McCain Gave a GREAT Concession speech. The Best I've ever Heard.

[slampoet]

It was just what America needed to hear, that Obama is just a person the right differs with on policy, and not what the mud-slinger have been trying to paint him as.

GOOD. I like Reasonable people. Let's hope he sticks to it now that he doesn't have anyone in the GOP pulling his strings.


Maybe it's the time for the maverick to grow into a party leader.

McCain might be the person to run the NEW Republican party then.


If McCain hadn't made such a speech the GOP might have imploded (it still can) and selected Ron Paul types to run their diminished political party.

[olkaz]

1. You must have missed Kerry's.

[lisa58]

2. and Gore's

[slampoet]

3. Saw it.

[kick-ass-bob]

4. It was a good speech - probably because that was from the 2000 McCain

but those fucking assholes booing the President-elect is just beyond reproach. Then I remembered 'you brought this behavior on yourself, with your despicable campaign tactics.'

Note that when Obama mentioned McCain, the people there applauded.

[Goblinmonger]

27. It's a little easier to be magnanimous

when you are the winner.

[sad sally]

38. just saying, hard not to notice that the McCain crowd last night was mighty whitey

with all their prejudices intact, while President (Elect) Obama's crowd - US - looked like quintessential America.

[Coventina]

5. I thought it was good as well.

It reminded me why I found him to be the least offensive of the Republican field.

[Colobo]

6. It was decent.

[kwolf68]

7. I think McCain

Will either wither away like dust or he'll try to reassert his 'independent' image now that he's been severely whipped.

Maybe he can become a leader on a progressive issue for example (he WAS leading a conference on global warming a couple years ago). If McCain keeps his "Conservative roots" while still working with Democrats on issues of consistency and he actually can help get things accomplished working with and not against President Obama and the Dems, then his legacy can be repaired.

In 2000 I thought Mr. McCain was a good man who got trashed by the religious right...to jump into bed with those people this time really left a nasty taste in my mouth for him, but it appears that's not his true convictions; only time will tell for that to be proven.

[yourguide]

8. Any concession speech from McCain would be great

so long as it included him conceding.

[alison]

9. It was good, however, I doubt McCain can say much of anything to make up for the horrific campaign

tactics his campaign used in order to attempt to win this election. Thank goodness they didn't work!

[central scrutinizer]

10. sorry - ten minutes doesn't undo months of hate-filled rabble rousing

Even when the outcome was obvious, but not called yet, vile hateful robocalls were still being made to mountain and west coast states. Once you sell your soul, it can't be redeemed.

[olegramps]

19. Absolutely. Democrats should not afford him one shred of credibility.

[Raschel]

22. It's unbelievable how so many are saying it's so "classy" for admitting you've been beat.

Big deal. All of these speeches are written to make the loser look better.

I don't give him any credibility.

[rocktivity]

11. It was shockingly reasonable, which makes him that much less qualified to be a leader

Of course someone else wrote it, and of course he rehearsed it. But the speech was so reasonable it made McCrazed look as though he'd undergone a complete personality change. If anything, the speech made it that much more obvious that like President Lame Duck, he's too dependent on the kindness of his puppeteers.

:headbang:
rocknation

[MattNC]

12. his supporters ruined it n/t

[mohc]

13. In fairness

He's had months to prepare for it so it should have been good.

[DainBramaged]

14. In all honesty, who cares, yesterday's news

He ran the most hateful, racist, despicable campaign in history. I would have preferred he shut his PIE hole and slunk off into the night. He defamed the campaign for the Presidency with his lies and racist tactics, and I hope his final years in the Senate are lonely and unproductive.

[gatorboy]

15. Sorry. But it is too little too late to make nice now.

Did you here the venom in his crowd? That was his doing.

He gets no sympathies from me for trying to make nice after running one of the more despicable campaigns I've ever seen.

[slampoet]

26. So his crowd needs to change but we don't need to forgive them? That's not gonna make Progress.

Remember. Bush's people are the enemy. McCain was just the sympathizer.

[gatorboy]

30. Sympathizer? Please. McCain was the enabler.

Did you just get here or something? Maybe this article will make it more clear:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-we-cant-solve-globa_n_141358.html

The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and very disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that the crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle Obama said to a top campaign aide.

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Don't make excuses for this man.

[Rockholm]

31. His crowd was utterely classless....yet again.

McCain was gracious.

