McCain: What’s Everbody Saying?
Well, he stumbled a time or two, but the content got me me, not the delivery.
John McCain is a true American hero and will make a good leader of the free world, and as long as he makes decisions like the one he made last Friday, we’re going be a better place.
McCain just isn’t the barn-burner type of speaker and never has been, so it was about what I expected. On the content, I thought it was good.
McCain is McCain. He was who he’s always been tonight: a war hero with an unabashed love of country who acknowledges his flaws, gives too much benefit of the doubt to his political opponents, and bends over backwards to reach out to the other side of the aisle in misguidedly mistaking partisanship for evil. But he’s also a man who has taken many risks, desires victory over surrender in the War on Terror, and, after dissing the GOP base time and again, stands beside a vice presidential nominee who breathes new life and hope into grass-roots, outside-the-Beltway conservatism.
McCain did what he had to do, he managed to get me a little pissed off at a couple of things he said; but overall he nailed his biggest speech ever. If half of his story is true, and half of his record as an elected official is true, this should be a landslide in McCain/Palin favor.
I heard the speech last night described as “workmanlike,” which is poli-speak for uninspired. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t effective, but if Palin hit a home run, McCain hit a double. This was not, however, a red-meat speech aimed at the conservative base (although there was a lot in it for conservatives)… it was aimed at independents and swing voters and it may have been effective in reaching out to them…
It certainly wasn’t Palin-esque, but it wasn’t supposed to. His speech was meant to draw contrasts between him and Senator Obama in terms of experience, policy, and how he’ll reach out to both parties to get things done. His most powerful points in the speech were the ones he made about his POW experience, and how it made him a man, and how he segued it into how this country is worth fighting for. The contrasts between McCain and Obama are stark, and I think he made an effective case tonight.
That’s all you get… I have a slow connection and it’s getting a bit annoying.
Old Soldier said,
September 5, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
I thought it was outstanding. The man is a true hero and if he and the Pitbull can follow through on all that they say they can, it will be a site to behold. Hell America may even begin to be respected (and feared) around the world again.