A Consensus: McCain's Was A Dud
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A Consensus: McCain's Was A Dud
Sort by The Daily Dish (Free subscription) - 04/06/2008
There's an almost universal dismay across the blogosphere at McCain's flat, odd and underwhelming speech. Matt: ...despite the general badness of his speaking manner, McCain does have highs and lows. You can tell that he gets excited, personally, when talking...
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Frighteningly Sad -- Now on Video!
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We've had a lot of requests for Sen. McCain's already-legendarily awful prebuttal to Obama speech. And here it is ... After much consideration, we've decided that tomorrow's episode of TPMtv will simply have to be a round-up of all the...
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The Town Hall (via Web Video) Experience
Sort by Swampland (Free subscription) - 18/06/2008
A couple days back I ran an online story about McCain's town hall campaign strategy. My idea was that Obama is great in front of big auditoriums, reading speeches off a teleprompter. McCain is not. But McCain is as energetic and engaging as any candidate I have seen this cycle if you take away the script and let him interact with the crowd. Here are just a few clips from McCain's town hall in Nashua,...
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Cheers and Jeers: Thursday [Daily Kos]
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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Dear President Bush, I notice that you had a bit of an Ellen moment at the White House the other day . Since I help pay your salary, I thought I'd give you my opinion of your little tantrum. It was great! You looked more Nixonian than Nixon. Hooverisher than Hoover. Hardingier than Harding. Ashen, saggy, thoroughly whipped. Prissy, fussy, petulant and pouty. Just like...
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Steve Schmidt takes over the McCain campaign
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Steve Schmidt has assumed "full operational control" of the McCain campaign, the Washington Post tells us, with McCain reducing the role of current campaign manager Rick Davis, who will now concentrate on finding a veep. (This lays to rest the "Romney is leading" and "Palin is leading" and "Jindal is out" garbage from the media. How can one have a leader for a position if the process has...
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Cheers and Jeers: Thursday
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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... This just in: Dear American Citizens, In the wake of recent revelations that a substance called melamine was passed into our food supply by way of chickens, hens, fish and hogs who ate feed containing the substance, there’s been significant concern about the current state of food safety in this country. This is understandable, and I can assure you that the levels of...
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The Real Comparison
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This is the real comparison that matters: John McCain yells “Get off my grass” for 20 minutes from the podium in a retirement community cafeteria. Obama declares victory and outlines his vision for America. If you have the time, watch them back to back. The McCain speech was even more painful the second time I watched it, [...]
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Barack Obama Clinches Historic Democratic Nomination
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Illinois Senator Barack Obama, as you likely know, became the first Black candidate to lead a major party ticket last night, clinching the Democratic nomination over Hillary Clinton: "A last-minute rush of Democratic superdelegates, as well as the results from...
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McCain's speech on Tuesday
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iPhone users: Click to watch OMG, you've gotta see this. This is about as bad as some of the bad high school speech rounds I judged back in the day - the slow and smarmy tone seasoned by a certain amount of cluelessness, all smothered in a layer of obvious coaching, but not enough, there's never enough coaching for this kid. He makes GWB sound like MLK.... OK, that's going overboard. Who do you all...
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Speeches
Sort by Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) - 04/06/2008
This is a quick and dirty post. Yall have been blowing up the comments in the other threads, so keep that going! 1. McCain's speech . Wiggity wack!!! From Left to Right, all agree he was horrible . OMG dude is actually UNinspiring. Like, I actually feel dumber and less empowered after his monotonous droning. Thank God the networks cut away. I was about ready to unregister to vote. And did anyone catch...
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Our Choice
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It’s up to you, America! You can’t say the differences aren’t … stark.
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John McCain Responds to Obama’s Speech and Victory
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Talking Points Memo calls the speech John McCain gave yesterday, in response to Barack Obama’s victory speech, “frighteningly sad.” You can watch it below, so you can make up your own mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RuX4pQPLY ©2008 PoliGazette. All Rights Reserved..
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Today on Athenae's Obsession with the Freepi: A Crack In Everything
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I offer the above as a stunning example of what not to do in a speech, and to explain the following: Why, oh WHY...does he always sound: A) Angry B) Like an automaton --- We need to start a fund...
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A Tale Of Three Speeches
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Last night witnesses speeches from all three of the remaining major party candidates for President, two of which give us a preview of what the General Election campaign is likely to be like. First, there was John McCain down in Louisiana taking on Barack Obama and welcoming him to the race: Suffice it to say that the reaction to McCain’s speech was underwhelming to say the least and...
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Iowa Liberal: This speech seems like it was written for someone else.
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Number of comments: 3 For your viewing pleasure: McCain doesn’t seem to have the cadence and pitch required to pull this type of a speech off. -mg [...]
