Is THIS How We Want the Presidency Managed?

According to an article in the New York Times today, 'Internal Politics Heat Up at McCain Campaign,' by Adam Nagourney,

'Senator John McCain's campaigns have long been defined by internal squabbling and power plays, zigzagging lines of command and a penchant by the candidate for consulting with former advisers without alerting current ones, always a recipe for disquiet.'

Mr. Nagourney goes on to describe that,

'...it is becoming clear that his campaign is once again a swirl of competing spheres of influence, clusters of friends, consultants and media advisers who represent a matrix of clashing ambitions and festering feuds. The cast includes the surviving members of Mr. McCain's 2000 campaign, led by Rick Davis and Mark Salter; a new camp out of the world of Karl Rove, led by the recently ascendant Steve Schmidt; and on the periphery, the ever-present Mike Murphy, Mr. McCain's strategist in the 2000 presidential race who has been dispensing advice to the candidate to the annoyance of the other camps, and is the subject of intensifying rumors in Republican circles that he is about to re-enter the campaign.'

He concludes with the following observation:

'All of this intrigue breeds discouragement among even those former McCain associates who do not dispute the notion that voters now might be getting an early glimpse of the messy, unstructured way in which a McCain White House might be managed. They are hard-pressed to explain why Mr. McCain tolerates this — or encourages this — or why he has trouble cutting ties with people who have not served him well over the years.'

In my personal opinion, I would find it very likely that a person's management style is not likely to change, simply in moving from one situation (a campaign) to another (the presidency).

With THAT in mind, I would certainly NOT want this type of ineptitude in the White House, particularly after the egregious ineptituce, incompetence and criminality to which we have been subjugated for the past two terms. This country deserves, and needs, far better.