McCain Fails To Deliver »
Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 2 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsFor all the hullabaloo about whether John McCain would match Sarah Palin's performance at the Republican convention, it wasn't even close. Where was the tropic thunder? McCain may have ended his speech with a Knute Rockne-like cry for Americans to fight and fight some more -- for what he never really said -- but most of his 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.
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mesodude2 months, 2 weeks ago
Slightly off topic but cbs4denver.com currently has a video incorrectly titled: "McCain DNC Acceptance Speech Gets Reality Checked" on the Yahoo News Video page.
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(see below) This sort of thing makes me very nervous and p'od. I emailed them and also took a screenshot just in case. ;-(
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2824;_ylt=AjHRRKuBJ3so...
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Radiofreeeuropa2 months, 2 weeks ago
Apparently ,according to McCain, who admits the corruption in government in the last 8 years is horrendous; the best way to "change" it is to send the same people back but they will be different this time. Right!
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Bradgrp2 months, 2 weeks ago
Not true. Biden is the VP. His function is to advise the President. With Obama's new ideas and Biden's relationships and experience in the Senate to make the changes that he believes will benefit the American people. Mccain will not be able to make the changes needed to benefit the American people because he doesn't have any new ideas to implement. In addition, Sarah Palin don't have the relationships and experience in the Senate to influence and bring the change needed. To the Mccain/Palin ticket, change is just a word for them to use against Obama/Biden. Thinking that Obama will allow him to usurp his message.
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MCRIGHT2 months, 2 weeks ago
Hmmm, isn't the Congress made of a majority of Democrats. There's plenty of blame to share with a do nothing government. John has hit the nail on the head and the momentum has been lost with the DEMS. John doesn't need to be a show boat spokesman, you see, he's speaks from experience.
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It was good to see John remind the public of the TAX TAX TAX democratic mantra of problem solving by throwing our money at inefficient programs.
Republicans have always lead the way of change and we'll do it again. I understand the fear the democrats feel, it's the impending loss of this election coming to a close.
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ADAGUY2 months, 2 weeks ago
No one can argue with that. And this is the very reason that I want them out of there. My vote has nothing to do with Liberal vs Conservative", as there are no conservatives left anyway.
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My vote is strictly decided on foreign policy, and economic decisions. The GOP has flunked both as far as I'm concerned!
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AnteUp2 months, 2 weeks ago
The missed opportunity for McCain was in flip-flopping in public again. He is totally
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counting on the short memory - or stupidity - of the American public.
Case in point - The most moving - the most time consuming narrative of the presentation of Senator McCain to the convention was his personal story. We all know what that is - it's not his relationship with his kids, his wives, his mother or his father - it was his experience during his stay in Hanoi.
It was a terrible time - and I have never found anything to fault him for.
What I will fault the "Maverick" for is the fact that he USED his own torture as
a huge theme throughout the RNC convention, while silencing his most noticable
Maverick stance during the last four years. That would be his bi-partisan fight to pass the ANTI-TORTURE AMENDMENT - yes? Did anyone hear him even mention those efforts during the convention? Guess what - he KNEW his base couldn't care less if WE torture. They are ONLY energized when we recount the torture of
red,white and blue AMERICANS.
He smiled at the photo op when Bush disemboweled the amendment -
not a word of dissent was heard. Come on - he'd done his bit - he got his
"human rights" publicity. I never heard one word at their convention about the
pride he took - the time he expended - in trying to change a horrible policy.
What an incredible fraud. He thought he'd garner a few Independent votes
and move on to war-mongering to shore up the Neocons and other wings
of the radical right. ALL things to ALL people.............I thinkNOT.
He is a total sham!
If you want to be honest - who should be more proud that the USA might
bring the practice of torture to an end than a soldier who suffered in
another country - what we are doing now? Some of us actually thought it
was an accomplishment to be proud of - obviously McCain would have
cringed if his stance against torturing our enemies - or suspected enemies -
were even mentioned - so it wasn't.
The days when I thought, "What a great guy" - oh, they are LONG gone!-
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Candida2 months, 2 weeks ago
Excellent comment. I too respected him when he stood up against torture, and then he lost my respect when he caved to pressure and started to support torture. They didn't even have to torture him to cave.
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quackpot2 months, 2 weeks ago
The message is that McCain is not really McCain at all, but somebody that the voters would like?
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After voting the status quo for how long now, Mr McCain suddenly has a vision of what the U.S. should be, but he can not quite express what this vision is? -
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gamahuche2 months, 2 weeks ago
Unlike you not to have an instant opinion, Locky!
