Comments on: Initial Thoughts On McCain Speech

By: Final Thoughts on John McCain’s Speech | Comments from Left Field

Final Thoughts on John McCain’s Speech | Comments from Left Field — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:59:27 +0000

[...] night I offered some initial thoughts to John McCain’s acceptance speech that is most definitely at odds to the general consensus [...]

By: I Guess I Was Wrong | Comments from Left Field

I Guess I Was Wrong | Comments from Left Field — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:56:54 +0000

[...] “You’ll have to forgive gramps; he’s tired,” kind of tone, well, I guess my initial reaction to McCain’s speech was a tad bit [...]

By: Kyle E. Moore

Kyle E. Moore — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:06:28 +0000

You know, you’re right.

You’re right.

I think I know what knocked my political radar askew, and I’m going to address that later this morning.

By: radical_Moderate

radical_Moderate — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:00:44 +0000

Kyle, with all due respect, I thought McCain’s speech was awful…although compared to Lindsey Graham’s putrid offering earlier, it seems like a work of genius. I urge you to go back and read the transcript to appreciate the true emptiness of the effort , beyond the relevatory material regarding his experience in Vietnam ,and its meaning to him personally that made some misty eyed, there was truly no “there there.”

After promising to do away with unemployment insurance…he rather astonishingly stated; “For workers in industries — for workers in industries that have been hard-hit, we’ll help make up part of the difference in wages between their old job and a temporary, lower paid one, while they receive re-training that will help them find secure new employment at a decent wage. ” Note how ever the “fiscal conservative” McCain promises that the Government will make up “part” of the lost wages for workers in Industries hard hit by, let’s face it, jobs sent overseas by the Free Trade Agreements pushed throught the Clinton administration, and driven into super drive by the Bushies.

I am listening to the pundits on MSNBC now, and several of them are calling McCain’s flaccid effort powerful? Jesus. Only WAPO Conservative commentator Micheal Gerson described it basically as the same GOP crap that we hear every election cycle…I’m with Gerson.