John McCain's Temper Makes Him Unfit to be President

I don't care who you have given your support to in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination (I was an Edwards man), we all should be able to agree on one thing: John McCain should never be anything but an occasional visitor to the White House Oval Office.

Never.

And no, I don't say this because of his politics. His politics, no matter what he and his surrogates say, are merely an extension of George W. Bush's politics. Or rather, what Dick Cheney tells George are his politics.

No, there is something far more important to consider. John McCain, in having his infamous temper, is unfit to serve as President of the United States. We don't need a hothead in that office. We don't need a man who, self-admittedly, has trouble controlling his own temper. We need cool heads in that office, not Mount St. Helens.

Now don't just take my word for it. Michael Leahy, a Washington Post staff writer, has written a long, informative article that describes the temper of a man who the Republicans will anoint as their standard bearer this summer. A temper that gives me pause.

Give the article a read. If you don't come away from reading that article with a genuine sense of alarm and a renewed purpose that whatever we do, we must see that Republicans are defeated this fall, then maybe you've already bought your one-way ticket to New Zealand.