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ADAGUY2 months, 2 weeks ago
If you are waiting on the polls, does this mean that the polls make your decision easier? No wonder your opinions suck!
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willottica2 months, 2 weeks ago
For text and video, and a discussion of the speech content, try this link (this poster was first out of the post and I think deserves front-page for that):
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jovial2 months, 2 weeks ago
Reminded me a lot of Rip Van Winkle. I still don't really have a clue about what his positions are. He and Republicans stole line after line from the Obama campaign. The hall was chanting. "yes we will!" Will what? 911 backdrops and stories stolen from 2004 Bush campaign. Palin, I thought for a minute was something original. Alas she's just a token symbol of the pandering he's doing far the evangelical right. A famous Bush ploy. That performance last night was disgraceful.
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chuck-the-canuck2 months, 2 weeks ago
McCain hasn’t had an original thought in decades. Prior to hearing Obama talk about the need for change, the only change he ever worried about was getting out of those soiled Depends.
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Candida2 months, 2 weeks ago
automan909,
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Could you summarize for us in a few words how McCain plans to deal with the problems facing the nation? He did spell it out in his speech, didn't he?
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mesodude2 months, 2 weeks ago
We're supposed to actually believe you know or care what qualifies as strong public speaking skills after what you voted into the White House the last 8 years? Get serious... You're only fooling yourself. No one else believes a word you say. Trust me. ;-)
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IneedIwantIgottahave2 months, 2 weeks ago
It actually put me to sleep.......so i saved it from you tube for nights i have trouble falling to sleep......better than a sleeping pill!!!
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Guyster212 months, 2 weeks ago
It's kind of hard to get excited about being lied to and sold out for another 4 yrs. He's been in the senate for over 20 years doing nothing but going along with the looting, but suddenly he has had an epiphany and presto he's now an agent of change. Wow, is anybody buying this? I mean other than the brain dead faithful of the republican party who would believe anything no matter how ludicrous.
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ades2 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm listening to McCain's speech right now. It seems like he's reading something he had never seen before. All the rousing statements are missed timed.
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Did anyone else feel that way.
Regardless, you can't get spending under control while increasing military spending. Defense accounts for the lions' share of the federal budget. Know what our second highest expense is? -Interest on foreign debt. Basically, we need accountants, not politicians.
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dissent2 months, 2 weeks ago
"'m listening to McCain's speech right now. It seems like he's reading something he had never seen before. All the rousing statements are missed timed.
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Did anyone else feel that way."
i know i did. the squinting gave it away. the expressionless wooden delivery. and yeah, talk about missed time! one moment when he was talking about palin made me chuckle between the yawns..... something like "she has a good eye and nose.... eh, and KNOWS". heheh
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mmrhe2 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm not a McCain supporter but I thought he did pretty well. The fact that he got up there and blamed his own party for letting Washington corrupt them was a ballsy and shrewd move on his part and it will sit well with Independents.
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The Nazis on the floor chanting U-S-A as protester after protester was dragged away was disturbing but their Republicans....That's all they know!
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donald512 months, 2 weeks ago
but only one party of terrorism, torture, preemptive war, unilateralism, Gitmo and eavesdroppng on Americans. Same party with convictions at the presidential cabinet level in three different recent repug administrations (watergate,Iran Contra and Plamegate). Same party with 18 of the 22 most corrupt congressmen (actually under investigation in spite of Bush guidance to only go after dems). The repugs need to be declared a terrorist party and banned! 1.2 million dead Iraqis for the repug lies! After WW2 we helped hang japanese and Natzis for what Dumya has done!
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mesodude2 months, 2 weeks ago
But cons hate McCain. You're only sucking it up and accepting him because normal Republicans realized that Americans wanted someone more moderate running their country. He doesn't represent your values and his campaign virtually imploded a year ago because cons wanted to string him up over immigration reform. So what the hell kind of sense does it make for you to be getting moist about a VP selection you know nothing about and which was made by a Presidential candidate you don't trust, you despise and who doesn't represent your values? Do cons actually *have* brains? I'm serious... ;-(
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Mutainia3 weeks, 6 days ago
"But cons hate McCain."
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Mut: Not all cons. I think they are just highly disappointed.
"You're only sucking it up and accepting him because normal Republicans realized that Americans wanted someone more moderate running their country."
Mut: No, wanted someone more Conservative.
