McCain's Gambling Addiction

McCain's obsession with craps is well-known, and Inverse Square has a great story about it. Although the story is really about McCain's gambling addiction and what that tells us about his orientation toward risk, it ends with a probing question contrasting the two candidates:

It seems to me worth noting the obvious:  where craps is a game of chance with the inevitability of long-term losses, poker is a game of strategy, rewarding an understanding of probability and a capacity for psychological assessment of your opponents.  Hand by hand results may vary, but over time, the more skilled player wins.  So the question in the upcoming election becomes:  would you rather have a craps player or a poker player staring down Putin next time around?

As our French friends would say: the question answers itself.