What, no "McCain's speech tonight..." thread? | Thread profile

It's been over for a few hours now. You guys are slacking! Or did everyone fall asleep while watching it?

It kind of merged with the Palin one from what I can tell.

Huh, I figured it would get its own thread, since Palin, Palin's unborn grandchild, Fred Thompson, and Cindy McCain's dress all have their own.

Quote: Originally Posted by Awshux Huh, I figured it would get its own thread, since Palin, Palin's unborn grandchild, Fred Thompson, and Cindy McCain's dress all have their own. Conan did a bit tonight about Palin playing the Hockey Mom card, he said. "I don't know what position her kids played, but I know one of...

Quote: Originally Posted by 10achik Conan did a bit tonight about Palin playing the Hockey Mom card, he said. "I don't know what position her kids played, but I know one of them that's not very good at protecting the crease!" Damn I havent heard a joke that good on late night in a while.

Seriously. McCain did as well as expected. The speech was the same old rhetoric which contained embellishments, etc, typical of these sorts of things. As far as appealing to their respective bases, I say Obama A+/McCain A-.

I'll hear plenty of McCain's speeches during his presidency. I'm not straining to catch every moment of the convention.

If you compare McCain at Saddleback to his convention speech, you see he is the same man through and through and he is who he says he is. Not sure you can say the same about his opponent.

McCain's speech and the lead-in speeches about him talked about a lot of good things but the key thing that kept coming out was McCain's incredible character. When he talked about how his experience as a POW changed him so he learned to truly love America and to live for his country rather than for himself totally choked me up and made me so proud of him that I could barely contain myself. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jerry Bransford McCain's speech and the lead-in speeches about him talked about a lot of good things but the key thing that kept coming out was McCain's incredible character. When he talked about how his experience as a POW changed him so he learned to truly love America and to live for his country rather...