothing but an overaged thug, but a coward when it comes to criticism.

    Don't expect any from the MSM.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    You got it right, he's crazy.

    The thing is, he's one of thousands of veterans of the Vietnamese civil war who are crazy. There's one them on every other block in suburbia, there's black and white MIA flags flying from hovels in the woods and junkyard homes everywhere in rural America. They're desperately unhappy victim veterans, they act out, they need help, they are ignored. The best we offer McCain is to treat him as a joke but the sad, even pathetic fact is, he's ignored by the Veteran Hospital system that should have taken care of him and his fellow Victim Veterans years ago. He needs meds, he needs care, he needs therapy. Instead, because of his family connections and his war prisoner presitige and his lovely and wealthy wife of few years, he's stumping the country as if he was a real candidate. The Republicans have much to atone for on many fronts but foregrounding a crazed veteran off his meds is one of the nastiest.
    Rant ends.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    CRAZY AS A BEDBUG and A TOTAL FRAUD FROM A TO Z!!!
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    You just know that some military head-shrinker circa 1974 told McCain to get control of his rage against another person by addressing him as "my friend." Like that little trick worked...
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    He seems to suffer from PTSD. He needs counseling.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Vietnam didn't make him an uncontrolled rageaholic; by his own admission Baby McCain had to be thrown into tubs of ice water when his baby body seized up in anger. The McCains had to turn their bathrooms into little infant Snake Pits, with the baby-sized strait-jacket kept hanging in the closet next to the bunny suits and overalls.
  • nsr · 1 year ago
    The "fist of fury" anecdote in that WA Post story reminds me of Captain Queeg rolling the balls around in his hand.
  • nsr · 1 year ago
    John McQueeg: "Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action."
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "daddy loves us"-cable news anchors on their 12th trip to the emergency room
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    Wisconsin Liberal,

    Different types of temper? Well yeah, sure, but McCain's type, the irrational, foaming at the mouth type, are well documented. So no need to be "careful."

    OT:

    For those who may be interested, on the NYT: Pentagon and White House fed... thread I linked two solid sources that more than suggests Obama has taken a very good reading of the direction the country wants to go: 2008: A Sea-Change Election and The Decline of Conservatism.

    And I'm one of the many who thinks we have the perfect candidate to take us there.

    Please Pennsylvania!