McAngryMan gets pissy with TIME in interview

[BeyondGeography]

Prickly McCain Refuses To Define "Honor" In Interview
By Greg Sargent

John McCain gave an odd interview to Time magazine in which he got testy and irritable when asked to define the word "honor"...

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.

This is pretty interesting, because in many ways the word "honor" is central to McCain's political persona and his campaign's efforts to draw a contrast with Obama.

McCain has repeatedly said that our goal in Iraq is for the troops to return with "honor." The McCain campaign's main premise has been to suggest that his motives are honorable while his opponent's are suspect. He's repeatedly promised an honorable campaign, too -- even as his campaign regularly accuses Obama of treason.

So asking McCain to define "honor" seems like a fair question.

Shorter McCain: Who the heck are you to ask me to define the platitudes that my entire campaign is built on?

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/prickly_mccain_refuses_to_defi.php

[tekisui]

1. He can't remember. The dude is out to lunch.

[maseman]

4. He remembers

He just doesn't fucking know. His ghost writers forgot to tell him.

[tekisui]

7. Maybe they told him, but his damn Alzheimer's has him forgetting.

[Mabus]

2. And meanwhile conservatives complain about Barack calling for "change"

Yet no one is supposed to question McCain about honor.

[liberal N proud]

But he is a former POW

:sarcasm:

[The Magistrate]

15. And We All Know, Sir, That Being A P.O.W. Is The Essential Qualification For Being President....

George Washington was a P.O.W.; Abraham Lincoln was a P.O.W.; Franklin Roosevelt was a P.O.W.; Bill Clinton was a P.O.W.: every great President of our country has been a P.O.W., from the very founding of our nation....

[eshfemme]

3. But he didn't define it-- someone else defined honor for McCain as the ghostwriter.

Y'know, it's also more than possible that McCain's never finished reading his own books in their entirety.

[book_worm]

5. It's apparent he has no idea what honor is.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Has McCain read his books?

I bet he doesn't even know what's in there

[YOY]

9. I highly doubt he has.

Just like Chimpy...formulated pablum reading for the idiot masses.

[Mz Pip]

11. I doubt he even wrote them

so how would he know what's in them.

[Lucky 13]

8. What a fucking asshole.

He's been treating the press worse and worse lately... and yet they still kiss his wrinkly, tired, cranky, hemoroid-ridden ass.

[Overseas]

10. McZombie was bristling, eh? And all the reporters need to do is challenge his platitudes?

Well then keep it up already!

That's what I had hoped would be effective. Asking him to define things he expects the public to take on faith, including his "support for the troops" given his abysmal voting record on veterans' benefits.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

12. "Buy my book! Buy my book! Buy my book!"

If anyone gets that reference, kudos!

[truthisfreedom]

13. JUST the kind of guy you want involved in a delicate negotiation.

*kablooie!*

[Kadie]

14. At least he didn't say "I'll have my staff get back to you."

[burythehatchet]

16. I would bet $100 that he hasn't even read the books he "wrote"

[pansypoo53219]

17. since he didn'tWRITE his books,

he doesn't remember what he said.