Seems there are a couple of things the Department of Propaganda doesn't want to discuss about John Sidney McCain II. First his adulterous affair with his current wife (of course this is only news when the person isn't running for the Presidency), his long held reputation for not being able to keep his pants zipped (move over Bill Clinton), and his mental instability, which is the real issue.
Psychiatric Journals are flush with reports concluding that former POWs may remain entangled in "harsh psychological battles" with themselves for decades after returning home including difficulty in controlling intense emotions such as anger and stress.
In political circles, McCain, sometimes referred to as "insane McCain," is well known for having a "volcanic" temper which his colleagues say often erupts into vulgar language and personal insults.
Democrat Paul Johnson, the former mayor of Phoenix, experienced McCain's in your face temperament up close. "His volatility borders in the area of being unstable," Johnson said. "Before I let this guy put his finger on the button, I would have to give considerable pause."
http://www.usvetdsp.com/mar08/mccain_manchurian.htm
Posted by Judith at April 4, 2008 03:03 AMDennis, where are you?
Posted by Judith at April 4, 2008 03:21 AMjudith..right here
Posted by dennis at April 4, 2008 05:10 AMI've been hearing more and more about McCain's temper on progressive talk radio. Hopefully, it gets out there sometime during the general campaign.
Posted by CG at April 4, 2008 05:15 AMCG, my guess is that, at some point, we all we witness his anger before this is over.
In a July 5 NewsMax.com article, former Senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican who served with McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "I have witnessed incidents where he has used profanity at colleagues and exploded at colleagues.... He would disagree about something and then explode. (Sounds like the petulent child in the WH).
"It was incidents of irrational behavior. We've all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I've never seen anyone act like that."
McCain's outbursts often erupted when other members rebuffed his requests for support during his bid in 2000 for the Republican nomination for president, the story said.
"He had very few friends in the Senate," said former Senator Smith, who dealt with McCain almost daily. "He has a lot of support around the country, but I don't think he has a lot of support from people who know him well."
Seem McOld may need some anger management therapy.
so lets have a race beteen an unstable guy and one who sat in a congregation that preached america deserved what it got on 9/11....get out the popcorn
Posted by dennis at April 4, 2008 06:00 AMFYI, the folks at Firedoglake appear to be organizing a very concerted letter writing campaign the the law school where Professor Yoo (late of the Bush Administration - Torture Division) presently works.
It seems his syllabus goes to great length to discuss the powers of a unitary president and the law that undergirds the theory.
It also seems that it ignores completely (as did his enabling memos to the Torture Division) the Youngstown Steel in which Harry Truman was taken to task for nationalizing a steel company during a time of war. Uh, it pretty well defines some of the powers of a President in war-time. He's hardly "Unitary".
So the folks at Firedoglake think it is high time to let the Faculty and Administration of Mr. Yoo's school know what a dangerous and incompetent boob he is.
(And Yoo's alma mater should be notified as well---I think that was Yale.)
Posted by gtash at April 4, 2008 06:36 AMWTF? The main TLC page loads and then redirects to a parked spam domain called 'california.newladder.net'. Is one of the ads swamping the page? Or is it just the computer I'm on, and I'll need to chew my teenager out again?
Posted by idiosynchronic at April 4, 2008 06:53 AM"TLC page loads and then redirects to a parked spam domain called 'california.newladder.net'." I get the same thing and I sent emails about it.
Posted by lowdowndog at April 4, 2008 07:07 AMHappened to me, too, idio, but if you hit stop before the whole thing loads, it'll stay on TLC.
Posted by iamcoyote at April 4, 2008 07:44 AMWhere's the stop button or icon?
Posted by at April 4, 2008 07:58 AMThat was me, by some miracle, I got to the site, but I can't in any other window so I'd like to know how to stop for future reference....or else I just can never log off...
Posted by Sharon at April 4, 2008 08:01 AMI usually have all the problems with getting sites. Not today though.
Posted by Seven of Six at April 4, 2008 08:03 AMIs that SeventhSite or SixthSite
Posted by Sharon at April 4, 2008 08:06 AMHeehee, Sharon! The stop button is up top of your browser, shaped like a stop sign on mine. But it stops the loading process. You gotta wait until you can see all the posts, but before the right side bar shows up. Worked for me. Must be a widget malfunction. I hate 'em, they just mess up the page most of the time...
Posted by iamcoyote at April 4, 2008 08:09 AMWell, I'm hosed then: I never see the posts before the CAnewletter comes up, AND I can't find "stop" anyway.
