You've incorrectly spelled "temprament" instead of temperament in your post title. Just a small typo!

As the Presidential campaign rolls into November, expect the Meanness of John McCain and his surrogates to vastly increase. It is, after all, what Republicans do best. Ever since Lee Atwater transformed the party into the party of hate and anger, Republicans have cashed in on it to great power and wealth. They will not give up on it now.

By October we will be hearing full volume accusations of "Treason" against Barak Obama, possibly even coming directly from John McCain himself (Dick Cheney and Trent Lott certainly never shied away from accusing anyone they disliked of it).

We may even hear for calls for violence from the second tier of his campaign: FoxNews and the like. Of course any call for violence against a presidential candidate is a violation of federal law, but not one of the Loyal Bushies in the Federal Prosecutors' offices will enforce any of them against Republicans. So expect the Post-Labor Day speeches to read like an Ann Coulter article, only with slightly less hesitancy in expressing their hate.

that statement is surprising. I guess when you attempt the "kitchen sink" strategy like the one Hillary tried, it illuminate character in a way that doesn't surface when a surrogate shoots-off their mouth. Nonetheless, it doesn't surprise me. McAce sold his soul for a second shot of his baby's love...

On another nauseous note CBS's cut-and-paste flopping to an answer McAce gave to Katie-baby using an answer to a different question for a response that made McAce look delusional reinforces the open lie and bone head contention that the press goes easier on Obama. In all of my 60 years on this planet I have never seen such bull shit coming from a major news outlet (Fox might be big but it is not a "news" network unless you consider right wing propaganda as news). Someone , as Steve Benin says, needs to be fired, and an apology needs to be given to the American people. When News Networks begin down that road there will be NO way anyone will believe what they are seeing/hearing. Nauseating.

McCain will say or do anything to win. He is known for his inability to control his temper. Do you think that appropriateness or the gravity of his aspired position should prevent his blind ambition from unleashing any possible attack? He has made jokes about killing citizens of a sovereign nation that has not attacked us. McCain allegedly called his wife a c*nt and a trollop.

"In his memoir, "Worth the Fighting For," McCain provided what appears to be his fullest explanation of the subject, acknowledging his temper but writing that he sometimes uses it strategically.

"My temper has often been both a matter of public speculation and personal concern," McCain wrote. "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. I have regretted losing my temper on many occasions. But there are things worth getting angry about in politics, and I have at times tried to use my anger to incite public outrage. I make no apologies for that. . . . When public servants lose their capacity for outrage over practices injurious to the national interest, they have outlived their usefulness to the country."

Grassley, the Iowa Republican, has often tangled with McCain over ethanol subsidies, which Grassley views as crucial and McCain has said he sees as wasteful. But the hottest disagreement took place when the two got into a heated argument in 1992 over McCain's contention that a former prisoner of war in Vietnam had been a traitor. McCain peered closely into Grassley's face as he shouted an obscenity at his Iowa colleague, according to reports published over the years."http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tamed/?page=2

Sounds like my friend who admits that he used to have a drinking problem, but now it's under control.

McCain wants to claim that "the surge" has been a success, but he also wants us to stay in Iraq a lot longer than he's willing to admit. The problem is that calling the surge a success makes it difficult to justify a long-term presence in Iraq. I suspect this is why he gets so cranky when people ask him to make concrete statements about his plans for Iraq.

The fact that the McCain campaign's absurd charge of pro-Obama media bias is being taken at all seriously by the media shows the general right-wing bias of MediaCorp. An unbiased media would simply roll their eyes and otherwise ignore this sort of posturing.

I don't want to hear about people jumping a train because it now looks like a winner.

I don't want to hear from execrable pundits who's word isn't better than a shit smear on your underwear because they're suddenly on the side of the angels.

Cause there ain't no angels and all of these people are creeps, even if they support your boy.

When public servants lose their capacity for outrage over practices injurious to the national interest, they have outlived their usefulness to the country.

-John McCain

There you have it. McCain's failure to show any outrage regarding those practices of the Bush Admin that have proven so injurious to the national interest, most notably the Iraq War which he actively supports, show that he has certainly outlived his usefulness to the country.

So now can't McCain just drop out of the race, spend the money on some good cause, and we can focus on repairing the damage?

Klein describes McCain's comment by saying It was, shockingly, unpresidential.

He is shocked that McCain is unpresidential? The man that sang "bomb Iran"? The man who laughed when Clinton was described as "the bitch"? The man who called his wife a "cunt" and a "trollop"?

What planet has Klein been living on?

to describe to me what "presidential" is. But maybe we need to know what the definition of "is" is. When it comes to McCain, merely stating he is a senator ought to be enough to indicate he is not presidential, but of course Obama is a senator as well. But even farther, it is comical that Klein does not think the statement is unpresidential, but it is the fact that McCain was the one that uttered it!?!

If he had left it to his surrogates, then apparently that would have been better, which is odd. So to an experienced "journalist" the presidential thing is to not say what you feel, but dance around it and let someone else say what you feel. Sounds like Klein's definition of "presidential" has come from living in the later part of the 20th century.