I’ve run out of things to say about this speech — but I have to remind everyone that McCain is not a saint just offering to do his selfless duty. He’s been running for president for eight-plus years and has shown himself willing to do or say almost anything to finally gain the keys to the White House.
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McCain’s speech — first impression
Invoke the president but fail to mention his name. Nice move.
The McCain video bio
To quote my wife, Annie:
This is the most boring thing I have ever heard.
Heavy on the POW narrative — something he consistently says he hates talking about. Except for all those times he’s spent talking about it.
Tribute? Maybe. Campaign ad? Without a doubt
The Republicans have just shown a short video about 9/11 that links those terror attacks with earlier, unrelated attacks to create an ideology — defined as Islamism — against which we are supposed to battle. The idea was to recreate the communist menace, to use the images of horror and tragedy that we all remember to scare voters into backing John McCain. They want this to be about security and the only way they can make this about physical safety is to scare us.
Keith Olberman, who I lately have found to be too partisan, calls the GOP out, saying that TV news channels would have rightly been castigated for showing so many graphic scenes from 9/11 and that the video shown by the Republicans was inappropriate. He’s right.
Time to retire ‘maverick’ label
This is an interesting analysis of the Palin pick and what it says about McCain. I would add that eight years of running for the nomination of a party that doesn’t trust you makes candidates do things that they say they never would do.
The Palin pick, I think, rather than demonstrating his “maverick” credentials, should put to rest that singularly meaningless word. From now on, we should reserve maverick for references to the James Garner TV series or the 1970s automobile.
Hank Kalet 