Listening just to his tone and delivery…doesn’t it sound like he’s reading a story to small children?
A weird way to deal with his age problem.
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Good job keeping discrimination at the forefront of this campaign. Seriously, what needs to be done to get beyond age, race, sex, etc. and start talking about issues. If that can be done, it will become clear John McCain is the best choice to lead this country, as he highlighted very well in his speech. That’s my random thought.
That was the suckiest of sucky speeches. Followed only by Clinton’s.
McCain will probably crush his own campaign before the first debate.
Stick a fork in him. He’s done.
Barack Obama is an incredible speaker. And he is going to be very, very expensive for America’s future.
McCain in ‘08!
I agree 100% Dantheman,
If theres one thing the Republican party has proven to America for the last 7 years, it’s that we are the party of competent fiscal responsibility.
Great Job!
Hey dantheman-
Who voted to authorize a half trillion dollar war?
I read Obama’s speech from tonight, and thought McCain’s speech when he reached the delegate mark, 1191, was much more substantive. Again, Barack provides no substance of how he plans to do anything, fund anything, etc.
Good day for America - McCain will be the next Prez. And that means split govt, and split govt is the best govt.
Sean2
Taking bets?
Sean2, I agree 100%,
Could you provide the link to that text?
Great Job!
McCain’s speech was just him begging for attention and pleading with people that he isn’t Bush mk3.
Obama, on the other hand, was giving a speech celebrating his victory in becoming the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party. The two speeches aren’t trying to accomplish anywhere near the same thing. When you are accepting victory, the last thing you do is get wonky with policy, as that isn’t what the moment is about.
But McCain looked and sounded horrible. There is a man who engenders zero confidence when you listen to him give a prepared speech.
John McCain’s speech was a sad affair in front of a few hardcore Republicans. Truthfully seeing a debate between a youthful, vigorous Obama and this tired old man bleating about George Bush’s mistakes and how he won’t make them was really sad.
Perhaps he can ask Hilary Clinton to be his Vice President and we can have the Depends Ticket on the Republican side.
… would be sad.
Lost my tense…
He was reaching out to Democrats in their own familiar dialect.
Looks like he made a direct connection with Jismo.
I can’t wait for the debates (If McCain doesn’t destroy his own campaign first with more shitty speeches like the one last night)
Here is what I love about Obama: His speeches and his personal touch. His messages hit the mark every time. That makes me feel good.
Here is what scares me about Obama: His promises. America has a major crisis in that our Social Security and Medicare systems are headed for insolvency. Not if, but when. Our kids are going to be strapped with very, very difficult decisions. They’ll need to cut these programs back, or spend a huge chunk of their own resources (forever, not one-time) on sustaining some semblance of these programs. And we’re barely even discussing these issues today. In fact, Obama is making even more promises: Universal Health Care. College education for all.
Beautiful promises. But these massive programs, based on our recent track record, last one, maybe two generations before they begin causing serious funding problems for our citezenry. This is not about raising taxes by $50 for every person to cover the difference. This is about huge, huge restructuring of the programs that is needed, or else we spend generations trying to dig ourselves out.
Obama simply makes more and more and more of these promises because they elicit a great reaction from people who are not thinking ahead. Scares the living bejeezes out of me.
Or we could have McCain, who pretty much just says “suck it up”.
I think I’ll stick with Obama.
Or we could have McCain who is willing to pour a billion dollars a week into the deserts of Iraq for the next 100 years instead of spending American tax dollars on American citizens in America. There is not even a question which way i would go…
From the reaction I see here, McCain is going to have to spice up his kiddie speech with meaningless promises to fully connect with Democrats…maybe talk a little slower too.
Doesn’t leave him with a lot of time to have meaningful discussions with adults though. He’s going to have to organize his schedule carefully.
Maybe he can just find one meaningless buzz word that will command a Democrat’s limited attention span…let’s see, “change” is already taken; how about “zoom-zoom”!
We can all agree on one outcome that Obama referenced in his speech last night. We want to create “a more perfect union.”
I think that the way Obama thinks he can achieve that is terribly flawed, and I think McCain’s approach is much more achievable and desirable. But I gotta agree with Obama, this is all about forming a more perfect union.
It looked to me like the audience was trained to respond when McCain smiled, like it was his queue to them to clap, cheer, boo, etc. I thought the speech was a laugh-out-loud hysterical! McCain’s facial expressions were priceless and his eyelids kept batting. He said nothing of substance only tried to defend himself for embracing Bush’s policies. He isn’t now nor was he ever a maverick. Look at his voting record, the maverick image is all smoke and mirrors.
I am wondering about this bit of Conventional Wisdom that McCain is a master of the town hall forum, and that he can talk the ears off the reporters in the back of the bus on policy issues. I don’t think it’s true, at least, I don’t think it will work against a strong opponent. It works in front of a friendly crowd, but if he tries to sing Bomb Iran in a town hall debate, Barry will shove it in his Depends.
Here’s the thing with the speeches. Unfortunately, McCain is continuing to play the red state-blue state divisive politics that has gotten American politics to where we are over the past 10 to 15 years. He spoke more about what was wrong with Obama than what was right about himself. Now look at Obama’s speech; he spoke about the issues that concern him, where he thinks the country needs to go, and briefly congratulated BOTH Clinton and McCain, even going so far as to praise McCain for his service to the country. Obama is looking for debates on the issues and not mudslinging.
I don’t blame McCain’s camp for his strategy; it’s going to be incredibly hard to win as a Republican this year. The only way they feel they can win is by making Dems look bad (they can’t very well make themselves look good). But the problem arises when people begin to realize, McCain hasn’t talked about any solid policy he’s going to work on and people are going to drift from him when they realize they don’t know what he plans to do.