Posted by Sharon at April 4, 2008 08:28 AMDang! Up top of the window, on the left right under the "file" menu, you got the back button, then forward, then refresh, and then stop. If you roll your pointer over each button, it should tell you what the button does in a second or two.
You're not on a Mac, are you? If so, it's all gonna look different, I think...
Posted by iamcoyote at April 4, 2008 08:34 AMOOOOOh! ;O
So that's what the big blue X means. haha - that's my blind spot: right in front of my nose.
It doesn't work to stop since I don't see the TLC posts, but at least I learned something!
Posted by Sharon at April 4, 2008 08:40 AMthe Bush governments attempt at silencing TLC has failed !!!
r.e. McOld's temper. Those waiting for him to go crazy on camera and doom his candidacy need to crank the way-back machine back to 2000 or 2004. We watched and waited for Bush to implode, and even when he did in the first Kerry debate, the MSM just giggled. They will for McOld also. Bush and McOld are peas in a pod when it comes to hair-trigger temper tantrums, dirty language outbursts and "cross me at your risk" mentality. McOld will skate, just like Bush has. Notice both of them were fighter pilots. (one actually fought).
Posted by T2 at April 4, 2008 08:42 AMIs that SeventhSite or SixthSite
Usually only Clinton supporter sites.
I have no computer problems with this site. Thanks for making me feel left out.
shhhhhh! Obama is speaking on MSNBS.
"We are our brothers keeper. We are our sisters keeper."
Is he speaking in zoological terms here? I don't get it.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 4, 2008 08:44 AMHell, McOld's not (yet) shot an American in the face and gotten a pass for it.
Posted by Sharon at April 4, 2008 08:46 AMOops, didn't mean to be age-ist, sorry. (But to rationalize my bad behavior per the cognitive dissonance post the other day, "McDreamy", he aint!)
Posted by Sharon at April 4, 2008 08:49 AMThanks for making me feel left out.
You're welcome, TIKI. Or were you just going "neener, neener?" In which case it'd be "up yours, buddy!"
As for being my brother's keeper, he's voting for McCain, so he's on his own, man.
Posted by iamcoyote at April 4, 2008 08:58 AMMcCain just apologized for being against MLK Day before he was for it.
He said he made a mistake.
The "crowd" chanted "We forgive you. We forgive you."
I hope he finds the buttons on the nuclear football less confusing.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 4, 2008 09:05 AMSharon, just to be serious for a moment, I'm not sure that harping on McCain's age is the greatest strategy for our side, really. Number one, we've got a lot of older boomers really invested in this race this year. Do we want them going for McCain out of sympathy? And if Obama makes it, he's got a really scary (to them) youth movement behind him - I'm worried about the "get offa my lawn" factor if the race is about age before beauty. It wouldn't take much for the right wing noise machine to turn the whole thing into old vs young. I just think we have a better chance with the issues.
Posted by iamcoyote at April 4, 2008 09:16 AMIn Phoenix we old crabby guys yell "Get offa my rocks", sometimes we get mixed up and yell "Get my rocks off".
Coyote makes a good point about pissing off the boomer nation with "old" cracks. Add to that the racists or misogynists that will vote for him, and this election could get scary.
Wonder how the supreme court would vote with 2 or 3 more Scalias on it.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 4, 2008 10:29 AMlittle late in coming, but can one explain this.
in and of itself, it screams double standard.
from david sirota:
So there you have it -- the person running a major American presidential campaign is simultaneously on the payroll of a foreign government pushing a bill that the next president would have to confront. And what's truly telling about this is the part about the Colombian government not knowing whether Penn was representing the Clinton campaign or his business clients. Put another way, the two interests are apparently so similar, there's almost no discernible difference -- even to the foreign government lining Penn's pocket. Clinton for President is the same thing as Burson-Marsteller for President, with Mark Penn as the Secretary of State-in-waiting.
There was a whole media storm over Barack Obama's economic adviser meeting with the Canadian government. That storm erupted even though the story was leaked by a right-wing, pro-NAFTA government, and even though we have no idea what was said in that meeting. We will see if a bigger media storm erupts over the Clinton-Colombia connection, considering money is changing hands, and also considering Colombia is a far cry from Canada when it comes to human rights. It's one thing to meet with Canadian officials, it's another thing to be on the payroll of a government that is one of the murderous in the entire hemisphere.
if this is true, where's the outrage on this site?
Posted by anthony at April 4, 2008 03:48 PMI'm onboard for a class action lawsuit against Harvard for awarding an MBA to Bush.
Posted by Sharon at April 6, 2008 01:47 PM