I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who saw the McCain speech and then the Obama speech and said to myself: WTF was McCain thinking? The man’s been in government for a quarter century. He’s been elected quite a few times. Yet somebody thought it was a good idea to put 200 disinterested people in a pool hall with a yucky green backdrop? And then Obama comes out with a mixed-gender mixed-ethnicity crowd of wildly enthusiastic folks and a world class speech?
That contrast was your campaign ad. America has a history of picking the energetic and vital over the plodding and backward looking. Think of Clinton over Dole, Reagan over Carter, Kennedy over Nixon.
UPDATE: Check out the Free Republic thread on McCain’s speech. They are savaging him.
We are so screwed.
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I’ll take your word for it, Oliver. I wouldn’t set foot in Free Republic even if every other site in the Internet had been set on fire/
I watched it online today and I was shocked. That speech was REALLY BAD. He seemed very nervous, disingenuous, sweaty, waxy and scared. I was really surprised.
When McCain starting making all his Iran and Iraq gaffes, I realized that the old guy is intellectually lazy. He doesn’t really take the time to learn detail. The speech last night was horrible. This guy is a really weak candidate.
Just what we need, huh? another round with an incurious and lazy git!
Therein lies the difference. Barack speaks to people like they’re adults.