McCain: 'Happy to be a passionate man': The Swamp
 
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Posted April 20, 2008 10:15 AM
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The patriot: An NBC News video-biography of McCain's captivity in war.

by Mark Silva

John McCain, smiling, even chuckling at times, confronted the question of his reputation for a tempestuous temper today.

"The point is... I feel passionately about issues,'' McCain said this morning on ABC This Week With George Stephanopoulos, a morning on which the banner headline in the Washington Post reads: McCain: A Question of Temperament. "Do I get angry from time to time, when I'm investigating Mr. Abramoff, when I see they're ripping off Indian tribes?'' McCain said. "The American people get angry too.

"I am very happy to be a passionate man,'' dismissing stories of his most volatile moments in the past recounted by people who have crossed swords with him. "Those stories... are totally untrue, completely exaggerated,'' the Arizona senator said, still chuckling the matter away. "One thing I've learned is, stories get better over time.''

Stephanopoulos also was addressing the question of that debate that he and ABC News anchor Charles Gibson conducted with the Demeocrats in Philadelphia last week.

But first, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, pledging to cut billions of dollars from the federal government, in part by attacking some of the most protected subsidies on Capitol Hill - the ethanol subsidies, sugar prices supports and more:

"I'm their worst nightmare, my friend,'' McCain said.

And MdCain was asked if he questions the patriotism of Sen. Barack Obama, who has served on a board with Bill Ayers, a veteran of the radical Weathermen from the 1960s. No, McCain said, but Obama's relationship with Ayers is "questionable.''

The host asked the senator about how he hopes to achieve a balanced budget in four years with the magnitude of tax cuts that he is supporting.

"You scrub every agency of government,'' McCain said. "Does anybody American believe that there are not tens or hundreds of billions that can be saved?.... Americans know that. That's why they're fed up .''

Is he cutting aid to Israel?

"Of course not,'' McCain said, but he can cut billions from defense.

"I am talking about looking at every institution... I am talking about changing the way we do business in Washington,'' he said - suggesting ethanol subsidies, sugar prices supports, "payments to the wealthiest farmers'' and more waste that can go.

"Obviously we have deficits... It's the spending that's the problem, in my view, not the tax cuts,'' McCain said.

McCain was reminded of Karl Rove's published views that McCain's patriotism will serve him well in a campaign againts, perhaps, Obama, whom voters will view as elitist.
McCain was asked if he questions Obama's patriotism.

"I'm sure he's very patriotic, but his relationship to Mr. Ayers is subject to question,'' McCain said, volunteering the name of the former Weatherman -- "who says he's unrepentant and wished he'd bombed more.

"He compared Mr. Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist, to Sen. Tom Coburn,'' McCain said, "A senator who goes home on weekends and brings babies into life... It's very insulting to a great man, a great humanitarian.''

(Obama had said in last week's debate, when asked about Ayers, that he knows people of all political stripes - including Coburn, whose anti-abortion views are different from his. He also said he was eight years old at the time that Ayers was involved in the underground anarchist movement in the 1960s for which he is now being questioned.)

McCain, 71, was asked if voters should take his age into account.

Sure, he said, ending the interview with the same smiles and laughs with which it began. "They took it into account in the primary... They saw the vigor,'' he said. "But also, they want experience and knowledge, which leads to good judgment.. They know that I can do that, and I've got to prove it to them in the weeks and months ahead.''


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Yeah, just what America needs - 4 more years of Republican failed policies.

!GOBAMA!


Hey, Senator McCain, how about cutting those tax cuts for the wealthy? Oh, that's right, that would cut into yours and your wife's wallet!! It isn't enough that you have lived high off the hog, your entire life, at the public trough, you want to get away with not paying your fair share of taxes. Now wonder you were genuflecting towards President Bush, he allowed you to keep all of your wealth and have the working class pay your taxes for you!!! It sure is a great country for the wealthy, but don't let that worker get bitter. Its unAmerican!!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE. NOW.


Obama flipped off Hilary and McCain calls his wife a really rude word beginning with c.
If you don't want to vote for HIlary, then where is Al Gore?


