{"id":12972,"date":"2008-08-28T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/08\/28\/interview-with-mccain.html"},"modified":"2008-08-28T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T22:42:46","slug":"interview_with_mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/interview_with_mccain.html","title":{"rendered":"Interview with McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is … just odd. A current Time <\/em>Magazine interview with John McCain<\/a> — one held aboard his campaign plane.<\/p>\n

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[Your] campaign today is more disciplined, more traditional, more aggressive. From your point of view, why the change?<\/b>
I will do as much as we possibly can do to provide as much access to the press as possible.<\/p>\n

But beyond the press, sir, just in terms of …<\/b>
I think we’re running a fine campaign, and this is where we are.<\/p>\n

Do you miss the old way of doing it?<\/b>
I don’t know what you’re talking about.<\/p>\n

Really? Come on, Senator.<\/b>
I’ll provide as much access as possible …<\/p>\n

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?<\/b>
[Does not answer.]<\/i> <\/p>\n

Do I know you? [Says with a laugh.]<\/i><\/b>
[Long pause.]<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n

You do acknowledge there was a change in the campaign, in the way you had run the campaign?<\/b>
[Shakes his head.]<\/i> <\/p>\n

You don’t acknowledge that? O.K., when your aides came to you and you decided, having been attacked by Barack Obama, to run some of those ads, was there a debate?<\/b>
The campaign responded as planned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The whole interview comes off as … cranky is the least of it. Defensive. Vague. Resentful. Tired. Unresponsive.  But, once again, really <\/em>tired. And, I mean, it’s not like the Time <\/em>guys ambushed him on his doorstep — this was an arranged appointment aboard his own plane. There’s a sort of weird bunker mentality about the whole thing that you’re not supposed to see until after <\/em>a person’s been president for a while.<\/p>\n

Though I’m also surprised to hear that Iraq is a “peaceful and stable country” and that the counter-insurgency “has succeeded.”<\/p>\n

The text on the web page is an excerpt (though a substantial one). The full interview audio can be clicked on at the site. The excerpt is pretty accurate as to the overall tone.<\/p>\n

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(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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