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Title: McCain Called His Wife A C**t and a Trollop
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Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/8/17456/91972/887/492360
Published: Apr 8, 2008
Author: "davefromqueens"
Post Date: 2008-04-08 18:50:11 by aristeides
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Comments: 15
McCain Called His Wife A C**t and a Trollop by davefromqueens [Subscribe] A new book by Cliff Schechter has the inside scoop on John McCain. And if you want to know why John McCain was called "McNasty" in high school, read this. This event was witnessed by 3 reporters and two aides of John McCain, Doug Cole and Wes Gullett. Besides being a complete asshole, which John McNasty is, the issues here are John McCain's temperament and his mental sanity. Senator McNasty has referred to Republican colleagues as follows. He told Senator Cornyn "F-ck you," said to Senator Grassley "I'm calling you a f--king jerk" and once told Senator Domenici, "Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this." Perhaps this is why Senator Cochan, right wing Mississippi Republican once said, "The idea of John McCain as GOP nominee sends a chill down my spine." If a Democrat acted the way John McCain has acted, the press would be calling him mentally unstable, a lunatic, angry, extreme, and unfit for public office. The press would claim that the person should check into a mental hospital. In John McCain, the Republicans have nominated a 71 year old psycho who calls his wife a cunt and a trollop. This is the same John McCain who refers to Asians as "gooks" and says "I hate the gooks." John McCain, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo.
Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 02:17:10 PM PDT At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.
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#1. To: aristeides (#0)
I wonder how much of these fights their children hear.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
Well then, given the deplorable state of things, he's obviously the best candidate to represent the criminals who run this country.
"Hello Rothschild's cattle!" ~ Deek Jackson
He must not be planning to have any of those if he makes it to the WH.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
Don't worry, they will. It's not the proper time.
The U.S. Constitution is no impediment to our form of government.--PJ O'Rourke
That was in January to the Boston Globe. Cochran went on say, "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me." Those personality problems probably also entered into McCain not making admiral. Hopefully the book looks into that.
Just one good very public temper tantrum before November.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
This same personal conduct got Bill C elected twice.
I will grant you that, let's say that there's 10% about Hillary Clinton that we don't know yet, I will grant you that, but I would say there's also about 50% about Barack Obama that we don't know yet," Ed Rendell said.
Speaking of Bill Clinton, Leno had a good joke last night: "Did you see the story that scientists have now mixed human and cow DNA? Well, didn't Bill Clinton do that?" I don't remember Bill's temper getting any publicity until after the 1992 election, when he blew up at an aide at a funeral that got caught on camera. He was Mr. "I feel your pain" before that.
Sounds like someone who spent some time in Viet Nam during the late unpleasantness! BFD IMO.
McCain is a hot-headed sociopath. He would be bush on steroids. He wants to go to war with everybody. This moron shouldn't even be in politics. Those of us who’ve known John McCain since he began his Arizona political career made two mistakes. First, overestimating the Washington media’s willingness to look beyond a politician’s self-serving façade. Second, underestimating McCain’s skill in camouflaging his bullyboy ways and reincarnating himself as a lovable maverick glowing with political virtue. If McCain becomes President, America will have more than a prickly president with a low boiling point. He carries grudges, fibs rather than admits mistakes, cannot endure criticism, threatens revenge, controls by fear, is consumed with self-importance. Shifting blame also is second nature. It was vintage McCain who exploded when The Arizona Republic questioned whether the man dubbed "Senator Hothead" in Washington was fit to handle presidential powers. Instead of conceding what’s common knowledge, McCain erupted into denial, blaming a newspaper vendetta (rubbish!) and George W. Bush for "orchestrating" the criticism (more rubbish!). McCain’s artfully contrived persona of a high-minded champion of political virtue works: Washington reporters blindly lionize McCain. But venerable Washington Post