I can’t help but think if they want me to play their game they should offer money or, perhaps, the ambassador position to Monico. Because, absent such an agreement, I’m likely to just speak my mind rather than the script. Yes, I can be bought, just not by anybody or for nothing.

And that no-contract un-scripted interview doesn’t seem to work so well. Might make A Candidate appear a socialist in an isolated moment. Surely not the goal.

– Max

Jim, I could talk myself blue in the face trying to clear you, but absent malice-you can’t win.

Which is what the crux of this argument is-was the press reporting done with malice or not? As I have said before-lots of lawyers now at his beck and call to check that out.

How the hell does asking a question of a politician, with media entourage, who approaches me give them the license to root around in my affairs? Why should I have to find a discrete way of asking him a straightforward question without making it a media event? Proles are not allowed to ask questions of The One if the answer reveals His true beliefs?

Seriously, what color is the sky on your planet?

And had Joe said “No thanks,” you can be sure our betters in the media would have portrayed him in a bad light: a bitter gun-n-Bible clinging, cousin humping racist.