A question of temperment. Posted: 7 months ago by TraumaMamma
Oover the years, no one has written more intimately about McCain's outbursts than McCain himself. "My temper has often been both a matter of public speculation and personal concern," he wrote in a 2002 memoir. "I have a temper, to state the obvious, which I have tried to control with varying degrees of success because it does not always serve my interest or the public's."
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Posted: 7 months ago by craziesean:
George Washington....our first President was known to fly into fits of rage while debating. It was said that his temper was so bad that he couldnt speak, just throw things around, and he was a key player in the US gaining their independance. But as for Mccain..... you put me in Hanoi Hilton for 7 years you'd be lucky if i didnt fly off the handle from time to time.
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Posted: 7 months ago by TraumaMamma:
« craziesean : But as for Mccain..... you put me in Hanoi Hilton for 7 years you'd be lucky if i didnt fly off the handle from time to time. True. But I don't think those are good attributes to bring to the presidential table in this day and age.
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Posted: 7 months ago by craziesean:
It really depends on the situation i guess. I want a President that will stand up for the American people, A)not one that will try and hug everything out. or B) be able to admit their wrong. all three prospective Pres. hopefuls and our current Pres, have yet to admit they are wrong. each one of them have been wrong on many things, but they are so diluted that they all think they are right. cant we just clone Kennedy and put him back in office?
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Posted: 7 months ago by TraumaMamma:
« craziesean : cant we just clone Kennedy and put him back in office? I wish!
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Posted: 7 months ago by DerAlt:
« craziesean : .... all three prospective Pres. hopefuls and our current Pres, have yet to admit they are wrong. each one of them have been wrong on many things, but they are so diluted that they all think they are right. cant we just clone Kennedy and put him back in office? Just for my edification, what are the "many" things that the candidates were wrong on?
As I see it, none of them, as senators, have had that much influence on issues that can be determined as right or wrong.
My question really centers on the word "many."
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Posted: 7 months ago by gammerus:
« craziesean :cant we just clone Kennedy and put him back in office? Why?
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Posted: 7 months ago by dollyllama:
It's one thing to have a temper and another to fly into a blind rage. He doesn't sound like he has that much self control and if his temper rises because someone disagrees with his ideas, well I don't see how that's not "deluded". An erratic temperament will not serve this country well.
Most things can be resolved with diplomacy and with sanctions, nothing ever really gets resolved with aggression anymore, no one ever really "wins" it just escalates and escalates, taking new forms and cropping up elsewhere.
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Posted: 7 months ago by DerAlt:
With all the erratic fingers poised on nuclear triggers in the world today, the last thing we need, in the world's greatest nuclear power, is a finger with a bad temper.
We could have our own Nikita Krushchev, with a bigger arsenal.
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Posted: 7 months ago by themeevan:
Ugh, this is just icing on the awful cake that is John McCain...
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Posted: 7 months ago by siennablue:
« dollyllama:An erratic temperament will not serve this country well. The man is dangerous, period. Just like Bush, he would be controlled and manipulated by anyone in his cabinet who had even a layman's grasp of psychology.
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