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U.S. Senator John McCain, the 2008 Presidential nominee-presumptive of the Republican Party, has a legendary temper and apparently has even dropped the "C-Bomb" on his wife Cindy in public. Former U.S. Senator Robert Smith (R-NH), a colleague of McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "I have witnessed incidents where he has used profanity at colleagues and exploded at colleagues.... He would disagree about something and then explode. It was incidents of irrational behavior. We've all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I've never seen anyone act like that.." John McCain himself admits to having anger-management issues, when he's not denying it. In his autobiography Worth the Fighting For, the Arizona senator wrote, "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." McCain's memoir was published in 2002. Like he has proved with his stands on many issues over the years, John McCain is very changeable -- much more the typical politician than his press and self-declarations would lead the casual observer to believe* -- and one of the issues he has flip-flopped on is his characterization of his temper. The Baltimore Sun in its March 20, 2008 issue quoted McCain as denying he is a hothead: "Just because someone says it's there, you would have to provide some corroboration that it was. Because I do not lose my temper. I do not." He elaborated further on the issue: "Now do I speak strongly? Do I feel frustrated from time to time? Of course. If I didn't, I don't think I would be doing my job. But for someone to say that McCain became just angry and yelled or raised my voice or - it's just not true. It's simply not true." To paraphrase Shakespeare: Methinks the Senator doth protest too much. The assertion that he is master of his temperament is curious as two days before the Sun article was published, he admitted he has anger-management problems. Speaking in Sottsdale, Arizona, McCain admitted, "I have had a bad temper in my life." Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, in an appearance on Larry King's cable-TV talks show, said of McCain that "...he does have a... I guess you could say temper. But I always sort of rationalized that because the poor guy had been locked up." Dole, who until McCain is formally nominated in September 2008 at the Denver GOP convention ranks as the oldest man, at 73, to ever run for President on the ticket of a major party, told King that McCain "can control it. It's not a problem anymore." A new biography about the GOP Presidential nominee, The Real McCain by Cliff Schechter, reveals a disturbing incident in which a hot-headed John McCain humiliated his wife in front of campaign aides and the press with a monumental blow-up. According to the book, "Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, 'You're getting a little thin up there.' McCain's face reddened, and he responded, 'At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c--t.' [EXPLETIVE IS NOT DELETED OR MODIFIED IN THE BOOK] McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days." There are many other incidences of the flaring up of John McCain's incendiary temper detailed in the book. During the 2000 Republican Presidential contest, when McCain was running against Texas Governor George W. Bush for the nomination, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott circulated stories that McCain's six years in a North Vietnamese prison camp had made him mentally unstable. In fact, McCain's psychiatric evaluation after being released from captivity revealed that he had not suffered psychological damage, but interestingly, it highlighted the fact that McCain had anger-management issues before becoming a prisoner of war. His Navy head-shrinker commented that McCain believed that he had learned, during his incarceration, to better control his temper, which had been a problem in the past. John McCain's Senate colleague Hillary Clinton, after running her "It's 3 A.M. In the Morning/Who Do You Want Answering the Phone?" political attack ad targeting Barack Obama, vouched for herself and John McCain's "experience" in being able to handle the tough issues that could arise for a President & Commander-in-Chief during the wee small hours of the morning. (One would like to ask Mrs. Clinton, married to the greatest Lothario to occupy the Oval Office not surnamed either Harding or Kennedy, if such problems to be dealt with at 3 A.M. in the morning include police or press reports of her hubby Bubba busted, Eliot Spitzer-like, in a late-night reveries with scarlet women.) However, the fact remains: the personality of John McCain, despite the endorsements of Hillary and Bill Clinton, seems very brittle indeed. The Clintons' affection for McCain is almost as strange as Hillary Clinton's burying the hatchet with Richard Mellon Scaife, the man who financed the "vast right-wing conspiracy" she blamed for her hubby's sex scandal that led to his impeachment. The same year that Bill Clinton became only the second president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives for high crimes and misdemeanors -- 1998 -- John McCain not only called their then-teenage daughter ugly but also intimated that Hillary was a lesbian. Attending a Republican fund-raiser in Washington, D.C., McCain rhetorically asked, "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father." John McCain seems to be the eternal flyboy, with his crude humor and even cruder language. In the military, pilots are fabled for their immaturity. To see John McCain in person, as I did during the 2008 New