We don't need a hothead in the WH

I'm prepared to be President of the United States, and I'll put my country first.

When I say "my country" I mean the haves and have mores.

There's a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but also about honor. I wonder if you could define honor for us?
Read it in my books.

I've read your books.
No, I'm not going to define it.

Meaning I have forgotten what I wrote.

What a doddering old fool. One foot on dotage and one foot in the grave.

I absolutely hate to criticize a former military man, who despite the fact that had his dad not been admiral, he would have been lucky to make corporal (or whatever they call corporal), much less lt. cmdr. He still served and was injured.

But he has invited this on himself. he could have stayed in the senate until he died and been just fine. So the gloves are off you geriatric douche-bag.

I was not "prickly."
I was just a little confused.
Like when I was a POW.
My friends, haven't you ever been preoccupied?
Like when something you're looking for goes missing?
Yes, missing, like a POW.
Well, that's what happened the day of the interview.
Someone stole my strawberries.
Like the slopes stole my liberty when I was a POW.
And I'm gonna find them if I have to bomb every goddamn hotel, golf course, and shithole between Paradise Valley and the Valley of the Kings.
Did you know I was a POW?
That's when the music stopped on ABBA and "Dancing Queen."
Of course, that song came out after the gooks let me go.
But time's a relative thing.
I learned that at the Hanoi Hilton.
When I was a POW.
Time's relative, bendable, contortionistic, stoned-out-of-your-skull weird.
Kinda like the trollop.
Now, please behave and fuck off.
~John "Striaht Tlak" McCain

Oh, great! A President with a short temper and a anger problem over minor annoyances.

McCain: "Sometimes that is not in keeping with the present Administration or my colleagues, but I've always put my country first"

Reporter: I can understand putting your country first when you were against tax cuts for the wealthiest, especially in a time of war, but how were you putting your country first when you supported the exact opposite position, a position which led to the largest deficits ever?

I'm prickly and abrasive before my first cup of morning coffee.
Some days you can even add "bitch" on to that list. lol

Time......Go figure......

Chris, the wife likes to say "pissy"

Oh...Mr Cactus has the emotional impact of Sandpaper?

Now THERE'S a big surprise...........

"Time......Go figure...... "

*gasp* An attack on the messenger? How strange! /sarcasm

"Time calls McCain Prickly, Abrasive"?

Hmmmm...

Time calls McCain "Prick"

There ya go.

Tightened that up fer yas.

Shorter. Truthier.

Be Well.

~John "Striaht Tlak" McCain

Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Dude, you slipped off into some kind of existential stream of consciousness thing for a minute.

A lot of women could vote for John now because they might like an abrasive prick.

We gotta repeat that message every chance between now and November. herm

Reading this, and reading how he sticks to 'talking points' even if that means giving a totally incomplete answer to a direct question I have to wonder about his mental accuity. And it scares me. Senator McCain truly needs to have a neurologic screening to rule out either Alzheimer's Disease or the early stages of dementia. Something is seriously wrong here....

How is this worthy of being posted here? This is like the Republican party calling Obama insincere and inexperienced.

Many of McCain's Senate colleagues say privately they won't be voting for him. They work with him. Say he has a short fuse and is a real jerk.

"The McCain on display in the 24-minute interview was prickly, at times abrasive, and determined not to stray off message."

Yeah who needs somebody like that when we can have a guy who would frenchkiss Vladimir Putin's ass to avoid a war a la Neville Chamberlain?

Hypothetical:

They're running McCain as a shill, they don't expect him make sense of anything, the timetable is set for October, a preemptive strike will be made either Iran or near Georgia and of course, you can't have an election while there is national security at stake and so Bush declares martial law and we are fucked.

Jeez, he's getting prickly already, and he's not even president yet? This doesn't bode well for a McCain presidency. Whatever the question, here is McCain's answer:

POW, country first, prepared to be president.

POW, country first, prepared to be president.

POW, country first, prepared to be president.

POW, country first, prepared to be president.

McCain's temper is well known in the Senate. A lot of his Republican colleagues won't be voting for him.

Here's what Romney had to say:

As his make-or-break Florida primary contest against John McCain approached in late January, Mitt Romney abandoned his pledge that "I'm not going to talk about the character of the people I'm running against." Instead, the Romney campaign produced a memo titled, "The McCain Way: Attack Republicans - A Top 10 List."

Romney's top 10 list includes some of McCain's greatest hits - literally. In addition to dropping the f-bomb on fellow Republican Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and John Cornyn (R-TX), McCain "repeatedly" called New Mexico's Pete Domenici an "a**hole." While the Romney list features some comparatively minor McCain blow-ups towards Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell and other leading lights of the GOP, it also claims that in 1995, John McCain "had a scuffle" with then 92-year old Strom Thurmond.

