I was taking a nap. I'll watch it online soon. As long as he wasn't just lying and scaring people and complaining like Palin was, I'm sure he did great.
It sucked big time. Cmon following Palin and Obama it sucked. He repeated himself, the protesters were the most exciting part but his attempt at authority in the last 5 minutes was certainly stronger than anything else he said in the first 30 minutes. Not that its saying much, considering how uninspired he sounded.
Running for president? After all the other Repub attacks there wasn't enough strength in his speech to convince many people.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
Palin's speech was much worse. It was too much of the Republican party of yesterday (which if you ask the average voter, is a terrible, terrible thing).
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
Too busy watching Football.
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| akuma587 said: Palin's speech was much worse. It was too much of the Republican party of yesterday (which if you ask the average voter, is a terrible, terrible thing). |
If by "Average" voter you mean "Core Democrat Voter" than you could be correct ...
Most voters are centerists (relative to their political system) and are fairly comfortable with being governed by either party as long as they are not too extreme (relative to their political system). Even if they disagree with a candidate on a particular issue they may vote for them if their stance is not too extreme; as an example, currently (in the United States) most of the more-moderate voters would not see a problem with voting for someone who wanted a ban on full-term abortions.
Now, I'm starting to get the impression that Palin was selected by McCain in order to placate his conservative base by enabling her to speak to and for them; and at the same time she is supposed to enrage the more extreme elements of the Democratic party. The end result of this is John McCain can then target the more moderate voters himself, who may be very nervous about the direction the Democrats would take the country based on the crazy stuff that some Obama supporters do and say.
Funny, even most liberal pundits are saying it was a hell of a speech but Megaman thinks it sucked big time.
You may not like the candidate but take off the blinders for a moment. Not all speeches are fire, brimstone, and show. McCain came off as a real and classy person, just what he needed to do.
Not everyone is as polished as Obama, and that's a good thing. Anyway, two very good speeches by both candidates. Its nice to actually like the people this time around.
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Anyone one find it interesting that after only 5 days in the spotlight that Sarah was able to garner 37.2M viewers?
For comparison Obama had 38.4M.
I feel bad that McCain had to follow football kickoff. It could have been interesting... but it's FOOTBALL lol.
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| senseinobaka said: Anyone one find it interesting that after only 5 days in the spotlight that Sarah was able to garner 37.2M viewers? For comparison Obama had 38.4M. I feel bad that McCain had to follow football kickoff. It could have been interesting... but it's FOOTBALL lol. |
Well, I think McCain did alright for himself ... According to the following article, preliminary data shows that McCain's speech was more popular than Obama's acceptance speech. This doesn't (necessarily) mean that McCain actually had more viewers, but he certainly would not be dramatically lower than Obama's speech.
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/09/mccain_tv_ratings_beat_obama_i.php
heres what i got from everything....
McCain wants to empower the people...and Obama wants the people to empower him.
"I like my steaks how i like my women. Bloody and all over my face"
"Its like sex, but with a winner!"
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| MrBubbles said: heres what i got from everything.... McCain wants to empower the people...and Obama wants the people to empower him. |
LOL, I dont think you can pull off a zinger like that unless your a really hott 44 year old with the smart librarian look or a womanizer with a lisp.
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