Presidential nominee John McCain openly admits that he has “anger management issues”, confessing that it’s a problem he’s had to work on for many years.

From the year 2000:

… “I hate the gooks,” McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. “I will hate them as long as I live.”

McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent five years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp, was questioned about the language because of a story last month in the Nation magazine reporting his continued use of the slur.

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“I was referring to my prison guards,” McCain said, “and I will continue to refer to them in language that might offend some people because of the beating and torture of my friends.”

McCain made it clear that his anger extends only toward his captors. As a senator, he was one of the leaders of the postwar effort to normalize U.S. relations with Vietnam. …

McCain Criticized for Slur
He says he’ll keep using term for ex-captors in Vietnam – SF Gate

This troubles me.

I don’t want an “angry” old man with his finger on Nuclear annihilation.