Meow

Why exactly is he running?
Hillary’s statement!!! go Hill
The two party conventions showcased vastly different directions for our country. Senator Obama and Senator Biden offered the new ideas and positive change America needs and deserves after eight years of failed Republican leadership. Senator McCain and Governor Palin do not.
After listening to all the speeches this week, I heard nothing that suggests the Republicans are ready to fix the economy for middle class families, provide quality affordable health care for all Americans, guarantee equal pay for equal work for women, restore our nation’s leadership in a complex world or tackle the myriad of challenges our country faces. So, to slightly amend my comments from Denver: NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN-PALIN.
Hillary you didnt hear anything that suggest that because they didn’t offer anything up.

JAKE: Where’s the criticism of McCain for a lack of substance? All we heard was “I’m a fighter! I’m a POW! I like low taxes! I love America!” Not a single substantive policy point after Obama has been put through the ringer for this.

He said America should reward risk takers.
So he supports the oil speculators and real estate speculators?
He said he was working for a couple in Michigan who lost on their “real estate investments.”
Way to appeal to middle America McCain!
Real estate investments! Out of touch for sure!

Okay, so right after another “Uniter” speech, Ridge makes reference to the “Democrat Congress”.
Oh yeah, I’m a believer now…..

McCain can at times be courageous. The bravest thing he ever did was to go on 60 minutes and admit that he was a war criminal who dropped bombs on innocent women and children. But thats the tragic part – he KNOWS right and wrong, but he doesn’t DO whats right, only what is politically expedient.

Seems McCain likes humility.

That part worked for me. It addressed my fears that Obama is nothing more than a rock star.

Discordant? No, the lyrics of that ‘Barracuda!’ song kept running through his head.
McCain’s speech was the ONLY speech by a politician at that convention that made the slightest nod to working with others. Who on earth is McCain going to have in his Cabinet? They’re all nasty bullies filled with anger and hatred. How can they possibly run the government? Even Palin is showing herself to be less of a maverick and more of at pit bull. The whole thing is sad.

Interesting point,
If McCain had to cave to the party on all of the social issues, how is he going to put anyone but a right winger in a cabinet position or other position of influence without giving up a second term?

TomJ
The whole thing isnt sad it was uplifting Mcain is sayi Bush… what made the country fall apart is that Bush convinced people twice that he was going to be moderate and this tough character….but he was weak very weak and no substance…. sortof like Obama eh?

staniam,
I’ll take that at face value, but maybe I’m just a bit too cynical to think that a party being told “I don’t work for you” won’t decide to prove otherwise when the spotlights are off.
He may be War Hero, but he isn’t Superman. Unless he is can redefine the Presidency as free of political influence, and even George Washington couldn’t make that assertion.

staniam,
Additionally, I will make the umpopular assertion that strength and weakness,
substance and lack thereof are often in the eye of the beholder. Was Gandi weak, by many standards he was because he had no need to prove his strength.

leonard peltier
Obama is no ghandi… no JFK etc etc etc hes a generic poltician that got very lucky and no amount of money will help him now

I was disappointed by that pivot to attack. It was the wrong moment and spoiled the effect of his moving words.

McCain has spoken that same quote about ” . . .history has annointed me . . ” before and verbatim. He should have pulled out something more original.

Equating Obama to Ghandi is missing the point.
Every problem is not a nail, even if you have the biggest hammer on the planet.

foodforthought
personal attack in the middle of the speech
while they claim Palin is being attacked for sexist reasons…and they won’t let her do interviews
discordant is Palin’s reading other people’s words and a ticket who won’t let the woman who is second in command answer questions on her own…
she is the freakin VP nominee for the UNited States of America and they expect to hide her and limit access that everyone else has had to face…
the worst choice by a Presidential nominee in our history…
they say the press asks why she doesn’t believe in man mad effects on global warming…
no you can’t ask
why is there an investigation – the campaign puts out a statement and won’t let anyone ask hher…and tries to do exactly what they have done for 8 years…
don’t ask media…don’t do your jobs…
and “we have a right to not answer the press or have the press decide what questions she should answer”
that is what is discordant
why she thinks “intelligent design” and church teachings should be taught in school along scientific facts and calculations and math…
why she thinks contraception is bad for teenagers to know about…
or what expertise she has on energy
or what is the difference between the mujahadeen and Osama Bin Laden (nothing…just time and ideological evolution of a fatwa if she didn’t know the answer…did she even know that OBL fought for the mujahadeen.)
does she know the history of the Korean conflicts…
does she know the details of the iranian hostage crisis
what is the constitutional basis for separation of powers…
why did BP pay for your inauguration as you are calling for offshore drilling but not more drilling where they already have access?
that is what it discordant…
the silence from the McCain campaign trying to cover up how bad and ill-equipped Palin is to answer questions and follow ups and details on ANY of the issues we are facing….
questions that Obama and Biden and Mccain and Hutchinson and Clinton and any nationally recognized pol out there actually has had to answer.
what is she going to do when on 9/11 she is in the White House making decisions on whether or not planes should be shot down while the President is indisposed.
will she know the difference between saudi arabian culture and iraqii?
will she know whether a sunni would be friends of Iran or Pakistan vs. Shia?
would she know how Russia would react?
Would she know how NATO would react?
would she know where those terrorist came from and what cultural influences would effect them in southeast asia for instance…
or Africa for instance?
the worst decision in the history of our nation Palin as a vp candidate…the person who like Cheney in the first year had to step in and have an understanding of the complexitites of the world
is this how John McCain is going to run our governemtn.
is this how he makes decision in hiring/appointing?
is this how his government will be …no interviews…with people other than him…if questions arise.

