Responding to the GOP Convention
Last week we heard the Dems talk a lot about hope, about change, and about possibility. This week we got a very clear, and familiar refrain from the Republicans. Be afraid, be very very afraid.
Last week we heard the Dems talk a lot about hope, about change, and about possibility. This week we got a very clear, and familiar refrain from the Republicans. Be afraid, be very very afraid.
Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
John McCain was John McCain last night -- 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.
Ari Melber | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
John McCain's nomination speech was so flat, so disjointed, so utterly devoid of any vision or affirmative plan for the U.S. -- it's hard to say much about it, other than it sucked.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Below is reaction to John McCain's Republican convention speech. David Gergen thought the speech repeated the same old GOP ideas: I did not think ...
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Most of McCain's speech was a snooze, delivered in the tone of a kindly old uncle reminiscing about World War II before fretting about how how those pesky Russians are stirring up trouble again.
Joseph Romm | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
McCain has no plan to reduce oil imports -- indeed, throughout his career he has explicitly rejected every plan that might reduce oil imports.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Watch McCain's speech: Read John McCain's Republican convention speech. --- I don't mind a good fight. For reasons known only to God, I've had q...
Lee Camp | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

AP | DAVID ESPO and ROBERT FURLOW | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
ST. PAUL, Minn. — John McCain, a POW turned political rebel, vowed Thursday night to vanquish the "constant partisan rancor" that grips Washingt...
Chris Chafe | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics