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

By Chris Nolan, Firedoglake. Posted September 9, 2008.


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


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Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.

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