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Incredible! - McCain's Prickly TIME Interview

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duckley, on 08/28/2008, -28/+768SAMPLE:

"McCain at first seemed happy enough to do the interview. But his mood quickly soured. The McCain on display in the 24-minute interview was prickly, at times abrasive, and determined not to stray off message. An excerpt:"

TIME: I wonder if you could define honor for us?
McCain: Read it in my books.

TIME: I've read your books.
McCain: No, I'm not going to define it.

TIME: But honor in politics?
McCain: I defined it in five books. Read my books.

TIME: 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.]

-- WHAT an ass'ole.
- plimpton777, on 08/28/2008, -9/+366How is this guy not getting crushed in the polls by double digits?
  - mingistech, on 08/28/2008, -28/+321because there are a lot of stupid people in the bible belt.
  - RealHyperX, on 08/28/2008, -284/+21Because he is not a communist Obama? and I am not in the bible belt... Just someone that doesn't buy the Obama message.
  - neognostic, on 08/28/2008, -15/+179@realhyperx - So you are just ignorant, because anybody that believes Obama is a communist, would be ignorant.
  - vade79, on 08/28/2008, -11/+115RealHyperX, there are a lot of you...and I use to hate you for being so illogical, but now I want to see how much worse it can get because of you, tool's song said it best "i'm praying for tidal waves.". Just can't fight the stupidity of majority...so let's ride this ***** out together, pal.
  - CrazyZ, on 08/28/2008, -104/+9Because he's no worse than the opposition......
  - FTWmovin2canada, on 08/28/2008, -8/+48@vade, You just made my day. Awesome comment, and the perfect Tool quote too. Well done, sir.
  - bushisafag, on 08/28/2008, -48/+94Americans, particularly in the south, are stupid. They don't read or have any intellectual curiosity, just like George W. Dickboy and McDouchebag. Americans in "red" states relate easily to these two morons. They are intimidated by an intellectual who does scary things like read books and...think.
  - OrigamiRonin, on 08/28/2008, -5/+58Stupidity knows no boundaries.
  - Rndm_Tngnt, on 08/28/2008, -19/+49Yeah, that's some striking intellectual discourse, there, bushisafag.
  - flink405, on 08/28/2008, -112/+13Rev. Wright.
    Terrorist Ayers.
    Convicted felon Ayers.
    Communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis.
    
    Obama has done nothing but run for office.
    Obama is the most liberal Senator in office.
    
    Biden is a Democrat version of McCain....but with lots more lobbyiest ties.
  - amoro99, on 08/28/2008, -16/+48@bushisafag
    It's not Americans in the red states that are the problem. It's people like you who are too afraid to call out your friends and family when they say they vote for these assholes. How much do you contribute to the democrat message? By posting juvenile comments on Digg. Bravo.
  - Wakkyweed, on 08/28/2008, -20/+82Because Obama is black, and a large portion of Americans are very reluctant to vote for a black man, no matter what his policies are. Face it, America is still badly dogged by racism.
  - DavidBGie, on 08/28/2008, -80/+8Do these guys not understand that Time is not neutral? They are McCain's enemy looking for a trick question to trip him up so they can publish a new McCain gaff. I would have told them to F*** off!
  - rashawty, on 08/28/2008, -3/+60And the worst part about him not being crushed in the polls is the fact that he say's he agrees with bush who has the lowest approval rating ever.
  - SupremeBeing, on 08/28/2008, -74/+6@fink405
    
    Please stop speaking truth here. It will not be tolerated if it makes Jesus Obama look bad.
  - SenorCardgage74, on 08/28/2008, -13/+86@flink405
    
    I swear to Christ every time one of you ignorant assholes uses the word "liberal" as a pejorative I just want to abandon calm reason and rabbit-punch you in the ***** throat.
    
    *****.
  - Junah, on 08/28/2008, -3/+32Because pollsters don't consider first-time voters "likely voters". So they simply ignore us. Most also don't poll those who have a cellphone only.
  - TheMotherLoad, on 08/28/2008, -60/+11@rashawty
    
    Actually CONGRESS has the lowest approval rating ever. Oh by the way, its a DEMOCRATICALLY controlled congress lead by democrat liberal nancy pelosi.
    
    Bush also, had the HIGHEST presidential rating ever...americans are just fickle.
  - flink405, on 08/28/2008, -45/+10@SenorCardgage74
    Yes, Obama is a liberal. What is wrong with that?
    
    Read the Washington Times newspaper today:
    "Obama votes cast him left of his own party
    
    Sen. Barack Obama will portray himself Thursday night as an agent of change for mainstream America, but his eight-year voting record in the Illinois Senate shows the Democrat took stands - particularly on anti-crime legislation - that put him to the left of his own party.
    
    Mr. Obama was the only member of the state Senate to vote against a bill to prohibit the early release of convicted criminal sexual abusers; was among only four who voted against bills to toughen criminal sentences and to increase penalties for "gangbangers" and dealers of Ecstasy; and voted "present" on a bill making it harder for abusive parents to regain custody of their children, a Washington Times review of Illinois legislative records shows."
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/28/ob ...
    
    Let' s not mention Obama is ranked the number 1 liberal in the Senate and Biden is number 3.
    Facts are facts, SenorCardgage74 .
  - pelayostyle, on 08/28/2008, -9/+23@flink405
    
    You should just like Sean Insanity. Please go back to freerepublic. Bye.
  - quaxon, on 08/28/2008, -22/+5because they are both pretty much the same and appeal to the same level of intelligence.
  - theaceoffire, on 08/28/2008, -6/+34@bushisafag
    "Americans, particularly in the south, are stupid."
    
    Over generalized, and untrue. Not only are there a lot of strong Obama supporters here, but we have NASA as well... and while I am not trying to claim that *everyone* is brilliant, we have lots of intelligent people just like northerners have their share of mindless sheep.
    
    And please don't blame Bush on us, he is from Massachusetts. If your going to be so insulting to us, at least pick something we *should* be ashamed of (Slavery, South Carolina, etc).
  - Arishia, on 08/28/2008, -7/+25TheMotherLoad
    lol, now that low rating couldn't possible have ANYTHING to do with the enormous number of fullibusters by Republicans could it?
  - Gephoria, on 08/28/2008, -8/+4what ***** sound quality... . McCain sounds like a kitten underneath a train
  - SimmaDownNow, on 08/28/2008, -2/+8Give props to the High School educated Rove. This man is a genius of the political process.
  - tkstock, on 08/28/2008, -30/+7flink405, how dare you post sourced articles here, right in the middle of an Obama pep rally!
    
    If what the article says is true, why would he vote in favor for early release of sex abusers? Has he got some "friends" pulling for that for some reason?
    
    People just don't know how liberal this guy really is. He's playing a moderate hand right now to get the votes he needs to win, but he's wildly liberal and outside the mainstream when it comes time to vote.
  - rowjimmy, on 08/28/2008, -20/+5@flink - i too think that the weather underground should have done more. a lot more.
    
    @anybody who thinks obama is anything but corporate-puppet-number-two - you are really ***** gullible
  - tkstock, on 08/28/2008, -6/+13theaceoffire, apparently you're not a part of the brilliant southerners that exist.
    
    Bush was born in Connecticut and raised in Texas. He's not from Massachusetts.
    
    You claim the south isn't stupid by pointing out there are Obama supporters there. That's like saying the sky isn't blue by pointing out that blue light is scattered better by the air.
  - tkstock, on 08/28/2008, -4/+5welcome, rowjimmy, to the FBI watchlist.
  - Yuusaku, on 08/28/2008, -4/+12To the people who say Obama is an extreme liberal, his voting record says otherwise. He has actually been very moderate as a congressman, especially compared to Hillary Clinton, who wanted to nationalize health care when she was first lady.
  - Elranzer, on 08/28/2008, -3/+26@TheMotherLoad:
    
    The Democrats do NOT have "control" of Congress, they have a slight majority. They do not have 2/3 majority, which would be "control." The fact that they only have the slight majority, along with Bush in the White House, causes them to not get things done. And in the Senate alone, you cannot say they even have a slight majority anymore, since Joe Lieberman has proven to be a traitor to the DNC since he went "Independent" in 2006 due to his self interests.
    
    Sometimes, I almost think that Republicans LET Congress become slightly (but not 2/3) controlled by Democrats in 2006, so that by 2008 they take all the blame for things not getting done.
    
    We'll see how the approval ratings sway this November, after not only Obama being elected president but even more Democrats take Congress seats. ***** will actually get done.
  - setabs, on 08/28/2008, -12/+4@Elranzer
    
    Lieberman was forced out of the Democratic party he didn't willfully leave from what I recall. And then he kept his seat by beating the democrat by 10%.
  - Rowwen, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1Often times a person's choice is made because he doesn't like the other.
  - theaceoffire, on 08/28/2008, -2/+6@tkstock
    Sorry, I just typed "Wikipedia George Bush" and clicked on H instead of W....
    
    >.< Stupid clones.
  - toetagger, on 08/28/2008, -15/+2
    
    "Southern Man"
    
    Southern man
    better keep your head
    Don't forget
    what your good book said
    Southern change
    gonna come at last
    Now your crosses
    are burning fast
    Southern man
    
    I saw cotton
    and I saw black
    Tall white mansions
    and little shacks.
    Southern man
    when will you
    pay them back?
    I heard screamin'
    and bullwhips cracking
    How long? How long?
    
