“If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament . . ."

[bigtree]

“If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next commander-in-chief, that’s a debate I’m ready to have.” -

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/28/obama-nomination-speech-mccain-doesnt-get-it/



“McCain’s Prickly TIME Interview” Excerpt: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1836909,00.html


Q.What do you want voters to know coming out of the Republican
Convention — about you, about your candidacy?

McCain: I’m prepared to be President of the United States, and I’ll put my country first.


Q.There’s a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but also about honor. I wonder if you could define honor for us?

McCain: Read it in my books.


Q.I’ve read your books.

McCain: No, I’m not going to define it.


Q.But honor in politics?

McCain: I defined it in five books. Read my books.


Q.Your campaign today is more disciplined, more traditional, more aggressive. From your point of view, why the change?

McCain: I will do as much as we possibly can do to provide as much access to the press as possible.


Q.But beyond the press, sir, just in terms of …

McCain: I think we’re running a fine campaign, and this is where we are.


Q.Do you miss the old way of doing it?

McCain: I don’t know what you’re talking about.


Q.Really? Come on, Senator.

McCain: I’ll provide as much access as possible …


Q.In 2000, after the primaries, you went back to South Carolina to talk about what you felt was a mistake you had made on the Confederate flag. Is there anything so far about this campaign that you wish you could take back or you might revisit when it’s over?

McCain: (Does not answer.)


Q.Do I know you? (Says with a laugh.)

McCain: Long pause. I’m very happy with the way our campaign has been conducted, and I am very pleased and humbled to have the nomination of the Republican Party.


Q.You do acknowledge there was a change in the campaign, in the way you had run the campaign?

McCain: Shakes his head. (All bolds, italics, etc. in original. )

[texpatriot2004]

1. And indeed Barack Obama is! nm

[Erin Elizabeth]

2. What the heck was that interview about?

I was confused by it. Was McCain just flat-out refusing to answer questions? Why sit down for an interview then?

[Hamlette]

3. kick

[izquierdista]

4. Oh to be a heckler at a McCain rally!

I would LOVE to be the one to make him lose it and blow his top in one of his typical foul-mouthed tirades.

"Hey Johnnie, what made you go crash-crash-crash-crash-crash? Were you too STUPID to learn how to keep a plane in the air?"

I'm betting that the old fool completely loses it before Election Day and loses all but the Grumpy Old Men vote.

[Hamlette]

5. wow, its much worse than what is quoted here (and elsewhere) do read it all

Q Jumping around a bit: in your books, you've talked about what it was like to go through the Keating Five experience, and you've been quoted as saying it was one of the worst experiences of your life. Someone else quoted you as saying it was even worse than being a POW ...
A That's another one of those statements made 17 or 18 years ago which was out of the context of the conversation I was having. Of course the worst, the toughest experience of my life was being imprisoned, so people can pluck phrases from 17 or 18 years ago ...
Q I wasn't suggesting it as a negative thing. I was just saying that ...
A I'm just suggesting it was taken out of context. I understand how comments are taken out of context from time to time. But obviously, the toughest time of my life, physically and every other way, would be the time that I almost died in prison camp. And I think most Americans understand that.

geez. He isn't prickly. He's a prick.

I hope Jay Carney remembers how McCain treated him when writing about him in the future.