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If an inexperienced outsider like George Bush senior was head of the CIA at a time when tens of thousands of Soviet nukes were aimed at American cities at hairtrigger notice and still do a respected job, we can handle a brilliant outsider like Leon Paneta at the helm of the CIA today.

Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

She liked the nervous types, the rabbits, the fumblers, the apologizers, the ones plagued with hairtrigger problems.

Beard 2010

In addition to that, it's important to remind voters that notonly McCain is as muchawarmongeras Bush, and possibly more, but he has also a well known hairtrigger temper that makes Bush look sedate and reassuring by comparison.

Lesser Evils, Psychoses, and the Perils of Voting Your Conscience [Part 1] 2008

And of course, his hairtrigger temper, the fact that he fought with everyone at the Naval Academy, yelled at his roomates, broke every rule, hurled things, etc

OpEdNews - Diary: Rob Kall Radio Show with McCain's Fellow POW Phillip Butler-- and He's not Voting for Him 2008

In fact, the surveillance was so hairtrigger that Clinton actually mistakenly bombed what turned out to be, if I recall correctly, a hospital.

Think Progress » George Will vs. William Kristol. 2006

In addition to that, it's important to remind voters that notonly McCain is as muchawarmongeras Bush, and possibly more, but he has also a well known hairtrigger temper that makes Bush look sedate and reassuring by comparison.

Lesser Evils, Psychoses, and the Perils of Voting Your Conscience [Part 1] 2008

In addition to that, it's important to remind voters that notonly McCain is as muchawarmongeras Bush, and possibly more, but he has also a well known hairtrigger temper that makes Bush look sedate and reassuring by comparison.

Lesser Evils, Psychoses, and the Perils of Voting Your Conscience [Part 1] 2008

In addition to that, it's important to remind voters that notonly McCain is as muchawarmongeras Bush, and possibly more, but he has also a well known hairtrigger temper that makes Bush look sedate and reassuring by comparison.

Lesser Evils, Psychoses, and the Perils of Voting Your Conscience [Part 1] 2008

No one could reasonably argue that our lives have not been transformed by the elimination of the hairtrigger nuclear threat and of the continuous war of nerves that were the particular burden of the great conflict of the past four decades.

Reinventing The World 2008

In addition to that, it's important to remind voters that notonly McCain is as muchawarmongeras Bush, and possibly more, but he has also a well known hairtrigger temper that makes Bush look sedate and reassuring by comparison.

Lesser Evils, Psychoses, and the Perils of Voting Your Conscience [Part 1] 2008