Replay: The D5 Interview With Sen. John McCain
by Kara Swisher
Posted on September 5, 2008 at 1:00 AM PT
Last night, Arizona Sen. John McCain officially accepted the GOP candidacy for President in a speech in which he pushed himself as a change agent, even though the Republicans have been in power for eight years.
Ah, politics!
Actually, the maverick image was one of the reasons we invited Sen. McCain to our fifth D: All Things Digital conference in 2007.
In the video, Sen. McCain talks about substandard broadband in the U.S., tech policy and also Iraq (keep in mind, this interview took place during a time when most had written him off in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination).
Since the speech last night had more generalities than specifics, as convention speeches often do, here’s an hour-plus interview with Sen. McCain by Walt Mossberg and me:
Comments
Why wasn’t Barrack Obama interviewed at D: All Things Digital? Because he was nobody.
What has changed since then? Media infatuation.
Ah, liberals!
Posted by Matt Lohr at September 5th, 2008 at 9:24 am