Brent Budowsky: John McCain's Anger Problem

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John McCain's Anger Problem
John McCain
by Brent Budowsky | July 28, 2008


The man who used to be John McCain is reacting to the pressures of a campaign by becoming Meat Ax McCain with low-road attacks that raise core questions of presidential temperament.

Today, as Barack Obama hosts a meeting with financial leaders from across America, the anger-ridden, increasingly desperate McCain campaign accuses Obama of creating a future depression.

The performance of the man who used to be John McCain, and his campaign — run by foreign agents and Bush-Rove disciples — now raises grave questions about whether McCain has the temperament and stability in crisis to be president.

In recent days McCain has accused Obama of supporting genocide, wanting to lose the Iraq war, and now possibly creating a world depression. There is an anger to all this, an emotional and intellectual distemper, and an intolerance of alternate opinion that has deeply troubled his Senate Republican colleagues for many years.

There is an irrational anger to this, a stability meltdown under the pressures of a campaign, that leads McCain to attacks that I have called short-pants McCarthyism. Supports genocide? Wants to lose the Iraq war? Will cause a world depression?

These are the weird, strange and ridiculous charges of an angry candidate lashing out without regard for truth, dignity, common sense or the normal civilities even in our lower-standard national politics.

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1. K&R. "charges of an angry candidate lashing out without regard for truth, dignity..." n/t