On the final day of the convention, a lot of the talk was still about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the vice presidential nominee, who gave her big introductory speech Wednesday night, less than a week after being chosen for the ticket.
McCain’s wife, Cindy, suggested in an interview that she does not agree with Palin’s support for a nearly total ban on abortions.
And the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, declared that some news coverage of his Republican counterpart had been sexist.
Construction workers moved parts of the platform at the Xcel Energy Center to bring delegates closer to where McCain will give his acceptance speech, giving the stage a T-shape. Organizers said the change reflected the town hall-type forums in which McCain has campaigned.
“The extended podium will serve as a fitting complement to John McCain’s preference for direct interaction with his fellow citizens,” said Maria Cino, the convention’s chief executive.
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- ivxx
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This speech tonight by McCain should show how far his new meds can take him. Look for an earpiece or battery pack in the back of his jacket. I hope there is plenty of Geritol in the twin city's.
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- kennymotown
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The Republicans sure don't like it when someone turns around and throws the same punches they've been throwing until Palin was nominated.
Talk about a pot/kettle, goose/gander moment for the ages...Jon Stewart absolutely NAILS them at their own ROVIAN game.
The truth has never been their strong suit and now they're getting as "whiny" as they accuse Dems of being.
Tell THAT to Phil Gramm and his ex-Enron board member wife, Wendy.
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- Inofuilwell
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I listended to Mccains speech, here is what I personally viewed and learned...
The man McCain is from a long lineage of warriors. His ancestry was resolute with war.
Hence the man was born into war. He runs his campaign as war is his touchstone to the people!Born, raised and winding his life through in and about war, he tells his story...
It does not seem to matter to him that the Vietnam War in which he served, was an imperialistic national blunder to "stop communism from taking over the world!"
The pro war hype of that era would have the nation believe we were in grave danger- "fear" was once again the guiding light!As a young boy. I witnessed this abomination of our nation going into war- “stop the communists, they are taking over the world!” That was the word of the day. "The domino effect will..."
McCain, even to this day feels betrayed by the American peace movement as to why the Vietnam war was lost. This is familiar ground for the war culture that now has manifest itself in the Iraq War!
A war that McCain said we needed and voted for!Yet another war that will go down historically as a political assignation of our constitution and our cultural beliefs!
Another huge loss of national equity and our beloved youth all because of political ego and the lack of political wisdom!Wars are won or lost by the rightness of the participants! This is something viably important that McCain and conservatives don't grasp!
As our nations history goes we have never lost a war when we were right but now we have lost wars because we were ideologically wrong! It's not just about military strength- its about wisdom and justice!
McCains campaign, and his video bio are sequenced within his life of war.
Service and gratitude of and for his country is based on his war experience.
His biography finally sequences into his career as an AZ. senator.
Twenty-six years of senatorial time are blurred into nothingness!His voting record parallels the GOP- a 10% difference from the GOP is supposed to define his presidency, and his given name the “Maverick?”
His record cannot be hidden, his ideology is full of contradiction- flip flops!President Bush said, “Im the War president, Im the War president!”
It most definitely seems there is another one named John McCain following in the wings!
I truly hope he is not the one!McCain says he's different then Bush, he's not the same!
Yet who was in the program directors chair off the convention stage as though he were directing the entire RNC proceeding?Karl Rove!
McCain is the same as Bush- divisive, self-righteous, a fist-swinger with no answers for change from the destitude that his own party has created!
