McCain Tried To Overcome Himself In Speech

Washington Independent:

Darkness had fallen over the city when Sen. John McCain stepped out from the shadow created by his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, when she lashed out at the Democrats and the media and intellectual elites the night before. He did so as a man declared politically dead in July 2007 when, facing dismal poll numbers and a campaign bleeding money, he let most of his staff go. Now resurrected, McCain delivered an acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination that reinforced his image of the elder statesman from the party in power that would keep America the great power in the world. ...

McCain had a bigger opponent to overcome last night than Obama. He had to overcome himself.

In the past months, McCain stump speeches have taken on angry overtones. He has gone from calling his opponent "naive" on foreign policy to questioning the Illinois senator's patriotic ideals. Last night, however, he showed a graciousness to Obama not seen before, at least by this reporter. Early on, he acknowledged Obama's historic achievement in winning his party's nomination, while promising a fair fight to come.

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Comments

[Toonadude]

At this point, to expect any further support from any American, shouldn’t McCain be expected to open a channel of discussion with the Chinese finance heads and make them commit to an open line of credit with America covering the next four years and to the tune of at least another trillion dollars?

[Whinger]

Ole "Songbird" is being very selective about his POW experience!

A lot of POW'S know exactly why John doesn't want the full story being told,

[wm1066]

With JFK they did a movie on PT109.
What will "Hanoi Mccain" be like?
Maybe they can re-edit some old Chuck Norris movies.

[LarBear]

John McCain's biggest Markup....­.
The Bush/ McCain "Surge"...­. Approximately 1,000 more of our Military Dead... Wounded has to be in the thousands.­.. Equipment badly wearing out...Troo­ps exhausted.­.. A Spending of Mostly untracked Multi Billions in Dollars... Exhausted Families supporting our troops...
You take great Pride in blasting other's Markups, John McCain, but yours is done in both Money and Lives... And the Lie you spoke in your Convention speech about supporting fellow Military and Veteran Military..­. You Vote down Veteran's Bills for needed CARE because of Markup's and so called Pork... So, where is your pure Care for fellow Military/Veteran's BILL?
YES, you were a Prisoner of War... That does not make you a Hero... Just a Prisoner and I agree that is a terrible ordeal to survive... That was then, and this is now... Where have you been for the last 3 months with your Votes and Care and Concern? Or, for the last 26 Years... Did you Heroically fight the Bush Administration, to keep us from Invading / Occupying Iraq? Squandering Trillions of Dollars and over 4,000 of our Military Killed and thousands maimed...
No, John McCain! This last markup of your's, loaded with no Bid pork and Deceit, is way more then all that you collectively opposed...­. Then you pick a Sarah Palin to be a replacement Commander in Chief???

[Common Cents]

Carli Fiorina calling Democrats sexist is like Hitler calling someone shameful. Wasn't she a disaster at HP? Now her calling is telling the world, "How dare Democrats ask Palin if she spends enough time with her family. They never ask the husbands." I thought the opposite was a core principle with the right. At least it was drummed into me by Dan Quyale. He even told the country, over and over again, that unwed mothers are a very bad example for American women. Remember his blasts at 'Murphy Brown'? Another core Republican value down the drain.

I'm sorry, but when you have five children, and one is a special needs baby, and your husband works full-time, one of you MUST be a stay-at-home mom. Isn't that just common sense? But isn't it like a conservative to pump out the kids, but let someone else raise them.

It's kind of odd to see Fiorina trying on the Democrat's equal opportunity robe. It's just not going to fit her well.

[Common Cents]

Gee, I didn't know that John McCain was the only American to be caught and tortured during the Viet-Nam war. But after listening to him last night, I found that out. Yep, he's the only one who suffered. He's the only hero to come out of that war. Wow. What a man.

I was raised NOT to toot my own, but to let my actions speak for themselves. But, then again, I guess my family isn't as wonderful al John's. I think I'll create a shrine.

[rabprevent]

the speech by mccain was full of lies and particularly his comment to special interest that it's over is so bogus and yet the man has an army of people that are all lobyists. This man represents all that is wrong with Washington in the first place and should not be elected in office.

by picking palin, he has clearly demonstrated that he does not put country first, he put winning an election before the security of this country.

JOIN ME IN VOTING NO TO MCCAIN AND ALL HIS CRONIES, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

[Agentlady007]

I would not expect any grace or pride from this McClone. Those aren't his best virtues.

[OldKnute]

Weeeell

GOSH!

Let’s review.

After 911,,,, I,,, went into high gear,,,, I,,,, want to keep America safe, see,, MY,,, record,,,, I,,, know what service is about,,, ME,,, and,,, MY,,, friends, were there. I,,, know my record,,, I,,, always stood up to Washington,,,, I,,, mean we,, no,,, I,, no,, MY people no,, no,,,, I fought for America,,,, I,,, was in prison for 5 and a half years,,,, MY,,, love of America never wavered,,,, I,,, was there with God and,,,, I,,, turned to,,, MY,,, faith to sustain,,, ME,,, then when,,, I,,, was released,,, I,,, never went to Church till,, I,,, wanted to run for President and,,, I,, knew ,, I,,,, wanted,,, MY,,, God,, in,, My,,, corner, then,,, I,,, remembered how much,,, MY,,, faith meant to,,, ME! If you elect,,, ME,,,, I,,, will do all in,,, MY,,, power to keep the Country,,,, I,,, love safe for you and,,, MY,, children, because,,, I,,, am a hero to,,, MY,,, Nation, and,,, I,,, love America, we need a leader like,, ME.

