Bush and McCain are both "the class clown" personality type

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

The two men are not mavericks, they are 'discipline problems.' That's not a very good personality type for presidents.

The tongue-out photo of McCain is from a moment where he is mugging... he was doing a comical-indecision bit with exaggerated gestures (about which chair was his) that he thinks is lovable... it's a bizarre desperate bombing Vegas lounge comic from the 1950s persona that comes out in flashes. (Like bomb-bomb-Iran)

Bush does the same thing... mugging and blurting out weird little inappropriate jokes.

Is the class-clown/black-sheep type associated with growing up in the shadow of a highly-successful or intimidating absentee father?

[FLyellowdog]

1. I've taught my fair share of class clowns in my day.

and what bothered me about many of them was their mean-spiritedness. It's one thing to be funny and lead others in humorous escapades...it's altogether different when the humor and sarcasm are used to belittle or embarrass those who aren't able to or won't fight back. Lucky for us Obama IS fighting back.

I see both Bush and McCain as the types who would harass and ridicule those who they think can't easily protect themselves. This is cowardly behavior. And these are the most vicious kinds of attacks. It just makes me want to slap the crap out of both of them...but mostly McCain.

This man has no honor and I doubt if he really ever did. One's true character has a way of finally showing itself and McCain's has come out as both despicable and repulsive. He should be revealed for what he really is...a lying, egotistical son-of-a-bitch.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. Do they often have father issues?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

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