Troubled Personality
April 9th, 2008John McCain’s “character” is a big deal today — here is a great anecdote of McCain and a senior liberal congressman making friends, and here are anecdotes from a new book, “The Real McCain,” where he calls his wife by the foulest term and attacks fellow congressmen. That he once told Ted Kennedy to shut up is supposed to be a bonus bad, but I (a liberal Democrat) certainly don’t think so! The other stories, however, should give anyone pause, and I must reiterate that I have always had a visceral reaction to McCain. Are these true? I don’t know for sure, and I won’t operate under that assumption because it is unfair to make such assumptions, whether it’s of Clinton based on The Truth About Hillary or Obama-as-Muslim on the Internets. I don’t think they’re impossible, however, and I wonder what sort of effect they might have on his campaign.