McCain’s temper again an issue

And again it’s Mississippi GOP Senator Thad Cochran who brings up JMac’s infamous…er…”aggressive” streak. You’ll remember that it was the conservative Cochran who tried to thwart McCain’s primary bid by regaling an eager press (and GOP competitors) with tales of JMac’s blue streaked rants in the Senate and his “disturbing” temper that “concerned” Cochran.

Now, even though Cochran is supposedly on the same side, he is bringing up some old stories of McCain’s rage once more.

Cochran brought up one such tale from a 1987 “diplomatic” trip to Nicaragua to meet with members of the Sandinista regime.

“McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerilla group here at this end of the table and I don’t know what attracted my attention,” Cochran said. “But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him or whatever. I don’t know what he was telling him but I thought, good grief, everybody around here has got guns and we were there on a diplomatic mission. I don’t know what had happened to provoke John but he obviously got mad at the guy and he just reached over there and snatched him.”

This is really just a laugher, but it has its place in the campaign dialogue as much as talk over Obama’s inexperience does. It’s all related to questions of character and ability to soundly lead the country both domestically and during especially tense foreign crises.

No doubt the Dems will play this story up for the next few days. And if more anecdotes come out, will McCain’s temper become a serious fall issue?

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