<p>“I mean no offense by this, but if you think that Obama has never called anybody a name then you are unbelievably stupid.”</p>
<p>But did he call his wife the “c” word in public as the book says McCain did? The book appears to contain some very damning, documented info about McCain. </p>
<p>Losing one’s temper in private is one thing, in public it’s another thing especially when one is just a finger tap away from using nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>The fact that his hometown conservative newspaper has editorialized about his temper adds to the the indications that the temper problems are real and really frightening.</p>
<p>So, let’s look at what the “hothead” has accomplished in terms of working across the aisle and getting bi-partisan cooperation versus the candidate of “hope” and unity. I see McCain’s name on a lot of such issues. Obama’s is missing from them all. Based on actual results, it looks like the “hothead” wins hands down.</p>
<p>This is a feeble attempt at making an issue where none really exists.</p>
<p>NOT THE BOOK! Is Obama a muslim like “the email” says he is!? Did whites invent AIDS to kill of blacks like “the preacher” said they did? </p>
<p>Just because somebody published a book saying something happened doesn’t mean that it did. It’s ok though, because people in this country are slowly starting to realize that hope/change only get you so far and any attempt to divert attention away from Obama’s record (or lack of) of working across the aisle compared to McCains years of bipartisan acomplishments only serves as a tool that will eventually come back to bite the democrats. </p>
<p>Lets admit it, the democratic party has shot itself in the foot this year. Every advantage you could possibly want and you end up nominating a one term liberal senator. The right wing machine hasn’t even gotten started on Obama and he’s losing in all the big battleground states (Florida, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan). Why you didn’t nominate somebody like Biden, somebody with years of experience, is beyond me. The fact that democrats are scratching to make stories out of nothing (a man who curses, the NYT lobbyist thing, questioning whether McCain can even be prez because he was born on a naval base) is a true indication of how deep of a hole they have dug themselves. I watched the democratic party snatch defeat from victory in 2004 and this is all playing itself out again.</p>
<p>I don’t place much stock in such stories about “candidates’ tempers”. One probably should always ask oneself what motivates the reporting of such rumors.</p>
<p>There are at least three different books which outline supposed instances of Hillary Clinton’s “terrible temper”, her propensity for holding life-long grudges, and prolonged periods of “deep depression”. They are, A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein (the same Carl Bernstein credited with breaking the Watergate Scandal), Her Way, by Jeff Gerth & Don Van Natta, Jr. (both, Pulitzer Prize winning journalists for The New York Times), and The Clinton Crack-Up, by R. Emmet Tyrrell, a book which supposedly centers upon the years immediately following Bill’s retirement. For years, I have both heard and read numerous reports of Hillary’s legendary temper-tantrums, but they were something that, until now, I never brought up as issues in these forums. Even now, I only bring it up to make a point: Just because it’s in print, just because it’s often rumored, doesn’t prove anything. Show me the YouTube video (like George Allen’s “Macaca” insult). Only then might I count it to mean something.</p>
<p>For me, a very important issue is whether he is in thrall of the neoconservatives, the far right wing faction of Republican chickenhawks who brought us this disastrous Iraq War, saying it would be easy as pie, and now that it’s dragging out with nothing positive to show in terms of its stated objectives, have been trying to turn the focus on Iran. Talk about rewarding failure. </p>
<p>Here is the biggest concern: for a man who admits he doesn’t know economics and claims that foreign policy is his strength, the following reality scares me:</p>
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<p>I don’t doubt that McCain is less impressionable than our current president W, but this should be very worrisome to a country that needs leadership, judgement, and creativity to take the Iraq effort out of the impasse it is in.</p>
<p>Oh, and fundingfather, I know, I know: the NYT is a liberal rag that is just out to smear McCain. This is all lies, even though it directly quotes some prominent Republicans. Yeah, right.</p>
<p>ph - I read a book years ago called “The Case Against Hillary Clinton” by Peggy Noonan. I think Bill was still president when it came out. Sure painted her in a terrible light & shattered all my illusions about good guys in the WH.</p>
<p>There are many stories circulating about her treatment of the Secret Service detail assigned to them. According to these reports, she is not a very nice person. I don’t think the SS agents have much of a political agenda either since they work no matter who is in office.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I think it is interesting that McCain ultimately established a friendly relationship w/ the guy he supposedly attacked. From what I’ve heard from people who know him well, he tends to antagonize the people he likes the most - that’s how you can tell if he really likes you. All done in fun.</p>
<p>Of course it might not seem that way if you didn’t know him.</p>
<p>Am I supposed to DISLIKE McCain because he scuffled with Strom Thurmond and dropped F-bombs on prominent Republicans???</p>
<p>Sounds like my kind of guy!</p>
<p>(And, anyway, if we elect him President, he won’t NEED to raise his arms above his head to win a fight. There are lots of soldiers and Marines who can do that perfectly well.)</p>