    Southern man
    better keep your head
    Don't forget
    what your good book said
    Southern change
    gonna come at last
    Now your crosses
    are burning fast
    Southern man
    
    Lily Belle,
    your hair is golden brown
    I've seen your black man
    comin' round
    Swear by God
    I'm gonna cut him down!
    I heard screamin'
    and bullwhips cracking
    How long? How long?
  - brycelb, on 08/29/2008, -6/+5@bushesbutboy-
    
    I live in Southern California which is celebrity, liberal, ***** central and it's full of the stupidest people in this entire country. A simple push of the remote control will back this up. I have been to or lived in just about every part of this country so I have a good frame of reference for stupid and the South doesn't even come close to LA and Orange County. Sorry to burst your uninformed bubble.
  - 5urr3al5am, on 08/29/2008, -6/+4man the Obama machine really turned up the Digg spam.. make that 100 fold!
  - Speed, on 08/29/2008, -1/+6RealHyperX: as a socialist, let me say Obama isn't even a socialist never mind communist.
  - Speed, on 08/29/2008, -1/+3Elranzer: Look up a Word segment form the Colbert Report from 2006 called "Lose". Colbert said back then that the easiest way for Republicans to win in '08 was to lose in '06, since nothing would be better campaign fodder (and undo the congressional scandals such as Foley) was the "Do nothing Democratic Congress". It almost scares me how accurate he was. Say what you will about Colbert and Stewart, they're both very smart people.
  - alieneggsac, on 08/29/2008, -2/+2Uh, maybe because you are basing your opinion on one reporter that definitely has an issue with McCain. He clearly did not print the whole interview, just the answers that make McCain look like an idiot.
    
    The same goes the other way when your favorite reporters only print stuff that makes Obama look like Jesus Christ the best politician in the history of human existence.
    
    News is only the opinion of the guy who writes it. This guy clearly does not like McCain. There's nothing else to talk about.
  - Xaramoth, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3because... this is America.
    
    We made a mistake at electing Bush, we better not make it again.
- akula89, on 08/28/2008, -10/+171You were a very enthusiastic supporter of the invasion of Iraq and, in the early stages, of the Bush Administration's handling of the war. Are those judgments you'd like to revisit?
  
  "Well, my record is clear. I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel."
  
  Does McCain think people are so stupid? News Flash: Oil would not BE at a $120 a barrel if the invasion of Iraq had not occurred. What a pathetic man John McCain is.
  - CrazyZ, on 08/28/2008, -55/+13Why didn't the price of oil shoot up year ago then? The price of oil has little to to with Iraq... but you just keep on believing that it does. I mean, China, India, Russia and Pakistan haven't had any boons in the last several years driving up demand or anything. Speculators haven't had any hand in the price either....
  - elrac, on 08/28/2008, -4/+38I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that. It's like saying, "Think of how destabilized Iraq would have been when Saddam Hussein died in 2003 without our intervention."
  - flink405, on 08/28/2008, -25/+8The price of oil went up because of increased demand, lack of refineries in the world and speculators.
    
    Since the fighting is over in Iraq and Iraq is pumping 5 million barrels of oil a day, why hasn't the price of oil gone down to pre-war levels?
  - YogiWanKenobi, on 08/28/2008, -3/+18Wow, he's even dumber than Dubya.
  - rchargel, on 08/28/2008, -2/+29Please, that's not what makes him dumb. Oil was going to be high anyways. This is what makes him dumb:
    
    "In the 21st century, countries don't invade other countries"
    -- John McCain on the Russian invasion of Georgia.
    
    Umm.... Iraq, Afghanistan are both countries right?
  - eryximachus, on 08/28/2008, -1/+12News Flash: The Iraq War has nothing to do with high oil prices. I haven't heard anyone claim that. It should be obvious - why on earth would it take 5 years for the oil prices to skyrocket?
  - electrikyle, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5Oil is at record prices because of the American oil barons and their unregulated profiting. They have lobbyists that pour money into politicians' campaigns, so the politicians won't stop them from raising the price so high. The war in Iraq is about whether or not Iraq had nuclear capabilities, which it did not. Their main relation is that the war (and the election, etc) helps draw attention away from where the problems are really rooted. These are some bad dudes.
  - howufinna, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4From the amount of diggs akula received, some people really are stupid.
  - dexter411, on 08/29/2008, -1/+3"They have lobbyists that pour money into politicians' campaigns, so the politicians won't stop them from raising the price so high."
    
    Isn't Joe Biden's son a lobbyist?
  - sephiroth965, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3Oil is high because of speculation and profiteering. It has very little to do with demand vs. supply or the Iraq invasion.
  - fedja, on 08/29/2008, -1/+2Oil price has little to do with it. However, so does money. Show me a country that can't afford to buy a chem/bio weapon because of "prices". Sure, developing a new one costs a lot, but producing them is ridiculously cheap.
- Insightful, on 08/28/2008, -4/+99You cannot ask him to define honor or even answer a question.
  
  In seriousness, he spent five and half years in a prison cell. Hasn't he had enough so that we must not ask him tough questions?
  
  /sarcasm
  
  More "I am a POW" here: http://www.236.com/news/2008/08/27/tonight_show_au ...
  - elliam, on 08/28/2008, -2/+53echos of rudy "911" juliani...
  - WasabiBomb, on 08/28/2008, -2/+48The debates next month should be very entertaining. I'm really expecting McCain to throw a temper tantrum on live TV.
  - shitdick057, on 08/28/2008, -1/+11@Insightful YES YES! Aristocrats Joke with McPOWs family! Thanks for link
  - gall0wsp0le, on 08/28/2008, -0/+11I'm definitely looking forwrard to the debates too. Those will be popcorn-worthy ***** fests.
  - tkstock, on 08/28/2008, -8/+4WB, the debates will be really interesting, if the last interview at Saddleback was any indication.
  - Yuusaku, on 08/28/2008, -2/+13You know what's funny is that a news commentator actually mentioned how no one at the Democratic convention mentioned 9/11, as if that's a bad thing. No, that's a good thing. It shows how the Democrats are not trying to PROFIT off of 9/11 the way the Republicans so blatantly do.
  - Elranzer, on 08/28/2008, -1/+11POW is the new 9/11
    
    "I deserved to be president, dammit! I was a POW! It's MY TURN now! They promised me!!"
- beerock, on 08/28/2008, -35/+41"My record shows that I have put my country first and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan."
  
  Alright, a slave-owner, racist and a womanizer.
  It's the Freedom Trifecta.
  - cicerojnr, on 08/28/2008, -10/+28I'm pretty sure Lincoln was none of those things. He was one of the most progressive people of the last two hundred years. He was a Titan, a demi-god and a genius.
  - Rndm_Tngnt, on 08/28/2008, -7/+18Lincoln was all about the pussy.
    
    And Reagan's slave pits are a blight on our national history.
  - OtterStratton, on 08/28/2008, -0/+25Going off your order, you are saying Lincoln was a slaveowner, TR was a racist, and Regan was a womanizer.
    
    I am a history major, and I could be wrong, but I believe none of those are true.
    
    Lincoln = Emancipation Procalmation. Nuff said.
    
    TR = One of the most progressive presidents of the early 1900s. I'm pretty sure that at that point in time, that means he was less hostile to blacks than was the social norm. He would probably be viewed as racist by modern standards, but then again so would George Washington. There was nothing overtly racist in his demeanor or his actions.
    
    So Reagan was a womanizer? Are you referring to his early days, when he was a movie star? While Entourage has taught me that this may certainly be a possibility, he was completely devoted to Nancy Reagan.
    
    Sir, I believe you are wrong.
  - orlyfactor, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5@cicerojnr - and he looked great in a stove pipe hat! How many presidents can say that?!
  - beerock, on 08/28/2008, -3/+3yeah, I totally made all that up, but thanks for playing.
  - rchargel, on 08/28/2008, -1/+7Lincoln owned 0 slaves, but it is a myth that he was an abolitionist as he only signed the Emancipation Proclamation to keep Great Britain from supporting the South. Furthermore, if you study your history the Emancipation Proclamation only technically freed the slaves of another country (the Confederate States of America) that he had no power over. For this reason states like Maryland and West Virginia were allowed to maintain slaves throughout the Civil War. It was not until the 13th amendment, which he pushed for only after overwhelming political pressure, were the slaves actually freed.
    
    "It was Abraham Lincoln's declaration that all slaves would be permanently freed in all areas of the Confederacy that had not already returned to federal control by January 1863. The ten affected states were individually named in the second part. Not included were the Union slave states of Maryland, Delaware, Missouri and Kentucky."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclama ...
    
    Roosevelt was at least no more racist that others in his day. He was in fact famous for his rhetoric against religious bigotry.
    