columnist David Broder warned on NBC’s "Meet the Press": "After the experience we all had with President Clinton, I’m not inclined to discount the view of home state reporters and journalists who have covered a candidate over the years," meaning McCain. But except for Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson who spent several weeks digging into McCain’s Arizona behavior and reporting his dark side, Washington reporters avoid disturbing their "hero" perception of McCain. ABC’s 20/20 almost gave the nation a clearer snapshot. Sam Donaldson taped an interview with Amy Silverman, of The Phoenix New Times, regarded as Arizona journalism’s expert on McCain. But the segment was canceled the night before airing, fueling speculation that McCain’s powerful Senate Commerce Committee’s oversight of broadcasting makes TV wary of offending him. As an early McCain acquaintance and now a former friend, I find him to be a man of obsessive ambitions with self-destructive petty impulses. McCain admits to a lifelong thin skin: as an infant, he held his breath until he was unconscious when angry. In Washington, he’s resorted to physical pushing and shoving of colleagues when irritated. When feeling inferior, McCain belittles: he snidely said, for example, that he slept better knowing that George W. Bush guarded the Texas border as a pilot in the National Guard. When he explodes, McCain is quick to threaten, "I’ll destroy you!" After McCain settled in Arizona with his young second wife, a millionairess, he asked me at dinner for help with a political career. As editorial page editor of The Arizona Republic, and later publisher, I demurred. We socialized, however, including dinners in his home, and even once discussed writing a book. But our friendship was shattered by a story and editorial exposing McCain as a liar. He’d boasted to me and my wife over lunch in Washington that he planted complex questions with the chairman of the Senate Interior Committee to sabotage testimony of Arizona’s Gov. Rose Mofford, a Democrat, about the Central Arizona Project, which delivers Colorado River water to Arizona urban areas. When reporters later asked McCain about planted questions, he feigned insult and denied any dirty trick. I informed editors in Phoenix of the deceit. Within hours of a story and an editorial appearing, McCain was in meltdown, shrieking on the phone,"I know, you’re out to get me!" Several years later, McCain admitted the dirty trick and apologized to Mofford, who was then out of office. More: * When NBC refused to support his TV rating system, McCain wrote NBC president Robert Wright threatening to work to have the FCC lift NBC licenses of locally owned stations. * When Barbara Barrett, wife of Intel CEO Dr. Craig Barrett, ran against McCain’s protégé, Arizona Gov. J. Fife Symington III, McCain offered to buy her out of the 1994 GOP primary. Barrett refused. Furious, McCain threatened revenge, which materialized only in minor ways. * Barrett lost, but Symington later was forced out of office after being convicted on seven counts of fraud. Barrett, meanwhile, continues a successful international law practice and serves on major corporate boards. * Maricopa County (Phoenix) schools superintendent Sandra Dowling, a Republican, refused McCain’s demand to abandon support of Barrett. Dowling told Morley Safer during a "60 Minutes" interview about Arizona politics that McCain exploded and threatened to "destroy" her. Thereafter, her son lost his appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, where McCain sits as an ex-oficio member of the Board of Visitors. McCain denied any connection. * One of my Arizona neighbors, Dianne Smith, wrote McCain protesting his criticism of Anita Hill in confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. A widow then in her 60s, Ms. Smith was flabbergasted when McCain phoned her, shouting at her for "questioning my integrity." * He recruits Republicans to run against Arizona GOP officeholders whom he considers insufficiently loyal to him. McCain’s candidates inevitably lose. * Upset about coverage in The Phoenix New Times by Amy Silverman, McCain phoned her father, Richard Silverman, general manager of the Arizona water-electricity utility Salt River Project to complain. McCain’s intent seemed clear—using muscle on the federally chartered SRP in hopes Silverman would pressure his daughter to cease. * Although McCain promised Arizona voters that "I’ve never tried to exploit my Vietnam service to my country because it would be totally inappropriate," his presidential campaign is built on his POW years. * While he moralizes about corrupt corporate money, McCain unabashedly rakes in tens of thousands of dollars from Washington lobbyists plus asking corporations for their jets for campaigning. A lobbyist told Newsweek: "He (McCain) sees no connection between