Republican National Convention '08

[innerSpaceman]

He actually winked.



Ya know, I like John McCain. And I'm thinking he's giving a pretty good speech. Kinda bland, but I'm impressed that none of it's very objectionable, and I admire his effort to come across well to undecided Americans.

I admired his admission that the Republican party had lost the trust of America, and I appreciated him blaming both parties equally for Washington corruption and ineptitude.


Then he had to go and use the code words for anti-gay rights, and he frelling actually WINKED while he was saying them. I can't fukking believe it.


Go Straight to Hell, Straight Talking McCain.


I'm an American, too. And if my denying my civil rights is such a cavalier matter to you ... if denying any American's civil rights is a joking matter, they you, sir, deserve to LOSE.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Then he had to go and use the code words for anti-gay rights, and he frelling actually WINKED while he was saying them. I can't fukking believe it.

I watched and I missed that. I'd love to see someone point it out on a transcript. I'd like to read it. Interesting...


I thought the parts where he spoke of his personal experiences sacrificing a lot for this country were great. Well done. But all in all, I'd have to say that this is one of the worst campaign speeches I have ever seen/heard. His pacing was incredibly slow, he stumbled several times and in the areas where he was trying to rally the crowd and get them excited he fell flat.

He's not the anti-Christ, he's not the worst politician in the world, but this speech was horrendous. Him apologizing for the last 8 years was nice, but instead of it making me see him in a positive light, it made me resent his party as a whole. I liked that he didn't speak with the venom that Palin did, so I guess his whole speech wasn't a total loss. But inspiring it wasn't and comparing it to Obama's speech it was poor.

People in the crowd looked as bored as I was. There was even a shot where someone was yawning. But that had more to do with bad direction, methinks. They did show more people of color this time. (I watched it on KCET, I don't know if the crowd shots vary from network to network.) The KCET and CNN hosts even brought up the small numbers of minorities in the GOP to the Republican and Democrat commentators and both sides said it indeed was an issue.