John McCain interviewed on Don Imus.

Courtesy of Mark Halperin at the Page.

Audio link is here.

I have a hard time listening to this and even imagining what a John McCain presidency would look like. He sounds like he is angry, frustrated and in denial. I also want to give some props to Don Imus - I don't agree with the guy, but he's not afraid to ask McCain some really tough questions in this interview.

I wonder if one of Andrew Sullivan's readers hit the nail completely on the head:

As it turns out, even those flashes of biographical fact included in most of this reportage do not in themselves tell a true story, or at least not the whole story; the John McCain we have seen in this campaign is, alas, probably the man he has always been.