Hampshire Presidential primary, is to see a man who is, in Army parlance, "Tightly wrapped." He is not as impressive in person as I expected. The most charismatic men I have ever met on the hustings are Ronald Reagan (1976) and Bill Clinton (1992): Those two definitely had what is called charisma. I am a left-wing Democrat and was so back in high school, but when I shook hands with the then-ex-Governor and former host of Death Valley Days (the latter seemingly a higher achievement to us Baby Boomers who were suckled as children by the boob tube), even though I despised everything he stood for, I was overwhelmed by his presence. Ronald Reagan was a star: Warmth just exuded from the man. I never had a grandfather, and in the seconds that I shook Reagan's hand -- after getting over the visual shock of the bad dye job that had transformed his knotted and combined locks into an unnatural shade of red -- as soon as he focused his attention on me, I thought, "Wow! This man is like my grandfather. Why can't the Democrats have someone like him? Where's Gregory Peck when you need him?" I hate to say this, being a Reagan-basher, but the man exuded -- sincerity. Warmth and sincerity, and a certain -- graciousness. He had grace, which I had seen once when meeting Princess Diana's father on a trip to Althorp in the early 1980s. Earl Spencer met my brother, my mother and myself, who were touring his castle, tourists for cash, and he was very gracious. There wasn't any phoniness or contempt in the old aristo. Ronald Reagan had that grace, that noblesse oblige. For those seconds of our meeting, it seemed as if he genuinely cared about me, and I'm sure -- looking back -- that he did. It was his gift. He was blessed with charisma and possessed a physical aura that actually could embrace you. He had grace. Bill Clinton also has that charisma, but rather than Reagan's sincerity and grace, Bubba wowed you with a smirk that hovered just beneath the surface and then bubbled up for a brief appearance, before diving back down into the pool of his psyche. (Narcissus into the pool did gaze....) . It was as if he was winking at you, and letting you in on the joke. Bubba was no aristocrat either, so there was no sense of noblesse oblige. He was more in line with Jesse Jackson's mantra, "From the outhouse to the White House." Rather than to the manor born, Bill Clinton was one of life's big lottery winners. I've seen Bill Clinton three times in my life, and shaken hands with him twice (most recently during a rally on the eve of the New Hampshire primary), and he's still got it. Charisma, that is. Rather than coming off across as a grandfather (he was roughly the same age in 2008 as Ronald Reagan was in 1976), Clinton seems like a beloved Big Brother or a favorite uncle, an uncle that would slip you his used copy of PLAYBOY. as long as you didn't tell you mother. (Plausible deniability, they call this in Presidential politics.) Like Ronald Reagan, he connects to people. Let me tell you, there are politicians I have seen -- Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter -- that did not. The first President I ever saw was Lyndon Baines Johnson, on the hustings in his 1964 "L.B.J. for the U.S.A." election tour, standing large and waving at the crowd while I was perched on the top of my father's shoulders. I was four years old. I think I was more impressed by his Lincoln Continental than I was by him, he. being so far away, maybe about 50 yards distant -- a huge gulf of space for a kid, filled as it was with an enthusiastic crowd. His Presidential limo was newer than my father's 1959 Lincoln, and it had the fabled "suicide doors" that my father's '59 Linc' lacked. It was the car that Kennedy was killed in, every kid in the crowd knew, or was one just like it, a thought that likely went through every person's head just before the Big Texan stepped out at an intersection in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire before the roiling mass. It was just like a parade, one of the premier events of kiddom in the early 1960s, before Vietnam made patriotism a causality of war. My father had said one night at the dinner table that L.B.J. had killed our beloved President John F. Kennedy, a demi-god in New England, being a Mick and a Catholic from neighboring Massachusetts (my mother was Irish Catholic), but that didn't stop him from taking the family out to see the Main Man that afternoon in Manchester. The L.B.J. remark came after, much after, if my memory serves me correctly; it is not always felicitous these days, now that I'm in my late 40s, older than J.F.K. was when he was assassinated in L.B.J.'s home state of Texas, a decade older than my parents were when they took the kids out to see the President of the United States, when that was about as big an event a lifetime could handle, outside of love and marriage, going off to war or suffering through the Great Depression. I went to a Barack Obama rally held in a high school gymnasium in the waning days of the 2008 New Hampshire primary, and it was the most people I'd seen at a political event in the Granite State since L.B.J.'s whirlwind stop 44 years before. While I saw the lineaments of greatness as Obama wound up and delivered his campaign pitch, I was not overwhelmed as I had expected to be by the hype coming out of Iowa. Frankly, I was disappointed and more than a little dismayed. I was expecting John F. Kennedy , but there was a little too much of the Stepford candidate about Barack Obama, something a little too calculated and slick. (A traveling journalist told me the next day at a Bill Richardson rally that what