Sep 04 2008
The old dude speaks
Well, the doddering old geezer gave the speech of his life tonight.
Details here: “McCain Vows to End Partisan Rancor in Convention Speech.”
Text of the speech here: “John McCain’s RNC Address.”
I was not terribly impressed, but then you probably didn’t expect that I would be. I still don’t trust the old guy. That double-talking mayor from small-town Alaska doesn’t help matters much. But it’s over. Maybe we can get back to a campaign based on the issues now. (Yeah, sure.)
5 Responses to “The old dude speaks”
I agree that the entire speech was about image, with no substantive “meat” to get a handle on where he’s going from here. Please see my entry today too.
You are more correct than you know.
It’s over.
It’s actually sad. The guy whored himself out awhile ago, but he’s trying to convince us that the guy we once had respect for is still in there.
Sorry, Johnny. I’m not buying it. I stopped buying it when you started hugging monkeys.
I watched both conventions on CNN. While I thought they did an admirable job with both, I noticed that with the DNC they gave us stats of the delegates - what percents were women, ethnic minorities, gays in attendance, ages of the attendees, etc, along with historic facts of past DNC conventions and candidates.
With the RNC, all we got was the historic facts part. I mean, I guess it’s hard to say “all old white right-wingers” and not get attacked as the “liberal media” - oh, but wait, there were a few African-Americans present - Donna Brazile was there on the CNN podium to represent the Democrats, and there were a handful of others: in the band playing before the opening gavel on Day 4.
Rick Davis, campaign manager for McCain, said last week that “This election is not about issues.”
Why on earth would McCain actually talk about issues in his speech then? He’s too busy trying to scare us with graphic pictures of 9/11.