Mad Hatter McCain?

Forget his personality...

(Ok stability is something to take into account) I don't like the policies he supports,

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by: Karen in Kalifornia @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 10:29:47 AM CDT

We already knew there were reasons to oppose him...

... now we know of reasons to fear him, or at least the possibility of him being elected.

Its a scary article.  

If you want allies, you have to be an ally.

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by: dale @ Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 03:22:50 AM CDT

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A right-wing

Republican who's mentally unbalanced?!  Good golly, there's surprise.

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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by: QScribe @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 10:41:35 AM CDT

Personality is important--

--given the people who basically say, I don't care about his policies, if Clinton or Obama isn't the nominee, I will cast a protest vote for McCain.  People should understand this man much better than they do. Back in 2000, many of us here in Michigan bought the press about him being a maverick, a different kind of Republican, and even thought he might be a decent president. His problems with anger over seven decades call such an assessment into doubt. How can someone so deeply, instinctively vindictive possibly relate well with Congress, with the governors, with other foreign leaders?


"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 10:44:14 AM CDT

Had an interesting response

to the article.

It mentions McCain confronting AZ Governor Meecham, and holding a grudge against Karen Johnsons getting a job, describing it as "personal"

But Meecham WAS an embarressment to the party who opposed MLK day and was impeached for corruption.

ANd Karen Johnson, today a Republican State Senator, is a well known nut job who has conspiracy theories about 9/11 and pushes bills to allow students and teachers to carry concealed weapons to school.

If McCain doesn't like these people, it shows good judgement.

(Not that I would ever vote for McCain)

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by: tiponeill @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 12:29:24 PM CDT

Narrow or skewed vision

Tiponeill, Whoever read this and made that response didn't read carefully at all. The article does not remotely enforce the conclusion that McCain has good judgment.

If McCain had only ever yelled uncontrollably at people like those two and hated people like that, then yes indeed he would likely be a good guy, and more power to him.

The whole point of the article is that it shows he is indiscriminate and not in full control of himself--it's not whether people are good or bad, it's if people disagree with him about anything.  That's the whole point.  

And what about McCain's own opposition to MLK Day?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/...

People are defending him here based either on whim or on incomplete comprehension of the article, which admittedly is long.  So what?  It's a tribute to the Post, which I often criticize, that they sourced and researched the story so well, since it's very important.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 13:54:56 PM CDT

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rage etc

I'm sure that Sen. Obama is just as mean, nasty and full-of-rage when he thinks you won't see him.  

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by: Holly in Cincinnati @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 13:06:09 PM CDT

Yep there's a whole bunch

about Obama the public doesn't know beyond when he's giving smooth speeches in front of adoring crowds.

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by: Karen in Kalifornia @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 13:10:32 PM CDT

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Holly, more heckling?

So how can you be sure?  And how would you feel if I said the same thing about Clinton? The point is that we would both be wrong.

There is ample evidence about both Clinton and Obama in their public lives that each one of them has the emotional stability to be president.  That neither of them has an anger management issue.  Did you bother reading the article at all?  Or are you so blindly set against Obama that it doesn't matter what anyone says or does?  It's beginning to seem like the latter.

I for one do not believe that Clinton is constitutionally a bad choice for the presidency.  Just as I don't think Obama is. But McCain's 70 years of rage, from when he was a toddler, attested to even by people who like him, make him a dangerous choice.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 13:44:38 PM CDT

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Rage aside

he is more opposed to LGBT Equality than either Clinton or Obama are.


I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 17:02:01 PM CDT

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Issues aside-- (as ridiculous as that might sound!)

My point in doing a diary on this question was that there are such high numbers of people on both sides in the Democratic party claiming they would rather vote for McCain than Clinton or Obama. Well, whatever you think about either of them, neither Obama nor Clinton has ever trailed this kind of open history of vindictiveness, lack of basic emotional control, and consistent abuse of other politicians that clearly is an evil augury of what McCain might do and become with the unchecked power of the Presidency.  Both Clinton and Obama are stable human beings.  McCain is not.  Haven't we suffered enough from Bush's anger and pettiness?  Do we need Bush on steroids?  Should we be empowering someone who can't control his rage?

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 18:10:40 PM CDT

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No we should not be

Nor do I, as the mother of a soldier, want a President who looks nostalgically at the Hundred Year's War and wants to re-enact it.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 21:24:21 PM CDT

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You forget . . .

. . . she DID state that, as a rational moderate, she would vote for McCain if Obama won the nomination.

How dare you impinge her reason!  You owe her an apology!

wink, grin, nudge

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by: 'Bean @ Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 17:07:00 PM CDT

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