Here are the Romney campaign's top 10 episodes of "the McCain way" of rage and fury. Only the heading for each is shown below; the details and list of references are provided in the full memo, which is available at the Boston Herald:

1. Defending His Amnesty Bill, Sen. McCain Lost His Temper And Screamed, "F*ck You!" At Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
2. In 2000, Sen. McCain Ran An Attack Ad Comparing Then-Gov. George W. Bush To Bill Clinton.
3. Sen. McCain Repeatedly Called Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) an "A**hole," Causing A Fellow GOP Senator To Say, "I Didn't Want This Guy Anywhere Near A Trigger."
4. Sen. McCain Had A Heated Exchange With Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) And Called Him A "F*cking Jerk."
5. In 1995, Sen. McCain Had A "Scuffle" With 92-Year-Old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) On The Senate Floor.
6. Sen. McCain Accused Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Of the "Most Egregious Incident" Of Corruption He Had Seen In The Senate.
7. Sen. McCain Attacked Christian Leaders And Republicans In A Blistering Speech During The 2000 Campaign.
8. Sen. McCain Attacked Vice President Cheney.
9. Celebrating His First Senate Election In 1986, Sen. McCain Screamed At And Harassed A Young Republican Volunteer.
10. Sen. McCain "Publicly Abused" Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL).

During his first president run back in 1999, John McCain tried to defuse the growing concerns over his hot temper, insisting, "Do I insult anybody or fly off the handle or anything like that? No, I don't." But when the Washington Post in April detailed, John McCain's legendary temper, pundits, politicians and armchair psychologists alike weighed in on the Arizona Senator's litany of f-bombs, fisticuffs and frothing. But while McCain spokesman Mark Salter called the Washington Post piece "99% fiction," one national Republican leader had already taken great pains to back up its account.

That would be John McCain's would-be running mate, Mitt Romney.

Not so bad when compared to stupid and moron.

In other news, fire trucks are red, SUVs get bad gas mileage and Hillary's an intolerant biznitch.

Tell us something we don't know, Time.

Oh, great! A President with a short temper and a anger problem over minor annoyances.Posted by johnjkavanagh at 2008-08-28 05:14 PM | Reply

Name a white American male over 50 who's NOT this way some of the time. "You kids, get the hell off my lawn!"

He cusses out some Republican senators--I'd think he could be a DR hero!

ignorance wears a beard and it is anger

"Bomb bomb bomb, Bomb Iran"
~McSame

Enough said, Let him enjoy retirement.

We gotta repeat that message every chance between now and November. herm

Posted by herm at 2008-08-28 08:22 PM

WE ??? Who is we? All the trolls that post here? Get real.

He cusses out some Republican senators--I'd think he could be a DR hero!

Posted by kirk

If he had stuck to his principles that he cultivated so hard over the years, you would be slamming obama right now. and he may have a few fans on here.

The best line of the night last night was by bill richardson.

'McCain may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we are gonna pay for his flip-flops.'

Happy 72nd birthday John.

Is the Pope Catholic? Does the sun rise over the east? Is McCain sometimes a prickly jerk? The answer is the same.

At least he's not Dick Cheney; and at least he's smarter, more principled and less arrogant that GWB. But he is not the guy you want presiding over diplomacy and national security issues. Cheney will make mistakes in secret; GWB never makes mistakes -- he just decides between choices Cheney gives him; but McSame ... He'll go along, all reasonable and all, then kapow! Explosion time. And if he screws up bu losing it at a critical time, that would not be good. What's he do in a tight diplomatic situation next? Apologize once he calms down?

Time magazine is the most left-biased of the weekly mags. It is the New York Times of weekly rags. This is a non-story.

If you want balanced news, read US News & World Report. At least they play both sides of the fence sometimes.

at least he's not a namby-pamby, treehugging, pasty, whiny, limpwristed, sissie of a man!

i can hear the fat lady singing! (and no - it's not me...)

lovin' every minute of this - she's excited to see how alaska CAN support and GIVE more to the U.S.! hmmmmm...surely she's not talking salmon?

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah !

and, PALIN DIDN'T abort her baby although she knew it had down syndrome. helllloh christian vote.

Time Calls McCain Prickly, Abrasive

You sure they weren't talking about Rosie O'Donnell's 5-o'clock shadow?

NANC

Other women with more common sense would have used birth control after being elected as Governor.

Another creep, just like Bush and Cheney. Cut from the same cloth.

America - At least McCain has a record of doing something. All Obama has accomplished is running for the next office.

As for Time - I call them Biased and No Longer important

'Verified subscriptions at Time plunged 63.5% to 128,032 during the six months ended June 30, from 350,623 a year earlier.'

"Many bloggers vented their ire at Time magazine this week for publishing its seventh cover story on Obama in 2008 compared to only two for Republican rival John McCain."

Basically as they - like NBC - are in the tank for Obama they are no longer considered a objective source for news (like the NY Times) which has led to their downfall.

I thought it was abrasive prick.

"I've always put my country first"

Doesn't he mean our country? Just saying......

"helllloh christian vote"

yeah, that'll hurt the dems who were really counting on the evangelical vote this year. /sarcasm