Billing today’s big speech as a “closing argument” doesn’t seem like the wisest idea to me when McCain’s latest attacks focus on arrogance and presumptuousness. But, it’s also an effective theme for the final week.
Neato bit:
The question in this election is not “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” We know the answer to that. The real question is, “Will this country be better off four years from now?”
Marc Ambinder has a full transcript.
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Come on. The speech was awesome!! At this point (actualy, before now), who cares what McCain has to say ~ Sen. Obama is arrogant, he’s presumptuous~ so what? He’s supposed to exude confidence! Not flailin’ and desperation like the McCain camp!
All McCain can do is attack. When has he ever presented a case for himself that didn’t contain baseless attacks and conclusory assertions against Sen. Obama? When is McCain going to specify his plan for moving our country forward and stop saying “I know how to (fill in the blank _____)!” What is that? He knows how to win wars? Which wars and why hasn’t he shared this information with the Pentagon. He knows how to fix the economy. Why hasn’t McCain told the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the Secretary of the Treasury, the President, or Congress so that our economy can stop bleeding by the barrel load? He knows how to catch bin Laden. Well, what in the hell is he waiting for? Come on!!!
I have definitely been annoyed by the “I know how to ____” argument.
McCain’s lack of interest in discussing policy from the very start (Remember Obama as a celebrity?), has been absurd. How people can continue to take him seriously is beyond me.
I agree it was a fine speech. The politics of the branding was what made it odd to me. But it doesn’t really matter, because apparently no one is listening to what McCain has to say this week. I haven’t heard word one about it. Finally.