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John McCain's rage - a national security concern

by: Pam Spaulding

Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 06:00:00 AM EDT


Wow. Mr. Hot Head's temper is the subject of this video by Brave New Films, and the team there doesn't pull punches. Over 30 people in government, the  military, journalists and citizens have now gone on the record about their personal experiences with the volatile rages of the GOP nominee (including the backhanding of a young woman outside of his office, knocking her against the wall). Watch it:


Transcription of some comments:

Pat Buchanan: "He is in everybody's face. Did you see Thad Cochran? He said John McCain is a bellicose, red-faced angry guy who constantly explodes."

Eleanor Apocada, sister of a Vietnam POW/MIA, who had gone with a delegation to meet with Sen. McCain at his office: "We had gathered on both sides of the hallway just a short distance from McCain's office. When we saw McCain and a young woman come from his office...I then saw Jeannette Jenkins, the niece of a missing man, she stepped forward and before she could say anything, McCain backhanded her, she hit the wall. It was so loud that it resonated in the hallway."

The video also shows a letter sent to the Senate Ethics Committee by Jenkins citing "McCain was angry and hostile and he shoved me."

From Brave New PAC:

During last night's debate, John McCain said we need "a cool hand at the tiller," but McCain has proven to be a loose cannon.  He has accosted his Congressional colleagues on both sides of the aisle on everything from the federal budget to diplomatic relations.  He is known for hurling profanities rather than settling disagreements calmly.  His belligerence is legendary.  Even conservative Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi has said, "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

When someone earns the nickname "Senator Hothead," the public ought to call his character into question.  McCain's propensity to explode undermines his abilities as a rational decision maker, particularly on national security issues -- which could prove disastrous considering our country is already involved in two wars.

McCain's temper is critical to his decision-making abilities, and his character must be discussed.  As Drew Westen writes, "The political brain is an emotional brain.  It is not a dispassionate calculating machine, objectively searching for the right facts, figures and policies to make a reasoned decision."  That why it's so crucial people know the real Senator Hothead.

Why are people still sitting on the fence about whether they want to vote for this man, who clearly cannot control his temper? This is not the kind of experience this country needs.
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Easy answer, Pam
It's because of the MSM, Pam.  He laughingly and somewhat contemptuously called them his "base." For years they have glommed on to him like nerds in high school pathetically grateful when the captain of the football team or some other "star" pays them a little attention.  Hell, he barbecues for them, and they see nothing inappropriate.  And he used to give them unfettered access, as opposed to other candidates who kept some distance. The MSM has been craven in re/McCain until quite recently. The Washington Post ran a huge piece on his temperament (finally!), and the Los Angeles Times recently ran one that focused on his reckless flying before his being shot down in Vietnam. The press has turned as slowly as the proverbial worm, but they still haven't done enough honest coverage to supplant that "maverick" label" with the "maniac" one.  I think he actually enjoys unleashing the ugly sentiments in his crowds now because they match the ugly man he is inside. Unlike Obama, he is truly uncomfortable in his own skin. And I know this is my hobby horse, but he is filled to the brim with contempt.  How else explain his unwillingness to mention the middle class, or look at Obama in the first debate, or even his pick of Palin, which shows utter and insulting contempt for the political process, for his own party, for Americans, for everything? He chooses someone manifestly unqualified and then vaunts her credentials, claims over and over she knows more than anyone in the country about energy? He's really become a political grifter, willing to cheat and cozen everyone he feels superior to.  You can't pull that kind of scam unless you think the world's full of clowns and you're the ringmaster.

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

I have run into several people
who like his rage - they say it shows backbone and character.

Same thing goes for Palin's firing of people who don't agree with her.

They want tough leaders who will do what it takes to get their way.




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rage and physical assault
I'd like to know if this "backbone" they like extends to physical assault.

[ Parent ]
I'm sure they see it as "justified"





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[ Parent ]
...and trample anyone's rights while doing so.


[ Parent ]
There are two different views of rights
  • The right to work vs the right to not hire those people¹
  • The right to shelter vs the right to not house those people¹
  • The right to not have your children indoctrinated in a religion by the state vs the right to preach your religion and require prayer in the classroom
  • The right to feeling safe on your property or in your school or workplace vs the right to express yourself by burning a rainbow flag or cross, or by hanging a noose
  • The right to not be injured vs the right to slap anyone who offends you

¹(Blacks, Jews, Chinese, Blacks, Irish, Jews, Homosexuals, Germans, Japanese, Blacks, Homosexuals, Muslims, Homosexuals, Blacks...)




