Posted on 09/07/2008 10:01:53 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain made a quick stop at the Capitol one day last spring to sit in on Senate negotiations on the big immigration bill, and Sen. John Cornyn was not pleased.
Cornyn, a mild-mannered Texas Republican, saw a loophole in the bill that he thought would allow felons to pursue a path to citizenship.
McCain called Cornyn's claim "chickens---," according to people familiar with the meeting, and charged that the Texan was looking for an excuse to scuttle the bill. Cornyn grimly told McCain he had a lot of nerve to suddenly show up and inject himself into the sensitive negotiations.
"F--- you," McCain told Cornyn, in front of about 40 witnesses.
It was another instance of the Republican presidential candidate losing his temper, another instance where, as POW-MIA activist Carol Hrdlicka put it, "It's his way or no way."
There's a lengthy list of similar outbursts through the years: McCain shoving a woman in a wheelchair, trying to get an Arizona Republican aide fired from three different jobs, berating a young GOP activist on the night of his own 1986 Senate election and many more.
McCain observers say the incidents have been blown out of proportion.
"I've never seen anything in the way of an outburst of temper that struck me as anything out of the ordinary," said McCain biographer Robert Timberg.
"Those reports are overstated," said Rives Richey, who attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., with McCain in the early 1950s.
McCain's staff wouldn't respond to requests for comment about specific incidents.
But Mark Salter, a longtime McCain aide who functions as the senator's alter ego and the co-author of his books, said that "McCain gets intense, and intent on his argument."
His blowups with senators often result from colleagues being accustomed to deference,...
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Obama’s best shot is to get McCain to go ballistic during a televised debate, say. Problem is that McCain seems to reserve his wrath for fellow Republicans.
Did they seriously just run an article alleging that John McCain yelled at someone in 1986?
It’s not going to happen McCain is behaving.
The lefties are so desperate they’ve been reduced to these stories about McCain’s temper, which everybody already knew anyway. They are really sweating, and it gets worse for them every day. This weekend was a disaster for the RATS, Olbie and Chrissy demoted, Obama professing to be a Muslim, and McCain jumping 10 points in the polls. I’m going to watch a lot of TV tomorrow.
Yes, that rag and the Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News, SF Chronicle are not pubishing descriptions anymore for suspects in response to “sensitivity” to crime-riddled minorities.
A “thin” guy murdered someone yesterday in SJ and the Mercury news used that as description...
Political correctness over public safety is the mantra of teh MSM.
Forget McCain’s anger, I am angrier at him for allowing us to meld into a 3rd World Cesspool via a “conservative” which is clearly false.
The commie war room is running 24/7. The one that digs ‘anything’ up gets a few hours off.
Yep, old news. The SactObama Bee didn’t have a problem with McCain’s temper when this story came out last year. Of course they wanted him to be the Pub nominee back then.
The Dems are going down for the last time. They are going to make everything past look like a cute little walk in the park.
It is the death throes of the Democrat Party.
None taken! LOL!
Oops, I guess they forgot about the Clintons’ terrible tempers. Many stories and examples there.
And Obama also has been known to scream and threaten in the statehouse as well. Lots of easy to verify stuff about this, if they’re interested.
McCain was public and vuglar, but big tempers are as common as big egos in DC and state capitals.
And I've never missed anyone with a thrown ashtray, either!
He would most likely hit Obami in the balls instead of the head. No problem though, Obami doesn't have any balls.
He is the dark side of Jimmy Carter.
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