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"Dont Touch Me! Don't You Know Who I Am?!?" McCain Loses It at the Craps Table

Here's a great story from a trip John McCain took to Puerto Rico in 2005:


McCain's game is craps. So is Jeff Dearth's. Jeff was at the table when McCain showed up and happily made room for him. Apparently there is some kind of rule or tradition in craps that everyone's hands are supposed to be above the table when the dice are about to be thrown. McCain--"very likely distracted by one of the many people who approached him that evening," Jeff says charitably--apparently was violating this rule. A small middle-aged woman at the table, apparently a "regular," reached out and pulled McCain's arm away. I'll let Jeff take over the story:

"McCain immediately turned to the woman and said between clenched teeth: 'DON'T TOUCH ME.' The woman started to explain...McCain interrupted her: 'DON'T TOUCH ME,' he repeated viciously. The woman again tried to explain. 'DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO?' McCain continued, his voice rising and his hands now raised in the 'bring it on' position. He was red-faced. By this time all the action at the table had stopped. I was completely shocked. McCain had totally lost it, and in the space of about ten seconds. 'Sir, you must be courteous to the other players at the table,' the pit boss said to McCain. "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? ASK ANYBODY AROUND HERE WHO I AM."

This being Puerto Rico, the pit boss might not have known McCain. But the senator continued in full fury--"DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"--and crisis was avoided only when Jeff offered to change places and stand between McCain and the woman who had touched his arm.

I'm surprised that McCain didn't call her the "C"-word. I have no doubt that if McCain were allowed to place his un-steady hand on the tiller, he would probably break the tiller-handle off and beat someone to death with it.

Best line goes to Jeff Dearth:  “I’d happily gamble with Senator McCain again,” he says, “but I definitely wouldn’t gamble on him.”


Comments (6)

In earlier times this would have been characterized as Demonic Possesion.

Where is Pastor Muthee when we need him? Time to lay some hands on brother McCain!

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Yes, closed hands ;)

Check out this great video from Brave New PAC:

John McCain's Rage is a National Security Concern

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAyK-enrF1g

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Pit Boss, over house public address system: "Ladies and gentlemen, one of the players at craps table seven has lost his identity. If anyone can help him find it, please come to crapstable seven!"

He's crazy in his haid.

We'll find ourselves in many more wars with that fool at the helm. He hates women. Just read the RollingStones article. He hates women. I think it is magnificently appropriate that he's getting so much help in sinking his already non-viable candidacy by two women - Palin and Fiorina. I sometimes think that they are the true heroines of this tale called the '08 Elections.

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