Former senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican, expresses worries about McCain: "His temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, it should disqualify him."
The Obama camp should ride this issue to November 04th because the real qualification to for the office McCain is seeking is "Temperament" and McCain does not have it.
harry Reids agree:
Harry Reid on John McCain: "I just think he doesn't have the temperament to be president" -- and and GOP Senators think that, too
Cochran:
"The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine," Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), also a senior member of the Appropriations panel, told the Boston Globe recently. "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
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In his first run for the presidency in 2000, McCain's temperament became an issue as campaign aides to George W. Bush questioned whether the senator was a suitable occupant for the Oval Office.
Others
McCain's run-ins with other Republican senators are legendary. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa said in an interview that he was so upset by a McCain tirade that he didn't speak to him for two years
While Cochran disagrees with McCain about cutting farm programs, he said his concern about McCain is "not about subsidies" but temperament. Cochran said that he has known the McCain family from the days when they lived in Mississippi and got to know McCain well in the 1970s when Cochran served in the US House and McCain served as a naval liaison in Congress. He said he has seen McCain's temper fly too often in committee hearings or on the Senate floor,.
John Cornyn:
During the heated exchange that followed when Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas accused McCain of "parachuting" in on the negotiations, McCain screamed "Fuck you!" at Cornyn, according to news reports at the time.