John McCain is a hell raising maverick who regularly urges contrarians to perform anatomically impossible physical acts. He is the McCain who has built up massive popularity among American voters with his populist opposition to swindlers, liars and thieves, whether in business, Congress, labor or the defense community says Dick Morris.com. (T)his week, the old John McCain began to re-emerge. Articulating what tens of millions of Americans feel, he blamed the “greedy” of Wall Street for causing the current economic problems. The Washington Post devoted several thousands of words Sunday to raise the issue of McCain’s temper dredging up incidents as far back as when he was a 16-year old high school student.
“Does he get angry? Yes,” said fellow curmudgeon Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who supports McCain’s presidential bid. “But it’s never been enough to blur his judgment. . . . If anything, his passion and occasional bursts of anger have made him more effective.” “…Harry S. Truman once threatened bodily harm in a letter to a reviewer who wrote disparagingly about the musical talents of his daughter. Richard M. Nixon ranted, and so did Bill Clinton (fly into purple rages),” says the Post article.
“Temper can sometimes be a political instrument,” said James A. Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. “There are sometimes calculated displays of temper, which is what Lyndon Johnson used to persuade people. . . “
The argument is largely extant inside the beltway where arrogance and narcissism is in every dish – everywhere else in Americans tell each other what they really think and in no uncertain terms.Regardless of the Washington Post, “By flanking the Democrats on the front of economic and social populism, McCain can be himself and can win, “says Morris. Conversely Obama is making the social populist case against himself stronger with each passing day. His “gun-totting god nuts” analysis of small-town America and his elitist dismissal of religion, anti-immigration concerns and hunting as evidence of bitterness and the need for easy solutions was awful.
By the way 60% of the nation’s adults believe the federal tax on gasoline should be suspended until prices come under control. Only 24% opposed the proposal made by John McCain to axe the federal gas tax.
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