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No, it is not "ageism."
If we said anyone 72 years old was too old, that would be wrong.
But someone as unbalanced as McCain IS TOO OLD.
Take the fight to them. Don't let them bring it to you. - Harry S Truman
by jgoodfri on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:04:42 PM PDT
Apparently, according to a McCain aide, we can't. But even Republican senators have been taped saying they think McCain is too mentally unbalanced to be president because of his anger. Salter can't imagine that won't come up in a campaign.
Hanoi didn't break John McCain, but Washington did.
by Dallasdoc on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:08:46 PM PDT
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From the Boston Globe. It cites famous quotes and run-ins with Thad Cochran, Chuck Grassley and John Cornyn. Bob Smith is another well-known victim of McCain's temper.
For McCain's aide to call an article on his temper not credible is outright lying of an undeniable degree.
by Dallasdoc on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:15:23 PM PDT
Wikipedia on Leahy:
His story on the life of a paroled child murderer spared execution in the early '70s because of a Supreme Court decision that briefly rendered the death penalty unconstitutional won the Washington D.C. Society of Professional Journalists’ best feature story award.
In 2006, his Washington Post Magazine story about a single mother from Massachusetts who took her two young children across the country to meet their father – a sperm donor known to the woman for years only as Donor 929 – won honors from the Society of Professional Journalists as the best magazine story in the country for that year.
His sports work has been selected four times for The Best American Sports Writing anthologies, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, which annually features the 25 best sports stories in the nation.
by lawprofessor on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 05:02:25 PM PDT
... as reported in Cliff Schecter's new book, "The Real McCain". Fox News actually asked McCain about it and he gave one of those non-denial denials, then went on to say that he's good friends with Renzi (do you really want to go there, John?).
He also blew up at a German foreign minister. Both this and the Renzi incident were in 2006.
It's not just one or two stories, it's a pattern of bad behavior over a long period of time. With the pressures of campaigning I wouldn't be surprised that it will happen again and ruin his candidacy but we certainly can't rely on that happening.
"[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose." --Alan Greenspan
by lanshark on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 05:10:36 PM PDT
I recall talking about this a while back with a couple of guys, both of them young, conservative-leaning academics disillusioned with Bushism. One, a McCain backer, absolutely would not touch Giuliani because "he's a fascist." The other, a Giuliani backer, was fearful of McCain's "finger on the button."
So aside from the fact that these two guys were both right, McCain's temper is a widely held concern.
Of course you could always just ask Senator Cochran.
by decisivemoment on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:26:58 PM PDT
... that both are safely back within the fold right now?
by Dallasdoc on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:31:10 PM PDT
After months of hating him as much as we hate Lieberman.
"Some of you may decide that my FISA position is a deal breaker. That's ok." - Barack Obama
by Joe Beese on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:33:32 PM PDT
That give me hope that even the Democratic circular firing squad will eventually circle the wagons, instead. And point the guns outward.
"The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function." -- Edward Teller
by lgmcp on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 05:07:38 PM PDT
wide narrow
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