    Reagan was a womanizer in his youth, but then again what actor isn't/wasn't.
  - demonred, on 08/28/2008, -1/+7Lincoln was racist. No more racist than everyone else in his time, but I do want to point out that he always believed that blacks were inferior to whites.
  - coyoteblue, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Regardless, the original statement isn't even true. Theodore Roosevelt would in no way support drilling in a national wildlife refuge.
  - homercles337, on 08/29/2008, -1/+2You should have added our first neo-con president--Reagan.
- samirms, on 08/28/2008, -3/+116wow....Grandpa needs a nap.
  - RealHyperX, on 08/28/2008, -64/+5really? being discriminatory against the old? How about give Obama some watermelon? Is that OK with you libtards - oh yeah since the dems invented the KKK, I guess it would be!
  - drapelyk, on 08/28/2008, -16/+5your comment makes me giggle... learn to think for yourself ;)
  - Rndm_Tngnt, on 08/28/2008, -19/+7The Dixiecrats:Modern Democrats::Lincoln's Party:Modern Republicans
  - theaceoffire, on 08/28/2008, -2/+18@RealHyperX
    McCain has massive health concerns, ranging from cancer and tumors and more (Just in the last 8 years no less).
    
    Maybe we should pick someone who is farther away from natural death.
  - RamsesII, on 08/28/2008, -2/+16What most McCain interviews basically boil down to.
    
    McCain: You know when I was a POW, they didn't let us take NAPS! Did I mention that I was a POW? Who are you to bring up that nasty Keating business? I was a POW! You weren't there! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I've seen!
    
    Interviewer: respectfully sir, that sounded ***** insane.
    
    McCain: [Does not answer.]
    
    Interviewer: sir?
    
    McCain: Did I mention I was a POW? I was tortured. By gooks. In Nam.
  - saucygitaristak, on 08/28/2008, -2/+7Also @ RealHyperX - It's really funny you say that the democrats invented the KKK because DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS SWITCHED IDEOLOGIES SINCE THEN. So congratulations for shooting yourself in the foot.
  - brycelb, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2@saucygitaristak -
    
    That sounds good till you consider that the Dems still have Robert Byrd. I can't think of any current Republicans that were members of the KKK like Byrd. So who just shot themselves in the foot?
  - fedja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2One party voted for a black man to be their candidate.
    
    Just saying.
- RealHyperX, on 08/28/2008, -84/+7Again - usual liberal quotes. How about the rest of the interview?
  
  McCain Rocks! ***** Obeamie!
  - WasabiBomb, on 08/28/2008, -1/+45Read the damn interview. We don't have to do your work for you.
  - tsf5000, on 08/28/2008, -1/+42Why do you hate America?
  - worminater, on 08/28/2008, -1/+26full audio of the interview is at the link
  - oscenester, on 08/28/2008, -1/+35Holy ***** RealHyperX. Every comment of yours I've read to this point has been the most retarded, ignorant half assed responses i've ever read.
    
    You sound a lot like McCain in this interview..
  - ahmedb07, on 08/28/2008, -0/+28sometimes i honestly believe that "McCain supporters" are just messing with us.
  - RealHyperX, on 08/28/2008, -47/+3oscenester - go collect your welfare check! it's almost that time. ***** libtards....
  - oscenester, on 08/28/2008, -3/+16@RealHyperX: I'm rubber, your glue! Whatever you say to me bounces off and sticks to you!
    ***** idiot.
  - shitdick057, on 08/28/2008, -1/+15@ hyperX: the welfare checks are on first of the month moron. Get your facts straight instead of ***** your sister and being your own parody of your unoriginal self. *****
  - Hodor, on 08/28/2008, -0/+9RealHyperX = http://communitiesonline.homestead.com/files/troll ...
  - hierophantus, on 08/28/2008, -1/+7"Obeamie?" Are you ***** serious?
  - solistus, on 08/29/2008, -0/+6Does it make me an elitist to think people like this should not be allowed to vote? Or reproduce?
  - fedja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Darwin was way wrong.
- richirwin, on 08/28/2008, -2/+67Strange, to say the least.
  
  Maybe his meds hadn't kicked in.
  
  But the reason he didn't want to answer the "define honor" question is because he doesn't know how his ghost writer defined it in "his" books.
  - howufinna, on 08/28/2008, -8/+2Maybe he didn't answer because the question was stupid.
  - Estaris, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5That was absolutley my thought.
    You can not quote from a book you did not write.
    I think that is the most obvious thing as the interview plays out.
    Why else would he be hostile for such a benign question?
  - brycelb, on 08/29/2008, -5/+2Here is how he defines HONOR- The last question.
    
    A lot of people know about your service from your books, but most people don't know that you have two sons currently in the military. Can you describe what it means to have Jack and Jimmy in uniform?
    
    We don't discuss our sons.
    
    The Obama supporters have no idea what this is about and that's SAD!!!!!
  - nosecohn, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Actually, that thing about not discussing his sons is the only one I understand. Part of the reason McCain was held and tortured so long in Vietnam is because his father was a well-known Navy Admiral. Whether McCain is now making a rational decision or not, I can imagine that he would like to prevent his sons from potentially meeting the same fate. I still wouldn't vote for the guy, but his insistence on privacy in this area is understandable.
  - wishninja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3yea I was thinking "bet he didn't even read his own books. "
- Strongwings, on 08/28/2008, -38/+4Are you guys seriously nit-picking this? Why should he have to say what honor is if he had already written 5 freakin' books on it? (And the interviewer said he read them). You wouldn't want to repeat yourselves over and over either.
  
  sooooo..... find something better.
  - grahag, on 08/28/2008, -2/+26As journalists, they're required to ask questions that people might want to know. If he doesn't want to answer, that's his perogative, but it just makes him look like a curmudgeon.
    
    Definitely a bad interview for him. If it was some left wing blogger asking the questions, maybe it'd be different, but this is TIME. They've been around longer than he's been alive.
    
    It's going to hurt him and he can't take it back.
  - Rndm_Tngnt, on 08/28/2008, -1/+20Perhaps the interviewer is looking for something slightly more concise that five books worth of material? Or maybe, y'know get him talking about something that won't make him look like an ***** so that he can get the interview rolling...
  - clsslc, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5"They've been around longer than he's been alive."
    
    Impossible!
  - cybrguy, on 08/28/2008, -3/+11From a man who's whole image and excuse is based on "honor," "duty," and "sacrifice" I am pissed that he takes it so lightly. He should have a damn good definition of honor, and stick to it. The ONLY reason he has to refuse to answer it is for the reasons everyone else has given, he doesn't know, or he doesn't want to sound inconsistent. Someone who is inconsistent on fundamental principles has major issues.
    
    Every time I try to convince myself that McCain might not be as bad as Obama he chooses to show his douchbaggery again.
  - demonred, on 08/28/2008, -1/+6The reporter may have read all of his books, but the majority of us voters have not. The point of interviews like this to allow voters to see the true character of presidential candidates, and I'm afraid that what McCain has shown thus far hasn't been too impressive.
  - solistus, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3Yeah! Want to know what a Presidential candidate's core, defining values are? Buy all his books! How DARE an interviewer ask him about anything he's ever spoken about before?
    
    Did it occur to you that maybe he has no idea what his books say and didn't want to contradict himself? Why else would he repeatedly refuse to answer an easy question?
- flink405, on 08/28/2008, -36/+10Don*t you wish Time magazine would ask Obama some tough questions?
  - oscenester, on 08/28/2008, -2/+31I'm pretty sure that Obama would give a much better response than McCain's "***** you"
  - helloemptiness, on 08/28/2008, -2/+14Also, these were not tough questions at all.
  - Fafnir43, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5Although I think they were /trying/ to get to the subject of McCain's flip-flop on negative campaigning since 2000 (when he was effectively swiftboated into oblivion by the main Republican party), which would explain why he went all psycho.
  - 5urr3al5am, on 08/29/2008, -2/+2main the Obama machine turned up there Digg spammer 10 fold!
- RGNB, on 08/28/2008, -7/+2http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Heeeeer_s_Johnny ...
- picciano, on 08/28/2008, -23/+8I agree, that reporter was Unbelievably Arrogant, Angry and just plain RUDE !
  - azreal156, on 08/28/2008, -1/+12Agreed. Why question a man about something answered in five books he wrote?
  - ezcheezbandit, on 08/28/2008, -1/+8Majority Rules, McCain will heretofore not be startled by hard questions, bright lights and loud noises, rain, and inflated paper bags. We must only approach slowly with outstretched palm and low cooing noises, so has not to put the fragile creature into a silent, bad mood or an ignorant, babbling state.
- dman24752, on 08/28/2008, -2/+37It's like interviewing a petulant 5-year-old
- rz8472, on 08/28/2008, -1/+32Get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers!
- bluesnowmonkey, on 08/28/2008, -9/+5To be fair, if I were him I'd get pretty tired of answering ***** questions like that. "Define honor." They don't have anything better to talk about?
  - publiclurker, on 08/28/2008, -1/+13You mean like his being a POW?
  - howufinna, on 08/28/2008, -4/+3You mean like Obama being black?
  - Blasphemous88, on 08/29/2008, -1/+3Yeah but such annoying questions come with the territory and the job. If he can't deal with them now, what's his reaction going to be as president. As a politician, maintaining an image is almost everything. Even if your interviewers are not in line with your views, your expected to roll with the punches. He loses respect for f'ing this up regardless of anything.
- newecologic, on 08/28/2008, -10/+4Yeah, I guess if press and media treated me the way they treat these guys, and for that matter any public figure the way they do, I think I'd have my guard up and perhaps be an a**hole too. Personally I think McCain exhibited restraint with a reporter that was obviously trying to push his buttons. Just because someone asks a question - doesn't mean that you, me or anyone is obligated to answer it, and that includes public figures.
  
