Of all the themes…
Posted on September 5th, 2008
I missed John McCain’s speech entirely, since he was rude enough to give it at 4AM in Austrian time (I’m at the Ars Electronica festival), but I had a good laugh when I woke up and checked the coverage: The headline in the NY Times is:
John McCain Vows to End ‘Partisan Rancor’
Of all the themes to pick after the intensely partisan ads and speeches, and the night after nominating a self-described “pitbull in lipstick”! I do appreciate McCain’s gracious ad congratulating Obama on his nomination, but even that ad noted that it was a momentary lull (”We’ll be at it again tomorrow”) in a firestorm of partisan negativity.
Maybe the headline was just due to the Times’ impish sense of humor.
Well, I heard it since he was rude enough to give it around 10:20 PM Eastern DST. The irony to me of the items about including everyone is that GW Bush said the same thing, as I recall. Look where we are now. McCain’s calls for reform are particularly odd since the Republicans run the government now. He was quite short on details in his speech too.
If the Democrats would just bend over for the Republicans, like they did when Bush’s approval ratings were at 80%, then there wouldn’t be any partisan rancor.
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I thought that John McCain’s speech was the most impressive of the ones that I heard. He made some subtle but clear enough points in his speech that he was going to move his party somewhere else: he is against war (and thus not a neoconservative), he gave an example of a young Latina women as an American worker (and thus will work on immigration from that mindset), his party was corrupt and disingenuous, and he was not going to serve his party (and thus was not beholden to it), and he was going to campaign negatively (accepting it as a given) but is ready to work across party lines after the elections. I would say Bill Clinton did the same sixteen years ago with regard to the Democrats, he spoke to where he was going to move his party. That kind of speaking is very important for independents. It would be good if Barack Obama took that approach, too. I am encouraged by these elections.