The best campaign slogan I’ve ever seen for a Presidential campaign – especially when you consider that his opponent has wrapped himself in a logo based on the first letter of his own name.
Open for your responses and comments on the McCain speech.
The best campaign slogan I’ve ever seen for a Presidential campaign – especially when you consider that his opponent has wrapped himself in a logo based on the first letter of his own name.
Open for your responses and comments on the McCain speech.
HillAry, not HillOry.
I think B+ is a fair assessment. Peggy Noonan writes that McCain’s speech was “flat.” It was, but only by comparison to Palin’s performance. McCain’s speech was bound to be a bit anti-climactic.
The speech lacked policy specifics? I find that sidesplittingly funny. “You Republicans can give your speeches, but only if they’re so dull every policy wonk in the place falls asleep! Obey the MSM pundits: We will control the horizontal!”
“…the frenzy of said partisan rancor expressed in the negative attack speeches of Romney, Huckabee, Guliani and Palin the night before…”
Posted by: Meerschaum at September 5, 2008 1:41 AM
I didn’t see Romney. Huckabee and Guiliani’s speeches were standard fare with nothing that Obama shouldn’t hear to his face. Criticising Palin’s as a “negative attack speech” smacks: (a) of the MSM’s “shrill, strident, uppity, barefoot-and-pregnant, flyover country woman” meme; and (b) of the usual Obama worship where any disagreement with the Anointed One, the Elect of God, the Obamessiah is grounds for being cast to the bats and moles or into the outer darkness, with weeping and gnashing of teeth. (And they denounce Christians for “shoving their religion down our throats”!)
In short, these Leftist reactions remind me of the dreary years of Joe Clark’s leadership (if that’s not an oxymoron). He was quite acceptable to the Liberals, NDP, and media, because he was a weak, vacillating, neutered, Red Tory lapdog. That’s the sort of Republican whom the Left would embrace, because he’d be Republican in name only and would lose badly in November.
She is still the woman who has never been proud to be an American until her man got into the primaries.
Obama has spent 2 years tearing down the USA
The first statement is pure distortion, the second pure invention.
McCain drove that sucker home like Ron Jeremy after a day off!
Christoph
Does Ron Jeremy us protection? Is he pro-choice? If either is true, I don’t know how you can watch his films and enjoy them.
I think I’d have to give the speech a B+ as well. There was bound to be some “letdown” after Palin’s high marks and I think that has a lot to do with some of the lower grades people give McCain’s speech. But he needed to set himself apart from the others too and I think he did that well. The fact that many say the speech reads better on paper than when it was heard live shows substance over style, and I’ll take that anytime.
Country First, love it. It certainly smacks the me first special interest groups.
I’d put it right up there with President John Kennedy’s famous words they love to quote:”Ask not what my country can do for me but what I can do for my country.
Add to that, McCain has served his country through dangerous military service. His appreciation and love of country is sincere, no phony rhetoric.
The end portion of his speech will stick, well said.
“(which kinda reminded me of something a third rate wrestler would do before attempting his finishing move).”
Yup, do you remember Diamond Dallas Page and his “Diamond Cutter” sign and end move. It was a diamond not an O. On that note DDP sued Jay-Z claiming that he had intellectual property rights to the diamond symbol and that Jay-Z and his record label “The ROC” had no right to do the gesture. Jay’s still using it so I suspect it was a c_r_a_p attempt to get money from someone successful.
Where Palin changed the game is that she gives conservatives someone to get behind and root for. As a true conservative, I’ve never even liked McCain. He’s done too much for the me-firsters during his career for me to trust that he’ll really live up to a conservative standard. In a race between the socialist and the communist, I, along with other conservatives, have to go with the socialist. But razzlem’damn, he and his wife are at least proud to say that they’re Americans, and he’s up-front about promising to serve his country. We all got a stomach full of self-serving ambition during the Clinton years, and even dems don’t want to go back to that sort of megalo-Hillary-maniacal charisma.
Speaking of Obama’s “O” logo, you know, that logo is shaped like something else (you know, that thing which everyone has). And they both give off the same kind of stuff.
kEVIN k
Fortunately anyone can play any song at their parties, musicians give up their right to decide who can play their music when they make the jump from “artist” to “capitalist” and sell their product FOR PROFIT! That goes for Heart and Bruce Springsteen, cue the violin: )
Fools like yourself also believe that sovereign countries like America need permission to go to war: see the “illegal war” argument.
“Both sides now
Atmospherics
Word or tag cloud software has been used to visually represent a frequency count of terms in a given piece of text, providing a clue to the importance of certain ideas. Font sizes indicate the weight or emphasis on certain words. The word clouds of Sarah Palin and John McCain’s speeches at the convention make an interesting study in contrasts. Palin’s address is stocked with what I would call action or power words like ‘energy’, ‘oil’ and ‘reform’. She also uses the name of John McCain frequently. McCain by contrast hardly ever mentions himself in the third person. Remarkably, his speech has a lot of softer words such as ‘jobs’, ‘children’, ‘health’, ‘peace’. It is almost as if he had turned down the volume of political discourse to strike a conciliatory note. But both speeches also share common themes. One obvious pattern is a repetitive emphasis on the themes of ‘country’ and ‘America’, which are also the motifs of the campaign. (Hat tip to a reader who suggested this analysis)
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“McCain’s speech was the declaration of someone with nothing left to prove.”
“What John McCain was describing was his redemption; which always brings with it a kind of recklessness in the true sense of the cost being immaterial. It is the realization that the first person singular truly doesn’t matter. “In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test.””
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/09/05/both-sides-now/#comments
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John Newton, erstwhile slave ship captain, used these words:
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me….
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.”
http://www.texasfasola.org/biographies/johnnewton.html
David
“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,”
FYI this is a cut and paste from HER speech, not a distortion.
kEVIN k
Fortunately anyone can play any song at their parties, musicians give up their right to decide who can play their music when they make the jump from “artist” to “capitalist” and sell their product FOR PROFIT! That goes for Heart and Bruce Springsteen, cue the violin: )
Fools like yourself also believe that sovereign countries like America need permission to go to war: see the “illegal war” argument.
Wrong on both counts. Intellectual Property rights means that you cannot just use a song without permission. Try using a Springsteen song to advertise whatever you do. Or create an operating system that is Windows but you change the name. Let me know how that turns out for you.
As for your second point – must be wonderful to be able to think you know someone based on three lines on a blog. Yikes!
Who gets the intellectual property rights for using the finger given in traffic jams, losing argument or simply implying that some one is a loser. Reading a lot of comments on the typical MSM and I get the impression that they do not have much to say and we who have wanted to discuss an idea, ideology or theory have been given the finger.
They actually hurt my one feeling. Heard this classic one liner from a 2yr old girl talking back to her father.
Indiana Homez, cutting and pasting preserves font size, not context.
For the record( for the dems, the “truthiness” part) , the GOP had an ASCAP license for the song. which covers their use in pretty much everything but advertisements. The licensing structure in the music biz gives the artists almost nothing to say about it unless that has been written into the licence agreement with ASCAP originally. Apparently there is no such override in the Heart agreement.
contrast the McCain campaign and it’s slogan “Country First” with the Canadian liberals campaign to increase taxes to “save the planet” – anyone who votes for the liberals is clearly from another planet
As a former member of the Soviet Socialist Republic, I love the phrase “Country First”. Reminds me of the good old days… oy.
Considering the collective IQ of the posters on this forum, I think Free Country Buffet! would serve as a better overall campaign slogan. Extra bonus if Palin flips the pancakes herself.