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Senator John McCain's born identity (McNasty is "filled with endless rage")
Al Jazeera ^ | 2010-12-30 | Cliff Schecter

Posted on 12/30/2010 9:39:59 AM PST by rabscuttle385

What does he want? Revenge. For what? Being born.

This is the way famous gunslinger Doc Holliday answers equally famous lawman and good friend Wyatt Earp’s inquiry - in their depiction in the movie Tombstone - into why their sworn enemy, Johnny Ringo, is such a misanthrope.

Sadly, this description would be equally accurate in explaining the actions of another Arizona transplant filled with endless rage: Senator John McCain.

I first encountered the seething side of McCain when I was writing my 2008 book, The Real McCain, which was critical of him while pointing out a then-controversial fact, one no longer in dispute among those who lionised him back then. Namely, that the Led Zeppelin-groupie relationship he then enjoyed with many in the media was based on a faulty premise.

John McCain was not a maverick (which he has since admitted after long identifying with the title), but a man driven by a need to fight. To fight for his own redemption, to fight with those who dared disagree with him, and most particularly, to fight with anyone who had delivered him a perceived humiliation of any sort. Think Yosemite Sam on a bender, or Vladamir Putin in those half-naked martial arts pictures.

Sure, McCain was also motivated by the very same political expediency which drives too many politicos, as well as coveting an appearance on the Sunday morning talk circuit the way a twenty-something blonde does meeting Edward Pattinson, or marrying Hugh Hefner.

But the driving force for McCain has been pure vitriol and spite. When I first pointed out this inconvenient truth in my book, that many Republicans, including some willing to go on the record, were sure McCain was motivated by demons and not decency, I was criticised or dismissed in many quarters. Yet, it was obvious to me back then that his battles with fellow Republicans and Democrats had become personal, crusades for the eternally perturbed Abe Simpson stand-in.

I broke two stories in my book that spoke to McCain’s temperament, that he had physically assaulted a member of his own party after taunting him (Republican Representative Rick Renzi) and had called his wife a very not-safe-for-work term of non-endearment. In perhaps an emblematic McCain moment, during a policy meeting with a fellow Republican, McCain “called the guy a ‘sh—head.’ The senator demanded an apology. McCain stood up and said, ‘I apologise, but you’re still a sh—head.’”

There’s a reason the dude was nicknamed “McNasty” in high school.

So when others still saw McCain’s breaking from President Bush on taxes, healthcare, the environment and gun control in the early 2000s as a sign of “independence,” I tried to point out what I had learned: He was just doing it because he hated Bush for beating him in the primaries. And when others saw his loss to then-Senator Barack Obama and thought he’d work with Obama to display his maverickyness once Obama was sworn in, I warned that in all likelihood we’d see McCain once again do his best Judge Elihu Smails impression.

But even I couldn’t have expected how truly ridiculous he’s become. As Deputy Political Director Michael McMurray of NBC News pointed out in a tweet just before Christmas that outside of Afghanistan, “the AZ senator didn't support any major Obama WH policy in '09-'10.” In fact, it has been much worse than that.

Bush’s tax cuts for top earners, immigration reform, a nuclear arms treaty and even a military suicide prevention bill were not worthy of McCain’s support during the last two weeks. Not supporting a bill to prevent military suicides? Really? It’s almost like this particular Scrooge got a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Crazy while napping after an especially large portion of Quaker Oats.

As journalist David Corn recently pointed out, looking at McCain’s increasingly desperate attacks against repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy of allowing gays to serve in the military only if they were as vocal as a Buddhist Monk about who they really were, “…McCain practically threw a tantrum on the Senate floor, decrying ‘this bizarro world’ and denouncing senators in favour of repeal…Looking as if steam would shoot out of his ears at any moment, McCain went on to exclaim that ending DADT would endanger ’the survival of our young men and women in the military.’"

Of course, as Corn also wrote, “Not only had McCain flip-flopped, he had become an angry crusader, seemingly full of rage at a policy initiative he once quasi-endorsed…It seemed more personal than policy -- as in he really doesn't fancy seeing a victory for President Obama, the fellow who prevented McCain from becoming BMOC.”

That is really the gist of it, and it’s at the heart of who McCain has been his entire time in Washington, whether most journalists have been willing to see it or not. He’s not a statesman, nor has he ever been. He’s a petulant bomb thrower. He’s Simon Cowell in a suit.

In fact, in a slightly alternative universe, it wouldn’t really be all that hard to imagine McCain standing on a Times Square street corner screaming at passersby that they all deserve to go to hell, or challenging random strangers to a fight to the death using sticks to determine who gets his clay marble collection.

But in this one, he was just elected to another 6-year Senate term. And that tells you a helluva lot about the predicament in which we currently find ourselves as a nation.


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But the driving force for McCain has been pure vitriol and spite.


1 posted on 12/30/2010 9:40:03 AM PST by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

I see less and less difference between jihadis and the left. Both are irrational, self-loathing angry hate-filled useless blobs of decaying protoplasm.

Other than that, they’re really nice people.


2 posted on 12/30/2010 9:43:17 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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To: rabscuttle385

So, what makes Linda Grahamnesty the The Huckster JUANnabies?