I'm a Democrat but I can tell you that McCain stands head and shoulders above those two yahoos in our party. One a congenital lier and the other a man with questionable "friends" and nothing but criticism for his country that has given him so much. A McCain-Lieberman ticket and I'm there.


Dems are just madcause they can't really believe that the American people are gonna buy this 'third bush term' nonsense. The people know John McCain, so they can see through the lying, red-faced rants of Howard "Beya" Dean.

I honestly can't believe they're gonna nominate yet another liberal. Clinton was a moderate. That's the only way they can win yet they have to nominate the most liberal minds in the country time and time again.

My top three choices for vp:

1. Condi Rice
2. Charlie Crist
3. Mitt Romney

Rice is obviously the most qualified and probably intelligent person in DC. But, my gut tells me Romney is the most likely of the three.


" Jamison ", your not kidding anyone, you are a died-in-the-wool, Republican. If you were truly a Democrat, you would proudly support Senator Obama, instead of Senator" The Keating Five Scandal " McCain and Joe " the Phony Democrat " Lieberman. I see you are enamored of warmongers and the " Military-Industrial Complex". I'll make a wild, wild guess and say that you are one of those voters that voted for President Bush, twice!! How unfortunate, for America, that you want to continue this failed policy!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE. NOW.


Any Democrat considering voting for McCain needs to bear in mind that:

a) he wants to expand the Bush tax cuts for the top one percent of income earners, and doesn't even have a plan for funding it.

b) he has no solution on health care other than high-deductible insurance (you know, the sort you'd turn a job down over if that was what was on offer)

c) He wants to stay in Iraq more than anyone else, and wants to bomb Iran.

d) He has Phil Gramm as one of his main economic advisers, the same Phil Gramm who did the legislation that changed the banking regulations to allow the current subprime mess.

e) He is staunchly opposed to legal abortion (Yes, I do understand this is a plus for some people, but many pro-choicers don't seem to know)

f) he has the strongest pro-Bush voting record of any senator in the current Congress.

If you're going to vote for McCain and against Obama simply because of Obama taking a smallish donation from an acquitted ex-hippie BEFORE that ex-hippie uttered reprehensible remarks on terrorism that he later took back, then all I can say is, good luck seeing your interests represented.

As for Hillary and lying, OK, but I don't think she's told any more big ones than McCain. The scary thing is that McCain is a lot better at lying than Hillary; he has a voting record that over 26 years puts him on the far right of the Republican Party and yet he's convinced independents he has their interests at heart.


Jamison,

And your take on THE POLICIES!


Passion Fruit McMousse (TM)


Hey, at least he wasn't whining and faltering around like the Messiah Obama did in the debate....I am a HRC supporter but McCain beats Obama 1000 to 1..McCain is a Patriotic American and what you see is what you get..WHO IS OBAMA REALLY??.We don't know yet but it will come out...


Barack, Michelle, Jeremiah, Louis, the New Black Panthers Party, Move On.org, the Weather Underground and on and on.

Vote Hate in '08

Obama for President


Poster Dave says: "I refuse to believe that as Americans we would allow another Republican to take the White House. [/QUOTE]" Well, let's see, Dave. Obama has a whopping two years of federal experience, most of which he has simply spent posturing and campaigning for the presidenty. Obama's foreign relations experience consists of a trip to Kenya to visit relatives (that's "foreign relations," right?). Obama has a close, 25-year relationship with Jeremiah Wright and the hateful Black Nationalist movement. Then Obama pretends he didn't know he was a bad guy. Obama has a 17-year relationship with Chicago's preeminant slum lord and scum bag Antoni Rezko, who helps Obama buy his house. Then Obama pretends he didn't know he was a bad guy. Obama promised us "change" in Illinois too, but has done nothing but cut deals to enrich himself and his wife while cashing our paychecks. Obama cleverly flips off Clinton during a speech last week and smirks while the crowd cheers. And the list goes on. Gee, Dave, I guess you're right. What's not to like? Sure, Winnie the Poohbama is qualified to be the most powerful leader in the world during these especially challenging times. How tough can it be? Wake up, Dave, and pour the Kool Aid down the drain.


