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April 14, 2008 at 10:50 pm #618572
AnonymousInactiveNR, I can find blips about that being true concerning his evaluation upon returning. I would like to know if any evaluations have been done recently. (for the others as well) Not because I don’t think that one was valid, but because things can take a long time to manifest.
April 14, 2008 at 11:24 pm #618573
AnonymousInactiveGood point. Not sure about recent evaluations (I’ve only been able to find that they are keeping those private). I think all candidates would rather keep their psychological evaluations private, but I’m sure it would be very interesting to see.
I will still try to locate further info as I would be very interested in reading that in depth.
April 14, 2008 at 11:36 pm #618574
charlabobParticipantHe wouldn’t release his medical file, but his campaign claims he is about to do so. I’m not sure that will include the state of his emotional health. If he hasn’t seen a shrink, but should, that probably won’t show up.
The question is the state of his physical health (he had a deadly form of stage 4 skin cancer which is supposedly cured…the question is recurrence, etc.)
I am definitely interested in the stability question as well, but, as I say, unless he was undergoing psychiatric evaluation that might not show up anyway unless someone pushes it. For that to happen, the media has to get over its fondness for his friendliness and his barbeque. :-)
April 15, 2008 at 5:23 pm #618575
charlabobParticipantMcCain has finally taken a stand on the new GI Bill of Rights (introduced by Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel –Clinton and Obama are cosigners.) He’s agin it, for the same reason Bush claims — if we give deserved benefits to our soldiers, they will quit.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/15/mccain-military-oppose-ex_n_96769.html
April 18, 2008 at 7:17 pm #618576
charlabobParticipantMcCain released his tax returns — but not his wife’s. Because his wife is rich and a separate person, protected by prenups. Sound familiar? Flash back to 2004 — Theresa Heinz Kerry didn’t release her returns — the repugs went mad. Finally she did. We await with baited breath.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/mccain-tax-returns-latest_n_97424.html
April 18, 2008 at 8:06 pm #618577
AnonymousInactiveIsn’t there a disorder called Republican Amnesia?
April 19, 2008 at 7:36 am #618578
JanSParticipanthehehe…JT…I believe there is. I think they’ve done case studies. One of the studies involved cooking, and what is posted as a “family recipe” in a Republican family….lolol…”oh, my…I forgot…I got that from the Food Network”. Yes, I know, I shouldn’t pick on dear Cindy McCain…”the intern did it”…now where have we heard that before? OK…now I’m just being catty…meow….
April 20, 2008 at 4:01 pm #618579
JoBParticipantwhat would politicians do without interns?
April 20, 2008 at 10:50 pm #618580
JanSParticipantI wasn’t exactly sure where I should put this…so…it’s in this thread. Want it somewhere else? I could do that , too – lol…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/opinion/20rich.html?em&ex=1208836800&en=5bcf5ae80526c0a3&ei=5087
April 21, 2008 at 2:40 pm #618581
charlabobParticipantMore than you want to know about McCain’s temperament:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041902224.html
April 21, 2008 at 3:57 pm #618582
JoBParticipantfrom the article Charlabob posted:
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.”
it’s well worth reading the rest…
April 21, 2008 at 4:10 pm #618583
JoBParticipanthis temper is an issue when dealing with other world leaders.. tho he says he has learned that voters don’t like an angry candidate…
but the instances of vindictive behavior recall shades of tricky dick… and that’s even more frightening
especially after watching 8 years of that sort of behavior behind the scenes from Cheney…
hey.. another tricky dick:)
April 21, 2008 at 5:51 pm #618584
JanSParticipantJoB…not sure about the “tricky” part…definitely sure about the second part – >:o)
April 26, 2008 at 3:37 am #618585
JanSParticipantApril 26, 2008 at 5:16 am #618586
JanSParticipantyep, it’s me again, pickin’ on McCain and the Repubs one more time :)
April 26, 2008 at 8:13 pm #618587
AnonymousInactiveSo what do all you fiscal conservatives think of this?
