Angry and Desperate: The Real John McCain

John McCain knows he's falling fast in the polls and has been a hindrance to the bailout bill so he's working overtime, more or less begging the public, the media, and members of his own party to listen to him. The campaign is free-falling right now, unable to stay on message long enough to to massage the media narrative.

Thus the John McCain we're getting on the campaign trail right now is an unfiltered John McCain, an off the cuff John McCain. He's improvising out there and has taken a much more angry and confrontational tone over the last 24-48 hours. But it's not str8 talk McCain up there, it's this contentious and bitter old man I've never really seen before.



And he seems to be doing a media blitz with this attitude. Here he is defending his campaign's assertion that Barack Obama supports teaching sex to kindergarten students:



He was also on NPR this morning giving an interview in which he defended the sex ed lie once more.

While we can see very plainly that his campaign is disorganized and panicking, perhaps it's also beginning to appear that the man himself is losing his bearings under the immense pressure of the financial crisis.