the voters were seeing in New Hampshire was but a simulacrum of the man who had taken Iowa by storm. Obama was exhausted by the time he had reached New Hampshire, so my negative judgment likely was unfair.) And perhaps, John McCain was exhausted too when I saw him at a rally at the plaza next to Manchester City Hall, several blocks north of where L.B.J. had made his own campaign stand. McCain flubbed his lines, which he admitted to. He was dog tired, it seems in retrospect, though he was holding up well. John McCain in the flesh is much the same as one sees on television, but what struck me most was how short his appearance was, as well as the fact that there seemingly were more press personnel than "civilians" at the event. He was 90 minutes late, and his appearance entailed about 10 minutes of speaking, followed by about 10 minutes of glad-handing while making his way back to his "Straight Talking Tour" bus, while Ron Paul supporters heckled him. I tried to make my way through the crowd to shake his hand, but it was too thick and lacked the fluidity one can use to dodge and weave through to get within hand-shaking range of a popular candidate. I became stymied by the two Japanese newsmen, who were welded in place to the ground, as they were taking a picture of themselves with a cellphone camera, the Gothic facade of the Manchester City Hall serving as the background for their snapshot. Stopped, I wondered what kind of world I lived in. Frankly, the Presidential nomination process -- and I have had 44 years experience, off and on, as a participant or as an observer in the front lines, nearly a whole life time, so my opinion must have some validity -- has become insane. John McCain has a curious appearance, almost malevolent. Unlike Reagan and Bill Clinton, both of whom are big men, John McCain is not physically impressive, and in place of the granite jaw that should be the hallmark of the war hero his commercials tell us he is, there are two chipmunk-like appurtenances, one on each side of his face. The aren't quite jowls: It's as if he's storing something rectangular in his cheeks, such as copies of the deluxe paperback edition of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States the Ron Paul people were handing out. Each of the little books had cost $5.00, according to the price tag. I wondered about Ron Paul's success at raising money on the Internet and how it paid for these nice little books. Rather than the grandfatherly kindness of a Ronald Reagan (and McCain was careful to bring Reagan up during his stump speech), he looks more like the grumpy old neighbor who would try to give a small kid a kick in the ass for "trespassing" on his property to snatch an apple from his tree. I am talking of my own childhood in the 1960s, when a neighbor could kick you in the ass, this being before the proliferation of lawsuits that has dampened down spontaneous outbreaks of violence among the middle class. He strikes me as what Mr. Wilson likely would have been if Dennis the Menace was a tragedy instead of a comedy, or if someone wrote one of those post-post-modern novels only college professors and their unfortunate students read, if it had delved into poor old Mr. Wilson's psyche and shown him to be a frustrated old fart barely able to dam up his anger from past frustrations and transgressions. Mr. Wilson struggling with the better angels of his nature to keep from becoming a pederast or child-killer. Such is a liberal arts education in the 21st Century. Another character John McCain reminds me of is old Mr. MacGregor, brandishing his rake, trying to skewer Peter Rabbit, a particularly horrific image from my childhood I have never forgotten. I can still see Peter on the page of the Beatrix Potter classic, squeezing through the bottom rung of the garden fence, a look of sheer terror on his lupine face, with the vicious MacGregor in pursuit. Such are childhood nightmares engendered! Hearkening back to our literary analysis in the last paragraph, we can picture John McCain as Mr. MacGregor, and Peter Rabbit as "The Other" -- the "gook" (as McCain still calls the Vietnamese) in black pajamas, the Shia (or is it Sunni, John?) "towel-head" in Iraq, or a fellow Republican whom he disagrees with, violently** -- the Rabbit symbolizing the bugaboos in McCain's psyche. (This is not Elwood P. Dowd's pooka Harvey we're talking about here.) Except: Instead of a rake, if John McCain gets possession of The Garden by being elected President, he will have a nuclear arsenal to use against his trespassers. Mr. MacGregor with his finger on The Button. Think about it. There was some nut at the Manchester McCain rally with a sign declaring BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN! referring to the novelty song from the Iranian Hostage Crisis of the late 1970s that reportedly is a favorite of the Arizona Senator. One of the sincere types in the crowd asked the nut, "Do you think that sign is constructive?" while the nut moved off, indulging in the same salty language John McCain used to belittle foes -- and apparently friends and loved ones -- alike. I wondered why the sane person even bothered to address a true believer in John McCain. Only in America, I thought, could a reactionary like McCain be tagged as a liberal. Later that night, after checking in on Bill Richardson (who never seems to be able to get his necktie right), I did The Hillary Clinton Experience on election eve, several hours after she had "cried" in a visit over at the seacoast and generated big headlines. Let me tell you: That woman is as tough as nails. If you were going to get in a bar