McCain, Stop With the Blue/Green Screens!

THAT"S ALL YOU GOT TO SAY AFTER SUCH A GREAT SPEECH BY THE FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
LAUGHABLE!!!
THE HUNT FOR "PALINGATE" CONTINUES

TJ, REALLY REVILED BY MEDIA LOOKING FOR SOMETHING WRONG WITH PALIN AND MCCAIN
THE GREEN SCREEN?
HA HA!!

Backgrounds don't matter, but issues do and the wrinkly white haired dude came through tonight:

http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A08300170099226F/

It must really be a hard news day.........

The future President of the United States didn't make a speech tonight, McCain did.

Obama/Biden 08

I definitely thought the Vogue video from the Colbert challenge was one of the best, but the Elvis one is pretty good, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOF-j1L0vE

Wonder if Colbert will do it again for this speech?

THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WAS ALL ABOUT OBAMA --- REMEMBER HIM STANDING IN FRONT OF THE COLUMNS OF HIS GREEK "TEMPLE"? HE BELONGS IN HOLLYWOOD --- NOT IN OUR WHITE HOUSE. HE HAD TO CHOOSE JOE BIDEN TO GIVE HIS TICKET EXPERIENCE. WHAT A JOKE!

THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION WAS ALL ABOUT OUR "COUNTRY" --- COUNTRY FIRST! GOD BLESS AMERICA!

JOHN McCAIN DEFINITELY HAS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA. HE HAS WORKED FOR US ALL OF HIS ADULT LIFE. IN ADDITION TO PROVING HE LOVES HIS COUNTRY ENOUGH TO DIE FOR US, THE HONORABLE JOHN S. MCCAIN HAS PROVEN HE ALSO HAS GOOD JUDGMENT. ONE EXAMPLE OF HIS GOOD JUDGMENT IS HIS CHOICE OF SARAH PALIN FOR VP!

I don't agree with anyone on ALL issues. I just weigh the two sides and go with the one that has the most to offer America --- ON DAY ONE.

BIDEN SAID OF OBAMA: "WE DON'T NEED A PRESIDENT IN TRAINING!" I agree --- He makes lots of promises but has nothing solid to back them up. Also, Obama has told so many lies about so many things that I simply do not trust him. He has lost credibility.

I EXPECTED SARAH PALIN TO GET ON BASE WITH HER SPEECH --- BUT I DID NOT ANTICIPATE THE GRAND SLAM HOME RUN!

It doesn't matter who helped write the speech --- she adlibbed most of it --- straight from the heart! Did you guys hear how the teleprompter Sarah Palin was reading cut off every first two lines? It was going too fast sometimes, and she had to adlib a lot of stuff --- including the “pitbull” comment!

Also, they didn’t have a final draft for her to read. She had a crumpled up earlier draft and she said, “that’s ok, I’ll just iron it out on this book”! She is a breath of fresh air and brings a change we can believe in.

I’d love to see Obama give a speech without the help of a teleprompter (and his 300 advisors whispering into his hidden earpiece)! HAD OBAMA BEEN VETTED BY THE DNC AND BIASED MEDIA --- HILLARY WOULD BE THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE!

I'M VOTING FOR McCAIN / PALIN IN NOVEMBER.

The insensitivity and cruelty that you manifest as a human being as your pursue your goal of advancing your causes through Sen. Obama strikes of narcissism and egocentrism. I pity you that you have failed to advance to a higher level of civilization and civil society. Before you dis my comment off, let me explain who I am to you. In the 1960s I walked with Martin Luther King in Berwyn and Cicero and was pelted by bags of excrement and puke. I knew I was marching for a greater cause than myself, a white. I worked for Bobby Kennedy, against Vietnam and a return to the Great Society - now get this - that was earned, not given. John Keenan, the architect of containment, stood with us. I stood with early feminists, and now stand with post modern feminists. I worked to disenfranchise the white Boer culture of South Africa. In all that we endeavored, we were successful. Although I wasn't a POW, I share much in common with Sen. McCain. We both suffered abuse at the hands of nother human beings. He suffered untold horrors at the hands of the North Vietnam. I suffered untold horror at the hands of my father and mother. His body was beaten, I was scarred by burning cigarettes and scalding coffee in areas to private to mention. We both shared broken bones. He was locked in a solitary confinement. I was locked in a basement. There were some one million survivors of Hitler's purge. They built a nation called Israel. We became wise. We survived. We didn't allow our belief in the goodness of mankind to deviate, we clung to our faith, we chose upon our maturity to be a better person than those who abused us, and to work toward a better world. We learned to fogive, but never forget. We became stronger due to our experience, and oddly enough, more humble. And, this is important, we learned to sense those who are evil and morally corrupt and stand in their way as a barrier to the innocent and the good. We accomplished the ability to navigate positively, rather than (like yourself) negatively. I've read your ranting now and before. I will tell you this - you've never suffered horrors - only those in your own mind. I reject all that you espouse until the day you see the light of dawn of your own existence. When the next time you become aware of a friend or family members who was abused, then remember what John McCain or I went through, and pray "God, please never let it happen to me". For that you should stand with great respect and awe of John McCain, for what he and millions have had to endure at the hands of evil people. To not do so - only cast you on the side of those who desire to harm mankind, not better it. That is the difference between you and me.