"He doesn't represent your values and his campaign virtually imploded a year ago because cons wanted to string him up over immigration reform."
Mut: Yeah, that's true.
"So what the hell kind of sense does it make for you to be getting moist about a VP selection you know nothing about and which was made by a Presidential candidate you don't trust,"
Mut: Because there was the small little light at the end of the bleak, dark, tunnel that he might be finally getting his act together.
"you despise and who doesn't represent your values?"
Mut: Looks like NO one represents TRUE Conservatives values, anymore.
"Do cons actually *have* brains? I'm serious... ;-("
Mut: I KNOW you are trying to be insulting here to keep up with the Liberal stereotype, but, it's not quite clear. Maybe you can explain your insult more clearly?
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mmrhe2 months, 2 weeks ago
automan
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As Regan once said,"There you go again!". Do you not get the irony of your cadidate asking his opponent's patriotism not be questioned and your inane un-American slur?
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ladylou42 months, 2 weeks ago
McCain's strategists and campaign managers lack imagination and style. It's bad enough they ripped off Van Halen's music. Listening to the ho-hum delivery, I would say they must have scanned all the popular blogs and social networking sites to rip off some keywords..."humility, warrior, and change, and a leader you can believe in." Yet they failed to carry out any sort of explanation or tie the ideas together. I really was confused. McCain was a puppet, saying the words the audience wanted to hear.
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fsev412 months, 2 weeks ago
I loved it when they panned the crowd and half of the people looked like they would rather have been someplace else. Some looked plain bored and some looked disgusted. If they had limited the Hanoi stories to one they could have had the show wrapped up by 8 o'clock.
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riverdog2 months, 2 weeks ago
I thought McCain's speech and those who came before him all week showed just how expert those people are at ridicule and condescension as a means of intimidation and disinformation. One thing that caught my attention that nobody seems to be discussing yet was McCain's comment that soon, when he is President, he will stop giving foreign aid, some 700 billion dollars, to those countries who "don't like us very much". Now I could get behind that idea.Probably not true. As far as the rest of his diatribe and those who spoke before him, they represent the worst kind of people in public office. I sincerely hope that thinking people get out and rock the vote with a landslide victory for Obama. Barack may not be able to change things as fast as he or we would like, but at least with a majority in the House and Senate, we can move forward and keep this Repug slime in the swamp where they belong.
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Candida2 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm not sure what the $700 billion he mentioned is, but I don't think it's foreign aid.
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"Washington — The United States is the single largest donor of foreign economic aid, but, unlike many other developed nations, Americans prefer to donate their money through the private sector, according to a new report published by a Washington research organization.
Of the $122.8 billion of foreign aid provided by Americans in 2005 (the most current data available), $95.5 billion, or 79 percent, came from private foundations, corporations, voluntary organizations, universities, religious organizations and individuals, says the annual Index of Global Philanthropy."
http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/Ma...
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krp02002 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm voting for Obama!!
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After reading all this my eyes have been opened. I agree, I want my rights back. I should be able to carry guns and knives on an airplane if I want to. I also think terrorist have rights to privacy as well. How in the world can they acomplish thier goals if they can't hold a private conversation?
We need to bring all our troops home and start cutting back the military. We will not need a force this size any more. When our buildings are bombed and ships blown up we should kindly ask them to stop. If they continue to attack us we will stand together as a unified nation and say "Please".
I will also cast my vote for Obama because I owe it to minorities everywhere. As a white male a vote for anyone else is just plain racist. If Oprah says he's qualified then that should be the end of discussion. With Oprah and Rev Wright on his side this country is bound for success.
America we need to stand up and do what CNN tells us to do, VOTE OBAMA.
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justhawaii2 months, 2 weeks ago
You left bleeding heart liberals. McCain is wise and is not a rock star on stage. You believe God BO is the messiah. I think NOT...........he's so left its scary......Maybe we should close the White house down save lots of money and he can stay and live and open an office in the Ghetto of Chicago. I don't think Mrs BO would mind cooking for her 2 children, do you?
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Why should he mind? Why does he need a big white house ? if for some strange and lightening hit day of election he got in. He a self righteous no body.........with a even worse evil self righteous wife who belongs in the Ayers and the crook Rezko neighborhood -
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NoWayMan2 months, 2 weeks ago
McCain's message of change was the funniest part of it all.
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first, he's trying to steal obama's message (thereby proving the effectiveness and neccesity of the left's overall message)
second, he's basically saying we should hire him to fix everything he helped f*ck up in the first place.
hilarious.
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