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"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.

to get a young, charismatic VP onboard.

Senator McCain has to attack Senator Obama's hope message and frame it in the way he did. It's his strongest line of attack. But I think he's naive if he thinks that Senator Obama will just wilt at that attack. Obama's a smart man and knows this the broadside that will be fired at him if he's the nominee.

I think Senator McCain feels WAY more comfortable attacking Senator Clinton since the playbook for going after the Clinton Machine is already written: polarize and polarize. And it would work. Senator Obama's a different sort in that he's going after the same people Senator McCain is after, independents.

Enough of the intra party fighting-its time to hit these white sniveling mealy mouthing Defeatocrats in the mouth. Johnny Mac knows what war is-this is going to be a long war, and I can't wait for him to start throwing aggressive punches.

"Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will."-John McCain
McCain/Rudy 08-kill the terrorists and punch the hippies.

is Obama will cast it as essentially "hope" bashing cynicism from a quintessential Washington insider.

Hope has to mean something. Last night, Obama trotted out Tax cuts for the wealthy and Iraq war is bad. He's not saying anything new; he's just younger and saying nothing new better. As time rolls on, I truth the American people will see it. Sen. McCain must continue as he did last night pointing it out.

Pam

is a political independent who normally leans Democrat and she has stated quite clearly that under no circumstances will she vote for Obama b/c she does not trust him on anything, not on domestic or foreign policy. She trusts McCain. She likes McCain and she plans on voting for McCain.

"Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return."-Senator John Mc

I've been reluctant to support McCain, but since he's going to be the nominee I'm going to have to. However, watching his speech is what I want to hear from McCain. Start attacking Obama empty rhetoric of hope and build upon it. Attack his record on being able to accomplish nothing, tell the public about Obama's sick liberalism past, present, future. Finally, I hope he nominates a SoCon, not named Huckabee, to veep so the rest of us can be assured of him having a conservative base.

Before you get to heaven, you must go through hell, which in my case is the People's Republic of Massachusetts.

1. "Hope, my friends, is a powerful thing." Really reminds me of Shawshank: "hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

2. Via K-Lo, this passage did give me chills and was a subtle but devastating shot at Obama's personality cult and the connection to Obama's callowness:

When I was a young man, I thought glory was the highest ambition, and that all glory was self-glory. My parents tried to teach me otherwise, as did the Naval Academy. But I didn’t understand the lesson until later in life, when I confronted challenges I never expected to face.

In that confrontation I discovered that I was dependent on others to a greater extent than I had ever realized, but that neither they nor the cause we served made any claims on my identity. On the contrary, I discovered that nothing is more liberating in life than to fight for a cause that encompasses you, but is not defined by your existence alone. And that has made all the difference, my friends, all the difference in the world.

I do not seek the presidency on the presumption that I am blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need. I seek the presidency with the humility of a man who cannot forget that my country saved me. I am running to serve America, and to champion the ideas I believe will help us do what every American generation has managed to do: to make in our time, and from our challenges, a stronger country and a better world.

That's good stuff.

"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9Fs46GRjg

Trying to spin past a record of rhetorical hype and distortion on Iraq while being tied to the foreign policy fundamentals of Bush, with 60%+ of the public favoring withdraw, is the daunting task for McCain's "effectiveness in leadership."

Can McCain presently fill a 17,000 seat arena? bring people to their feet? chart a course that's politically new?

McCains a dead man walking in this moderate-hating GOP climate with a Obama-fever landscape.

There little need to see what comes of it.

Your right, Moe. We did fail stupendously the past year on Iraq. Reid and Pelosi are uncreative minds breathing too much DC ego.

...and Reid hasn't helped on FISA either.

But Iraq is sadly entering into round 2 of chaos-- on the doorstep of our election.

I'll be here to help you understand it as it takes place.