Is McCain's speech the first major blunder of the GE campaign?

[EffieBlack]

Why would McCain's staff allow him to do something this stupid?

It's bad enough that McCain would show so little grace as to give this petty, mocking attack speech against a man who is moments away from making history,but hasn't anyone told him what a breathtakingly inept and uninspiring speaker he is - and that it's stupid to allow Barack Obama to follow him with his message of hope and change?

If this is what we have to look forward to in the GE campaign, I say

Bring it On! Obama will eat McCain's lunch.

[CalGator]

1. his laugh makes me long for Bush's smirk

[Franks Wild Years]

2. In trying to throw Bush under the train...

...he's opening himself for all manner of counter attacks. How can you suddenly be so against the policies of someone you've spent the past eight years cosying up to? How can you offer any sort of positive change when you've wholeheartedly backed his most malign policies?

[Faygo Kid]

3. His 2004 support for Bush was a WAY bigger blunder. And the first one for 2008.

Agent of change, indeed.

[DangerousRhythm]

4. In short, YES!

:rofl:

[grantcart]

5. There are senior republicans right now laying out a plan to have him have a medical

problem and replace him

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. That wouldn't surprise me.

Will the replacement ticket be Ebeneezer Scrooge - Attila the Hun or will it be Attila-Ebeneezer?

[Tatiana]

10. After Romney is named the VP. n/t

[loyalsister]

7. I think they just don't know what hit them

Maybe McCaine knows he can't beat Obama and is grasping at straws?

I am beginning to believe it may be a syndrome. That candidates sometimes humiliate themselves in their last desperate dying hopes. :think:

[BlooInBloo]

8. It's actually his third major blunder. Basically you can count them....

by counting how many times he talks about Obama. Obama always rips McCain a new asshole afterwards.

McCain really should simply quit now.

[EffieBlack]

9. Even worse than his pathetic speech was the fact that the networks cut away from him mid-sentence

to announce that Obama had clinched the nomination and to focus on what a meaningful moment this is.

Priceless.

[clevbot]

11. Its going to be a fight, but we so have this!!!

[Hamlette]

12. Harold Ford thought it was a wonderful, powerful speech

what's up with that?

[LucyParsons]

13. These debates are going to be GREAT:

[Goblinmonger]

14. I've got a political boner

just thinking about it.

[VolcanoJen]

15. EVERYONE: Try Googling McCain's new slogan...

A Leader We Can Believe In.

Do it. :hi: Pretty funny.

[LiberalAndProud]

19. So Obama won the google wars?

[Tippy]

16. I don't know who talked him into giving that speech

It was one really stupid idea....the most pathetic speech I've ever heard...

[ClassWarrior]

17. Yikes, I turned on my teevee and it was "The Scary Uncle John Show."

You know. The one who thinks he's funny and charming, and he's just creepy?

NGU.

[Donkey_Punch_Dubya]

18. Remember Cheney at he GOP convention in 2004?

He kept saying "John Kerry is wrong on ____. He's wrong on _____"

It sounded bad and I thought it would turn people off. But it didn't. Do not assume that anything McCain does that we think is classless or what an asshole would do will really hurt them much. The GOP has absolutely no problem if their candidates demand all democrats be put to death. They have no shame. Hopefully some people will be turned off when then they act like complete jerks, but it didn't happen in 2000 or 2004.

We need to jump on this and spell out how ridiculous they are acting. If only all Americans had the smart sensibilities that we progressives have...

[mcctatas]

20. He'll eat his lunch and drink his milk-shake;)....

McCain = Bob Dole withouth the charisma;)

[myrna minx]

21. Oh Effie, that speech was embarrassing!

And his crowd was strained and bored. His decision to make this speech was truly foolish.

[Bryan]

22. Oh God yes

Granted, Daniel Webster couldn't have sold that speech: vague, meandering (what on earth was that bafflegab about "delivering bottles of hot water to dehydrated babies"?), shot through with lies, and full of weak one-liners and reaches for applause. But McCain stumbled through it like he'd been awakened from a nap (which he may well have been).

[El presidente]

23. McCain criticized the fact that Obama opposed the surge

"Senator Obama opposed the new strategy, and, after promising not to, voted to deny funds to the soldiers who have done a brilliant and brave job of carrying it out. Yet in the last year we have seen the success of that plan as violence has fallen to a four year low;"