OK,,, well,, I,,,, see now.

All the best

Knute Neo-LIB

[rockgrrl]

Personally I thought the end of the speech was one of the most painful things I have seen in a while. Anyone else think McCain sounded like a choking animal gasping for air during his "fight with me" tirade? It seemed very strenuous and awkward...

Yikes, I thought he was going to keel over right then and there.....­!!


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[newdreams]

I found it very similar to the Howard Dean yee-hah speech - Almost psycho. Yeah, very awkward and actually kind of frightening.

[clearthinker2008]

Why we always have to be "fighting" anyway? I'm so sick of the republicans always have to have an enemy to focus their "fighting" against. How about finding solutions to health care, joblessness, etc. It's like marketing "fights cavities" what the heck does that mean anyway, my mouthwash could lose and I still get cavities. I want honest discussion and workable solutions. Jmac and Pitbull isn't offering any real solutions or honest discussions about anything. I wish more Americans would see this farce for what it is.

[DanniD]

It's because that's all they know. They're the bullies in that we've all had to deal with at those crossroad times in our lives. Think about it for a minute. They're the ones who's family had more money than most. Or they were simply bigger and thought they were tougher than everyone else. Or they had some authority and let it go to their heads. They picked on and ridiculed those that were less fortune or simply didn't fit in to what THEY deemed acceptable. The memories should be coming back to you. These are the people that grow into Republicans!

If you know like I know, then you KNOW that the best way to deal with a bully is to STAND UP TO THEM!

If you're sick of being bullied or watching others get bullied, STAND UP AND SAY SO on November 4th!

America/Obama/Biden '08!

[urojen]

McCain professed he was running for change!HIs surrogates ridiculed Obama's community service.Pa­lin "the pitbull with lipstick" pounced on Obama with cheap personal digs. They are confident that by repeating lies they can fool people into believing they are true!Giuliani was emphatic that Obama has achieved nothing belittling all Obama has achieved in the Illinois State and the Senate.He claimed Obama took 3 tries to get Georgia right while Mccain echoed what Obama advocated (invove UN Security Council) in his "first" ever statement!Buster Mccain crowed we were all Georgiansand had nothing else to follow it with!While he claims credit for the success of the surge,he should also take responsibility for the ill conceived war in Iraq and the loss of lives.The great country we live in has no moral standing to stand up against Russia when it invaded Georgia for we violated all international rules and ethics by invading Iraq.He claims to him country comes first and has chosen somone with no understanding of National or international affairs as a running mate who is a heart beat from the Presidency­,undercutt­ing his own criticism of Obama who he declared cannot be trusted to run the country in this critcal times when we are facing national security threats!Change for him is changing his stances to appeal to the base!He cannot even get his running mate to change her views on global warming and pork spending and ethics and he expects us to believe he is an agent for change!.

[zull2]

If you listened to the whole speech and not just the first part, which is all a part of how their speechwriters have been crafting it (say something nice about the opponent then go on a tirade against him for the next 30 minutes) for both McCain and Palin (though you can tell they're traditionalists because they put more attacks in Palin's speech than McCain's), both speeches were chock full of lies and smears and neither candidate said anything substantial to back up those claims. It's more of the typical Republican 12 year old tactics...­they smear you, you ask them to back it up, and they say "well, it's because he's a ".

[Stagehnd1]

I found his speech nauseating and boring...Z­ZZZZZZZZzz­zzzzzz....­.

The people in the audience were more entertaini­ng...

[wm1066]

Ya I turned the sound down and looked at the audience, just to see what kind of idiots they have on their side.

[Awareness-enhanced]

Was it not already disclosed, that lies and mis representations is what created the war... was it not shown that documents were ignored that led up to the war... and still many are dead, and more being sent to die... and for what ??

The Iraq new Government, has already said... "Go Home" ... the Saudi have said.. Nope, we are not helping your situation with oil.. maybe if we stop burning up oil, flying over Iraq and spending 10 billion a month, over there, we could find out how to fix our own economy..

why did Haliburton claim to move their Headquarters to Dubia? did they think they would get control of Iraq oil.. and manage it from Dubai ?? wasn't Dubai the same country, the US tried to sell the control and management of it's ports to, until the public found out that the paperwork had been drawn up, sitting there waiting on a signature.­.

We don't see any other Arab Muslim nation, trying to curtail the fighting, if anything they are supporting it, to insure that Iraq does not become and American colony... so what is this obsession of winning.. there is nothing to be own.. unless it's to claim total occupation and dominance of their country, it's government and it's resources.­. other than that.. what are we doing there.. ?? We are not in Somilia, Nor are we in Rawanda, nor in Sudan... so it's certainly not about a humanitarian mission

[Myrell002]

Can we just vote tomorrow?

[Cakey4814]

Fair fight..yep right when the Nat'l Enquirer is getting ready to publish some damaging information on Palin..fai­r fight..yea­h right..sur­e wasn't fair when the press ganged up on Michelle for her "proud" comments although you alluded to that during your "gasp"..PO­W days..fair fight..yea­h right..sur­e wasn't fair when there was nonstop stories on Jeremiah Wright as if he was running for office by every cable news network..f­air as in Edwards scandal even though he had already dropped out of the race..exac­tly what "fair fight" are you talking about?