IMO the world is made up of people with all kinds of 'ailments'; people who make all kinds of mistakes; people who do weird things after hours.
There is no possible way to weed through all of the things about all of the people in political play. There is no possible way to assuredly determine who will do what and why, and if it were the absolute best option...
Personally, Palin's church affiliations bother me more than McCain tossing a few bucks around the dice table. That may be his stress relief time. Who knows. I don't see a big compulsion regarding his gambling. I don't think McCain is worshipping the dice gods. Palin has compulsion/obsession with her tongue speaking god, on the otherhand.
Personally, Obama's wife bothers me. I watched her on CSpan a couple of times, long before Obama was considered in contention. She was in power lunches with big, affluent women. She was militant and bigoted and loud mouthed. She was full of anger and finger pointing blame all over the place. Obama's affiliation with that idiot preacher bothers me. When I couple that with what I know about his wife, I cringe. I cringe more so than considering McCain is a dope throwing away money on the dice.
Btw, I don't care for either Obama or McCain.
I view things now by considering what I think this country presently needs. Then I try to figure out who is the most apt or inclined to facilitate meeting those needs the best way possible. Usually I base this decision process by viewing how the person (in this case, McCain/Obama) has voted a/o acted in situations surrounding decision making, policy, etc.
In the business world, I've seen some real kooky bastards running things. More often than others or as compared to nonkooky bastards
, these kooky bastards do a great job at making the business run smoothly while being profitable. They know that there are goals both personally and professionally. They know that they are hired and paid to meet the goals set out. They do so, regardless of their kookiness, personal belief systems, etc. I try to view the presidential runners similarly. Their respective kookiness inclinations are usually irrelevant to me, albeit not always and to various degrees if importance.
McCain tossing some cash around a dice table or a poker table, is not on my list of reasons why I don't want to vote for the man.