  I think that it's the media who who run around acting like a**holes; they think that they can ask (more like demand answers) to any question, regardless of subject - all in the name of freedom of speech and the public's "right to know". That's a lot of bu**sh**; the press has too much power, too much bias, too much influence and the public is only too willing to "drink the Koolaid" that they're being fed. ANYTHING taken out of context can and will be misinterpreted and that is exactly why the press uses this tactic regularly to distort the truth, promote their agenda and dupe the public.
  
  C'mon people - use that bit of gray matter between your shoulders and THINK!!! If we're all going to just "tune in" every night and just believe and accept everything we see on the news or for that matter read in TIME just because it's a "news" magazine - geez, we're all doomed.
  - Estaris, on 08/29/2008, -2/+3Well since we are talking about thinking...
    I would like a president that would not pout, sulk, or get mad at a simple interview... how will he do with talks overseas if he can not hold his temper with a reporter from TIME?
    Do you really want our country represented by someone who sulks and pouts like that?
    No one can spin that kind of consistent childish side Cain has been reflecting.
    It would be nice to have a politician that is actually a diplomat. I use to think those two were not mutually exclusive...
- Spudster, on 08/28/2008, -12/+5It's no better than Obama's complete dodging of the media.
- obamayomama, on 08/28/2008, -9/+3Time, like so many in the media, are obviously in the tank for Obama. Evidence, you ask? Well how about seven times on the cover this year as opposed to two for McCain? And how about the line of questioning in interviews... Here's the first question Karen Timulty asked Obama on their Jul. 22, 2008 interview:
  
  TIME: First of all, how do you like your new plane?
  
  And here's the link to the interview, if you can call it that. Media bias? Naaaa. http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:LWRSaNFCeQoJ: ...
  - Fafnir43, on 08/29/2008, -1/+1First question in the excerpt: "What do you want voters to know coming out of the Republican Convention — about you, about your candidacy?" Not exactly playing hardball, is it?
  - obamayomama, on 08/29/2008, -1/+0Did you read the rest of Obama's interview? If not, you may want to, because the questions didn't get any tougher. In the interest of brevity I didn't post the whole thing.
  - fedja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Simple reason. Putting McCain on the cover of a newspaper makes your sales take a dive. If you want to address the reading public, you don't scare them with grandpa. He's more appropriate for other products.
  - obamayomama, on 08/29/2008, -1/+1Well, TIME is a magazine, last time I checked, not a newspaper... but in any case, isn't there supposed to be a presumption of fairness in a Presidential election- at least by those media outlets that want to be considered credible?
- helloemptiness, on 08/28/2008, -2/+3You mean Fox news? Does that count as media?
  - obamayomama, on 08/28/2008, -1/+0Did I say Fox News? No, *****, I didn't.
  - helloemptiness, on 08/28/2008, -0/+0My apologies, i meant to post that on a comment right above yours. Spudster said "It's no better than Obama's complete dodging of the media" and he was the actual target of my comment. Although, i do find it strange that i got dugg up for making a completely irrelevant comment on your post just because i bashed fox news. Perhaps digg needs to sort some things out. Once again, i apologize for the misunderstanding and i had no intention of criticizing your post.
  - obamayomama, on 08/29/2008, -1/+0Apology accepted... As far as the irony of being dugg up on an irrelevant post because it bashed FOX, it doesn't surprise me. If you'd irrelevantly bashed Olberman you'd have been dugg down into oblivion.
- DFutureIsNow, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5He'll be a bigger ***** if he gets into the WH. This warmup scares me, another secretive, my way or the highway administration.
- ZEM13, on 08/28/2008, -4/+5Look, I understand why most Diggers don't like him, but at the same time I wonder why no one seems to look at the good side too. What you quoted was definitely rude, possibly arrogant, but he said a few GOOD things that you just can't over look. From the article:
  
  "How different are you from President Bush? Are you in step with your party? Are you independent from your party?
  My record shows that I have put my country first and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Sometimes that is not in keeping with the present Administration or my colleagues, but I've always put my country first, whether it's saying I didn't support the decision to go to Lebanon or my fighting against the corruption in Washington or out-of-control pork-barrel spending, which has led to members of Congress residing in federal prison. So I've always stood up for a set of principles and a philosophy that I think have been pretty consistent over the years.
  
  Your tougher line on Russia, which predated [the Russian invasion of Georgia], now to many looks prescient. Others say it's indicative of a belligerent approach to foreign policy that would perhaps further exacerbate the tensions being created with our allies and others around the world under the Bush Administration. How do you respond to that critique?
  Well, it reminds me of some of the arguments we went through when Ronald Reagan became President of the United States. I think Russian behavior has been very clear, and I've pointed it out for quite a period of time, and the chronicle of their actions has been well known since President [Vladimir] Putin came to power, and I believe that it's very important that Russia behave in a manner befitting a very strong nation. They're not doing so at this time, so therefore I will criticize and in some cases — in the case of the aggression against Georgia — condemn them.
  
  You were a very enthusiastic supporter of the invasion of Iraq and, in the early stages, of the Bush Administration's handling of the war. Are those judgments you'd like to revisit?
  Well, my record is clear. I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel. I was one of the first to point out the failure of strategy in Iraq under [former Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld. I was criticized for being disloyal to the Republicans and the President. I was the first to say I would lose a campaign rather than lose a war. I supported the surge. No observer over the last two years would say the surge hasn't succeeded. I believe we did the right thing."
  
  I'd also like to point out that at the end he was talking about GOING to Iraq, not staying there.
  - brycelb, on 08/29/2008, -1/+2If I may add one more thing-
    
    A lot of people know about your service from your books, but most people don't know that you have two sons currently in the military. Can you describe what it means to have Jack and Jimmy in uniform?
    
    We don't discuss our sons.
- KinOfCain, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Why can't they just post the full transcript? If McCain "quickly soured" Well, what questions made him sour?
- wpc33, on 08/29/2008, -0/+4"I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction."
  
  Hey, McCain, ever seen "Minority Report"?
  
  And that aside, belief is not proof. My point is not about Hussein, but McCain's veil of *****.
- katjas, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2What a dick. Does he know that answering questions and doing interviews is part of the campaign? Douche.
- DeathfireD, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2I'm so sick of all the Obama talk, all the news posts, TV ads, pictures...etc. Time dedicated it's last whole issue just to him (which I assume their doing for McCain Next. if they don't then their bias). I could only find 2 articles that where not about him and all his "greatness", which sucked and in my opinion was a waste of money. If I wanted to read peoples opinions about Obama I would have come to digg and looked on the front page. As for McCain, I don't like him, never have never will. Not because of his attitude, his age, or because the majority of the web hate him but because of his goals. Both him and Obama support Real ID (National ID) and that's enough to force me write someone else's name in when it comes time to vote.
- Enchorito, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2The reporter was being combative. Define "honor"? Does he not have a dictionary? Asking McCain define words was a cheap tactic to entrap McCain and not good journalism. McCain wisely didn't fall for it.
  
  If you actually listened to the audio, he replied in a calm manner and was not prickly at all. The headline puts a negative spin on his ability to deflect questions designed to make him look bad.
  
  If this what Time considers good journalism, I'm canceling my subscription.
USArugula, on 08/28/2008, -17/+483McCain withholding information from the press? My God, it's just like the last 8 years.
- PolishLogic, on 08/28/2008, -56/+9Yes, because that sure is some important information....
  
  ugh
  - WasabiBomb, on 08/28/2008, -6/+43You'd think that a political candidate would consider an interview to "important information". This is the guy running for the office of President of the United States, arguably the most powerful position in the world, and he can't be bothered to properly do an interview to let us know where he stands?
    
    No? Then I can't be bothered to vote for him.
  - PolishLogic, on 08/28/2008, -12/+5Where he stands? On the issues Time was asking about?
    
    "define honor.."
    "Do you miss the old way of doing it?"
    "anything so far about this campaign that you wish you could take back"
    "Do I know you? "
    compare the Keating 5 with being a POW
    what do you think about your sons serving in the military...
    
    Yeah, those are some bits of important information alright....then again, you probably also find the conventions themselves to be important.
  - Mejari, on 08/28/2008, -2/+7I consider it very important information. I desperately want to know how McCain feels about abandoning his previous views for political expediency, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone on that.
  - USArugula, on 08/28/2008, -2/+8Jeez, PolishLogic, if he that's secretive about things you think are unimportant, just imagine how he will be with thinks like cronyism, the "evidence" he uses to send our troops to war -- it's Bush all over, no matter how you look at it.
  - cherwilco, on 08/28/2008, -2/+3I used to take things for granted like having a president who is smarter than I am. Then we got Bush. Is it also too much to ask for a president to have some semblance of a human personality? I know its a trivial thing to ask for, a personality that is. I mean its not like this guy is (hopefully not) going to be handling any kind of foreign affairs or anything.
  - JulyZerg, on 08/29/2008, -1/+2@cherwilco
    
    A personality isn't needed so much as a BRAIN!
  - theeEqualizer, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3So it's not important to define the substance behind your own rhetoric? I see. So you admit that when McCain uses words like "honor", its all a bunch of *****.
    
