McCain's RNC speech

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

Respect and admiration were expressed by to opponents by McCain who understands the nature of the game for the next two months.

He has the priviledge of accepting the parties nomination for President of the United States. He accepts it with, Gratitude, humility, and confidence."

While the crows chanted, "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"

He cites the 9/11 attack and the many thought the inevitable.

McCain loves Cindy and his 7 children but honestly I don't know much else about her or them.

She must be important though because McCain says she inspires him though efforts for humanity.

McCain gives props to his Mom, Roberta McCain. Damb she looks like a 96 yr old Eleanor Roosevelt. A stong healthy woman with a sharp mind.

McCain intends to earn our trust acknowledging that trust isn't just given over.

"After we win I'm going to reach out my hand to every American and say. Make this government start working for you again and get this country back on the road to prosperity and peace."

Ewe....but he made a low blow with the comment. "My friends please don't be despaired by the brown noise and static." If that means what I think it means.

Stand on your side and fight for your future.

God I love Sarah Palin! She rocks the confidence!

Energy independence, corruptions, cut taxes, taken on special needs, mother of 5 children, taken on the party, works with the hand and nose, knowns where she comes from and who she works for, stand up for what is right, and doesn't let anyone tell her to sit down! I am so loving the Palin love in the room! OMG I love McCain! He calls out the do nothing, big spending, country second, change is coming part line bs! I swear I could have written this speech! McCain works for us! He means it! Don't you all get it!? Fighting the big spenders. He will make them famous and we will know their names! They know what we are going threw to pay our mortgages, pay gas, and bills because they are us.

Pundits are brought up again and line from Palin's speech repeated, "I'd rather lose an election than see my country lose a war."

Then he gets into war politics and what he says is right about it. He mentions God once so far in reference to his military service in how he made it as a POW.

Cites the people who invest in the country and work three jobs, with families, and especially special needs. Again pulling on a voter population. Calls on the troops again. Oh my good it's gets to be a tear jerker bringing up the service men and their families.

States that the party derailed when they got curropted and he wants to regain the trust but that both parties were curropted and cites Obama's voting record in regards to a bill. "The party of Lincoln, Rossevelt, and Regan gets back to basics." (Interesting comparisson).

Mentions "God" again two times in regards to our ability and nationality. Then goes on to define what that means. This part is worth listening to for an understanding of the party principles just after 20:00 into it.

"Government that doens't work to make choices for you but works to make sure that you have choices for yourself." Now do you see that the oppenents "Obama" has said they will work to make the "tough decisions in Washington for us". "AS IF THEY KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR US!" This is straight from the horses mouth on 60 minutes! Don't be lemurs ppl! Make up your own damb minds! Don't follow someone just because of charisma for whatever reason! This J.C. worship of him has really got me worried that you all believe he knows what is best for you because he says he wants to be the "Americans President". Don't you know what it means to be the American President? Don't you remember it's we the people!? Not we the President who makes the choices for us because they judge us and know whats best for us without listening to all of us? And they want to talk long winded BS without really doing anything? "Knock Knock! Anybody home? Wake up people!" McCain is right when he says, "Education is the civil rights education of this century."

And his policy on education is A-W-E-S-O-M-E! Would like to see something done about that for real! He is so RIGHT that it needs to answer to parents and students and stay within the community not with what Obama wants with it answering to buerocrats!

Most of all I love that he says we're going to stop sending seven hundred billions dollars to countries that don't like us very much. We will address the issue by producing more energy on the home front and "drill them now". Now do you guys get it why he picked Palin? Are you all still scratching your heads? He's all for harvesting wind, tide, solar, natural gas, electric automobiles, nuclear power plants, drilling, all of which Obama is against! His plan will created millions of new jobs. The prospect of a better world remains within our reach and we need to be able to precieve the threats to peace and liberty in our time and face them as Americans before us did with confidence, wisdom, and resolve.

He cites Iran is chief state sponser of terrorism. He's right.

He did something interesting talking about Russia & Georgia. He says he's prepared because he knows how the military works, how leaders work, how the world works, how to secure the peace, and how to stand up to those who don't.

He knows what most Americans have been through. He hates war because it's terrible beyond all imagination. That's why he's willing to finish this war so we are having a stable and enduring peace. In the US we change what needs to be changed.

We don't want people that go to Washington to work for themselves and not for us. McCain has that record and the scars to prove it. He wants to set a new record for transparancy and accountability and he doesn't care who gets the credit. It can be anyone independents, democrats, republicans as long as we all work together and get it done.

At 40:00 it's a real tear jerker. Mentioning the company of heros, ect.

To which he gets a standing ovation. This is what they mean by *straight talk*. "Dust yourself off and fight again!" OH! Stand up and fight for what you believe in and I will respect you! Have some balls! Have some respect!

LOL! He calls Obama on his JC image! Annointed in this hour of need to save us all! LOL!

He asks you to get involved in your country if you feel there are things wrong with it don't just complain provide a service greater than yourself inciting the famous John F. Kennedy ingaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

"Hard work, strong faith, a little courage, great things are within our reach, fight with me, stand up for what you believe in, stand up to defene our families, stand up to defend our children, stand up to defend our country from our enemies, we're Americans we never give up, we never quit, we never hide from history, we make history!"

He got it so RIGHT!

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26552443#26552443

[Sprailenes 47]

The crows were there? And they were chanting!?

Fantastic.

[symbiosis 0]

I thought it was a workmanlike speech, nothing special. The GOP lacks for good speakers.