fight, you could do worse than having Hillary cover your back. There are many criticisms I could level at her (and have), but her presence at her pep rally was rock solid. She was as tough as any Vietnam vet sergeant major, playing out his 30-year string, whom I met back in my days in Pharaoh's Army in the 1980s. I could see why people have said that without Hillary, Bill Clinton would have remained the most popular professor at the University of Arkansas Law School. To borrow the parlance of boxing, she reminded me of an old pug of whom it could be said, "Wakes up in the morning and pisses razor-blades & s---s hot gravel." John McCain seems tough, but the vibe he gives off is strangely off-kilter, as if he could break. There's a brittleness about him. He's the kind of guy who, being relied on as an ally, might turn around and sock you on the jaw. There is a certain disquiet in those eyes, and in the tension of that overly set jaw, bulging at the jowls with a copy of Ron Paul's Constitution on each side (something the war-monger McCain would devour whole rather than respect, I'm afraid; our Founding Fathers were hostile to maintaining a standing Army and to foreign entanglements). John McCain is not as rock solid as Hillary Clinton appeared that night before the New Hampshire primary vote, although to be fair, Hillary seems closer and closer to a crack-up herself since Obama's string of victories after Super Tuesday, even after her Ohio win and "the cup if half-full" performance in Texas. The Presidential nominating process is insane. Incidentally, Cindy McCain does look like a trollop, even 16 years after the incident with her husband and the reporters. I had heard that old John McCain had taken a hot-looking broad to wife after dumping his first missus, but the woman I saw, while pretty, had the look of a retired Vegas showgirl. Or a former high-class hooker, now gone somewhat to seed. She looked older than her chronological age, even with the make-up, and I was shocked to discover when researching McCain's bio that she was actually the heiress from a family with a humongous personal fortune (which was the secret of McCain's political success). Like I said, rather than looking like a high-class heiress, she looked like a former showgirl cum high-priced call girl. A trollop. Thinking about this, it makes you wonder about their marriage, whether John McCain -- who has used his wife Cindy's family fortune and connections to carve out a successful career in Arizona politics that has brought him to within hailing distance of the Oval Office -- is a gold-digger. He certainly has done precious little of substance during his time in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and he seems to be egotistically focused on the White House as an end to itself: John McCain wants to be President for the sake of being President and Commander-in-Chief (thus beating out his father and grandfather both four-star admirals, in rank and achievement), rather than for the opportunity to do good, which was the driving force behind Robert F. Kennedy and, apparently, Barack Obama. John McCain has enjoyed a charmed life with the press, as he offers them access and is highly quotable. However, those who know him and have dealt with him are not so warm towards the Arizona Senator. Former Senator Bob Smith says, "[McCain] had very few friends in the Senate. He has a lot of support around the country, but I don't think he has a lot of support from people who know him well." Former U.S. Representative John LeBoutillier, who was on a Congressional task force dealing with prisoner of war issues, said of McCain, "People who disagree with him get the 'f--- you.'" From his personal experience dealing with McCain, LeBoutillier concludes, "I think he is mentally unstable and not fit to be president." A 1999 editorial by the Arizona Republic, commenting on McCain's planned run for the Republican nomination in 2000, said that the nation as a whole would soon know what Arizonans knew, that John McCain possessed a "volcanic" temper. Expressing doubts as to whether McCain possessed the "temperament" to be President of the United States, the Republic said that the people of the United States would one day acquire what was general knowledge in the Grand Canyon State: That in addition to being "sarcastic and condescending," the editorial stated, "McCain often insults people and flies off the handle." One can assume that during the long campaign season yet to come, the American people will learn this lesson, first-hand. Footnotes: * John McCain was an enthusiastic supporter of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq from the beginning, saying that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. He has rewritten his history to suggest he was a harsh critic of George W. Bush's war plans until General David Petraeus' surge strategy. **The Real McCain by Cliff Schechter details an incident between John McCain and U.S. Representative Rick Renzi, where the two got into a fist-fight when Renzi objected to be called "boy" by McCain. Renzi told McCain to back off from the name-calling, but McCain -- in character -- physically attacked him. Like two schoolboys who bond over a playground fight, McCain and Renzi later became fast friends. Sources: Baltimore Sun, "The Swap: McCain on humor and temper: 'I will get angry'" Huffington Post, "New Book: McCain Once Physically Attacked Fellow Congressman" NewsMax, "John McCain's Temper Preceded Vietnam " The Raw Story, "Book: McCain temper boiled over in '92 tirade, called wife a 'c--t'" |
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