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Found this too
http://www.oprah.com/community...

Um- lemme ask an obvious. If there were even ONE incident of Barack Obama:

1. backhanding someone into a wall
2. calling Michelle a c*nt/trollop
3. leaving Michelle for a rich blonde
4. using profanity at fellow senators
5. joking about bombing another country
6. refusing to shake his opponent's hand
7. calling his opponent "That One" during a live televised debate
8. countless other incidences

...would we still have the OPTION of voting for him in November? Wouldn't he have been told by his own party to step away?


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From HuffPo links
found this report.

It goes along with the "Oprah Communities" link above...

According to McClatchy's report, in 1996, McCain was met in the Senate office halls by a group of family members of POW-MIAs who had been pressing him to pursue more information on their relatives.

Six people present have written statements describing what they saw. According to the accounts, McCain waved his hand to shoo away Jeannette Jenkins, whose cousin was last seen in South Vietnam in 1970, causing her to hit a wall.

As McCain continued walking, Jane Duke Gaylor, the mother of another missing serviceman, approached the senator. Gaylor, in a wheelchair equipped with portable oxygen, stretched her arms toward McCain.

"McCain stopped, glared at her, raised his left arm ready to strike her, composed himself and pushed the wheelchair away from him," according to Eleanor Apodaca, the sister of an Air Force captain missing since 1967.

McCain's staff wouldn't respond to requests for comment about specific incidents.

This from a story in 2007- yet McCain won his party's nomination???

MAVERICK= insane, physically abusive, verbally combative bully. Who clearly has never been charged for assault!!

go figure.



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Temperament and "That One"
Great discussion of it here:

http://corygraham.wordpress.co...

There are some terrific comments by people who have been called "that one" or seen it used as exactly what it is: an indication of supreme and lordly disdain.

Hey!  Maybe that's what I'll call him from now on: Senator DisDain.

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


that one is much ado about nothing
I use it in reference to some of my staff quite often - most of the time it's said with mock disdain (joking around about some of my stellar direct reports).  Occasionally I have used it in other circumstances with actual disdain.  It's all in the tone.  McCain and his supporters obviously have nothing but contempt for Obama or, frankly, anyone who disagrees with them.  Co-opting the phrase to turn it into a joke (the T-shirts, bumper stickers, etc.) is the appropriate way to deal with it.  Claiming it is racially motivated or complaining it was some horribly derisive comment is not; it's actually counter-productive.

[ Parent ]
Of course it's revealing
McCain used the term with disdain and the term itself is disdainful and depersonalizing UNLESS someone asks you to choose:

"Which do you want, this one or that one?"

You may think that part of the discussion is counter-productive, but judging by the attention his comment has received by the MSM, it's quite productive: it makes McCain look worse than he already does.  I'm all for that.

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


[ Parent ]
THIS should produce some McCain Rage --
Doomsday machine
Remember the Doomsday Machine from Dr. Stranglove?

"Over the phone, a drunken Kissoff reveals to the Soviet Ambassador that their country has installed an active Doomsday device which will automatically destroy all life on Earth if a nuclear attack were to hit the Soviet Union. The Doomsday Device is operated by a network of computers and has been conceived as the ultimate deterrent: as a safeguard, it cannot be deactivated, or it will set itself off, because its hardware and programs have been configured in such a way that an attempt at its deactivation would be recognized as sabotage.[1]

Strangelove explains the principles behind the Doomsday Device, which he says is "simple to understand... credible and convincing.""

But there are a lot of doomsday machines.  Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were doomsday machines -- once set off, they could not be reasoned with or easily stopped.  The term 'to go postal' is used when someone becomes a human Doomsday machine.

Why do people keep and 'train' pit-bulls, rottweilers and other attack dogs?  to have a doomsday machine at hand that they will (hopefully) be imune from if the animal is ever 'set off'.

I feel that there are people who will vote for McCain for the very reason that this streak of uncontrollable anger represents a Doomsday Machine.  In my life, I have known several people who have displayed this sort of instability.  They were treated with defference and respect, lest they 'go off'.  I've been on the receiving end a few times of these explosive outbursts.  It is chilling -- you realize that if you are to prevail in direct action, you better have quite an arsenal at hand when (not if) your Doomsday Machine opponent gets set off.

The respect of the world for the U.S. is in the crapper.  And it will be a disaster if McCain gets voted in.  But, I guess the electorate get what they deserve.


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