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Video: In Anger, John McCain Berates Woman Representing POW Families

FYI: Dolores Alfond

McCain’s detractors say it’s absolutely fair to raise questions about McCain’s explosiveness while he’s running for the presidency.

“I wouldn’t think that he should be president. He’s very hot tempered,” said Dolores Alfond, chairperson for the National Alliance of Families for the Return of America’s Missing Servicemen and Women.

Alfond, the sister of an Air Force Academy graduate missing in Vietnam since 1967, recalls the rough treatment she received from McCain in 1992 during her appearance at a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs.

She eventually was driven to tears by McCain during the hearing, which can be seen on YouTube.

McCain repeatedly interrupts her during her testimony, berates her and then suddenly storms out of the proceedings.

“He just didn’t want to listen. He continued to ask me questions, but he wouldn’t listen to my answers,” said Alfond in a telephone interview from her home in Seattle. “And he kept slamming things around. He brought me to tears because he wouldn’t listen.”

To this day, Alfond said she doesn’t understand why McCain’s anger seemed so personal toward her.

10 Responses to “Video: In Anger, John McCain Berates Woman Representing POW Families”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 merl

    I was looking forward to voting for that crazy old bastard in 2000, no way I’d ever vote for now. I guess Rove did me a favor with his dirty campaign in SC.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 durablend

    Plenty of them will though (just saw the first bumper sticker yesterday–bleech)

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 SaveFarris

    Yes, by all means: Let’s compare what the candidates were doing 16 years ago.

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 SpiderJ

    Except, Farris: Obama stopped doing drugs. McCain hasn’t really stopped having angry outbursts.

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 Quaker in a Basement

    Where do you get that “16 years ago” stuff, Farris? MSU?

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Sean D. Martin

    SaveFarris said: “Yes, by all means: Let’s compare what the candidates were doing 16 years ago.

    Let’s see. That would be 1992. So you’re talking about when Obama was a recent graduate from Harvard law, had just finished being the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and was starting his career as a civil rights lawyer and teacher of constitutional law.

    Yeah, 16 years ago was a time when Obama was doing really bad things.

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 z_adura

    Good lordy Farris, I would think you would have better material than that…

    George Bush was inhaling… through the nose… and in large quantities about 16 years ago.

    Did you vote for Bush? If so, then shut the f*** up about Obama’s drug use in high school.

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 merl

    I’ve been hearing that drug thing from people who voted for the drunken coke head twice. I just tell them to shut the fuck up. They didn’t care when chickengeorge bush did them.

  9. Gravatar Icon 9 El Cid

    According to McCain’s words as he’s berating the witness that John McCain, Republican is against denigrating someone else’s patriotism, simply because they have different policy beliefs than his.

    Guess he forgot.

    On the other hand, some of these POW / MIA advocates and their associated fanboy nutballs really were responsible for making Americans think for a decade that the Vietnamese were holding captured American soldiers in their cellars.

  10. Gravatar Icon 10 MMCAIN IS A CROOK

    McCain is a fraud. His entire life he’s had someone vouch for his screw-ups——A privileged, spoiled, human piece of waste that
    caused the Phoenix, Arizona economy to practically shut down
    because of his involvement with Charles Keating—–

    I haven’t forgotten the mess he created because——

    singing off———a Phoenix resident-!!

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