    Thank you.
- cadmiumpaint, on 08/28/2008, -4/+57its not so much withholding as it is a complete contempt and unwillingness to have anything to do with the press.
  
  why do agree to do an interview if you don't want to do one?
  - PolishLogic, on 08/28/2008, -12/+3Why do you treat a presidential candidate as the loser of the election before the election even takes place?
  - ParanoydAndroid, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5Wishful thinking? Hope? Faith in humanity? Any of the above really.
  - Spudster, on 08/28/2008, -7/+2Funny how no one is giving ***** to Obama for being the most press evasive candidate in history.
  - USArugula, on 08/28/2008, -2/+8"Funny how no one is giving ***** to Obama for being the most press evasive candidate in history."
    
    Yeah, I never see any coverage of Obama on TV.
    
    (Do I really need the sarcasm tag here?)
  - Spudster, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Arugula... it has nothing to do with the fact that Obama is covered on TV. It's that Obama is one of the most tough presidential candidates to get a media interview with, it's well known that he avoids speaking directly with the press as much as possible. Compared to McCain's relatively open style with the media and there is a real contrast there.
    
    Keep in mind I support Obama.
- Irishjack, on 08/28/2008, -31/+2How does that make him any different than any other politician. They all lie, no matter how good you think they are.
  - funkyloki, on 08/28/2008, -1/+18Umm, not applicable in this case. He did not lie in the interview, he just wasn't cooperative. And if you believe that politicians are uncooperative regularly when it comes to one on one interviews, you're crazy. Most politicians love to do interviews with the press, because it gives them a chance to talk, which they ALL love to do, and it gives them some recognition, which they want as they are constantly campaigning.
- topgigmedia, on 08/28/2008, -2/+36This is just the tip of the iceberg. We have seen nothing yet - wait until he is elected. It sickens me that Obama isn't ahead by 20 points by now. Americans are so freakin' out of it and detuned.
  - roddack, on 08/28/2008, -23/+3Right because Obama is such a great person? Maybe you need to wake up and under stand that both of the Candidates are Pro-Big Government welfare-warfare statist that in the end will destroy your liberties.
    
    And for a long enough time the press has tried to act like a 5th state
  - BossKey, on 08/28/2008, -2/+19"Pro-Big Government welfare-warfare statist that in the end will destroy your liberties."
    
    You mean the Bush Administration? Expanded government, DHS and TSA? Welfare to Iraq contractors? Reduced liberties? Check.
  - Fafnir43, on 08/29/2008, -1/+5Oh, and I /love/ the fact that you can use "destroy your liberties" in any context other than continued Republican control. This is the party that's been ***** on the most important parts of the Constitution non-stop for the past seven years.
  - topgigmedia, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1I vote on issues and proposed policies, not on personality. Incidentally, McCain fails in both areas.
    
    Put the cool aid down, pick up your remote and change the channel to anything but the Fox Fake News you seem to be consuming by the week-load - ok? You could certainly use a healthy injection of reality my friend. Do some valid fact checking and then tune back in and regain some of the credibility you just lost.
- IslandDog, on 08/28/2008, -10/+2http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_campaign_c ...
- dn11, on 08/28/2008, -4/+14"A lot of people know about your service from your books, but most people don't know that you have two sons currently in the military. Can you describe what it means to have Jack and Jimmy in uniform?
  
  We don't discuss our sons. "
  
  Hmm... funny Biden and Obama seem to be very proud of their families. I wonder why McCain doesn't want to talk about his family(s)? Just like he doesn't want to talk about his finances - which are conveniently handled completely by his wife and he has nothing to do with it - except when his wife's family is funding his political career.
  - Monk22, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5the same reason the clintons were so rabid about protecting their daughter. this isnt uncommon.
  - ParanoydAndroid, on 08/28/2008, -1/+8I don't like McCain for president, but I don't think it's fair to find fault with him for wanting to keep some of his family life private.
    
    If he was simultaneously flaunting them for a polling boost and then saying he wasn't going to mention them, that would be a problem; however, I really honestly haven't heard anything about his sons from his campaing _at all_. And I'm sure mentioning he had more family in the military would help him out, so his integrity in keeping them in the spotlight is exemplary - even if little else in his personality is.
  - snafflepaffle, on 08/28/2008, -3/+3@Monk22
    
    Chelsea was about 8 at the time. Now that she's an adult she's out on the campaign trail. I expect that if McCain's sons are in Iraq they're probably adults in the military, not kids going to a private boarding school there.
  - cherwilco, on 08/29/2008, -2/+2I was wondering the exact same thing dn11. I mean if he didn't want to talk about them for whatever reason then he could have at least given some generic response like "were very proud of our sons and their commitments to their country."
    
    would've been better than saying we don't discuss our sons
  - brycelb, on 08/29/2008, -3/+3It's not surprising that liberals don't get this. If Obama was in a similar situation we would hear day and night about it. Service to the country is not lip service for McCain no matter how much you wish it was. It's amazing how clueless most of you are.
- iChaz, on 08/28/2008, -4/+2must be that time of the month again.
- bcclist, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3the audio - click the player to the right of his picture - is even crazier because it includes dialogue from questions other journalist asked. the transcrpit seen through the digg link is only of the Time Magazine author's questions. check out the audio interview...it takes a minute or so to load because it's pretty long.
- DeFex, on 08/28/2008, -2/+4"don't you believe in freedom of speech?" /fox
BishkekBuddy, on 08/28/2008, -20/+446I suppose, on one level, you have to feel just a little sorry for McCain - after all, he was plowed under in 2000 by the Rove Machine so that a puppet could take center stage. Now his chance is being taken away from him by a truly inspired and inspiring candidate and an American public that has a passionate hunger for change. McCain's changed, all right, but he's changed into a neo-con... and we don't need any more of THEM!
- somberlaine, on 08/28/2008, -3/+72spot on....he soured big time. He just wants the WH so bad...Do you really want to elect someone like that?
- FredFredrickson, on 08/28/2008, -2/+24Well said, Bish.
- cadmiumpaint, on 08/28/2008, -3/+134as a liberal i respected McCain in 2000 because he was going against his own party of crazy bible thumping neocons and offering a different voice.
  
  now he's just a sellout who's pandering to the same people that he was rebelling against.
- shauncorleone, on 08/28/2008, -33/+11What has Obama inspired you to do? Honestly, I want to know. If you don't have an answer aside from "vote", feel free not to reply.
  - GeneralFault, on 08/28/2008, -0/+31shaun, that is a decent and honest question. I can only answer for myself. I would have also said that I am "inspired" by Obama. But as you point out, and due to the apparent apathy of myself and of our generation in general, I would say that "inspired" is the wrong word. A better description for my own feeling would be that Obama has restored my hope in the future for this country. If elected, I think that Obama will restore my pride in my country. My love for this country has never changed. But our actions both domestically and abroad for the last 8 years have been embarrassing.
  - Calcularius, on 08/28/2008, -6/+19He's inspired me to tell every NEO-CON bastard out there to ***** off.
  - rblancarte, on 08/28/2008, -0/+17Like GF, I can only answer for myself and no one else here.
    
    What Obama has done is inspired me to take an active part in the political process, something that no other candidate has ever done. Sure, I voted before, but never have I been so moved as to actively participate in the process well beyond that - caucus, be a delegate, etc. Obama has done that.
    
    In Obama I also see a candidate that can get me to be proud about my country, one that can right the wrongs of the last 8 years. He offers clear vision of ideas on economy, technology and returning the US back to prominence.
  - xtothepowerofx, on 08/28/2008, -1/+20in a country where on average less than half of all eligible voters actually bother to do so... maybe inspiring people to "vote" is a big step in the right direction... maybe
  - alz0rz, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1To the commenter above me.. touche.. tou- *****- che.
    
    I wish I could digg you up 1000x.
- neognostic, on 08/28/2008, -3/+26He mentioned 3 former Republican Presidents, but he forgot the one he is turning into, Richard Nixon.
- pwnshaman, on 08/28/2008, -10/+14Bush ran a good campaign in 2000. Sure the Rove machine pulled some dirty tactics, but bush was running on a platform that made a lot of sense: no nation building, lower taxes, etc. of course he claims 9/11 changed everything, but we didn't know what a lying little bitch he would become back in 2000 - but we all knew that mccain was a belligerent piece of *****.
- GeneralFault, on 08/28/2008, -9/+10Sorry, wrong post.. wrong place. Feel free to digg down.
- Andrwmorph, on 08/28/2008, -3/+3Its because this is his last chance to become memorable.
- barc0001, on 08/28/2008, -3/+17"I suppose, on one level, you have to feel just a little sorry for McCain - after all, he was plowed under in 2000 by the Rove Machine"
  
  Actually, no I don't have to. His response to what Rove did to him in 2000 is why. If he would have gotten up, and said "Hey, ***** you guys" and then distanced himself from Rove, Cheney, Bush, etc that would be one thing and I would feel sorry for him. Instead, after getting punched in the face with brass knuckles repeatedly by the Rove Machine, he crawled back to them and kissed their asses so he might have some scraps thrown to him in '08. That's not a leader, that's a sycophant.
- rowjimmy, on 08/28/2008, -10/+6i know it isn't too popular to say on digg, but obama is as much of a neo-con as any other major party candidate since reagan. sure, he'll take the "progressive" side when it comes to reproductive rights and homosexuality - and that's great - but i'd bet my first-born that he does absolutely nothing when it comes to multi-national corporations owning our government & media.
  - madjoyish, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1@rowjimmy You might be right about that. but can you name three people currently in congress who *would* do something about the multi-national corporations owning our gov't and media? let's take what we can get. at least obama is fairly progressive about the Internet and alternative media in a lot of ways. And the most important thing he's not a neocon about is FOREIGN POLICY. McCain, who did used to be liberal on a lot of issues, was a neocon on foreign policy before Bush even was - he was part of the group that convinced our administration to go into Iraq in the first place. And look at how he's reacted to the situation in Georgia; if McCain had been President right now already, we'd already be in another unwinnable war.
  - diggduggDOOM, on 08/28/2008, -1/+0"can you name three people currently in congress who *would* do something about the multi-national corporations owning our gov't and media?"
    
