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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

McCain Speaks

posted by on March 4 at 19:12 PM

I’m not at Spitfire, so I was able to hear McCain’s speech. But there wasn’t a whole lot of there there.

He suggested the Democrats were having “an uncivil brawl over the spoils of power.” He said he was the right person to finish up the job in Iraq with honor and in a way that best serves American interests. And he tried to cast himself as the most forward-looking candidate in the race.

But man, after spending so much time watching Clinton and Obama, it’s really hard to get past the visual contrast created by watching a McCain speech. He’s old. He’s halting in his delivery. He seems convinced of what he’s saying only about 1/3 of the time he’s talking.

It made me think: This man could lose on visual contrast alone.

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Zombie President McCain will finish the job in Iraq in 100 years.

Posted by keshmeshi | March 4, 2008 8:03 PM
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It's what cost Nixon the presidency way back in 1960. Voters saw him sweating, pasty and ugly and compared him to that nice looking young man John Kennedy. Who would you have voted for?

Posted by JM | March 4, 2008 8:46 PM
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It was totally packed with positive Obama delegates at F.X. McRory's where we filled the large giant room so much it took me 10 minutes to find an unoccupied bar stool to sit down on.

No idea why Spitfire was empty.

Moe's was pretty full too.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 4, 2008 11:46 PM
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McCain is the most uninspired speaker since Bob Dole. Boring, boring, boring!
I'd almost rather have that retard Nader.

Posted by Vince | March 5, 2008 6:59 AM

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