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Report: McCain Pushed Woman In A Wheelchair: Bad Temper
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(Hufftington Poset) On Sunday, McClatchy Newspapers published a story on Sen. John McCain's oft-discussed temper, detailing one incident in which McCain allegedly pushed a woman in a wheelchair.

According to McClatchy's report, in 1996, McCain was met in the Senate office halls by a group of family members of POW-MIAs who had been pressing him to pursue more information on their relatives.

Six people present have written statements describing what they saw. According to the accounts, McCain waved his hand to shoo away Jeannette Jenkins, whose cousin was last seen in South Vietnam in 1970, causing her to hit a wall. ....

Reader Comments
  
his tantrums are so frequent
By Obama/Biden4highserenity Sep 7th 2008 at 5:40 pm EDT (Updated Sep 7th 2008 at 5:40 pm EDT)
His tantrums are so frequent that all the members of capital hill have just gotten used to brushing it off---and saying "that's McCain"

When it is so frequent that people have to brush it off, to just be able to work, it is really bad.
Nothing that the congressmen/women can do about it because McCain is ELECTED.
AND WELL
he was a POW hero

so they have to put up with his mental illness, instead of demand that he get help?
  
If true
By Norm Sep 7th 2008 at 5:43 pm EDT (Updated Sep 7th 2008 at 5:43 pm EDT)
this is disturbing. You know if the person wasn't in a wheel chair it would be battery.
Re: If true
By Matt Blankenship Sep 7th 2008 at 5:55 pm EDT (Updated Sep 7th 2008 at 5:55 pm EDT)
I'm not an attorney, but I don't think that matters. He physically pushed her using the wheelchair.
Re: If true
By Matt Blankenship Sep 7th 2008 at 5:56 pm EDT (Updated Sep 7th 2008 at 5:56 pm EDT)
So it would be battery anyway.
Re: If true
By Matt Blankenship Sep 7th 2008 at 5:57 pm EDT (Updated Sep 7th 2008 at 5:57 pm EDT)
But of course I don't know the whole story.
  
hmmmm
By purple summer Sep 7th 2008 at 8:33 pm EDT (Updated Sep 7th 2008 at 8:33 pm EDT)
Yea, like that's believable.....the war hero is a jerk to POW/MIA families.

You are grasping now.