    Feingold, Kucinich, and... uh... Barbara Lee or Bernie Sanders?
    
    I agree with your main point, I just thought I'd try to answer the question.
  - rowjimmy, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1@madjoyish - sorry, i don't buy into the whole "lesser-of-two-evils" *****. a spade is a spade, and obama is corporatist scum like the rest of them.
    
    also, while obama is certainly less flagrant about aggressive warfare than for example bush, in general his economic foreign policy is as "neo-conservative" as the next guy - namely, open up your borders so western multi-nationals can come in and take what they want, meanwhile we'll keep subsidizing (factory) farms that will sell you food cheaper than your own farmers can produce it, destroying any hope for sustainable local agriculture and furthering the cycle of poverty. i'm not denying that obama has a better head on his shoulders than mccain, but the fact that his policy is shaped by a multi-national business agenda is more that enough for me to not feel bad in not voting for him.
    
    and i agree, 99% of our govt are corrupt ***** who are beholden to big industry far more than the american people. that's not a reason to choose the one who is equally beholden but whose rhetoric we like better - that's a reason to abandon in droves both of the dinosaurs that are the major parties.
  - Fafnir43, on 08/29/2008, -1/+4Well, from the UK perspective, assuming Obama is in fact a heartless calculating bastard (and I'm reasonably sure he isn't), then it looks like you have a choice between the evil that will lead your country at least mostly out of the hole you've dug for yourselves and the evil that will keep digging until it hits lava. So people saying they won't vote for the lesser of two evils frankly strike me as incapable of acting in the best interests of themselves, their country, or even the rest of the world.
- stretch611, on 08/29/2008, -1/+8Yes, McCain has changed a lot.
  
  8 years ago, I would have voted for him. Now, even McCain 2000 would not vote for McCain 2008.
- id000001, on 08/29/2008, -1/+2Man... that was well said. If only the obamabot can put their comment as intelligently and soundly, they wouldn't be nearly as annoying!
- Tichondrius74, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3He is also not the same person he was 8 years ago. He is now another bush.
Alheithinn, on 08/28/2008, -13/+323How could anyone vote for this yokel? This "Hands off, I'm a veteran" routine of his wears thin after what his Swiftboating people did to John Kerry and this refusal to answer questions is entirely too much like what we've had from Bush.
- ProjectGSX, on 08/28/2008, -4/+51Unfortunately, he will get some votes simply by being white.
  - oscenester, on 08/28/2008, -1/+21and rich!
    NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!
  - publiclurker, on 08/28/2008, -1/+10And did you know he was a POW?
  - visionaryIX, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Disclaimer: Not a McCain supporter.
    
    Am I the only person that thinks there might be an equivilant number voting for Obama purely because he's not white? I'm pretty sure the racism will go both ways.
- JigoroKano, on 08/28/2008, -2/+9His swiftboating people?
- zacharytelschow, on 08/28/2008, -25/+3Using the term "swiftboating" somehow implies that the charges leveled were indeed false. Yet they weren't. Broadcasting the truth is no crime.
  - kmiller7, on 08/28/2008, -1/+22They were proven false and baseless. You are an idiot, do not breed.
  - zeusthemoose, on 08/28/2008, -3/+6Well then, I guess we can broadcast the truth that McCain was responsible for the USS Forrestal incident and the deaths of over a hundred sailors. Also, they were soft on him in the POW camp and he was never tortured at all and gladly made anti-American propaganda videos for the viet-cong. Don't forget that he also cheated on his first wife (this actually is indisputable) and his current wife Cindy with a lobbyist. He also owes it to the American people to take an Alzheimer test as he appears a little mushy in the head.
    
    I can spread the "truth" as well :)
- ngmcs8203, on 08/28/2008, -0/+12By "his swfitboating people" he meant the people who surround him were the same who helped get the swiftboat message against Kerry out in the public.
  - clorby, on 08/28/2008, -1/+4do note, though, that a few of the main guys who took the lead in swiftboating kerry have now turned their sights on john mccain. a lot of the original guys still support mccain, but i think saying they were "his" people is a bit of a stretch.
    
    check this out: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/AntiMcCain_vets_read ...
- vat0r, on 08/28/2008, -1/+11McCain is not the only war hero in America.
  - JBmtk, on 08/28/2008, -3/+5who ever said he was a hero?
- Arishia, on 08/28/2008, -3/+5He's just the only one that is advertising it on a daily basis for personal gain. One ironic thing here: I posted on the McCain website blog a few times before I decided who I was voting for, and mentioned that I have a form of cancer, so I perhaps had a different perspective on an issue. I used it as a disclaimer. Some blog harpy there slammed me for playing the cancer card. Lol, no consistency of logic from these hacks.
  - meirav, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2Interesting. I'm a slightly left-leaning moderate. I am not affiliated with any political party. Early in the summer, I was undecided about whom to vote for. I liked Obama's message regarding renewable energy and independence from foreign oil. I also thought his health care plan was pragmatic. However, I tend to be fiscally conservative. At that point, I thought that with either Obama or McCain would be a good choice, as they both appeared to be honorable men.
    
    Then, McCain started the smears, and that pushed me HARD into Obama's camp.
- BeefBaron, on 08/28/2008, -3/+2McCain's policy train: kill all non-Americans.
  Appeal to your average Republican: "dose gosh dern anti-merican bastards!"
- geoboy, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Actually, he'll get votes simply because he's not some kind of "immoral liberal". A vote for McCain is a vote against immoral liberals in this country.
  
  At least, that's the foundation most people I know who are voting for McCain tend to have. That, and they think Obama would tax the hell out of everybody.
- swiftekho, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Bush answered questions... Just incorrectly.
greatgran1, on 08/28/2008, -9/+142John McCain is just an old soldier nowadays.His time has past,due to the swift-boating by his own party.When Joe Lieberman is the only one he actually trusts as a running mate,the GOP certainly doesn't want him giving off the cuff interviews.He can't straight talk about what was in his 5 books.Did he actually pen and proofread? Can he remember what's in them? Sen.McCain will be told who his running mate will be,how his campaign will be run,what to read when he rallies,use the patent stump answers with the quips,,jokes,and stories he has told often over the years,other than that, for the sake of the party,keep your mouth shut. The inevitable will be Johns fate, and he can thank George Bush, Cheney and Rove for this......as Gen MacArthur said "Old soldiers never die,they just fade away".
- clsslc, on 08/28/2008, -5/+5Technically, he's an old airman, not an old soldier.
  - douggmc, on 08/28/2008, -0/+9McCain was enlisted in the Air Force?
    
    If you "technically" want to be a smart ass ... at least know your *****.
    
    For enlisted (and sometimes to refer to commissioned officers):
    Airman = Air Force
    Soldier = Army
    Marine = Marine
    Sailor = Navy
    
    If you want to characterize him more accurately .. he is an "old" Naval Aviator.
  - Arishia, on 08/28/2008, -1/+6douggmc
    Airman Soldier Grunt Jarhead.....
    
    yeah, yeah, whatever....
  - clsslc, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2@douggmc
    
    Oh. My bad.
- Spudster, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2Obama is going to own McCain in the debates.
thelastcivilian, on 08/28/2008, -20/+486Childish. He's a 72 year-old baby.
- beerock, on 08/28/2008, -18/+9"Unbelievably Arrogant, Angry and just plain RUDE " c'mon, John McSame is America!!
  - chris4404, on 08/28/2008, -0/+19He sounds like a 72 year-old who's been running the roads constantly leading up to the convention and is running out of energy. Just tired and worn down...if he can't survive the campaign how can he lead the country?
  - beerock, on 08/28/2008, -1/+11Simple, they implant the Dick Cheney power plant in his chest, and install the latest Dick-ware in his brain, so he can keep your nation in a consistent downward spiral at a tornado-like pace.
  - clorby, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2@beerock
    
    while watching the stocks he still holds spike upwards at the same pace.
- normalkid0615, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1273 but who's counting?
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 08/28/2008, -0/+8Going on 120
  - meirav, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1Don't say that!
    
