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...best politicians tend to be complex people. But most of them camouflage their complexity because voters--especially presidential voters--are not usually enamored of nuance. John McCain is a complex man--ironic and earnest, driven and fun-loving, self-assured and self-deprecating--but his concern with honor is like a golden thread woven through his remarkable life of service. In the cover story of our special Republican Convention issue, McCain's abiding concern with honor is the prism through which James Carney and Michael Grunwald look at the Republican presidential nominee. Carney, our Washington bureau chief, has covered both...
...myth that McCain cannot give a great speech. True, he doesn't do it very often. But he has given compelling speeches that wrapped powerful arguments in lyrical language about honor, battle and victory. His convention speech has a different purpose: it must welcome and then reassure. It must show in plain language not one party's road to victory but what a McCain presidency would mean to all Americans. This is not the sort of convention the GOP does naturally. But in this difficult year, the Republicans must gallop, not walk, along a different path...
...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...
...honor in politics? I defined it in five books. Read my books...
...then the whole father-son, mentor-protégé, competitive generational narrative got up and danced as Clinton laid on his hands: Sixteen years ago, he told the roaring crowd, Democrats gave him the honor of leading them: "We prevailed in a campaign in which the Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be Commander in Chief. Sound familiar?" It didn't work then, he said, "because we were on the right side of history. And it won?t work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history." A President who spent...