[hlthe2b]

16. Interesting... I watched with about 40 Obama volunteers & friends

Our impression as a consensus, was that MCCain technically said the right things but that there was a clear "dog whistle" to his base (and others) that the only reason Obama won was because of race.... Everyone bristled when he kept referring to the issue of race in this election (in terms of what it meant to A. Americans--as though Obama had no non-black support) and so forth.


Maybe we were too sensitized, but certainly no one thought it was a GREAT concession speach. Perfunctory at best.

[votetastic]

34. I picked up on that too

He really seemed to be saying that Obama had only won because of his race. Sure, some people may have voted for him just because he was black, but many more didn't vote for him because he's black.

His concession speech offended me, and I saw through his attempts to revive his ruined legacy.

[JohnnyRingo]

17. Except the part where he said "This campaign will be my greatest honor"

I think that's debatable.
At the least.

[olegramps]

18. McCain is desperately attempting to reclaim his reputation.

Sorry, but he totally lost any credibility when he choose Palin and then appealed to the worst elements of our society; the racists and religious extremists to bailout his blunder. I hope that Democrats shun him in the Senate.

[Raschel]

24. I agree. Obama will work with him for the sake of our country, but I don't have to give him a pass.

[slampoet]

25. That is exactly why he made the speech and also why his people VETOED Palin addressing the crowd.

[Beacool]

20. He was gracious and set a nice tone.

I liked how he chided those of his supporters who booed at the mention of Obama.

McCain will be fine, he does love the senate. Palin will go back to Alaska and await her chance to run again, who knows why, but the conservatives love this woman.

[Johnny2X2X]

21. Did not go far enough

I thought he said some nice things, but he didn't go far enough. He needed to go into more detail and dispel some of the rumors that his campaign had been responsible for. This was his chance to really heal the Country and he fell short of doing that IMO.

[SoonerPride]

23. I thought it sucked

It was like the rest of his campaign.

[Cha]

28. mccain trying to make up for the robo calls and all

the fucking lies? Not a chance.

[Bluenorthwest]

29. Still

it does not make up for all of those mugging, mincing weeks of air quotes and eye rolling, baiting the crowd to displays of racist anger, his chosen running mate using rhetoric even more vile than his own. No. McCain's whole mask dropped. He and his soul mate Palin ran the nastiest campaign I have ever seen on the national stage, and aside from the nasty, there was the insultingly stupid stuff like 'suspending the campaign' and Joe the Scab. I'd feel sorry for Joe being used so blatantly were it not for Joe being both a Republican and an asshat on nonpartisan grounds as well.
McCain is pathetic and mean, and without a core set of ethics. If his concession was good, I wouldn't know, I was watching on a huge screen with hundreds of Democratic jeers drowning out his sorry apology. It was an apology, right? It sure should have been.

[Midlodemocrat]

32. It sucked ass. It was pandering and condescending and implied

that the only reason Barack won was because the AA vote came out in force.

He fucking sucks. He could have taken the high road and he elected not to. 'That one'. I hope he rots in Hell along with Mooselini.

[Cha]

36. One of mccain's family calls us "bastards"...not nice.

Reading what this one has to say..I see where mccain gets his stupidity from..


<snip> <snip> <snip>

"She really doesn't care," Willis said of her 96-year old twin sister, who has campaigned for her son and recorded TV ads with him. “‘Let these bastards get in,’ she says, ‘I don't give a damn anymore. If these people want to buy votes and get their people in office, let them suffer for it in the way of high taxes.’”

"I'm hoping he wins, for the country's sake,” McCain’s aunt said. “I figure it will kill him, but he's going to die one day anyway, so he might as well do it there."

"They will be broke with the Democrats in, with the number of people they will have to pay who have never paid a dollar of income tax in their life," she said. "Our children will suffer."

<more>
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-04/mccains-auntie-speaks-again/

[mtnsnake]

33. I thought it was good but nothing out of the ordinary

I'll give the guy credit, though, for calling for people to support Obama's presidency, although even that is par for the course.

[Elidor]

35. Newsweek reported today that threats against Obama went way up as Palin egged on the racist base

So let's not measure him for wings and a halo just yet. Forgiveness is one thing. Let's not forget what a sleazy fucking campaign he ran.

[tekisui]

37. f'em. Too little, too late. He sold his soul to the devil.