McCain is a gambling addict?

[Hamlette]

McCain's former chief strategist, who followed him to many a casino. "Taking a chance, playing against the odds." Aides say McCain tends to play for a few thousand dollars at a time and avoids taking markers, or loans, from the casinos, which he has helped regulate in Congress.

you wouldn't want someone to enjoy "playing against the odds" with the country's public policy. The fact that McCain seems to think there's some kind of "betting strategy" that can turn craps into a winning game also raises some questions about his math.

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/john_mccain_gambling_addict.php

damned liberal media playing up McCain's gambling addiction AGAIN. Don't they know he was a POW??????

(How come I've never heard of this?)

[cliffordu]

1. If he has a gambling problem he needs to be as far away from the budget as possible.

[The Traveler]

5. The budget! Hell, keep him away from the BUTTON!

Seriously, man. That's a scary combination ... gambling addict and the bomb. Ugh.

[FrenchieCat]

2. Now, this is not the kind of old wrinkly white guy we need

near our treasury! No indeedy!

[scheming daemons]

3. Yeah.... and today he went "ALL-IN".... and still lost the hand

[Fridays Child]

4. k/r

[cliffordu]

6. The Trifecta!!!!

I dunno what the quad-fecta would be....:rofl:

[Greyhill]

7. He can change

If he is a gambler,he can change things to become a good leader.
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Addiction Therapy

[renate]

8. welcome to DU!

yeah, I'm not too concerned about whether somebody with his net worth has a gambling problem. It'd be one thing if he lived solely off his salary and blew it all in Vegas, but to him, a thousand bucks here or there is no big deal. (Which is an issue in itself, of course, given than 99% of Americans can't live that way.)

His gambling expenditures, should this be true, are probably just comparable to Joe Q. Average buying a couple of lottery tickets.

[tekisui]

12. Only if he were to get treated. He never got treated for his PTSD,

so I am doubtful he would get treated for his gambling addiction, which could be related.

[annabanana]

18. Let him get therapy FIRST. . and THEN run for President. . . n/t

[eshfemme]

9. This explains why he wants to gamble with Social Security by privatizing it.

[liberal1973]

10. I think he is a gambling addict

I read somewhere that his aides had to pull him away from the crap tables. Also I think it was in Las Vegas that Mcbush asked for a table to be put in the back.

Another thing remember the $750,000 credit charge on his wife's bill. I wonder if that has anything to do with gambling?

:applause:

[sourmilk]

11. Apparently, "craps" is his weakness...

You
Just
Can't
Make
This
Shit
Up.

[jakem]

16. and a lovely parting gift for gramps McAnus...

[DailyGrind51]

13. He is addicted to losing presidential elections!

[wmbrew0206]

14. PoF, Craps has the best odds to win in a casino,

which is why you'll see people who gamble a lot playig craps rather than another game.

Casinos normally keep extremely detailed records, I wonder if they have the records of what McCain has won or lost, and if we could get them.

[PATRICK]

15. And turn five planes

into scrap metal, and ditch one wife for a bigger bankroll, and dare to back W in all the things he supposedly can't believe in, and bet against his fellow POW's on the MIA issue, and bet he's not too old to hack his new career move, and risk the lives of civilians and soldiers to tour an Iraqi marketplace for political points. And that Keating 5 card stud game...

His main success so far has been betting that the other losers in his primary would fail to excite anyone. That, my friend, was a sure thing, probably with insider information and a marked deck.

[annabanana]

17. Pic at the craps table at The Bellagio

[bushisanidiot]

19. McLoser's math problem isn't surprising. He was next to last in his class.

he isn't qualified to lead the country.

PERIOD.