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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 05:56 PM
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John McCondo's Anger Problem
http://www.samefacts.com/archives/john_mccain_/2008/05/bad_day_for_john_mccain_part_ii_anger_management.php

"When a candidate has well-known anger-management issues, he really needs to be careful about the tone of his statements.

Today, John McCain was one of only three Senators who failed to show up for the debate and vote on Sen. Jim Webb's improved GI Bill. (Ted Kennedy is in the hospital, and Tom Coburn was at a funeral. McCain was at a couple of big-ticket fundraising events.) But McCain had made it clear that he opposed the Webb proposal because he shares the concern of the top brass that improved GI Bill benefits would lead to an increased rate of exit from the enlisted ranks.

Barack Obama, after acknowledging McCain's service, criticized him for opposing the bill. Obama was too polite, and too wise, to say what he could have said: that McCain, the son and grandson of Admirals and the husband of a multi-millionaire beer baron's daughter, never had to rely on the GI Bill for an education or the VA hospital system for his health care, and that McCain's opposition to the Webb bill reflected his constitutional incapacity for empathy with anyone less fortunate than he is. Obama said of McCain:

I respect Sen. John McCain's service to our country. He is one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can't understand why he would line up behind the president in his opposition to this GI bill. I can't believe why he believes it is too generous to our veterans. I could not disagree with him and the president more on this issue. There are many issues that lend themselves to partisan posturing, but giving our veterans the chance to go to college should not be one of them.
McCain responded with an astonishingly intemperate blast at Obama.

It is typical, but no less offensive that Senator Obama uses the Senate floor to take cheap shots at an opponent and easy advantage of an issue he has less than zero understanding of ... Unlike Senator Obama, my admiration, respect and deep gratitude for America's veterans is something more than a convenient campaign pledge.
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GrizzlyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 05:57 PM
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1. I love reading about his mental instability
My only lament is that it always seems to be from some obscure website, and not the media that is the most capable of getting the message out. Of course they don't want to, but I wish they could wrap their minds around this as a story for just a moment.
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 07:01 PM
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2. interesting reading, isn't it?
but where is the investigative reporting? i want to know more about McLooseCannon
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