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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-02-08 11:10 AM
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How has McCAIN lasted so long, given his temper & other freak-outs?!1
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Edited on Sat Feb-02-08 11:30 AM by UTUSN
He even got a pass when he lashed out at Maria SHRIVER. Hey!1 Was SHE there when Ahhhnuld endorsed the Cain man?


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http://www.nypost.com/seven/02022008/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm

Raising Mccain


JOHN McCain's fiery temper and twisted humor has gotten the GOP presidential front-runner into a new book about not-so-great moments in American politics. In "Idiots, Hypocrites, Demagogues, and More Idiots," Paul Slansky writes: "When Texas Senator John Cornyn sniped at for missing all but the last day of the 2007 debate on immigration reform, McCain shouted, ' you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room." Slansky also notes McCain's wicked humor, recalling how he told a 1998 GOP fund-raiser, "Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? She's the child of Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton."

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Here's the Maria treasury. Item #1, from 2000, has some priceless time-capsule tidbits about McCAIN's bitterness against Shrub, refusal to endorse Shrub, certainty that GORE would win.

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http://www.google.com/search?q=Shriver+McCain&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/03/10/mccain/print.html

.... Still, around him, it kept getting uglier. There was the Maria Shriver incident, for instance. On Tuesday, as the results became apparent, NBC's Shriver parachuted into his hotel at the Beverly Hilton and demanded an interview. McCain, already turning down interviews with bigger names like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, not to mention members of his traveling press corps who have followed him for months, demurred. Shriver, not taking no for an answer, stood in a stairway hoping to ambush Super Tuesday's big loser.

According to several witnesses, Shriver got to McCain after his advance man, Lanny Wiles, blocked her path. "She did a Lawrence Taylor pick-and-roll around Lanny," said one Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist.

In the process, Shriver's soundman and cameraman accidentally banged their equipment into Bridget McCain, the senator's adopted 8-year-old daughter. Cindy McCain yelled at Shriver. McCain -- caught on camera -- snapped at her to get out of his way. Shriver got great footage -- the irritable, mercurial, bitter McCain getting angry for no discernible reason.

A McCain staffer managed to keep the footage from being broadcast on "Today" after complaining to NBC honchos of Shriver's behavior. The footage was then dumped at the doorstep of "Entertainment Tonight," which not surprisingly ran it with no compunction -- or context -- whatsoever. "Crazy Angry Bitter John McCain" stories buzzed on "Extra!" and other schlock without mention that he was reacting to Shriver and crew's assault on his daughter. ....



http://laist.com/2008/01/30/schwarzenegger_mccain.php

The love between Johnny-Mac and the Governator is nothing new. Maria Shriver once said "I doubt I'll be speaking to him again in the future," referring to McCain... but that was in 1999. McCain has since worked with Ted Kennedy, however, on a comprehensive immigration reform bill that won't likely pass through Congress during the current administration.

What do you think? Will we get 3-way bear hug? Will Maria show up? Is Schwarzenegger going to back McCain all the way?



http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996396,00.html

(& LOSERS)

ALAN KEYES No more debates for Mr. Indignant now that "W" has cinched it. Time to practice mosh-pit dives for 2004

CINCINNATI BEARCATS Star basketballer Kenyon Martin breaks leg just as NCAA March Madness begins

MARIA SHRIVER McCain snaps at her after her camera crew jostles his daughter. Arnold to avenge?

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