I'm not a literary artist, nor can I emote in writing the emotions I felt during the speeches of McCain and Palin. I watched (and listened) to all the speeches of Obama and Biden, and felt confused, doubt and hustled. With McCain/Palin, I felt alive, valuable and tears swelled. McCain/Palin provided me with hope and anticipation. Obama/Biden filled me with distrust and fear. I only pray now that our system will work and our citizens will see through the mire and rhetoric and vote McCain/Palin. God Bless America (again).

Tommy, I think the problem was that in wide shots, the screen looked to have sweeping views of America and a waving American flag in a blue sky. But the TV close-ups just showed the green of the grass or blue of the sky.

So the problem might just be that his staff focused on what looked good to the room and not what looked good to the millions watching on TV. Really bad planning I'd say. Sort of like how Bush planned the Iraq war.

Now that the hoopla is over in both conventions, the fact is that Obama clearly had the best speech and the most nitty-gritty specifics and the best specific appeal for unity. McCain tried nobly on the latter and did pretty good. But I couldn't help but wonder, in watching him speak and watch him walk almost wobbly back on the stage, what will he be like in 2 or 3 years, when he's 75. (The blue screen was not flattering. Think: Nixon 1960.) We've had 8 years of probably the worst communicative President in modern history. Do we need 4 more? I felt included in Obama's speech, not in McCain's. When you look at the GOP convention, the crowd was still nearly totally white, straight and right-wing, and America is much more than that.

TJ......coming from another "Clintonite", it was an effort for me to stay awake during that speech....same thing with that really long video intro....zzzzz....hence, the need to add a little fun to the occasion.

Susan Nation.....I found your story to be very moving and compelling, but how can you assume that he hasn't been through similar experiences? Or me? Or any one of us? It's much more prevalent than you seem to believe. Anyway, although I sympathize with his plight and admire his strength and service, I don't believe that that in itself is enough to counter all of his negatives, namely, his policy positions. I find it difficult to comprehend how someone who holds true core Democratic values could even consider voting for McCain, war hero or not.

OBAMA/BIDEN '08 !

Keith Hubbard6:23AMSep 5th 2008

I'm not a literary artist, nor can I emote in writing the emotions I felt during the speeches of McCain and Palin. I watched (and listened) to all the speeches of Obama and Biden, and felt confused, doubt and hustled. With McCain/Palin, I felt alive, valuable and tears swelled. McCain/Palin provided me with hope and anticipation. Obama/Biden filled me with distrust and fear. I only pray now that our system will work and our citizens will see through the mire and rhetoric and vote McCain/Palin. God Bless America (again).
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More like you feel full of shi*. Republican hacker at best. However, we do see thru the rhetoric.
Obama/Biden 08

Susan Nation I have always been impressed with your writing...with this one wonderful doesn't do it justice.

Susan Nation4:07AMSep 5th 2008

The insensitivity and cruelty that you manifest as a human being as your pursue your goal of advancing your causes through Sen. Obama strikes of narcissism and egocentrism. I pity you that you have failed to advance to a higher level of civilization and civil society. Before you dis my comment off, let me explain who I am to you. In the 1960s I walked with Martin Luther King in Berwyn and Cicero and was pelted by bags of excrement and puke. I knew I was marching for a greater cause than myself, a white. I worked for Bobby Kennedy, against Vietnam and a return to the Great Society - now get this - that was earned, not given. John Keenan, the architect of containment, stood with us. I stood with early feminists, and now stand with post modern feminists. I worked to disenfranchise the white Boer culture of South Africa. In all that we endeavored, we were successful. Although I wasn't a POW, I share much in common with Sen. McCain. We both suffered abuse at the hands of nother human beings. He suffered untold horrors at the hands of the North Vietnam. I suffered untold horror at the hands of my father and mother. His body was beaten, I was scarred by burning cigarettes and scalding coffee in areas to private to mention. We both shared broken bones. He was locked in a solitary confinement. I was locked in a basement. There were some one million survivors of Hitler's purge. They built a nation called Israel. We became wise. We survived. We didn't allow our belief in the goodness of mankind to deviate, we clung to our faith, we chose upon our maturity to be a better person than those who abused us, and to work toward a better world. We learned to fogive, but never forget. We became stronger due to our experience, and oddly enough, more humble. And, this is important, we learned to sense those who are evil and morally corrupt and stand in their way as a barrier to the innocent and the good. We accomplished the ability to navigate positively, rather than (like yourself) negatively. I've read your ranting now and before. I will tell you this - you've never suffered horrors - only those in your own mind. I reject all that you espouse until the day you see the light of dawn of your own existence. When the next time you become aware of a friend or family members who was abused, then remember what John McCain or I went through, and pray "God, please never let it happen to me". For that you should stand with great respect and awe of John McCain, for what he and millions have had to endure at the hands of evil people. To not do so - only cast you on the side of those who desire to harm mankind, not better it. That is the difference between you and me.
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There is great pain and injustice in every nation, more often due to poor leadership from a mother or father and as we have seen with President Bush. Now more than ever, Time for change.
Obama/Biden 08