twisting our arms for money and then talking about how corrupt the system is." * As he lectured about campaign finance corruption, McCain’s handpicked candidate for Arizona attorney general, state Sen. John Kaites, was being investigated for violating Arizona’s campaign finance law. * McCain attacks tobacco addiction, but ignores alcohol addiction. No surprise: his wife’s fortune stems from the family beer and wine distributorship, Arizona’s largest. * While serving Arizona’s First Congressional District, McCain lived in a modest townhouse in suburban Mesa. Impatient for bigger things, he took over a lavish home owned by his wife’s father in a pricey Phoenix neighborhood 25 miles away. Papers taken out for renovations were in the name of "Smith." McCain denied deceiving voters, and blamed others—architects—for using "Smith." * McCain’s friendship with master swindler Charles Keating wasn’t his only misjudgment in friends. * McCain’s Arizona protégé, Gov. Fife Symington, claimed to be a successful tycoon. In fact, he was bankrupt, later convicted on seven counts of fraud and forced to resign. McCain’s wife was a front row regular at Symington’s criminal trial in Phoenix. McCain still calls Symington "my friend." * McCain picked my publisher predecessor, Duke Tully, to be godfather of his first child. Tully boasted he was an Air Force hero of the Korean and Vietnam wars—but ultimately was exposed as a phony who never served in the military. McCain says he considers Tully "my friend." * McCain is no friend of free speech. He favors the "flag desecration amendment" that would criminalize "abuse" of Old Glory, and the number of news reporters he’s threatened to have fired because of stories he dislikes would staff a large newspaper. * McCain bullied Arizona legislators into creating a Republican-only presidential 1996 primary to benefit Sen. Phil Gramm at a cost of more than $2 million to all taxpayers. Gramm pulled out, and never showed up for the Arizona election. * A person who was there tells how McCain reacted when a delegation went to his Senate office in 1991 to discuss liberalizing flight duties for women in military aviation. After greeting them with "Hi, honey, Hi sweetie," McCain launched into an angry diatribe, disparaging the women as "a bunch of Pat Schroeders"—the Colorado Democrat known for championing feminist causes. Although he’s on his best behavior now, the campaigning McCain is not recognizable to Arizonans who know his real persona. For Those Who Don't Know McStrange Sen. John McCain’s smirky, sanctimonious, don’t-you-realize-who-I-am debate performance Jan. 30 pretty much nutshells why he never should be elected president. Despite a strong showing on Super Tuesday, he is not qualified to lead the United States at this crucial time in our history. His debate demeanor exemplified the negatives I came to know in five years as national editor at The Arizona Republic, the largest daily newspaper in his home state. Can you imagine how his egotistical, condescending behavior would play with world leaders, not to mention a (presumably) Democrat-controlled Congress? While Americans consistently say the economy is a top concern, McCain doesn’t have a detailed economic plan, except to say he’d lower taxes, and would appoint former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan to head a review of the country’s tax code, “whether he is alive or dead, it doesn’t matter,” according to The Washington Post. “If he’s dead, we’ll prop him up and put dark glasses on him, like in ‘Weekend at Bernie’s.’ ” Ha. Ha. Ha. He jokes while the country heads to the poorhouse. McCain’s Johnny-one-note focus on terrorism and Iraq brings to mind the Cold War fear-mongering of the middle of the 20th century, not the informed and innovative approach needed on national security issues and foreign affairs from the leader of the free world in the 21st century. Despite hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives spent, McCain opposes any withdrawal date in Iraq. “Senator [Barack] Obama and Senator [Hillary] Clinton want to surrender,” McCain said last Saturday, campaigning in the South. “They want to wave the white flag. They want to set a date for withdrawal. My friends, that means surrender and I will never surrender as president of the United States,” McCain said, according to an Associated Press report. People want solutions, not glibness. McCain, a survivor of five-and-a-half years in the “Hanoi Hilton,” should know better. Time and again on the campaign trail he emphasizes he knows “how to lead.” Where’s the evidence? McCain takes the road of expediency if he thinks it will garner him votes, first opposing Bush’s tax cuts, now saying they should be permanent. He favored a bill allowing undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship, but now hardly mentions the “i” word because it doesn’t play well to the conservatives he now is pandering to. The McCain I know is a short-tempered bully who would brook no criticism of his goals or means, who routinely dismissed or ignored legitimate inquiries from Republic reporters, and who felt no compunction about whining to the publisher over any perceived slight. In 2006, McCain’s office flipped over a Republic website story on the senator’s infamous temper. In response, McCain’s then-chief campaign strategist told the newspaper’s Washington reporter that he was “off the bus” if McCain ran for president. Other national media outlets ran temper stories, but their reporters were not preemptively dismissed from the campaign. Most veteran politicians (McCain is in his fourth Senate term and was a congressman before that) understand if they have a problem, they talk to the reporter and don’t go to the publisher or make threats. So it was galling in the debate when McCain said he’d “guarantee” the Republic would endorse him. (It did.) I keep wondering when the real McCain will surface. But I fear he’ll fool voters all the way to the White House. Since his quixotic run for president in 2000, McCain has fancied himself a national figure, and the national media have fed the image, consistently labeling him a “maverick.” He plays the role to the hilt. But what has Arizona’s senior senator done for his home state? Not much on such issues as education, health-care reform, immigration and the environment. Arizona’s housing-fueled economy now is depressed because of the subprime mortgage mess. But McCain did not seize a leadership role to fix the problem. In the debate he said, “I think that there’s some greedy people on Wall Street that perhaps need to be punished.” After years of ignoring the border, McCain in recent years got on the bandwagon for comprehensive immigration reform. The failed Senate bill McCain supported last year would have allowed undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. But during the Jan. 30 debate, he sidestepped a question on whether he now would vote for the bill, saying Americans are most concerned about border security and that’s his priority. Courtship of the far right? Certainly. A demonstration of conviction and leadership? No way. The senator has used his home state as a bully pulpit for his national aspirations. If he can’t even represent his own state, there is no reason to think he would do any better handling the exponentially more complex job of president of all the states.
Incredible!! Now I can finally see what's been buggin' me about the current plate of Candidates for Prez. Hillary is playin' both sides! Hillary is McCain in drag!
oh boy. the man seems to me very unintelligent. another bush. i am stunned that he's the GOP nominee.
laughing...
Well, they didn't want Ron Paul so they took the best of what was left I guess LOL.
#2. To: aristeides (#0)
McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day.
#3. To: angle (#2)
McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day.
#4. To: aristeides (#0)
If a Democrat acted the way John McCain has acted, the press would be calling him mentally unstable, a lunatic, angry, extreme, and unfit for public office.
#5. To: aristeides (#0)
Senator Cochan, right wing Mississippi Republican once said, "The idea of John McCain as GOP nominee sends a chill down my spine."
I've already said too much.
#6. To: MUDDOG (#5)
#7. To: MUDDOG (#5)
#8. To: aristeides (#0)
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS." ~ Mahatma Ghandi
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#7)
I've already said too much.
#10. To: aristeides (#0)
This is the same John McCain who refers to Asians as "gooks" and says "I hate the gooks."
#11. To: aristeides (#0)
#12. To: bush_is_a_moonie, robin, aristeides, angle, Deacon Benjamin, MUDDOG, Jethro Tull, wudidiz and the Gang (#11)
If McCain becomes President, America will have more than a prickly president with a low boiling point. He carries grudges, fibs rather than admits mistakes, cannot endure criticism, threatens revenge, controls by fear, is consumed with self-importance.
#13. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#11)
While Americans consistently say the economy is a top concern, McCain doesn’t have a detailed economic plan, except to say he’d lower taxes, and would appoint former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan to head a review of the country’s tax code, “whether he is alive or dead, it doesn’t matter,” according to The Washington Post. “If he’s dead, we’ll prop him up and put dark glasses on him, like in ‘Weekend at Bernie’s.’ ”
#14. To: SCPO Blackshoe Retired (#12)
Hillary is playin' both sides! Hillary is McCain in drag!
#15. To: christine (#13)
i am stunned that he's the GOP nominee.
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