Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs

A Republican senator said that during a diplomatic mission to Nicaragua in 1987, he saw John McCain manhandle an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. "I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him," said Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).

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McBush is trying to be different from Obama. He won't talk with our enemies, he'll challenge them to meet at 3:05 on the playground.

And people want McHothead as CIC?

"A Republican senator said that during a diplomatic mission to Nicaragua in 1987, he saw John McCain manhandle "

Yeah! These Republican Senators just love to manhandle, well, men.

He also attacked a group protesting his cutting of GI benefits that met him in the hallways of Congress. He almost knocked a wheelchair over in the process. Six witnesses/victims tried to file assault charges, but the police refused to investigate.

"Asked why Cochran raised the incident now, his spokeswoman, Margaret McPhillips, told The Associated Press on Wednesday: "I think Sen. Cochran went into as much detail Monday as is necessary to make the point that, though Sen. McCain has had problems with his temper, he has overcome them."

Riiight.

Just like GW overcame alcohol.

No wonder - Thad Cochran is a flaming liberal.

What? Huh? Nevermind.

It's a little hard to believe that McCain has that kind of upper body strength.

its amazing what gamma rays can do

Not fan of McCain or Obama by any stretch, but i have a problem with statements like the following:

"I think Sen. Cochran went into as much detail Monday as is necessary to make the point"


Um, what? "as much detail...as necessary"?? UMM how about ALL the details? I like to have ALL the details, not just what some "mouth piece" declares as "necessary".

Good work John, we need a President who can kick some ass. Old "narrow shoulders" probably gets slapped around by Michelle.

"McCain Roughed Up Official on Diplomatic Trip"

He's a tough old bugger. Who says he's not fit to lead?

How does anyone not want to vote for this guy!?!?! Serisously, no one will fuck with us with John McCain at the helm... this guy fucking rules...

Oh, great. We've now got the opportunity to segue right from a dry drunk to an old fart with anger management problems.

I think I'm losing the will to live.

Batshit crazy 20 years ago. And now the Rightwingnuts think he should be within 100 yards of the nuke button.
Let him be President of Colombia. He's already hooked up with the death squads there and he and Dubya can toot free trade or anything else they want and bother no one else.

Lorne Craner, 49, a former foreign policy aide to McCain who took part in the trip to Nicaragua, told the AP that he doesn't recall the incident Cochran described.

"Honestly, if my boss had grabbed a foreign government official like that and lifted him up I would certainly remember that," said Craner, who is president of the International Republican Institute, which McCain chairs.

Craner said he also doesn't recall whether the senators met with Ortega during the trip but believes they met with the Sandinista government's foreign minister or interior minister. He said the trip was one of several to Nicaragua made by McCain and other members of Congress around that time.

McCain has battled for years with Cochran, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, over pet projects or "earmarks" inserted by committee members into spending bills.

McCain sought to smooth things over with Cochran this year after the Mississippi senator said the idea of McCain as the GOP presidential nominee sent a chill down his spine.


So the Cochran guy has a something for McCain.

Consider the source and moved on.

Honestly, if my boss had grabbed a foreign government official like that and lifted him up I would certainly remember that," said Craner

And I would certainly tell everyone in the world, even if it cost me my job. Speaking of consider the source.

McCain objected to the Nicaraguan's suggestion that he and his party wear steekin' bodges.

Sounds like he's got experience!

Its is damn convenient that this story come up almost 20 years after the fact.......



How does anyone not want to vote for this guy!?!?! Serisously, no one will fuck with us with John McCain at the helm... this guy fucking rules...

Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole

Gave you a little testosterone jolt, did it?

How could he lift a man up when he can't even lift his own arms up?

Got, are you saying that 20 year old truth has a statute of limitations beyond which it is no longer true?

What? Does it go bad?

McCain called his wife a trollup and a cunt. That was a few years ago too; but if it happened it happened. The Sen. from Arizona has been asked point blank and refused to repudiate the quote. Think about that for a second or two....

Either this is a tatally false accusation, (McCain sues the esteemed Senator for thirty gazillion dollars), or it's true. (Important to know about a candidate running for potus).

You can say that McCain has changed since then if you choose.

But then we gotta ask, how do you know?

Truth's truth.

I'm not sure what you got is really truth

Good point SHIRT

We don't need a man with anger management problems in the WH

Who says he's not fit to lead?

