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WOW! LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!
And as I read his words, and Sarah Palins last night? What shines for me is the passion, the vision, for their country.
I have long said I am sick and so tired of no politicians having the passion, the vision for their country. These last 2 days I have felt that passion, witnessed the vision.
And it is goooooooooood...
Isn't it brat? For once a McCain speech didn't put me to sleep. Wow...the left is in a full throttle tailspin and I've got the popcorn ready--got the root beer floats?
You know I do. I'll be right over...lol
I just read Cindy McCain;s speech, too. What a lady - my respect for her just grows and grows. She will make a TERRIFIC First Lady and do America proud.
And that's my 2 cents from the alien gallery.
HOME RUN MCCAIN!!! Especially the line:
I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not.
That sums it up in a Nutshell!
VICTORY '08
Did y'all catch the song playing during the balloon drop? Heart's Barracuda (Sarracuda anyone?)
It was the best speech I've seen McCain give. He really connected with the American public, I think. The next couple of weeks will tell the tale, and that tale will be a significant McCain/Palin lead. McCain has already erased Obama's bounce as of this morning.
And they will roll to the White House. It won't be a contest. McCain/Palin's historic journey...and Obama's pitiful collapse...begins now.
I think John McCain is a fine human being with sincere intentions and upstanding desires. As a war hero and a man of experience, he has no equal.
However, I don't feel the same way about his party. I use to believe that their message was self reliance and now I believe that their message is self-service. They've missed the boat on global warming, a new energy, a new economy and the spirit of cooperation as well as an admission for what their party has done wrong.
Instead, they have focused on war and oil and have stretched our resources to the breaking point. Their outmoded ways of thinking condemn us to more wars, global warming and an carbon fuels based economy. I know McCain spoke of new energy but the RNC conference was yelling "Drill, drill, drill" which obviously means oil...more of the same.
I am especially disheartened by his pick for a running mate. She seems nothing like him. She seems to impressionable, viscious and close to the type of character and people that currently run this party and have led this country into excessive human and financial loss.
Aside from McCain's heartfelt speech, most of the RNC seemed angry, self-righteous and non-inclusive.
And before we forget: John McCain is 72 and a cancer survivor. The fact that he's picked such an ambitious yet polarizing personality as his running mate concerns me in the event that he has a return of cancer or some inexplicable mishap. Either way, we would then be left with a party that has created a war and put us in massive debt and a VP that could be too easily influenced to do their bidding.
I'm not into consipiracy theories but it is not beyond belief that this could be the situation we face as a nation.
If such a situation should arise, I am confident that the Republican party will disregard the course McCain may take(because they never really trusted him) and pursue the policies and agenda they have pursued for the last 8 years, and I don't see Sarah Palin experienced and connected enough to resist, even if she wanted to.
When I listened to John McCain I wondered why someone this heartfelt had never been their candidate before now and when I think of why he caved in to pick Sarah Palin instead of Joe Lieberman, as I said before, I suspect its because his party has never really trusted him to be himself and therefore wanted assurances(insurance, if you will) in the form of a young impressionable mind like Palin's that they will get what they want done one way or the other.
I don't reject McCain. I reject the party he represents. They haven't admitted to their mistakes of the last 8 years and they have inclusive vision that I trust, that will improve our country. There is too much at risk should he be elected because of his party.
I support Obama/Biden because I believe there is a massive need to redefine our economy in such a way that by doing so we reduce global warming, build our energy independence and alleviate some of the political pressures in the world because we can pull out of the Middle East. The window of opportunity is small but the payoff can be much greater in the long term as far as lives, ecological and human disasters and war.
The Republicans have shown their best for the past 8 years and I'm not happy with their job. John McCain says Obama will raise our taxes and that he won't. That is hardly even logical, since we are in debt of historical proportions. Of course our taxes will go up.
On the otherhand, the democrats are in no way perfect but I believe the time is right to change the party that controls the White House as the only way to get a new clean start.
Thanks for the opportunity to post.
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