McCain's Embarrassing Speech
What a bad decision it was for McCain to speak on national television tonight. The contrast with Obama's speech (and even Clinton's speech for that matter) was stark. McCain stood in front of an ugly green backdrop in a crowd of literally dozens of mildly enthusiastic supporters. His speech was written poorly and delivered in a halting and painfully awkward way. After every line he cracked a vaguely disturbing and obviously forced smile, as if the teleprompter was cuing him to make human-looking expressions. He looked mechanical, old, and completely uncomfortable.
As for the content, his opening remarks praising Hillary were so obviously insincere and so overtly cynical that they could not possibly have helped him. And the rest of his speech was unmemorable, uninspiring, and gratuitously mean-spirited.
Contrast that with Obama's speech, which was delivered with passion, emotion, and great eloquence in front of a stadium full of genuinely energized voters. It was much better written, much better delivered, and clearly intended to inspire and uplift rather than mock and denigrate.
McCain looked like a bizarre and angry old man. Obama looked like the next John F. Kennedy. Frighteningly sad is right. McCain is really going to have to step up his game.
As for the content, his opening remarks praising Hillary were so obviously insincere and so overtly cynical that they could not possibly have helped him. And the rest of his speech was unmemorable, uninspiring, and gratuitously mean-spirited.
Contrast that with Obama's speech, which was delivered with passion, emotion, and great eloquence in front of a stadium full of genuinely energized voters. It was much better written, much better delivered, and clearly intended to inspire and uplift rather than mock and denigrate.
McCain looked like a bizarre and angry old man. Obama looked like the next John F. Kennedy. Frighteningly sad is right. McCain is really going to have to step up his game.
posted by A.L. at 11:14 PM
6 Comments:
Oh you've gotta see this clip of CNN's Jeanne Moos on McCain trying to use a teleprompter.
There is NO WAY he can even dream of competing with Obama.
I don't think has a game that he can step up. He can try all he wants to distance himself from Bush (such as calling the response to Katrina a disgrace), but there is too much evidence of his support for him to move away.
After every line he cracked a vaguely disturbing and obviously forced smile, as if the teleprompter was cuing him to make human-looking expressions.
it was tragic and disturbing. i felt sorry for him. but then he'd sneer a little, and i'd remember that inside that incredibly awkward, seemingly pathetic little man, lies the heart of a neocon and the original mcnasty: hateful, mean-spirited, cruel, with a withered soul and a mind corrupted by power and influence.
i'm hoping for a repeat, and soon. go john mccain ;-)
I might feel a little sorry for him if he didn't say things like, "Pundits and party elders have declared that Senator Obama will be my opponent."
As A.L. has noted, the unstinting disrespect he has shown Obama, and the roughly 18 million people who have so far voted for him, is extremely ugly, and telling. For that alone, he deserves every ounce of the whupass he is about to receive.
I noticed on June 5 Sen.Mitch McConnell is in the news reminding folks of neocon judge nominations which Democrats resisted in the last congress, McConnell's current hype being making Democratic party clerks read the entire global warming draft bill aloud is a delaying tactic payback for Reid's threats to do the same during the era in 2005 when McCain's G14 circled wagons and decided to save cloture. Now this week McCain's campaign is exhuming the ghost of BGoldwater, one of the early warmongers in the Republican party as the repressed 50s finally subsided. Goldwater had a love of the atmospheric tests of A bombs in Nevada, like a neocon would, lots of spectacle, and pollution. I wonder if McCain ever has explained why he stepped into the fray over Frist's threats to attempt to obliterate the cloture rule. Kennedy certainly stepped up and showed Frist's plot with Cheney to try to circumvent cloture was an abrogation of the chamber's rules. I worry about more than McCains' ancientness; I worry about his tactics to gather the neocons by donning the mantle of a nuclear arms race proponent. I think it means he is planning to cede leadership to the neocon wing of his discredited party by selecting a neocon for veep runningmate. I think A.L. is right; it is the closing act of a fading coalition, and McCain's visage is the patent emblem of that dissipated demise. That same McCain hesitancy was visible in the debates Nixon lost to an earlier Kennedy.
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