People who don't want to give the nuclear football to a fuckstick who's had anger management issues since he was a child, perhaps?

John McAngry is too mentally unstable and physically weak to be allowed the job of POTUS.

Period.

G08ama!

Be Well.


Just like GW overcame alcohol.

Posted by Jomama

And coke.

How does anyone not want to vote for this guy!?!?! Serisously, no one will fuck with us with John McCain at the helm...

Yeah! And they would not dare fuck with us if he were say the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee!

Oh wait.....

Maybe in your emasculated world you feel the need to man up vicariously through a cranky ill tempered asshole as POTUS but reasonable people realize that it is much better to have a POTUS that is not dominated by feelings of rage and anger.

We don't need a man with anger management problems in the WH

Posted by AMERICANUNITY

We have one that has substance abuse issues currently and you see how well that has worked out.

Just like GW overcame alcohol.

Posted by Jomama

And coke.

Posted by 726

As far as HE tells us.

Though, if you had to judge by his behavior.....

McBush's wife looks like she has been ruffed up.


Just like GW overcame alcohol.


Posted by Jomama


And coke.

Posted by 726

And a career as a cheerleader.

Im not a big fan of John McCain nowadays but if this story is true hes just the type of person we need for our next President.

There are plenty of countries in this world where this kind of bargaining will go a lot further than what 0bama has in mind.

We don't need a man with no experience and no character and no judgment in the WH--and that is Obama.

Come on--do folks really think that giving a speech is a qualification to be POTUS?

In this day and age and peril?

Wow, this story is as bad as Obama's Gay flings coming out of San Francisco.

What will the America hating, shallow, liberal dumb asses think of next.

McCain's short temper is famous, so is anyone really surprised by this? He is who he is. There are some strengths and some weaknesses. None of this is news.


Wow, this story is as bad as Obama's Gay flings coming out of San Francisco.

What will the America hating, shallow, liberal dumb asses think of next.

Posted by aclusux

Well, the difference is the Obama rumor was a false rumor.

The story of McCain's temper comes from a sitting U.S. Senator who was there.

"The story of McCain's temper comes from a sitting U.S. Senator who was there."

Yep, I would accept the word from a sitting U.S. Senator any day of the week. They are nothing but pure honesty and integrity.

A GOP Senator at that. Idiots like KBM can play the apologist all they want. But the fact is undisputed.

"Wow, this story is as bad as Obama's Gay flings coming out of San Francisco.

What will the America hating, shallow, liberal dumb asses think of next.
Posted by aclusux at 2008-07-02 10:15 PM"

Senator Cochran (R-MI), who would have guessed ;-)?

I can appreciate that this may be cause for concern, but it WAS 20 years ago. I'm more concerned about recent indications of his temper. Oh, and for the news-impaired: this is coming up NOW because Senator McCain is running for president NOW.

wow, now I am voting for McCain for sure.

Obama would have ran to the store to buy some cooshie toilet paper to help him wipe his ass with.

Kuma



wow, now I am voting for McCain for sure.


Obama would have ran to the store to buy some cooshie toilet paper to help him wipe his ass with.


Kuma


Yes, because totally losing one's cool in a diplomatic setting and assaulting a foreign national is exactly the kind of experience and judgment we want in a leader.

You guys really are f-ing morons. lol

Yes, because totally losing one's cool in a diplomatic setting and assaulting a foreign national is exactly the kind of experience and judgment we want in a leader.


You guys really are f-ing morons. lol

Posted by midiman at 2008-07-03 06:31 AM | Reply

What do You expect out of those who support the moron in queef??

Larry Mohr

What do You expect out of those who support the moron in queef??

Cmon larry,

you can do better than that..:)

Never said it wasn't true SOUR, just funny how it wasnt important to report an "assault" for 20 years.

Gottruth,

"Never said it wasn't true SOUR, just funny how it wasnt important to report an "assault" for 20 years."

Are you new to American politics? There is no statute of limitations...on anything.

...yes, but before it started the announcement was, "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's JoooooooooooNNY!"

JhooooooooooooooNNY

I hope it was a liberal!

Fucking love this story. I wish I could vote for McCain twenty times.

I would drag my balls over broken glass for a mile just to hear John McCain piss in a tin cup over a pay telephone.

" I would drag my balls over broken glass for a mile just to hear John McCain piss in a tin cup over a pay telephone."

So, how much would you donate if he'd let you drink it?

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