John McCain was John McCain last night -- which is to say that he is, as always, a pedestrian speaker with a twitchy and often weird smile who delivered his bromides as if he were one of the nation's great orators. What was most peculiar was his shtick of criticizing Washington as if the Democrats had controlled it for the last eight years. But his impersonal, accountant-like tone was especially strange -- given that this was presumably the most important speech of his campaign. Maybe he just wanted to get through with the thing at age 72 without showing geriatric exhaustion. He lamely latched onto the "change is coming" mantra while tossing a few weak bleats at Obama. He never proferred a vision or a domestic agenda. He gave no sense of what his leadership was about except to suggest the 9/11 theme. At the very end, he went on a strange rant, almost shouting to the audience,something akin, in his mind, to General Patton rousing the troops. If this can be the best he can muster, he risks a downhill slide for the next 90 or so days.
WHAT BUSINESS HAS MC CAIN RUN ????
WHERE HAS HE BEEN IN COMMAND ALONE OF ANYTHING ?????
Occupation experience is not the only pre-requisite to look at, but it is a start.
Professional/legal experience: 4yrs Biden, 4yrs full-time and 8yrs part-time Obama,
County government experience: 2yrs Biden,
Federal legislative experience: 36yrs Biden, 4yrs Obama, 26yrs McCain.
TV reporter: 2yrs Palin,
Small business owner: 9yrs, includes part-time work Palin,
Municipal legislative experience: 4yrs Palin,
Municipal executive experience: 6yrs Palin,
State commission experience: 1yr Palin,
State executive experience: 2yrs Palin,
Community organizer: 3yrs Obama,
Teaching experience: 11yrs part time Obama,
State legislative experience: 8yrs Obama,
Military experience: 22yrs McCain.
Sourced from Politfact a non-partisan fact check site.
i suspect it is the long term plan all along.
Obama '08
McCAIN was INANE and that's what we'd get for president. No thanks.
McCain and Republicans SUPPORTED BUSH for 8 YEARS!
McCain did nothing to oppose Bush trashing America and fattening the rich.
8 more years? Not. NO MORE YEARS for republicans.
Anyone would think he does NOT plan on winning this election, delivering that mush as a presidential nominee?
He probably was reacting to the fact that he didn't write it, didn't know what he was supposed to say until they handed him that piece of crap, and delivered it like a kid forced to take the castor oil...AGAIN.
Unlike his co-dependent, who relished delivering what they wrote for her, he just wanted to get to the limo and get out of there.
It will be interesting IF we ever hear Palin deliver something she actually wrote herself, without editing by the handlers.
In fact, it would have been only fair and right that she make her debut with her own words, but this is the scripted rethugs and we'll never know if she can think for herself.
I can understand McCains envy jealousy and pseudo disdain for Obama who seems to be a natural leader having built a ground up organization that has challenged establishment politics(and credit where credit its not just Obama ... he's surrounded himself with more than capable people but the focal point is Obama).