McCain's Mean Streak: He Only Pushed One Woman in a Wheelchair

Posted by Lindsay Beyerstein, Firedoglake at 4:17 AM on September 9,
2008.

What's the big deal? It was only one.

On Sunday, McClatchy chronicled some of John McCain's most notorious
temper tantrums:

There's a lengthy list of similar outbursts through the years: McCain
pushing a woman in a wheelchair, trying to get an Arizona Republican
aide fired from three different jobs, berating a young GOP activist on
the night of his own 1986 Senate election and many more.

McCain observers say the incidents have been blown out of proportion.

Yeah, a senator pushes just one woman in a wheelchair and suddenly
it's a big deal.

Tom Harkin has the best line in the McClatchy story:

"Look, around here, people lose their tempers once in a while. But it
doesn't happen very often, and it usually happens in some contextual
framework. A lot of times there's just not much of a contextual
framework for his blowing up."

More on the wheelchair incident:

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