    "Until 120" is a Hebrew birthday blessing!
- mrgreenjeans9, on 08/28/2008, -0/+7...and apparently is in need of a diaper change and a nap. who's a cranky lil monkey?
- DFutureIsNow, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Noun, Verb, POW
- Yookji, on 08/29/2008, -1/+1You know they say that retirement's your second childhood. If McCain retired, he could be childish again!
- falser, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Q: You know what John McCain does every Easter Monday?
  A: Tries to find the eggs he hid on Easter Sunday.
BetGR, on 08/28/2008, -20/+232McArcane is a nasty little man.... who thinks its ok to be rude to the press, who think its perfectly fine to call his wife the "c" word, and then suggests she could compete for the Buffalo Chip Beauty Contest (I would have slugged my husband if he said that to me). Who thinks its funny to sing "bomb bomb bomb..." or "lets send cigarettes over to kill the Iranians" while people here suffer with all sorts of cancer and can't get the treatment they need. SHAMEFUL. It is even worse when McCain has had 5 bouts of skin cancer- melanoma. If we said that to him he would have a hissy fit. But its ok for him.... NOOOOOOOOO

NO HOW, NO WAY, NO McCAIN.
- elliam, on 08/28/2008, -28/+6uh, its: no way, no how, no mccain
  
  if you're going to parrot something you heard such a short time ago, try for accuracy.
- roddack, on 08/28/2008, -21/+5Looks like someone has some husband/father issues....
  - publiclurker, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6Why don't you tell us all about it.
    
    First of all, when did you first see your mother naked?
- dikstr, on 08/28/2008, -20/+1I hear the shrillness of a hormonal midlife crisis induced, anti-male vituperation here. The estrogen/testosterone balance has turned this lady into a harpy.
  - ericmerrill, on 08/28/2008, -1/+4I LOVE civil discussions on Digg, but I've more than had it with all of this sexism. Seriously, what the ***** is wrong with you?
  - ABEL3616, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1dick-stir ( cleverly named dikstr ), I hope you die in a horrible horrible "OMG a fridge fell on my face...and it contained a hippo inside of it who came out of the fridge and ate my junk" accident.
    
    Seriously, grow some balls and stop beating your wife...
- rz8472, on 08/28/2008, -4/+3He's a wizard? No wonder all his ideas are out of date, he still believes that there are four elements on the periodic table - fire, earth, air, and water.
  - mecharabbit, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1I think he meant McArchaic.
- haleyhales, on 08/29/2008, -0/+0I wasn't sure where else to ask - but I was wondering if anyone had an already assembled list (ready to print, sort of like a flyer) that shows why McCain is the wrong choice for America (why he's the 'bad guy') and why Obama is a better choice. If I don't find one I'm eventually going to compile one for myself, I've just been short on time lately. My family is blindly republican - refusing to consider that any other candidate is anything but.. pure evil - and my arguments with them have gotten me no where - so I'm just going to put up flyers around the house. If they won't listen to me, maybe they'll listen to the facts on a sheet of paper in their own time.
  Thanks.
sharpfork, on 08/28/2008, -8/+161McCain was not willing to answer any questions that might contracdict what he wrote in his books. He is so full of ***** at this point that he is not able to differentiate between what he really believes and the ***** he is spewing as a presidential candidate. Like his attack on Obama for wanting to be president out of "ambition" which was later found in McCain's book to be the reason he wanted to be president.
He doesn't want to let those pesky beliefs get in the way of the Karl Rove driven ***** machine.
McCain must have felt like the reporter was personally attacking him by bringing up something McCain sold out to be the standard bearer of the GOP- Honor.
- jasoninoakland, on 08/28/2008, -0/+14You can't blame him. What he said before, and what he's being told to say now, are at complete odds with each other. It's tough for anyone, much less a 72 year old, to keep track of all those things.
- DJShay, on 08/28/2008, -1/+6He doesn't remember what he wrote in his books. That's why he won't talk. I'm tellin' ya, he's got the early signs of Alzheimers.
- geoken, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2I think you mean he's afraid to answer question's because it might contradict what some writer wrote in his books.
  - RioMcT, on 08/28/2008, -0/+0I read his book Why Courage Matters and boy did it feel like it was at least partially ghost written.
- hierophantus, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Dugg for "Karl Rove driven ***** machine." Bullseye.
- theeEqualizer, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1He's far to cognitively impaired to keep up with all the lies, distortions, and spin rhetoric necessary to be onboard the GOP campaign ***** machine. He just isn't sharp enough to lie effectively at a time like this when everyone is watching closely because they now understand that they've been lied to so much by his party.
  
  Just wait until the debates. Obama is going to destroy McCain.
doctorklein, on 08/28/2008, -17/+297McCain: A True ***** Douchebag.
- beerock, on 08/28/2008, -24/+5"Unbelievably Arrogant, Angry and just plain RUDE "
  Sounds like your ideal citizen, he'll be a fine candidate.
- skunalis, on 08/28/2008, -3/+7people really want this ***** as their president??
  - ajaxmil, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5no.
  - maxgoedjen, on 08/28/2008, -2/+4Not the intelligent ones.
- phosphor112, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2Idk why but when I read the "McCain: A True ***** Douchebag." I had a good lol for about 5 minutes..lol thanks, I needed it =].
- greenkoi, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Dig this comment up people !
- pigtown, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1John McCain: Truly, a douchebag of liberty.
- ajde, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Dude sounds like a ***** robot, just repeating bare-bones, ambiguous ***** lines provided for him that couldn't fool an infant. (In robot voice:) "I will provide as much access as possible..." "I will not define it..." "I will put my country first..." "I am very satisfied with the campaign..." [silence...] And that's even making it sound kinda nice.
  
  It's not. It's horrific.
jvill, on 08/28/2008, -18/+184C'mon guys, be fair...

It's not John McCain's fault the Alzheimers is kicking in and he honestly can't remember what honor means. The man is asking someone to read it back to him from his books because he can't remember what he wrote in them either.

Maybe Senator Graham or Lieberman can whisper it in his ears.

At least Senator McCain still has his hearing. (For now.)
- damndj, on 08/28/2008, -2/+47KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN
  - electrikyle, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2last one there's a penis pump
- ajaxmil, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3McLame's personality flaws are much worse than Alzheimer's. My grandfather has Alzheimer's. He can't talk or remember my face or his own wife's. He is incontinent and practically a vegetable, yet he does not call his wife a *****, nor does he make stupid jokes about the genocide of middle easterners. If McCain had Alzheimer's, we would all be better off because he would finally shut the ***** up.
- MediaWeasel, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3"The man is asking someone to read it back to him from his books because he can't remember what he wrote in them either"
  
  Quite.
  
  Weren't they ghostwritten? Certainly not all his own work. Which would explain why he can't remember what he said ..
  - demonred, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4I'm fairly sure they were ghostwritten. McCain isn't smart enough to write one book, let alone five.
    
    He has admitted himself that he's not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
freeth1nker, on 08/28/2008, -7/+153The ironic thing is "honor" has been a running theme in the McCain campaign. ...Honor, a word he can't define. So if a voter wants to know what the hell he means every time he uses the word, he/she must read his five books to get an answer? Wow, what a bunch of *****. ...And there are people out there who are going to vote for this moron.
- cquinnd, on 08/28/2008, -0/+30It's not that he can't define honor, its that he refused to even make the effort. Instead of saying "Read it in my books", he could have said "Here is an example of honor that I wrote about in one of my books"; thus turning the whole question around to the benefit of his campaign.
  
  It appears he saw the interview as more of an obstacle than an opportunity, and is telling that he has drifted so far off message that he has trouble pulling answers out that should be coming from reflex this far along in the political process.
- ajaxmil, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5since his definition of honor probably includes the phrase "POW camp", we can assume that he thought this reporter was trying to torture him and extract info, hence the tightening of his dried up septuagenarian lips.
jimbecile, on 08/28/2008, -6/+105come on, you guys. repudiating everything you've built your character & popularity on to run the lyingest, dirtiest campaign since Nixon is mavericky.

http://i37.tinypic.com/16jlu2c.jpg
- fajitamelt, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2Um, McCain speaks pretty softly if you ask me.
- freeth1nker, on 08/28/2008, -0/+7^He speaks softly and carries a big POW-POW-POW!
DuggDowner, on 08/28/2008, -13/+213America doesn't need a grumpy old man to be president.
- zacharytelschow, on 08/28/2008, -40/+4He's significantly more desirable than a socialist with a messiah complex.
  - crickey23, on 08/28/2008, -4/+22he never said he was the messiah. ***** off.
  - DuggDowner, on 08/28/2008, -6/+22The only people who compare Obama to the messiah are rightwing nutjobs like you.
  - ironiridis, on 08/28/2008, -3/+1I don't need a new lawnmower, thanks.
    
    Hey, it's significantly more desirable than a socialist with a messiah complex.
    
    OMG a MEME!!
  - publiclurker, on 08/28/2008, -1/+4You mean he's white.
  - Belin, on 08/28/2008, -0/+12Bush is the one who released a book about how God talks to him.
  - fedja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Rightwingers use the term "socialism" just as they use "freedom". Token terms for concepts that they have no clue about.
- ikarimaru, on 08/28/2008, -0/+10You better just stay off his lawn!
- DaftMonk, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1I couldn't say it better.
cubedw00t, on 08/28/2008, -6/+80Any interview with mccain should start with the obligatory POW question so it cant be used as a crutch later in the interview.
- rblancarte, on 08/28/2008, -0/+10Hell, for the bonus points, maybe he can show up at every debate against Obama in a bamboo cage.
  - clorby, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2ba-ZING! *applauds* a rapier wit!
    
    really, though, i wouldn't put it past him at this point.
  - Flatlineskillz, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2He could perform the scene from Apocalypse Now: The Musical.
    
