Posted on 09/14/2008 5:28:08 AM PDT by markomalley
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had some of his harshest words yet for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Friday, suggesting his colleague lacks the temperament and judgment to be president.
Reid used time on the Senate floor to talk presidential politics, lumping the GOP nominee together with President Bush and drawing a clear distinction between them and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the Democratic presidential nominee.
“Our dangerous world calls for leaders with sound judgment, not those with a temperament prone to recklessness,” Reid said. “Our country deserves more than token shifts and lip service to change. We need to take decisive action to reverse eight years of foreign policy mistakes. That’s exactly what Sen. Obama and Senate Democrats offer.”
A Republican National Committee spokesman called Reid's comments "baseless" and suggested it was carefully choreographed with the Obama campaign. "The Obama campaign revealed their desperation by using the ‘speed and ferocity’ of Harry Reid to launch baseless personal attacks on a largely deserted Senate floor," said Bill Riggs, an RNC spokesman.
Reid is typically critical of McCain at news conferences and in statements, but the tone of his remarks Friday took the rhetoric to a new level. Reid’s office acknowledged as much, but would not say whether the comments were intended to coincide with a more aggressive tack taken by the Obama campaign.
Reid did not appear to violate a Senate rule against personal attacks on other senators, and no other senators lodged any immediate complaint. The Senate was largely deserted Friday — there were no scheduled votes, and most members were back in their states.
The majority leader’s comment about McCain’s temperament was a reference to the Arizona senator’s occasional, well-publicized shouting matches, often with his own GOP colleagues.
Reid, who traveled to Afghanistan as part of a congressional trip last month, specifically targeted McCain’s support of Bush's policies in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and said Obama’s positions have been proven right.
Obama recently called for U.S. action against al Qaeda in Pakistan, for example, which even the Bush administration has now endorsed, Reid said.
“The Republicans talk a lot about experience. When you’re the author, architect and enabler of eight years of devastating foreign policy mistakes, that’s not experience. It’s very bad judgment,” Reid said.
sure would love to restore him to minority status...
Reid is a sorry backcountry Nevada Ass.
OOOOh oh oh yea! Remember..McCain has a temper!
nice try. Kisses! McCain/Palin 08
Yes, irony alert
We need a world leader with the mentality of one who flips the bird to his Senate colleague while ostensibly praising her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoOFp-RDpvM
Poor Dingy Harry. The Reid & Pelosi Show is a stinker, a bomb, a flop. Harry’s the lead man too. Uninspired, unable to get anything worthwhile accomplished. A loser.
let me know how this one works out, Harry.
LMAO
Reid” “You’ve got to stamp your foot more when you throw a fit - like ths! And threaten to scratch their eyes out.”
Harry “This War is Lost” Reid has been wrong before!
Harry, go see Hillary, she says she has a set of nads you can borrow.
You are doing a disservice to folks from the backcountry. Agree with the ass part though - but you neglected to include, stupid, arrogant, condescending, elitist, an oh yeah Democrat. But then again the word Democrat is just a synonym for the other adjectives listed...
Wow, they are truly desperate and grasping at straws. Since when is a bad temper reckless?
Who woke this guy up? there’s way to many clowns right now in the arena, there’s no room for you Ried, “shut up and sit down”!
How many of you voters changed your mind when Ried brought up Mccains temper? I thought so!
KEEP TALKING, DINGY HARRY! The Obama Campaign needs you in the swing States RIGHT NOW!
Isn’t this old news from this a-hole? I like a president with a temper, we don’t need to kiss bad guy’s butts. Sometimes you need to tell them to go to hell.
Reid is a sorry, stupid, arrogant, condescending, elitist, an oh yeah Democrat Nevada Ass.
OK.. fixed it.
First off you’ve got to get mad. I want everyone here to get up, go to their windows and open them and shout “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”.
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