{"id":1554,"date":"2008-04-23T07:12:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T11:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2008-04-23T07:12:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T11:12:36","slug":"all-they-have-is-mccains-temper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"All they have is McCain’s temper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The media has dug deeply into McCain’s background and they only thing they can dredge up is his temper. The Washington Post ran a front page opinion piece disguised as news Sunday titled “McCain; A Question of Temperament<\/a>” that makes him out to be some kind of wild-eyed nutjob. And, of course they can find plenty of witnesses to support their contention that he’s too dangerous to be in the White House;<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of McCain’s public life, the many witnesses to his temper have had strikingly different reactions to it. Some depict McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee for president, as an erratic hothead incapable of staying cool in the face of what he views as either disloyalty to him or irrational opposition to his ideas.<\/p>\n

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Former senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican, expresses worries about McCain: “His temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, it should disqualify him.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course that’s hyperbole writ large – only in the movies do people get so mad they blow up the world – but then they’re playing to the segment of our society that confuse movies with reality. Well, today, since the Sunday article didn’t generate much outcry, they tried it again. Michael Gerson writes in the Post “McCain’s Anger Management<\/a>“. Gerson’s evidence of McCain’s temper?<\/p>\n

His 1999 autobiography relates how, as an angry 2-year-old, he would hold his breath until he lost consciousness — the kind of family lore with the ring of truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course we all know how most 2-year-olds are rational beings not given to temper tantrums. John McCain seems to be the exception.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that if John McCain was such an insane, irrational, ranting wildman, there’d be an arrest record, but sadly, for the media, there isn’t. However, I could probably dig up an arrest record on some Democrats who are truly insane. Congressman Jim Moran, who has been arrested for drunken brawling in his district, comes to mind, but the Post backs his candidacy every year as he runs for office across the Potomac in Virginia.<\/p>\n

But John McCain held his breath until he passed out when he was two, so that’s much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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