Election 2008: The Rage

Apparently John McCain suffers from “uncontrollable fits of rage”. Call me old fashioned, call me a party pooper, but “uncontrollable fits of rage” and “running for President” are not good bedfellows. In fact, hearing the phrase “uncontrollable fits of rage of the President of the USA” is one of those phrases you never want to hear. Like “the prognosis is not good”, “I think you’re a lovely person but…” and “don’t worry, it will grow back.”

Part of me thinks that this story should be publicised as much as possible in the USA, so the voters know they might be electing an angry man who is not in control of himself. But the other part of me knows that it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference to the electorate. Such is the tribal nature of party politics in (not just) the USA that Republicans will still vote for McCain using the logic “well, he may be a raging maniac, but at least he is our raging maniac.”

Leaving us all to dread the day when, if McCain does manage to beat Obama, that he comes into the Oval Office in a stinker of a mood, and looks for which nation state he should take his rage out on today.