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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (411158)	8/28/2008 3:42:08 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577586

"The guy is a senile warmonger who is extremely dangerous." His interviews are getting odder. The interviewer asks him softball questions that he either refuses to answer or says something bizarre. 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? Read it in my books. I've read your books. No, I'm not going to define it. But honor in politics? I defined it in five books. Read my books. [Your] campaign today is more disciplined, more traditional, more aggressive. From your point of view, why the change? I will do as much as we possibly can do to provide as much access to the press as possible. But beyond the press, sir, just in terms of ... I think we're running a fine campaign, and this is where we are. Do you miss the old way of doing it? I don't know what you're talking about. Really? Come on, Senator. I'll provide as much access as possible ... 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. You do acknowledge there was a change in the campaign, in the way you had run the campaign? [Shakes his head.] 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? The campaign responded as planned. 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 ... 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 ... I wasn't suggesting it as a negative thing. I was just saying that ... 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 [in] every other way, would be the time that I almost died in prison camp. And I think most time.com