You can tell how a person works by asking his or her coworkers... and John McCain's coworkers, Democratic and Republican alike, all agree that John McCain's temper is out of control.

“He has a huge anger problem,” [Sen. Barbara] Boxer said. “And he never hid that….I have seen it happen on the Senate floor many, many times... He has exploded at me a couple times.”

Oh, and let's not pretend McCain has the kind of control over his temper that he can keep from being violent:

Boxer pointed out that many of McCain’s GOP colleagues have also spoken out about his volatility, highlighting an incident told to the Biloxi Sun Herald by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).

Cochran told the newspaper that he watched McCain get involved in a physical confrontation with a Nicaraguan government official during a 1987 trip there. According to Cochran, McCain grabbed the official by the shirt collar and “snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair.”

So... in the many stressful and frustrating situations the next president is likely to find himself in, do you really want a man who is this unable to control himself? Do we really want the leader of the free world to be a (supposedly) grown man who gets violently angry and throws a temper tantrum whenever he doesn't get his way?

John McCain does not have the temperament to be President. Add that to the numerous reasons he is unfit for the office.

Labels: John McCain, Republicans