I guess anyone who says ANYTHING that is negative about The Great One must HATE him.
It appears it is the Dems that are so filled with hate.

McCain: “I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need.”
where do he say anything about Obama? McCain is being humble.

Meow? Oh I get it. Obama is a pussycat right? I’ll agree with that.

Its all about Obama
Everytime someone says something its about Obama, Pres. Bush makes a comment about Appeasers in the 30s and its about Obama
McCain says something oh its about Obama
man Obama has a chip on his shoulder maybe that is why he thinks of himself as Apollo!!
AB please let us know where Obama was asked tough questions or put through a ringer, hey we found out that when Michelle ‘I hate America’ Obama was on the view, the View was restricted on what it could talk about.
Obama will take away freedom of speech, even hardline Democrats are afraid of him!! because he is a hardline Marxist!!
I think the hypocrisy from the left is funny you honor a draft dodger in one electio, then come up with lies about the Republican service and then condemn him for not serving.
You put on your shoulders a man who puts his supposed service in Vietnam (3 months of) who received medals for self inflicted wounds from accidents as a hero, but when a Republican who is a true American hero says something, you cry he is saying it too much.
You libs cry that woman are not on the ticket, the republicans put a woman and not only that a Strong woman on the ticket and you scream sexist rants.
A Black man runs for Senate on the republican ticket and you libs throw oreos at him.
Libs are liars and hypocrites, they can never back up their statements.
Be Afraid , Be really Afraid.
I know this post will be removed because it condemns libs but it was worth it!

Shouldn’t you have said Woof? Afterall, Obama said that Hillary’s claws would come out. Isn’t the cat fighting nonsense always slapped on a woman/ And, I loved the comment that McCain made myself because I am sick and tired of hearing how Obama is going to save the country and all he does is give speeches. He has no proven track record at all so how does everyone know he is going to save the USA? Simply because he says he will? And, it was not discordant. He was making a point. He was always wanting to serve and not because all of a sudden people picked him to run for President. I think it was a well-made point. I loved it. I’m tired of everyone handling Obama with kid gloves. Big deal! He is a black man running for President. So, Hillary was the first woman running and obama slammed her gender constantly during the primary season. So, I think it’s appropriate that that he gets slammed. I’m thrilled.

John Smith:
Tired of hearing that he was a war hero? Well, let’s drop all of you in the middle of Iraq! and let you be a prisoner of war for 3 years, if they don’t lop off your head first, and than complain to me that you’re tired of hearing that he was a war hero! It’s just sour grapes because that is something that Obama can’t trump and you Obama zombies don’t like it so take your ball and go home you big babies!

All of you Obama supporters who think he represents change should check out the show that was on ABC at midnight yesterday. And it was not given by Rep. or Dem sympathizers it was just a factual show. They showed fat cat lobbyists flying in key people for the Dem convention and guess who stepped off of the plane, none other than John Kerry. And, while the convention was taking place and your Savior Obama was spouting off about change, Nancy Pelosi had lobbyists and fat cats at a special hotel on a reserved floor, giving them the star, the moon and the planet. So don’t you tell me that he represents so much change. Just like I thought. A hypocrite! I knew as much when he aligned himself with people like Kerry and Biden! I hope he get trounced in November.

It was a bad pivot. You’re right.
A notable part of the speech was the promise to run the most open and transparent administration in history. We don’t hear that from Obama who’s campaign has kept a very tight control over information. In this, Obama is more like Bush than McCain is. There is a scary aspect about the man in the way he keeps obscuring his past, rewriting history, and controlling the presentation to put a halo around his own personality.
I don’t mind that people support him. It is the worship that troubles me.

IS HE SUPPOSED TO LIKE OBAMA? ARE YOU LIBERALS SO NAIVE AS TO ASSUME THAT EVEN HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO PRAISE OBAMA? TOO MUCH KOOL AID IN THE PRESS…..

Why is it hate when someone describes what Obama is all about? Why the reflexive, over the top defense of Obama? It’s comments like these which say alot about where a journalist’s true loyalties are. It’s a “tell”.

I believe Senator McCain stated elsewhere in his speech that he wanted to “do away with partisan politics” or words to that effect. The “anointed” line must be his first attempt at doing so.
Yup, yup.