Subject: FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:29 am
MCCAIN SHITS HIS PANTS. ALL THE TIME.
Report: McCain Exploded With Rage During Gambling Outing
The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | October 9, 2008 10:23 AM
Writing for the Daily Beast, Michael Kinsley relays a disturbing story about John McCain from Jeff Dearth, former publisher of the New Republic, when Dearth and McCain attended a magazine industry conference at a casino hotel in Puerto Rico in 2005:
McCain's game is craps. So is Jeff Dearth's. Jeff was at the table when McCain showed up and happily made room for him. Apparently there is some kind of rule or tradition in craps that everyone's hands are supposed to be above the table when the dice are about to be thrown. McCain--"very likely distracted by one of the many people who approached him that evening," Jeff says charitably--apparently was violating this rule. A small middle-aged woman at the table, apparently a "regular," reached out and pulled McCain's arm away. I'll let Jeff take over the story:
"McCain immediately turned to the woman and said between clenched teeth: 'DON'T TOUCH ME.' The woman started to explain...McCain interrupted her: 'DON'T TOUCH ME,' he repeated viciously. The woman again tried to explain. 'DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO?' McCain continued, his voice rising and his hands now raised in the 'bring it on' position. He was red-faced. By this time all the action at the table had stopped. I was completely shocked. McCain had totally lost it, and in the space of about ten seconds. 'Sir, you must be courteous to the other players at the table,' the pit boss said to McCain. "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? ASK ANYBODY AROUND HERE WHO I AM."
This being Puerto Rico, the pit boss might not have known McCain. But the senator continued in full fury--"DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"--and crisis was avoided only when Jeff offered to change places and stand between McCain and the woman who had touched his arm.
Read Kinsley's full piece here.
Also this week, Brave New Films released a new video focused on McCain's temper, featuring "original interviews with former U.S. Senator from Arizona Dennis DeConcini, former Arizona Republican Party Executive Director Jon Hinz, former Arizona Republic Editor Pat Murphy, and Eleanor Apodaca, sister of a Vietnam POW/MIA soldier. All four attest to McCain's explosive anger, three of them with personal anecdotes."
Subject: Re: FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:29 am
GEEZ THEM DAMN YOOTOOBZ DON'T LINK HALF THE FRICKIN TIME.
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Subject: Re: FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:05 am
well it's actually the 11th now, but i've not gone to sleep:
quoting naomi wolf:
Quote: So remember us as we were in our better moments
i'm tryin', i'm tryin'.
Quote: An outlaw America is a global problem that threatens the rest of the international community.
i know, i know.
Quote: How can I care about the fate of people like that?
i'm having a hard time myself. conflicted. i got friends there.
it's the 3rd party people really who represent the real force of the will to fail. unless you have proportional representation, you don't have 'democracy', and have no moral right to pretend otherwise.
there's no fucking third party. this is not an ayn rand novel.
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