In another clip, when McCain is asked how he can restore trust in American government if some of his campaign charges are not completely true, he doesn't hide his displeasure with the question.
"Because I have always had 100 percent, absolute truth and that's been my life of putting my country first," McCain replied. "And i'll match that record against anyone's. And I'm proud of it. And an assertion that I've ever done otherwise, I take strong exception to."
It's hard not to read a statement like that as "help! I'm drowning!" He also said this morning on NPR that he's asked Sarah Palin for foreign policy advice "many times in the past." The past going all the way back to late August? Does he know so little about foreign policy that he is turning to Sarah Palin for advice? Questions, questions.
My favorite questions concerning the first interview, with editors of the Des Moines Register, come from Mike Murphy at Swampland. A former campaign strategist for the GOP, he asked:
You know, William Shatner starred in the only movie made entirely in Esperanto. It's off the subject but fascinating.What the Hell was McCain even doing there in the first place?
1.) Obama is going to win Iowa.
2.) Editorial board meetings are usually pure trouble to begin with and result only in newspaper endorsements that persuade very few voters beyond the immediate family members of the editorial board.
3.) Within the rarified category of newspaper editorial boards, the Des Moines Register is one of the most liberal in the country. I'm rather surprised that halfway through the McCain interview they failed to switch over to Esperanto, the peace-loving language of all nations.
It was interesting to see the mentions of Esperanto here. Your readers may gain from this the idea that Esperanto is something historical or experimental. In fact this planned second language is spoken by a growing population of people across the world. Take a look at http://www.esperanto.net
ReplyDeleteBonan~on with that, my friend.
ReplyDelete>"only movie made entirely in Esperanto"?!
ReplyDeleteYou'd better check here, mia amiko:
http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto-filmo
before making such statements! Hollywood is not the only place in the world which makes films, you know!
You're absolutely right, Mansko. I should have corrected that. Incubus is the only US film entirely in Esperanto. It's this provincialism that prevented us from adopting Esperanto in the first place.
ReplyDeleteHow many entries are there in the Esperanto wikipedia anyway? Is it as comprehensive as, say the French wikipedia?