Posted on 7/16/2006, 6:08:37 PM by aceintx
2. McCain Miffed at NewsMax Article
A NewsMax.com report about Sen. John McCain’s legendary temper has apparently ruffled the feathers of the probable 2008 presidential candidate.
When NewsMax’s Ronald Kessler, who authored the report, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show on July 7 to discuss the story, Kessler stated, “Carlson said McCain’s office was very unhappy that he was having me on.”
“I imagine they may have scared off other shows” that might have interviewed Kessler.
In his NewsMax report, Kessler wrote in part: “As portrayed by the mainstream media, McCain is an engaging war hero, a man of political moderation positioned between the left and the right. But to insiders who know him, McCain has an irrational, explosive side that make many of them question whether he is fit to serve as president and be commander in chief.”
Kessler quoted former Senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican who served with McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on Republican policy committees, as saying: "I have witnessed incidents where he has used profanity at colleagues and exploded at colleagues. He would disagree about something and then explode. It was incidents of irrational behavior.
“We've all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I've never seen anyone act like that."
Kessler’s NewsMax.com article also caught the eye of McCain’s homestate newspaper, the Arizona Republic.
The paper noted that McCain has denied allegations he blows his top, once demanding “some concrete examples of it,” adding “they aren’t there.”
Well, they are there.
Back in 2000, during McCain’s campaign for the Republican nomination for president, he went ballistic during an on-air phone interview with radio personality Michael Reagan. McCain ended up slamming the phone down and hanging up on Reagan.
The two were discussing whom McCain, as president, might appoint to the Supreme Court, and Reagan mentioned that Warren Rudman, McCain’s campaign chair, could be in position to push for a judge “like Judge [David] Souter.”
McCain interrupted Reagan four times with “can I finish?” and said Rudman was “not interested in playing any active role in a McCain administration and I resent enormously phone calls that were made by Pat Robertson saying that he was a vicious bigot.”
When Reagan later tried to shift the discussion to education, McCain said: “Before we go into that, does it disturb you that Pat Robertson would call up people and say that Warren Rudman is a vicious bigot?
NewsMax’s transcript of the interview read:
Reagan: No, Senator, I … Senator, no. Senator, because let me tell you…
McCain: Let me tell you – let me tell you … (unintelligible)
(Senator McCain hangs up abruptly.)
Afterwards Reagan declared: “The man does not have the temperament to be president of the United States.”
Another on-air display of McCain’s wrath came later that year as the candidate was about to deliver his concession speech.
As he walked through the crowd on his way to delivering the speech, NBC’s Maria Shriver asked him: “How do you feel?” McCain spun around and sternly told Shriver: “Please get out of here.”
The rebuke stunned MSNBC anchor Brian Williams.
When NewsMax Magazine ran an in-depth, front-page story in its August 2005 issue, “Inside McCain’s Head,” Paul M. Weyrich – chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation – told NewsMax:
“For years, I’ve heard stories about him throwing things at people and bringing young staffers to tears because he blows up at them.
“He has a seething anger that is very troubling. You can’t have somebody like that as president. You have to have somebody who is stable and can make good judgments.”
There is a long list of reasons conservatives wouldn't want him to be president.
I would NEVER vote for McCain, no matter who he runs against. I have found him a total nutcase for years. I use him as a way of judging other people's intelligence. Anyone who thinks he is a good Presidental candidate, I know has none.
I like McCain's anger. It's good to have a president who can get really pissed off at someone. I have no problem with his temperment and have no fear about his finger on the button. In fact, I wish right now that our enemies had a little more fear about that.
I'll absolutely support McCain if he gets the nomination.
There is a long list of reasons conservatives wouldn't want him to be president.
There is a long list of reasons any American wouldn't want him to be president.
jaun mckennedy should NEVER be our president. He's crazy and a back stabber as well.
I wouldn't vote for him in the primary but if it came down to either him or Hillary I voting for McCain.
I wouldn't mind letting McCain have his finger on the nuclear button as long as the missiles are only aimed at Iran.
I've never seen any indication that McCain would take us into war just to advance his political career. Were that true, I wouldn't have seen him taking the rather unpopular positions he's taken over the past few years such as,
campaign finance reform, the Dubai ports deal, immigration, Bush court nominees, etc.
From where I sit, this is a man who says what he thinks and follows through on what he says, agree with him or not.
He is an unstable person. The EXACT reason I could never vote for him.
I'd even pick the darn Morman over McCain and I think Mormans are cultists! THAT is how badly I mistrust McCain.
You got that right... his temper rates well below some of the other things that are wrong with him.
That was actually kind of funny!
I could actually see a President McCain using the FBI, etc to go after people he dislikes (in the manor reminiscent of the Clinton's).
I don't think he fall in the Presidential Height Index, which holds that the tallest President is the best. Height counts and as a visual phenomenon we want someone taller then Vladimir Putin and other foreigner leaders.
I saw the incident with Maria Shiver live and was shocked. I was grateful at that time that Bush had won the nomination.
Sen. John McCain Says He Doesn't Have a Temper
Reports that he may be too ill-tempered to trust with the presidency have riled Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.). "These reports are absurd," said McCain. "Anyone who thinks I can't control my temper is invited to meet my fist at a time and place of his or her choosing. I may be old, but I can still knock your teeth out if you don't shut your mouth."
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
He should be in jail for his Keating Five behavior
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