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JOHN McCAIN AS PRESIDENT IS A SCARY THOUGHT…..

And George Will has explained why, in an excellent column at the Jewish World Review (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/), which isn’t available at the moment, for some reason.

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. ...It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?

Will exposes one of the McCain characteristics that gives me the most pause when considering him as President…..the fact that his sudden enthusiasms and rages would lead to harmful proposals that would be supported by many Democrats and most Republicans is the precise reason that I suggested Hillary Clinton might be a SAFER CHOICE for President. The idea was that although Hillary might propose very similar, and similarly damaging, policies…..she wouldn’t get the Republican support that McCain would, and we might escape most of the damage that either of them would bring to the table.

Still don’t know that it’s true…..but McCain is looking scarier and scarier—and Hillary isn’t on the ballot!

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