Even the McCain detractors around here have gotta love this story. This is from an article quoting Senator Thad Cochran, which is meant to be critical of McCain’s legendary temper:
Cochran said he saw McCain, who has a reputation for being hot tempered, rough up an Ortega associate during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.
“McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerrilla group here at this end of the table and I don’t know what attracted my attention,” Cochran said in an interview with the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. “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.”
Jim Geraghty: “I realize I’m supposed to be horrified by this story…but if accurate, I can’t help but find myself hoping McCain comes to agree with Obama’s proposal for unconditional, face-to-face summits with dictators.”
Damn straight.
