Leaders Should Be Gentlemen
How Not to Treat People
By machiavel Posted in 2008 — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
For those taking the measure of potential occupants of the Oval Office as men, and not as prepackaged pols, this incident involving RS's own Brad Smith speaks volumes:
Smith recalls attending a committee hearing where McCain was present. "I thought, Well, here he is. I'll go shake his hand, break the ice, show him I don't have horns. I'd just had abdominal surgery a few days before, and I was in a wheelchair." Smith says he rolled up to McCain and held out his hand. McCain took it instinctively before he realized whose it was. "He said, 'I'm not going to talk to you, you're a bully and a coward,' and, frankly, he did not let me say anything.
"Here's a guy who goes around giving commencement speeches saying we should treat each other with civility and respect, but that's not how he treated me," Smith says. "In my view, he doesn't always walk the walk."
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to all that is holy I don't have to vote for him in November.
There are about 40-60% likely primary voters who, like me, would vote for any other republican before we would vote for Senator Raw Ambition.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
From The Fine Article, McCain on immigration:
Under this House bill, if a young woman is illegally in the United States of America, and she is raped, and she goes to a rape counseling center, the people running the center are guilty of a felony. Is that what America is supposed to be about?
Basing your policy on the rare exception is never a good idea. Using emotional depth charges is a sign of dishonesty, or at least a very lazy mind or a weak case.
Make an exception for emergency services, but yes, send them home afterwards. The law should not give criminals carte blanche to attack illegal aliens, but neither should it do so by making them citizens. Let the rape victim stick around long enough to be treated and make a statement, then give her a bus ticket.
And send McCain home, too.
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More brilliance such as that can be found at the Academy. And yes, I know how pretentious I sound.
I live in Arizona. I like it better when he's elsewhere...
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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?
Don't you guys have some kind of real secure storage facility to hold nuclear waste? It should help keep him off the TVs for a while at least.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
I honor Senator McCain's Vietnam service, and will jump into the breach to knock down anyone who tries to diminish it. I will even go so far as to label him one of the great patriots of the 20th century.
But this is revealing for a different reason.
For months, stories of George Allen's off-color manners and schoolyard bully antics have been percolating just beneath the surface. We saw them in Ryan Lizza's TNR article and in anecdotes from ex-staffers that generally fit the pattern. Eventually, these flaws would burst forth in a very public and embarrassing way. How long before McCain's temper becomes an issue? Before he gets nominated... or after?