Bill Ayers is no different than Timothy McVeigh - a disgruntled American with his gov't that bombed a gov't building(s). The only difference is the amount of death one caused vs another.


wow, look at all the racist republic supporters spreading their hate on a sunday morning. don't worry, you can always have your sins absolved later at church. what a great deal.


Grandpa Munster McCain has no business being anywhere near the White House. let alone the US nuclear arsenal.


A new book on the presumptive Republican nominee will air perhaps the most shocking angry exchange to date.


The Real McCain by Cliff Schecter, which will arrive in bookstores next month, reports an angry exchange between McCain and his wife that happened in full view of aides and reporters during a 1992 campaign stop. An advance copy of the book was obtained by RAW STORY.


Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness.


http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html


"Do I get angry from time to time, when I'm investigating Mr. Abramoff, when I see they're ripping off Indian tribes?'' McCain said. "The American people get angry too.


But first, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, pledging to cut billions of dollars from the federal government, in part by attacking some of the most protected subsidies on Capitol Hill - the ethanol subsidies, sugar prices supports and more:

"I'm their worst nightmare, my friend,'' McCain said.

These are the kind of things that I like about McCain. I just wish there were a few more of them. But alas these days there aren't. I will say though that he is the best the republicans could hope for. I think he's gonna get his a%s handed to him in the Nov but the debate on the war will be good for the country. Many aspects of his economic plan are just clueless though. But at the end of the day even if he won it would be better than Bush. That said I think Obama would be great for Americas standing in the world. What I find weird is when I talk to sane republican friends of mine I never have a problem admitting that McCain would not be the worst thing to ever happen to America (but that's not saying much) but when I talk to my wing nut republican friends and read the comments people like them post, I worry about where the GOP is going. There's allot of venom from them but little substance. The Jeff's of the world at least have an idea of why they support McCain where as some of these other posters are heading for a mental ward. JOHN D!!! DBX comment hit the nail on the head. Why do these people who support Hillary and McCain worry about whether or not Obama drink a latte or a beer??? Does it matter in the grand scheme of things??? In my world it doesn't, and all the cr%p about democrats and taxs are off the table because of the reckless abandon with which the neo-con men have conducted themselves. They spend like drunken sailors.


Milton Freidman and Ronald Reagan would be proud. No credibility. None. Republicans take back your party. What's left of it. p.s. Jamison your no democrat and you know it. What a lame comment. Then again your just like your heros in the White House. Real good liars!!! The rich get tax breaks and the military gets broken. That my Kool-Aid guzzling GOP dead enders is the republican party of today. A corrupt moraly bankrupt war machine. Get our troops out of that target range known as Iraq and tear down the green zone where all the rats are hiding. What a joke. And the joke is on us. Cheney crimminal. Bush crimminal. Dr Rice, great liar. Sad. Very sad.


....I am a HRC supporter but McCain beats Obama 1000 to 1..McCain is a Patriotic American and what you see is what you get..WHO IS OBAMA REALLY??.We don't know yet but it will come out...

Posted by: kaye m. | April 20, 2008 11:38 AM


kaye m,


So, if Clinton can't have the Dem nomination all to herself nuts like you are going to vote for John "bomb bomb Iran, 100 years in Iraq" McCain?


You're not a Clinton supporter, you're a moron.


The Republicans couldn't ask for a better friend than the one they have in Hillary Clinton.


In a year that the Repugs have no business being anywhere near the White House and in a year that they have a godawful old man Bush clone (McCain) as their nominee, Clinton decides that if she can't have the Dem nomination then she's going to just blowup the whole damn Democratic Party.


There's a saying around Washington about the Clinton's and it goes like this:


"The Clintons are always there for you, when they need you"


No truer words were ever spoken.


I almost feel sorry for all of the delusional Clinton cheerleaders out there, they really have lost touch with reality and they should seek out some psychological help as for why they feel the need to use the Clintons to cover up for their own personal shortcomings in life.


Military Generals concerned about John McCain's anger management issues:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JQ6-q4W9tk


I guess all those that claim if their dem candidate doesn't win, they will vote McBush. Well I guess it's just a popularity contest to you and nothing about the issues. Because it is night and day.


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