Poor John McCain.

The “Hyena howling” by the convention delegates didn’t help. It just drowned an abominable speech.

Silhouetted in an awful solid blue background and resplendently bedecked in an expensive “elitist suit” without a FLAG PIN, John McBush delivered one of the worst speeches I have ever heard a U.S. presidential candidate make.

He was clumsy, un-inspiring and appeared ill at ease.

Compared to yesterday’s speech by the Killer From Wasilla (Sarah Palin), McCain looked old, stuffy and very much “Bob Dole Like.”

Simply put — this was a very badly delivered speech, lacking in specifics fraught with ineffectual choruses like “Fight With Me!,” … “Fight With Me!,” … “Fight With Me!” — useless slogans which will not work Mr. McCain!

After three days of juvenile negative attacks — and no mention of tangible proposals to fix the American economy or to fix health care — the most pressing issues this election cycle, the ReTHUGlicans are codling Americans for four more years of right-wing dictatorship, fear mongering and GOD sanctioned thuggery.

Jeffrey Toobin of CNN hit the nail on the head when he said: — “I thought it was the worst speech by a nominee that I’ve heard since Jimmy Carter in 1980. I thought it was disorganized, I thought it was it was theme-less, I thought it was very, very boring…I personally cannot remember a single policy proposal that he made because they had nothing connecting them. I found it shockingly bad.”

While listening to the speech Michael Crowley of The New Republic wrote: “It’s not over yet but this is a very underwhelming speech. Familiar points explained in pedestrian terms. No overarching themes–right now it’s sounding like a State of the Union laundry list. Even the crowd in the hall isn’t jazzed. This is the sort of reception Tom Ridge got.”

McCain’s willful mis-representation of Barack Obama’s positions, just like Sarah Palin did yesterday, a general lack of details on policies and, his GOD pandering to right-wing extremism didn’t amount to CHANGE, his new rallying cry — borrowed from Barack Obama, who has been using it consistently since the Democratic primaries.

The speech deteriorated pathetically when McCain embarked on a lengthy narration of his capture and torture in Vietnam, something he should delegate permanently to his surrogates.

The P.O.W. card …may only work with thug-bigots on the extreme right who love beating up on the weak, and/or the very old who are still clinging to cold-war nostalgia.

Thirty five year old war stories are stale and won’t work Johnny!, especially with Obama’s youthful base.

Who cares how and whether the VietCong broke your legs and arms — while caged like an animal in Vietnam, while America was losing another illegal war — a war that started when a European colonialist (France) asked Neo-European-Colonialist (America) to help it maintain a grip on it’s illegally acquired colony, resulting in Vietnam splitting into two, and causing the Vietnamese to slit each others throats — just like the Shia and the Sunni have been doing in Iraq.

It is also evident that McCain wants to have it both ways — “disembowel” Obama on one night, then brag about how he will bring change and bi-partisanship to Washington the next day! — Too many contradictions and too much confusion.

The right-wing snakes may like that, but I really doubt if McCain won any more independents last night with that kind of rhetoric, for that’s not CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!

While the Killer From Wasilla exceeded expectations the other day, McCain clearly failed in delivering the biggest speech in his life.

I give Johnny a big C- …and only because he conducted himself with some decency, unlike the sadistic presentation by Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, who gave the keynote speech on Wednesday night.

The THUG of New York a.k.a “America’s Mayor” was exceedingly vicious!

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Speech Reactions

REFERENCES:

1. Why McCain would be a mediocre president
2. The Real John McCain — Certainly, the convention that nominated him bore no resemblance to that John McCain. Rather than remaking George W. Bush’s Republican Party in his own image, Mr. McCain allowed the practitioners of the politics of fear and division to run the show.

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Hillary cried sexism to cover up her incompetent management of her campaign, and now Republicans have picked up that trick. But when you use sexism as an across-the-board shield for any legitimate question, you only hurt women. And that’s just another splash of reality.

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Unable to stop the onslaught of wild soap opera story lines erupting from the Palin family, the McCain campaign offered a new mantra: “Life happens.”

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Even as they push Sarah Barricuda as the glamorous but tough hunting and fishing mom who can juggle it all — she’s the only nominee, as Fred Thompson bragged in his convention speech, “who knows how to properly field dress a moose” — they rant at reporters who wonder how she will juggle it all and question some of her judgments……[ more ]

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From Robert Greenwald bravenewpac.org

Dear Supporter,

John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.

Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW. Watch and listen!

Former POW says McCain is “not cut out to be President”

We are sure this video will draw an onslaught of right-wing attacks, but we bring it to you because it is our job to continue to convey the truth together and give these issues national attention. As Dr. Butler has said, McCain does not have the temperament to have his finger near the red button. Get this video to everyone you know: friends, family members, coworkers, and especially those who don’t share your political views. The video is designed to reach them. Get it on your social networking sites like Digg.

And get it to every blog, newspaper, and TV station that has ever overplayed McCain’s POW story. It is time to fight back with truth!

The mainstream press has already begun to call out McCain for overusing his POW story. And it’s cut across all political persuasions.

• Whether he’s deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. - Edwin Chen, Bloomberg

• Noun, Verb, POW - Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly

• The McCain campaign’s constant invocation of the candidate’s POW past is weird bordering on irrational… - Ana Marie Cox, TIME

• I think they are going to it way too many times. - Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Remember how Joe Biden got the press to refer to Rudy Giuliani as A noun, a verb, and 9/11? Well, let’s actually take Andrew Sullivan’s lead here and get the media to boil McCain down to a similar phrase: A noun, a verb, and POW. Considering how often the McCain campaign invokes his POW story, isn’t that what they’re already doing?

Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New team

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