McCain knows he’s down, and he makes a very risky pick.
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Andrew’s take:
It was a deeply substantive speech, full of policy detail, full of people other than the candidate, centered overwhelmingly on domestic economic anxiety. It was a liberal speech, more unabashedly, unashamedly liberal than any Democratic acceptance speech since the great era of American liberalism. But it made the case for that liberalism – in the context of the decline of the American dream, and the rise of cynicism and the collapse of cultural unity. His ability to portray that liberalism as a patriotic, unifying, ennobling tradition makes him the most lethal and remarkable Democratic figure since John F Kennedy.
What he didn’t do was give an airy, abstract, dreamy confection of rhetoric. The McCain campaign set Obama up as a celebrity airhead, a Paris Hilton of wealth and elitism. And he let them portray him that way, and let them over-reach, and let them punch him again and again … and then he turned around and destroyed them. If the Rove Republicans thought they were playing with a patsy, they just got a reality check.
The talking heads on MSNBC are bringing up a good point – by referencing McCain’s temperment, Barack Obama has indicated he will not hold back if McCain continues his patriotism attacks.
It’s well known that many Senators who have served with John McCain, including Republicans, are terrified at the thought of John McCain as president. The concerns rest with whether he is too unstable or volatile to be commander-in-chief.
For anyone paying attention, it should not be a surprise that Obama went right after McCain tonight. Expect this to continue.
With one word, Barack Obama summed up the appropriate response to the last eight years under George W. Bush.
It was an historic speech. Some have quibbled that the Democrats were not tough enough on Bush, Cheney and McCain during this convention. Barack Obama took it upon himself to deliver the toughest punch.
For all the bluster from Republicans, the images from the stadium are incredible. They’re expecting over 80,000 people, as poeple are still in line thirty minutes before Obama is scheduled to speak.
Meanwhile, John McCain’s campaign is having trouble getting 10,000 people to attend his event tomorrow in Dayton to introduce his VP.
No wonder the Republicans are trying so hard to distract everyone with idiotic talking points like the stage in the stadium.
At what point do they start to look pathetic and desperate?
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