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The Old, Likeable McCain Delivers Concession Speech
During his concession speech McCain was the most sincere and likeable he's been since the campaign began. Disconcerting though that people started booing at the mention of Obama, and when he said "I don't know what more I could have done," came shouts of "Reverend Wright!"
Cue the healing.
during the obama speech i was curious to see how the audience would react to the mention of mccain's name. they didn't boo. in fact, there were cheers. are conservatives really so petty, mean-spirited, and hateful as they always appear to be? really, what the hell is wrong with those people?
McCain's concession speech was the most sincere moment in his superficial and hateful campaign. The humanity that he reflected in those brief few moments reflected the true spirit of a man humbled by the unified actions of the American electorate. Let;s just hope Obama does not let the American people down.
McCain was probably chanceless, since he is a republican. After 8 years of Bush administration, another republican in office would just have been unlikely, and undesirable. But foremost: a very bad sign to the rest of the world. Though I prefer Obama, MacCain's concession speech prooved that the US had a choice outof two worthy candidates.
Congratulations America!
The Republicans have clearly demonstrated, after every election they won, starting with 2000, that they are actually sore winners. What could be more pathetic and a sore winner? Not much. If Republicans make lousy winners, they make even lousier losers.
Remember that this mean-spirited, graceless, jeering, assinine crowd were undoubtedly among the campaign workers closest to McCain. At least they did not scream for Obama's blood, as they have done in other McCain appearances.
"Kill Obama," some of his supporters yelled in previous appearances. This time they were discrete enough not to call down violence on a good man -- but that was the only concession they made to their otherwise venal and uncouth code of behavior.
So, Obama must be wary, and we must be insistent upon his protection being every bit as impenetrable as that provided to the universally despised George W. Bush. We spent 40 millions to protect Bush during his second inaugration. Let's make sure Obama's protection is solid, as well.
During McCain's calculatedly gracious concession speech, maybe about 1/3 of his supporters clapped; the rest went on jeering -- utterly oblivious even to a show of honorable language. They are much too preoccupied with their own paltry, murderous hearts.
What makes you think McCain is honorable?
Come on, people, so a couple of folks at McCains rally booed. That was classless, yes. But let's examine who those people were: they were folks who made the trek to be there even though fivethirtyeight.com gave McCain a 1.8% chance of winning. They were hardcore conservatives, and they were surely not representative of the 48% of American which voted for McCain.
As for Obama's fans cheering for McCain, it's easy to be gracious in victory.
I have long admired McCain and I think if the man we saw last night had been the man who campaigned for two years, then America would have been left with not just one but two great choices. The man we saw last night was what The Economist was referring to in its title article "America gets it right" after the McCain and Obama nominations.