[almaty 19]

During his acceptance speech, John McCain had some very strong criticism of his opponent. I'm not talking about Barack Obama; I'm talking about George Bush. After rushing headlong into the embrace of Bush and the Rovian wing of the GOP, McCain has now decided that he desperately needs to distance himself and try to reclaim the maverick mantel. Not an easy thing to do when you have sided with Bush 90 percent of the time. But McCain gave it his best shot, claiming: "We need to change the way government does almost everything." Listening to the speech, you'd think it was the Democrats who occupied the White House the last seven-plus years and it was time to throw the bastards out.

i remember Bush sepaking there..and some of the gop faithful getting moist from his speech or was that Palin's speech?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I'm not surprised the convention has steered clear of Bush - the man is such an albatross that he can only do damage to the GOP campaign.

McCain's speech was similar in style to Palin's - in that it avoided the traditional style of rhetorical delivery and went for the more conversational approach (the speech was written that way too). In McCain's case I think because he's simply not good at the traditional form.

Naturally they made a lot of his background and experience - it was interesting for what it was but as with Palin's speech it only vaguely touched on areas of policy.

Obama in contrast actually made pretty explicit promises - though again its a lot less clear whether he can meet those expectations (especially the one about the US no longer being dependent on ME oil within 10 years).

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

During his acceptance speech, John McCain had some very strong criticism of his opponent. I'm not talking about Barack Obama; I'm talking about George Bush. After rushing headlong into the embrace of Bush and the Rovian wing of the GOP, McCain has now decided that he desperately needs to distance himself and try to reclaim the maverick mantel. Not an easy thing to do when you have sided with Bush 90 percent of the time. But McCain gave it his best shot, claiming: "We need to change the way government does almost everything." Listening to the speech, you'd think it was the Democrats who occupied the White House the last seven-plus years and it was time to throw the bastards out.

i remember Bush sepaking there..and some of the gop faithful getting moist from his speech or was that Palin's speech?

I noticed that from a few of the other speakers as well who fixated on the 2 year old Democratic Congress while ignoring the fact that most of the damage was done during the time that they held the majority.

[almaty 19]

they suffer from selected memory

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

they suffer from selected memory

They also believe their own propaganda - they have to find someone else to blame in order to justify how they deserve the White House for a 3rd successive term. Its an own-goal to bash the President - so they have to make out that they're saving the country from dangerous liberalism.

Self-delusion at its finest.

Edited September 5, 2008 by Paul Daniels

[LaL 418]

they suffer from selected memory

They also believe their own propaganda - they have to find someone else to blame in order to justify how they deserve the White House for a 3rd successive term. Its an own-goal to bash the President - so they have to make out that they're saving the country from dangerous liberalism.

Self-delusion at its finest.

This is what is making me about it all. They have to steer clear of Bush to make sure they hammer home their newly adopted "change" slogans, then turn around and rattle off the very same agenda. Errrr - wot?

[symbiosis 0]

they suffer from selected memory

They also believe their own propaganda - they have to find someone else to blame in order to justify how they deserve the White House for a 3rd successive term. Its an own-goal to bash the President - so they have to make out that they're saving the country from dangerous liberalism.

Self-delusion at its finest.

Yeah, it's a stitch hearing them run on "change". The party that created the mess is now the party that will save us all from it. pathetic!

[LaL 418]

they suffer from selected memory

They also believe their own propaganda - they have to find someone else to blame in order to justify how they deserve the White House for a 3rd successive term. Its an own-goal to bash the President - so they have to make out that they're saving the country from dangerous liberalism.

Self-delusion at its finest.

Yeah, it's a stitch hearing them run on "change". The party that created the mess is now the party that will save us all from it. pathetic!

"we will save you... from ourselves!"

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

they suffer from selected memory

They also believe their own propaganda - they have to find someone else to blame in order to justify how they deserve the White House for a 3rd successive term. Its an own-goal to bash the President - so they have to make out that they're saving the country from dangerous liberalism.

Self-delusion at its finest.

This is what is making me about it all. They have to steer clear of Bush to make sure they hammer home their newly adopted "change" slogans, then turn around and rattle off the very same agenda. Errrr - wot?

Talking about change makes people feel better about business as usual. Give it a year or two and the disappointment will re-emerge.

[chri'stina 190]

There were parts of the speech I really liked.

I'm paraphrasing...

Where he said if anyone knows how horrible war is, he would know and he would work as hard as possible to keep peace. He knows how it feels to not have family around due to war from his grandfather to father and himself, and now his son who was over in Iraq.

Ok I found the actual words:

When I was 5 years old, a car pulled up in front of our house. A Navy officer rolled down the window and shouted at my father that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. I rarely saw my father again for four years. My grandfather came home from that same war exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day. In Vietnam, where I formed the closest friendships of my life, some of those friends never came home with me. I hate war. It is terrible beyond imagination.

I'm running for president to keep the country I love safe, and prevent other families from risking their loved ones in war as my family has. I will draw on all my experience with the world and its leaders, and all the tools at our disposal — diplomatic, economic, military and the power of our ideals — to build the foundations for a stable and enduring peace.

I highly respect that he is personally involved in the issue of Iraq, and so is Palin, and with their own kids' lives on the line why would they want to continue the war unless they felt it was extremely necessary to end it better than just leaving right away. Even Obama changed his "get out NOW" stance to "Get out responsibly"...basically what McCain has been saying all along.

His speech wasn't electrifying like some may think Obama's was. But I still am voting for McCain.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Its hard to be bowled away by talk about national security and "enduring peace" - Bush talked about his quest for peace until it had all but lost meaning (and until his moral credibility was spent). Do we really have to just mention peace and security and let that be the end-all.

Personal anecdotes are all well and good - but everybody has them.

[chri'stina 190]

You're right, everyone does have them. So even if I take those away from Obama and McCain, McCain is still the better choice for me.