Ye Gods--if people actually read anymore, this TIME interview would doom McCain's chances.

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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1836909,00.html

Some choice excerpts:

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.

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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...(?)

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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.)

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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.

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Seriously, if this is the way this guy reacts to a few harmless, mildly intrusive questions from 2 TIME magazine reporters--how do you think he's going to do in a debate with a former President of the Harvard Law Review?