McCain admits it can be difficult to be proud of the US (Reuters). Where's the video/audio?

[KittyWampus]

You probably read this from Politico and Reuters has it too... but is there video or audio? Anyone know? If there is, it's worth its weight in gold.
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http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/06/14/mccain-it-can-be-tough-to-be-proud-of-usa/

Republican presidential candidate John McCain admitted on Saturday it can be difficult at times to be proud of the United States.

“I’ll admit to you … that it’s tough in some respects,” McCain said when asked by a questioner at a town hall meeting how to be proud of the country.

“We have not always done things right and we mismanaged the war in Iraq very badly for nearly four years.”

McCain’s wife, Cindy, pounced on Michelle Obama, the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, for saying in February that she was proud of her country “for the first time in my adult life.”

The Arizona senator said it was important for the United States to be more humble and inclusive.

“I think we can be proud of America because of what we’ve achieved and accomplished in this world,” he said.

“What we have to do is tell our friends around the world that we will be proud of America because of what we’re going to do.”
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So a man finally got a question into McCain and he had a very different sort of question. The questioner noted that he had been educated at Princeton and Harvard and made more than $300,000 a year. "How can I be proud of my country?" he asked.

Get it — he was mocking Michelle Obama and her statement earlier this year that her husband had for the first time in her life made her proud of her country.

Well, McCain either missed the joke or decided to ignore it and answer the question literally. I think it was the former because the individual asking the question had a thick accent that sounded to be either Indian or Pakistani, perhaps suggesting to McCain a recent immigrant grappling with America's image abroad.

"I’ll admit to you that it’s tough, it’s tough in some respects," McCain said, seeming to lend credence to Michelle Obama's observation.

McCain said America needed to be "more humble, more inclusive." He observed that one of the ways to be proud of the country was to look at our history — and the sacrifices U.S. troops have made abroad.

[wurzel]

1. It is a double standard that has become unconscionable.

[fight4my3sons]

2. this is the only thing I have seen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6364409&mesg_id=6364409

[vaberella]

3. Can someone send this to Keith Olbermann or someone at CNN. Send it to Huffingtonpost and Politico.

Please!!! Now they can shut the hell up about Michelle. Please, please please.

K&R

[MasonJar]

4. Do you know that the man's motivation was anti-Michelle? My daughters

both graduated from Princeton and they are as liberal as I...and that is pretty BLUE! It is better not to stereotype people; many rich and educated people are going to be voting for the dems.

[KittyWampus]

5. yes, and I hope Obama's Opposition Research peeps got a tape or video of this