Gran'pa gets cranky if he doesn't get enough sleep.

Not only that, he is looking more and more like someone with early stage Alzheimer's. Just saying.

After all...we need to continue to be nice to him, and make him seem like a sane, rational, heroic, strong, leader kind of guy, so that when Obama gets the nomination and goes up against him in November, Obama loses.

Then, old Grandpa McCain gets stuck with the recession, the war, and the hundred other messes we're in for four years, and then... (cue angelic music, and doves) HILLARY can run in 2012!

My heart just skipped a few beats of excitement.

So, lay off old Johnny Mac. He's just playing his part in the grand plan to elect our girl!!

After watching McCain on This Week yesterday, I've been surprised that there hasnt been much comment about how he behaved in that interview. I saw someone who couldnt control himself well, and trying hard, but unsuccessfully in my view, to appear as someone who couldnt deny his reputation but tossed it off as merely "passion" and long ago stories. The way he cut off many questions, one has to wonder how he could ever take advice from anyone, or more importantly, how his advisors could stay on the job dealing with that every day.

If the democrat's are silly enough to nominate Obama we will have a hotheaded OLD MAN who would be a disaster in the White House.

McCain also told two bald-faced lies in that episode. I haven't seen anyone call him on them.

First, he said that people with 401K's pay capital gains taxes. They do not.

Second, he claimed "innocent people" were killed in the Weatherman bombings. They were not, unless by bombing you mean "explosion while making a bomb" and by innocent you mean "someone making a bomb."

Good 'ole George let him slide on both of these (or didn't know).

Obama needs to observe this madman, figure out his trigger points and set him off big time in a public venue. We cannot rely on second-hand tales of The Lunatic McCain's temper, we must make the public see what is at stake.

We already have a President that's a loose cannon. Another one might put us in the stratosphere. The thoughts are terrifying.

Wait a sec - wasn't Howard Dean declared "too angry" to be president, since he spoke to people's anger, including his own, at the Bush war? Now, of course, we'd call that being "bitter."

Since there is, apparently, a clearly delineated clause in the Constitution that prescribes what level of anger a candidate may display before he is disqualified from the presidency, surely McCain must also be close to being declared "too angry" by ever pundit in the punditocracy.

Otherwise that could be seen as a double standard at applies to Democrats and not Republicans. But I'm sure that would never be the case by such a fair-minded segment of the "reality-based community."

My brother is a Republican. He has never voted for a Democrat. He voted for Bush, two times. However, his business has been turned on its head by goofy Repub policies, just since the first of the year! He will never vote for either Clinton or McCain. He can't stand either one. He is considering his options, staying home or voting for Obama.

I am heartened because, finally, he sees that the repubs have played him for a fool, for years.

I agree with the poster who said that Obama should provoke McCain to "go postal" in front of a camera. That should end the whole thing.

HuffPo has linked to another story at Raw Story (which McCain blamed on a long day)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/07/report-mccains-profane-ti_n_95429.html

Even in private, I think it's over the line for a man to call his wife a c**t, but in an argument in public, while campaigning? Beyond the pale.

So, what is McCain going to call Putin if he gets riled? Or Ahmadinejad?

It's hard to believe, but the prospect of McCain's temper at play in the Oval Office actually makes Bush seem less undesirable. As Hillary Clinton commented, though perhaps for different reasons, McCain would be even worse than Bush...

And as Raw Story notes, there will be a lot of long days for the next president.

Yeah, I thought the same thing watching This Week. By the end of 12 minutes, McCain's plastered-on smile had turned to gritted teeth. I'd like to see how he'd last in a 90 min. debate. It's up to the democratic surrogates to push his buttons HARD from now on.

THIS is why the Dems need to finish this primary: so proper attention can be paid to McCain's record and character instead of the never ending Hillary and Obama death match.

The fact that the same person who advocates reprehensible policies of death and corruption also has the emotional maturity of a high school sophomore is completely unsurprising. I hope humanity can survive this blight of hideous rulers.

Buck up, little camper! The media will ignore all this, rather than running an incessant tape loop of a campaign speech repeating every 15 seconds on every cable "news" channel in fear of not attracting enough Fox viewers. What angry old man? He gave us BBQ!

The "reality based" outlook for your candidate is clear and sunny, as far as the networks are concerned...

obviously playing the song "short people" would do the trick.

As I read about his temperment after his being a POW, his constant mixing of the Iraq religions and his age makes me wonder if we are seeing the onset of alzheimers.

Wow!