On McCain's judgment

Kinda getting lost today in all the foofarah about John McCain forgetting how many houses he owns is something pretty important.

Take just a minute to think about how the McCain campaign reacted to this. Wildly, out of proportion, and blasting with every gun they have.

Now take a step back into last week and remember McCain's first reaction to the Georgia/Russia flareup. Wild, reckless, and making statements that seemed to indicate he wanted some sort of military conflict with Russia.

Later in the week he calmed down, and I would guess that will probably happen here as well, but it does bring up a salient point.

Is McCain temperamentally suited for the big chair?

This is not intended to be a "slam piece," but really, quite seriously, let's imagine another Georgia like incident, or perhaps one of the many incidents in Iraq where the initial blame for an attack turned out to be wildly wrong. Would McCain jump before the evidence? Or, more broadly, would US foreign policy end up careening around his various tempers?