Do we really want this Grouchy Old Man as our next President?

If you don't raise your voice, turn purple, or your head starts spinning... then you didn't lose your cool.

It just looks like he got irritated.

NOW, had he come after the press corps with an ax or something, yeah, that's losing your cool.

I can't believe our honorable men and women in uniform having to take orders from this old hothead.

How many times can McSame shoot himself in the foot? Does he have feet?

Pretty soon that ol' McCain temper is going to be on full display, and if America chooses him to answer that 3:00 AM crisis call we might be apologizing for dropping a nuke where we shouldn't have.

The far-left wing lying NYTimes is poison in the bloodstream of this great nation. This den of rich liberal snob reporters are ALWAYS promoting their close pals in the Democrat Party........anyway they can. Americans should shun this dissgraceful political/newspaper......who's slogan should be "Every liberal lie that's fit to print.........or not". Really sad indeed.

Somebody wake me up in November. I'm so over it already.

DangYankee - I think you are mistaken on NH because she won NH but I dont know which loss you are referring to. LOL It is a tough campaign and anyone would be up and down with wins and losses. This instance was unrelated to the campaign because it referred to a past campaign where he had been caught in a lie of denial. Apparently the reporter struck a nerve.

Over the years and recently we have seen all of them angry on video. Clinton comes across to me as strong but not condescending. McCain comes across as strong but condescending.
Obama comes across as both weak and condescending. His inability to show executive decision making strength several times in the campaign supports that perception. But McCain is perceived as one that would make hotheaded rash decisions if he felt his hack was against the wall (as he has shown on several occasions in his career.)

I will give McCain credit for not always looking down his nose at Clinton and not always reaching out to touch her - which I think is totally disrespectful. Obama does this repeatedly. He also crosses boundaries in the way he addresses women he does not know, ie. a woman elder he does not know should not be referred to as sweetie in a flirtacious manner.

Obama shouldnt reach out to touch Clinton in the debates every time she has made a point that he cant argue effectively. This behavior comes across as a man dismissing what a woman says and is inappropriate. He doesnt try to do that with the male candidates and has no right to do that with her anymore than Bush had the right to be presumptuous and try to give Merkel a shoulder massage. (Merkel of Germany was offended and demanded an apology. She was right.)

Men need to understand that this type of behavior is not appropriate with all women. In fact, touching a person without their permission can be construed as assault in some areas.

Being deaf, (about 40% hearing), I have to read lips, read closed captioning, read body language, and am more attuned to inflection than the hearing community. This actually allows me to not be prejudiced by voices as so many of the prejudicial statements have been made about people (men and women) in positions of power relating to their voice.

However, McCain's reputation (earned by his actions) over the years is not just as a maverick... he is perceived as a hothead and rightfully so. This might be appropriate for certain jobs but as President, life-ending decisions have to be made and people have to feel confident he will not make a rash one as a hothead. He will have to work hard to convince voters that he has matured and mellowed into a cool headed decision maker and this type of instance can definitely hurt him.

We're so screwed if this guy becomes CIC. How is America supposed to be the leader of the free world with a doddering, bumbling fool with a "temper" like this in office? O-M-G.

John McCain is a ticking time bomb. Frankly, he scares me. I don't mind saying that after what all he's been through, I don't trust his judgment. Folks, I think we may be in trouble...

Sounds like McCain has taken a page from the Rudy Guiliani school of Media Relations. Any seasoned politician should know that when they are caught in an outright lie, smile, maintain there is no discrepency between the lie you told and the truth we know, and call for another question. Making a scene just gives the press a reason to do a story on the issue, which is what happened here, and the politician comes off as a hothead, which is also what happened here.

Actually McCain is the only candidate who knows about war and peace.

McCain knows how horrible war is he lived through it.

McCain would be the last person to drop a nuke.

McCain wants to lead a humble foreign policy. His advisers talk about it constantly.

McCain isn't the one who said we should invade pakistan.

McCain wants to withdraw from Iraq responsibly be handing it over to iraqis and coming home.

McCain knows how awful war is.

Hillary doesn't have a clue about war.

Senator Hillary Clinton appears to be the most intellgient USA Presidential Candidate for 2008. Senaor Barrack Obama and Senator John Mcclain don't know how to handle the questions of the press right now, so God help us, if either one of thesesocil idiots is elected. But this is not an endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton for our next USA President.

Rex McCain didn't lie.

I guess you love the NY Times who ran that garbage headline against McCain's family.

The media in this country is deplorable in their bias.

It is amazing to me that a member of the press would ask the same question over and over again. Apparently they are trying to make some kind of point about John McCain. Well, as an American, who is a Democrat, and who is working, and supporting, and voting FOR John McCain for President of the United States, I can tell you that is why he is such a strong candidate... he DOES NOT put party first.. he puts his country first.. something that people like Hillary and Obama know little or nothing about.

McCain put his country first when he wore the uniform for his country, and he has consistently put his country first when making decisions and sponsoring good, effective legislative ideas in the Congress. At least he can claim to be 'above" the politics of right and left.. and is for the politics of getting something done for the American people, for the good of the country. That's what we need, and that is why he has my vote.
Kirk
Wilmington, NC

Seems the NYT isn't having trouble making news. They just have trouble reporting it.

Someone as volatile and quick to anger like he has shown over and over is NOT humble, John. I'm not saying he shouldn't be pi**ed off. But we don't need a no-negotiating Prez at this time. We don't need another Prez that's going to alienate us from our only allies.

McCain needs to learn a lesson.

Stop having the press on the back of the bus and talking to them on the back of the plane all the time.

Be like obama and clinton who almost never interact with the press openly.

The press is out to get McCain to get a democrat elected.

They will over dramatize everything.

They will take your words out of context.

They will run garbage page 1 headlines that should be in the gossip section.

They will outright lie.

They will try and stereotype you in a negative way.

STAY AWAY FROM THEM THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

The NYT has a political agenda, they go out of thier way to damage any republican candidate. McCain would have been smarter to refuse all questions from anybody at the NYT until they show they can report things in an unbiased manor which of course will be never.

WOW ABC reporting on a a NYT's reporter's interview verbatum, have not see one of these yet with Clinton and Osama wonder why?