3 posted on 12/30/2010 9:44:21 AM PST by Paladin2
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the —> and the.


4 posted on 12/30/2010 9:45:01 AM PST by Paladin2
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In fact, in a slightly alternative universe, it wouldn’t really be all that hard to imagine McCain standing on a Times Square street corner screaming at passersby that they all deserve to go to hell, or challenging random strangers to a fight to the death using sticks to determine who gets his clay marble collection.

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5 posted on 12/30/2010 9:45:39 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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McCain is a piece of garbage. I am amazed the idiots in AZ voted him in. I guess they like their pork and illegals killing Arizonians. Kyl is no better.


6 posted on 12/30/2010 9:47:10 AM PST by Frantzie (Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
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To: rabscuttle385

If you read the article, from al jazeera no less, you’ll see as much as we may despise McCain, I’m glad the article sees him behaving as an enemy of Obama.


7 posted on 12/30/2010 9:47:35 AM PST by snippy_about_it (Looking for our Sam Adams)
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To: rabscuttle385

I admire fighters. People who stand up to thugs and adversity and meet challenges head-on. But what’s admirable about a rabid dog who snaps at anything that moves?

McCain has never impressed me as principled as much as driven - driven by demons apparently.


8 posted on 12/30/2010 9:48:39 AM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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To: rabscuttle385

McCain is OUR problem..... WHY are we posting anything from Al Jeezera


9 posted on 12/30/2010 9:48:49 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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I’m glad the article sees him behaving as an enemy of Obama.

An enemy of convenience, perhaps.

I think everyone realizes now that McCain, like Judas, Benedict Arnold, and the other assorted treasonous bastards that litter the history books, stands for no one except himself and for his own personal pleasure and enrichment.

10 posted on 12/30/2010 9:51:31 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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“McCain is OUR problem..... WHY are we posting anything from Al Jeezera”

Agreed. rab displays these very problems himself. This is a new low, using an al jizera screed.

McCain is a problem. But I’ll pick him in a fight with al jizera any day.


11 posted on 12/30/2010 9:53:06 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Capitol Hill operator 866-727-4894 toll free. Just say which Representative/Senator you want to spea)
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rab displays these very problems himself.

Oh really, newbie?

12 posted on 12/30/2010 9:54:14 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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He's Irish. They fight.

Hey, how 'bout that.

13 posted on 12/30/2010 9:55:19 AM PST by muleskinner
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You publish as valid a hit piece... from the left... published in Al Jazeera?

Worth a zot?

14 posted on 12/30/2010 9:59:04 AM PST by unspun (It's the Sovereignty, Stu... um... art. | We are Gulag Bound)
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To: rabscuttle385
rab displays these very problems himself.

Oh really, newbie?

Wow! What incredible wit! Yes, I can actually see my comment shriveling under the weight of intellect that you brought to bear upon it!
15 posted on 12/30/2010 10:02:03 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Capitol Hill operator 866-727-4894 toll free. Just say which Representative/Senator you want to spea)
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To: rabscuttle385
But the driving force for McCain has been pure vitriol and spite.

McCain seems to despise everyone except McCain. Never once has he responded to letters while Kyl always responds nicely and even Giffords responds. McCain is totally absorbed with McCain.

16 posted on 12/30/2010 10:03:05 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Yeah he is a newbie but he is right.

but why give creedence to anything published by the ENEMY.

17 posted on 12/30/2010 10:03:19 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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You publish as valid a hit piece...

Exactly what is invalid about the article?

Perhaps you should re-read the hundreds of links pertaining to McCain and his temper tantrums over the years.

from the left...

Even blind, retarded squirrels find nuts on occasion.

Worth a zot?

If the Mods don't like the thread, then they may pull it. If they don't like the source, then they should probably add it to the list of automatically prohibited sources in FR's posting software.

18 posted on 12/30/2010 10:03:36 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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Well, I have to agree with the basic premise.

But I'm all too happy if McCain's fury at Obama for beating him translates into his opposing whatever Obama does. Good. It may be for entirely the wrong reasons, but the outcome is beneficial.

As journalist David Corn recently pointed out, looking at McCain’s increasingly desperate attacks against repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy of allowing gays to serve in the military only if they were as vocal as a Buddhist Monk about who they really were, “…McCain practically threw a tantrum on the Senate floor, decrying ‘this bizarro world’ and denouncing senators in favour of repeal…Looking as if steam would shoot out of his ears at any moment, McCain went on to exclaim that ending DADT would endanger ’the survival of our young men and women in the military.’"

Well, sorry, but the repeal of DADT, with a number of Republicans joining the gay party, was a disaster. For once, McCain had something he was entitled to be angry about.

What, he should have supported gays in the military to prove his good sense? I don't think so.

19 posted on 12/30/2010 10:06:08 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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It’s not like we didn’t know McCain is crazy.

http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/shanklin_archives/McCain%20Mutiny.asx


20 posted on 12/30/2010 10:06:20 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Capitol Hill operator 866-727-4894 toll free. Just say which Representative/Senator you want to spea)
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