*Mr. McCain’s plan would appear to result in the biggest jump in the deficit, independent analyses based on Congressional Budget Office figures suggest. A calculation done by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington found that his tax and budget plans, if enacted as proposed, would add at least $5.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
Fiscal monitors say it is harder to compute the effect of the Democratic candidates’ measures because they are more intricate. They estimate that, even taking into account that there are some differences between the proposals by Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, the impact of either on the deficit would be less than one-third that of the McCain plan.*
April 27, 2008 at 4:20 pm #618588
JoBParticipantJanS..
the media matters article was really well done and something i think all democrats ought to read… thank you for posting it.
it clearly spells out the Republican advantage in this election and helps to explain something which has puzzled me.. why the party leaders agreed to a McCain candidacy…
April 27, 2008 at 11:11 pm #618589
JanSParticipantone of the paragraphs that jumped out at me, considering the broohaha about candidates being “elitist” was this one…
“On Tuesday, The New York Times ran what should have served as a reminder to other media outlets that stipulating to McCain’s purity is not journalism, it is cheerleading. The Times revealed that McCain helped Donald Diamond, one of his biggest fundraisers, purchase a stretch of California coastal land from the Pentagon — a purchase that netted Diamond a $20 million profit. Diamond explained: “I think that is what Congress people are supposed to do for constituents. … When you have a big, significant businessman like myself, why wouldn’t you want to help move things along? What else would they do? They waste so much time with legislation.”
the quote from Don Diamond is…well…priceless…”they waste so much time with legislation” indeed…how full of crap is that?
April 28, 2008 at 2:18 am #618590
JoBParticipanti notice theHouse didn’t comment on this one:)
April 29, 2008 at 3:29 pm #618591
JoBParticipantthanks to theHouse for bringing the McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill once again to my attention…
Now there is something republicans can be proud of… and i am not being facetious at all.
They managed to edit a bill that would actually reform the way soft money was used in elections and create a bill that busted the political power of unions…
and John McCain gets the image of a maverick going against the best interests of his party… LOL … while… in case you are wondering… John McCain is on record stating what a great deal it was for his party…
that was a great deal for the Republican political machine…. because as a bonus, they effectively busted unions in the United States.. It was a two-fer!
But did it achieve it’s stated goals?
There is more special interest soft money in the election process now than there was before the bill… and they are regulated less…
Pac money has become bundled money.. but it hasn’t been limited at all.
That bill was great PR for both the Republican party and for John McCain.. but it’s title is a complete contradiction in terms…
yup.. something Republicans can be proud of…
fit’s right in with the party ethic…
all for us and none for them:)
April 30, 2008 at 7:01 pm #618592
charlabobParticipantNeatest trick of the week — turn an article about Repug whining over a Dem attack ad into yet another rehash of WrightGate. I gotta’ hand it to those in my former profession, they are imaginative:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/29/mccain.context/index.html?eref=rss_politics&iref=polticker
May 6, 2008 at 8:44 am #618593
JanSParticipantwhy does this not surprise me?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/opinion/06herbert.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
May 6, 2008 at 3:59 pm #618594
WSMomParticipantThis is silly and enlightening.
I just took The Bush-McCain Challenge — an online quiz to see if you can tell the difference between George W. Bush and John McCain. Check it out, and see if you can do any better than I did!
May 6, 2008 at 7:03 pm #618595
JoBParticipantWSMom…
i didn’t go for the extra rounds as i didn’t want to give my personal info… but really enjoyed the first five:)
enlightening!
May 6, 2008 at 10:08 pm #618596
WSMomParticipanthttp://www.newsweek.com/id/134317
I think we should be very afraid! He’s no McSame, he’s McWorse.
From the Newsweek article no one is talking about: In a recent speech McCain proposed that the United States expel Russia from the G8 and that the United States should expand the G8 by taking in India and Brazil—but pointedly excluded China from the councils of power.
Please read this report by Fareed Zakaria.
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