"Some say" McCain's a bitter, angry, petty, ungracious sore loser...

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"Some say" McCain's a bitter, angry, petty, ungracious sore loser...

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"Some say" McCain's a bitter, angry, petty, ungracious sore loser...

by John Campanelli

The Huffington Post has a piece by Sam Stein titled Dems Fed Up With McCain: "Angry Old Defeated Candidate" - a sentiment I, as well as many here at DailyKos, echo:

"He is bitter and really angry," Bob Shrum said of McCain in an interview on Friday. "He is angry at the press, which he thinks is unfair. He is angry at Obama and angry at the voters. He has gone from being an angry old candidate to being an angry old defeated candidate."

And McCain was at it this morning on CNN with John King, who gave McCain a platform to swipe at Obama but did nothing to challenge McCain's bullshit:

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This from the man who used Phil Gramm as his economic advisers and would have appointed him Treasury Secretary had he not made his remarks about America being a nation of whiners. And who was McCain's second choice for Treasury? John "$1,400 Trash Can" Thain. Also, this is the man whose campaign was run by lobbyists and he's preaching about the need not to let special interests run the government? McCain's chutzpah makes me wanna vomit. But even worse perhaps is John King's lapdog interview that doesn't challenge McCain on any of his points. Steve Benen makes some excellent point about McCain's effort - which is getting a lot of help from the media - to spin the President's victory into a defeat:

As part of his ongoing offensive against the man who defeated him, John McCain continued to lash out at President Obama yesterday, blasting the economic stimulus package poised to become law. As the Senate debate was wrapping up, the Arizona Republican said, referring to the White House, "I hope they've learned a lesson."

On its face, I find this rather amusing. Obama got what he wanted -- an ambitious package with the spending-to-tax-cut ratio he envisioned from the outset. "I hope they've learned a lesson" is the kind of phrase that applies when one fails to get what they want. It's like telling the coach who just won the Super Bowl, "If you do things differently next time, you'll get a better result."

In the John King interview, McCain - again with an assist from King - also criticizes certain procedural aspects of how the recovery bill was passed and complains "That's the old business as usual." It's unbelievable the degree to which McCain is practicing the same business as usual and practicing the typical Republican habit of projecting his own behavior onto the other side.

In the John King interview, McCain - again with an assist from King - also criticizes certain procedural aspects of how the recovery bill was passed and complains "That's the old business as usual." It's unbelievable the degree to which McCain is practicing the same business as usual and practicing the typical Republican habit of projecting his own behavior onto the other side.

I admit I'm a partisan Democrat. I admit my values are different from Republicans. Nevertheless, I like to think that I try to see when the other side makes good points or act in good faith. But I just don't see it. In fact, I haven't seen as much bad faith from the other side as I am seeing now. It makes me hate Republicans more and more. And McCain is showing himself to be no better than his party's members. I never want to hear it said that McCain is a moderate, a maverick, or behaves in a bipartisan manner. That's just utter fantastical bullshit.

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Obviously, some people are having trouble coming to grips with the fact that Obama won, is well-liked and having a great first month in office.

Oh well, some people will have to get used to it.

Edited to add links.