    "Look at me im Col. Kurtz fat and bald like old Fred Murtz. Watch me do a hula dance and shake these egg rolls from my pants"
    
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPdiV4GRsyA
creativeagentva, on 08/28/2008, -8/+97This guy is unbelievable..and frankly very scary. If this guy gets elected we're really in for it, and the rest of the world knows it, and our enemies can't wait to bury us. Arrogance, non-transparency and corruption at its best. But its ok, I'll forgive him..he was a POW.
- ftx437, on 08/28/2008, -30/+1The reason enemy's want obama to win is that they know they will win with him being president. Obama has no foreign policy skill and people will take advantage of that..
  - sodade, on 08/28/2008, -2/+22you are a ***** moron
  - mrseptic, on 08/28/2008, -1/+16"Obama has no foreign policy skill"
    
    Unlike GWs amazing grasp of international relations & politics...
  - macweirdo42, on 08/28/2008, -2/+13And what foreign policy skill has McCain demonstrated? His stubborn single-mindedness regarding Iraq? His willingness to jump in and go toe-to-toe with Russia over Georgia? His unwillingness to hunt down bin Laden?
  - oscenester, on 08/28/2008, -1/+9@ftx437:
    The reason enemy's want obama to win is that they know....they will win....with him being president.
    Wow. Grade A argument right there.
    
    I agree with sodade. go back to your cave.
  - Murdats, on 08/28/2008, -2/+8the entire world wins if obama gets in.
    if mccain does get in then I pray someone or some group takes it upon themself to fix it for the sake of the entire world.
    
    and you can bet if he gets in then terrorist groups will have a swell of recruits.
  - fedja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2So let's take this one from the top.
    1) ENEMIES. PLURAL. mkay.
    2) What enemies? Tewowists?
    3) What the ***** is a "policy skill"?
    
    One word answers all of the points you were trying to make, but failed.
    
    Czechoslovakia.
- cquinnd, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Obama and Mcain are equal on foreign policy skills on a personal level. It is how they would express the interest in choosing other cabinet members and staff to assist with foreign policy and other agencies that should be the concern.
  - creativeagentva, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Absolutley;) However, Obama does not appear to be a follower, or a loose cannon, and is not listening to Karl Rove on decisions about this country. I trust his judgment.
mickyji, on 08/28/2008, -5/+41Gotta love the attitude here...

"I think we're running a fine campaign, and this is where we are."
- supguy, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3That makes no sense. A statement of physical / geographical location?
- josephrbarton, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1To mitigate this vitriol a bit.
  
  "McCain was rushing off to attend the funeral of one of his dearest friends."
  
  I feel bad for the guy, he used to have a bit more integrity and now he's being broken by his own party.
  
  I don't think he is really the enemy.
  
  Just a sad old man.
  - fedja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1He's older than dirt, I assume he's used to seeing many of his peers pass away during the last decade. Also, he wasn't too sad about the thousands of people whose funerals he helped cause?
- theeEqualizer, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1"I think we're running a fine campaign, and this is where we are.
  
  Uh... Where are we again? ... Who are you? ... What time is it? ... I'm cold... Hey, son! What time is it? ... I'm cold... "
  
  "Shhh, calm down grandpa. Now just go back to sleep... Just imagine you're the president. A big brave president who stands for honor and medals and stuff. Doesn't that sound good, grandpa? Awww... Good night, grandpa."
Deadpixel1221, on 08/28/2008, -8/+199LAWN GET OFF MY KIDS
- coreyb, on 08/28/2008, -0/+26What the hell is an aluminum falcon?
  - RGNB, on 08/28/2008, -4/+2http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Heeeeer_s_Johnny ...
- kkxxyy, on 08/28/2008, -10/+1So the lawn is on your kids? Do they have grass growing out of the pores?
- maxgoedjen, on 08/28/2008, -0/+8I feel there's an 'in Communist Russia' joke to be had here.
- JMaj, on 08/29/2008, -0/+5Old cloud yells at man
brandonchicago, on 08/28/2008, -4/+114It's like the McCain who was around in 2000 was thrown in a pit and replaced with the new Republican Mega Droid McCain.
- dn11, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5"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?
  [Does not answer.]
  
  Do I know you? [Says with a laugh.]
  [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. "
  
  creepy as *****.... it's like they implanted a chip in him
- meirav, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2I guess it's sort of the opposite of a Stepford McCain.
- greenkoi, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Can you say 'Manchurian Candidate' ?
kingofinternet, on 08/28/2008, -92/+12BURIED
HE WAS A P.O.W.

GOOKS KEPT HIM IN A CAGE
- Hrodrik, on 08/28/2008, -5/+7You forgot the /S, people are burying you.
- cicerojnr, on 08/28/2008, -3/+14That was sarcasm right? Please say that was ironic, then? Not even facetious?
  
  Oh, kingofinternet, learn the ways of the internets you claim to be a king of and know this: comments like that will get buried like the fresh corpse of Republican Party Nominee, John McCain.
- TheInfamousOne, on 08/28/2008, -1/+7and that somehow makes you capable of leading a country? If so, there is this hot chick i've had locked in my closet for the last few years who is ready to lead!
  - jellygraph, on 08/28/2008, -2/+3uh, I hope you are seriously joking and this isn't some freudian slip / subconcious confession.... that would be awkward... please tell me you dont have a woman locked in your closet... please
- jellygraph, on 08/28/2008, -2/+4king of internet: off with your head! :p
- kencurran, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2Hope that's sarcastic. I hate the guy but P.O.W. jokes are out of style.
- lodeswrath, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2wow guys. this was ALL IN CAPS. of course its sarcastic, he even said gooks. god, everyone's sarcaso-meter is broken today.
dBass, on 08/28/2008, -8/+71Let's face it, Sen. McCain, circa 1998, was a moderate on most issues and fairly reasonable. Repug candidate McSame is spineless, backstabbing, whore.
- macweirdo42, on 08/28/2008, -3/+8I wouldn't call him a moderate - he was fairly conservative, even then - it's just that he had values that he upheld.
  - dBass, on 08/28/2008, -3/+2I didn't say he was a moderate. I said, " [he] was a moderate on most issues ..." Anyway, all that is in the past. Now he is just a spineless puppet.
  - hayehudi, on 08/28/2008, -2/+1If he's a moderate on most issues then he's a moderate, as defined by you.
- fedja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Exactly. He was the only front-row republican I could imagine actually believing his own words.
  
  Now he's just a sad, sad trumpet.
niradg, on 08/28/2008, -24/+34John "McMansion" - spread it around!
- Hrodrik, on 08/28/2008, -1/+19That's lame.
  
  I really don't think that his mansions are the worst thing about him. His policies are much worse.
  - GumdoMike, on 08/28/2008, -0/+17Yes, but John "McRevokeAWoman'sRightToChoose-MaintainTheCourseInIraq-BombBombIran-GreaterTaxCutsForTheRich-OffShoreDrilling" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
  - Hrodrik, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5Hehe, true. But I like McSame.
    
    Although it would be McWorse.
  - BuLong, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1I dunno, sounds catchy to me...
  - getbusyliving, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4I like "McArcane"
  - Hrodrik, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4There's also the McAncient.
- elliam, on 08/28/2008, -1/+4no
- jasoninoakland, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5Sorry, it should be pluralized: John McMansions.
- mrgreenjeans9, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3if you're going for 'viral', you're doing it wrong
- TheXuu, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5Is McCain Abel?
  - meirav, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Why didn't I think of that? That was my bat mitzvah portion!
Fallout911, on 08/28/2008, -6/+46The guy sounds like he's losing his mind.....I honestly believe that he regrets doing this.
He will spend the last days of his life in the chaos that is the presidency. (If he wins of course)
Or spend it in the thought.... selling out to his true ideals, failure and abandonment by his party. (look at what they did to him during his last shot at the white house)
He should have retired with cases of Viagra/Levitra and ***** till he dropped.
- BuLong, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6You mean, like, once?
  - wafla, on 08/28/2008, -5/+1I just rofl'd all over myself
    
    OQC
miamidolfan13, on 08/28/2008, -16/+145Remember that McCain is a POW. You can't criticize him.
- ftx437, on 08/28/2008, -50/+7Also remember Obama is black and to criticize him is equal to being a racist..
  - Calcularius, on 08/28/2008, -1/+14No it's not, stupid.
  - jasoninoakland, on 08/28/2008, -0/+14Obama doesn't remind you every 2 minutes that he's black. In fact, he almost never mentions it. (Although his race is the favorite straw men of right-wing radio idiots)
    McCain reminds you of his former POW status constantly.
  - cybrguy, on 08/28/2008, -0/+7I think he was being sarcastic... McCain was a POW, which doesn't make him a better or worse president, Obama is black, which also doesn't make him a better or worse president. Their names don't matter, their age doesn't matter, etc.
    
    Its all about the actions they will take as president, how responsible they will be with their power, and how much they will respect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
- SilentBobSC, on 08/28/2008, -0/+14It also allows him to have cheated on his first wife. Apparently if you're a POW you get a free ride on the old polygamy express.
- Buzzpatrol, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Well actually hes not only a POW, he was poked by GAY Asian's...
  
  Senile old cook
- robdazomba, on 08/29/2008, -1/+1Just by saying that, you're dishonoring his service. Don't even look at him.
- fedja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1So when did you start hating Amerikuh?
PacManDude, on 08/28/2008, -32/+14more arrognat than:
'Do you have any doubts" ?
"NEVER"
nastronomical,

Incredible! - McCain's Prickly TIME Interview