Let me tell you about that Republican community. Lincoln was the first Republican President. He was part of the radical Republicans that wanted an end to slavery. They are responsible for the civil rights amendments that were added to the US Constitution. When it came time to vote on the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, over 80% of Republicans in the House and Senate voted for the legislation. Not a single southern Democrat voted for it. Republicans pushed the women’s suffrage movement and enabled women to vote. People talk about the Jim Crow days of the South. Jim Crow was a Democrat.
The reason that you do not like the speech is that Obama could never give a speech of that caliber. It was Presidential. Every jab he took at his opponents was truth. You just don’t like the truth.
Repost from Robert
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John McCain has much of the character of a man called Abraham Lincoln. He will take on what is wrong in Washington and help heal America.

Barack Obama is a tool of Washington. He calls himself a symbol, well I am going to call it what it is. He is a token. He and black voters are being used to gain more control of the USA, by power hungry bureaucrats.

Calls of racism against people who don't follow Obama in idolatry is total BS. Nominate a black man or woman of substance. Why settle for dregs when you could have gone to the top with Colin Powell? He would have won in a landslide. The reason he wasn't asked is this. He has a total love for America and cannot be controlled.

Get it right next time, if you can, if it's not too late. It will take many years to remove memories of the nastiness that has been thrown at people with minds of their own. I own my vote.

McCain/Palin 2008
Country First

Keith Hubbard 6:23AM Sep 5th 2008

I'm not a literary artist, nor can I emote in writing the emotions I felt during the speeches of McCain and Palin. I watched (and listened) to all the speeches of Obama and Biden, and felt confused, doubt and hustled. With McCain/Palin, I felt alive, valuable and tears swelled. McCain/Palin provided me with hope and anticipation. Obama/Biden filled me with distrust and fear. I only pray now that our system will work and our citizens will see through the mire and rhetoric and vote McCain/Palin. God Bless America (again).
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So, the GOP has a monopoly on patriotism? It's funny, because my reaction was the converse. Obama's speech, as well as those delivered by most of the other Dems, left me proud to call myself a Democrat (and clinched my decision to fully support the Obama side of the ticket), but the speeches coming out of the RNC Convention made me throw up in my mouth a little ("Maverick" and John McCain in the same sentence?; innumerable utterances of "My friends...." Did anyone count them? LOL). Especially McSame's (when I was awake, that is), with that intro video and all the shameless exploitation of his POW experience, fear-mongering and hollow rhetoric. Sarah Palin's speech was long on delivery (literally) and unsubstantiated attacks against Obama, but short on substance and specifics, IMHO.

OBAMA/BIDEN '08 !

tzada11:47AMSep 5th 2008


Let me tell you about that Republican community. Lincoln was the first Republican President. He was part of the radical Republicans that wanted an end to slavery. They are responsible for the civil rights amendments that were added to the US Constitution. When it came time to vote on the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, over 80% of Republicans in the House and Senate voted for the legislation. Not a single southern Democrat voted for it. Republicans pushed the women’s suffrage movement and enabled women to vote. People talk about the Jim Crow days of the South. Jim Crow was a Democrat.
The reason that you do not like the speech is that Obama could never give a speech of that caliber. It was Presidential. Every jab he took at his opponents was truth. You just don’t like the truth.
Repost from Robert
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John McCain has much of the character of a man called Abraham Lincoln. He will take on what is wrong in Washington and help heal America.
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Lincoln had more character on the hairs of his nuts, than McCain will ever have.

American Idol type fascination on the Right as well as the Left - still prefer McCain over Obama - those who get upset at that.. chill---I'm only one vote - lol---Greg---http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2734923