Update-Sen Cochran: McCain roughed up Nicaraguan (w/poll)
Wed Jul 02, 2008 at 09:01:58 AM PDT
Update I: Yesterday he became Visibly angry, I told you he is dangerous.
McCain became visibly angry when I asked him to explain how his Vietnam experience prepared him for the Presidency.
"Please," he said, recoiling back in his seat in distaste at the very question.
Sen. Cochran went into as much detail yesterday to make the point that Sen. McCain had problems with his temper but he still does. McCain’s temperament and out of control anger disqualifies him from being the Commander in Chief.
The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine," Cochran told the Globe. "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
It is very interesting that while we are talking about what Clark said or didn’t say, the truth is that McCain does not have the temperament to be Commander In Chief and everyone seems to be ignoring it. These out of control behaviors define McCain.
He showed some flash of this during one of the GOP debates. On most of them he looked visibly angry especially at Romney. I hope during any debate with McCain that the Obama campaign is prepared for this:
Notably mild-mannered Republican Sen. Thad Cochran shocked many earlier this year with comments about John McCain's volatile temper. He has since mended fences with the GOP presidential nominee.
Mccain has not and will not change from behaviors like this:
But as first reported at sunherald.com, Cochran told the Sun Herald he witnessed a confrontation between McCain and a Sandinista rebel decades ago in which McCain "got mad at the guy and he just reached over there and snatched him."
This is outrageous because when McCain and other members of a bipartisan committee of lawmakers called the Central American Negotiations Observer Group - met with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, head of the left-wing political party known as Sandinistas, about tensions in the region, McCain went berserk.
The atmosphere was tense, as the U.S. was pressing "pretty hard." Cochran noticed a disturbance at the meeting table in a room lined with armed personnel.
"McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerilla group here at this end of the table and I don't know what attracted my attention," Cochran said.
"But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him or whatever.
I don't know what he was telling him but I thought, good grief, everybody around here has got guns and we were there on a diplomatic mission. I don't know what had happened to provoke John but he obviously got mad at the guy and he just reached over there and snatched him."
Let no one fool you, McCain has not changed, here
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