McCain Shows His Class
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John McCain 2008
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John McCain 2008
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A few hours before Obama rose to speak in Denver, John McCain put out this rather surprising campaign ad. It won't win him a single extra vote, but it was the right thing to do.
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Yesterday, coincidentally the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, Barack Obama formally accepted his party's nomination as candidate for the Presidency. This was the ad that John McCain ran immediately after the speech. (h/t: RCP )
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In most countries in the West, political opinion tends to be strongly divided between two or more politcal parties. People who are in favour of one party will often heap huge amounts of opprobium on the heads of their opponants and refuse to believe that any good can come from them. Just look at the [...]
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BBC radio played this without comment on the lunchtime news and I was a little confused as to why. Maybe the BBC are so pro-Obama that they think that this is actually another vote for him. It's called politeness and class, the BBC won't understand that.
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And a class act from McCain, observing Obama's nomination on an anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. I imagine the gloves are off for only a single day. (h/t Jay Currie )