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Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.

Also, his nickname in high school was McNasty. That's not a good sign.

make me want to retch.  I've spent the last 9 years doing just that everytime I had to see or hear GW on the television.   Like nails on a chalkboard to me.

McCain.  My latest problem with him is that he wants to make healthcare even harder to come by for most of us.  His idea is to eliminate the tax advantages that employers now have for offering coverage to employees.  He also has proposed that those of us receiving employer based coverage be taxed for it.  And, he would make it even easier for people to be turned down or charged excessively high rates if they have anything that would qualify as a "pre-condition".  

He would also appoint judges across the country who would set us back even further in almost every cause any of us here care about.  

And Social Security?  Well, another republican elected as president will likely be thought of as providing that "mandate" to privatize it.  

And I could keep going...

He used his certification to get public financing as collateral for a campaign loan when he ran out of cash last year. Normally, that locks you into public financing which locks you into spending limits.

He's trying to pretend he didn't do that, and he's already spent more than the funding limit for the primary season.

I don't think the dude is worth discussion, but for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, this video sums things up nicely:
jon.he.is

As a funny aside, I had always assumed McCain opponents were unfairly cherry-picking depressing quotes to use against him in this video.  So imagine my surprise when I heard the by now familiar opening line from this video on the radio on primary night:
"In a time of war, with the terrible sacrifices it entails, the promise of a brighter future is not always clear."

NPR was broadcasting his victory speech.  This is his idea of an inspirational victory speech. What a douche.

Nah.  I voted for Edwards, supported him, but...Barack is way hotter.

Of course, JE is the only candidate of this cycle I've seen in person.  I find most people are more appealing in person than on TV.  

(Not to the point of Howard Dean, though.  My god, man.  Get a smooth, telegenic surrogate and stay away!  He's gotten a lot better, but it was so frigging awful in '04 to go to live events where he would connect with all these diverse people, and give thoughtful, brilliant answers to a million questions, and then watch him go on tv and look and the wrong camera and laugh like a lunatic, trip over words, etc.)

PS brains are hot.  See Gore, Clark, et al.

That to me says it all. And I'm glad that Barack Obama has started playing it that way too.

'nuff said.  I just don't like someone being in charge of our country that has such a short fuse.  Just too scary.

I also don't like the fact that he called his wife the c-word.  It takes a certain kind of man to do something like that, IMO.

Plus, he doesn't understand the very founding premise of the Executive, as defined in the Constitution. From Slate, bold by me:

This week, McCain sent further shudders through the body politic (or perhaps he would have, had the mainstream media covered the event) by pretty much promising, if elected, to abrogate his constitutional responsibilities. At the Associated Press' annual meeting on April 14, McCain was asked whether he would divert U.S. troops from Iraq to Afghanistan in order to quash the resurgent Taliban and capture Osama Bin Laden. McCain responded: "I would not do that unless Gen. Petraeus said that he felt that the situation called for that."

That's right, folks. John McCain thinks that the military tells the president what to do. Wonderful. This is so wrong on so many levels, not the least of which being that old feeling from Vietnam by the military that if the politicians had just butted out, they could have won the war.

member of the military and a pilot - here are a few things that says Mountains about McCain to me.

These are from memory but i would be happy to find the source materials if anyone cares.

1. He graduated from Annapolis 894th out of 899.  Was considered a serious "party animal"

2. His daddy and granddaddy were both Navy Admirals, which are likely the only reason he was allowed to train as a Naval Aviator.  (Trust me those grades would NEVER get you into flight school without your daddy being an Admiral)

3.  He crashed 4 jets before he went to Vietnam. This is a very high number of jets to have lost and still be flying, especially with no combat flight time.

4. Once he got to Vietnam, he had flown less than 28 hours before he was shot down.

I could go on and on about his "military career" but it just sickens me to even think about it.  He is the man George W Bush attempted to be, but failed.

Trust me we don't want the "Real Deal".

McCain deliberately has courted John Hagee's endorsement in an attempt to get elected. He knows he needs the crazy people to vote for him to be elected, and he knows that they're crazy.

We checked out Hagee's book from the library. I was just thumbing through it absently and opened it to a random page. On that page (97) he says that God sent Hitler because he loved the Jews so much that he wanted to herd them to Israel.

My jaw just dropped. (This book is from 2006).

If I believed in God acting in such ways, I believe he'd send train tickets instead of death squads.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Long discussion of McCain's positions/experience/policy on wars, from Vietnam through Iraq.

because there are two essential question. Can anybody think of a single area that Bush has improved in the past eight years. Anything, domestic or international. Economic, social, enviromental, political. Any branch, any agency. Can anyone tell me if there is a single instution that is better off today than it was in January 2001? I honestly can't think of Any. Single. One.

Second question. Can anyone think of a single area where John McCain would change direction from the Dubya years for the better? Can we look at his platform, his supporters and his proposals and think, yes, we're going to be better off as people with John McCain in charge? Again, I can't think of a single thing.

We gotta do everything we can to prevent another 1968. I hereby pledge that no matter who the selected candidate is, I will go out there and work my buns off for that person. I will go after uncommitteds, I will stand on street corners and preach if necessary. We have to make it clear to everyone exactly what we are risking by not coming behind the party's candidate and doing everything we can to get that person elected. I want every one of us to be able to look at our reflections on the day after Election Day and say "I did all I could and I am proud of it."

"Things Younger Than McCain..."

Anyone who surfs more than me (which would be most people with a pulse) has probably already seen this - apologies if it's been on here before.