Conceding with class…
Conceding with class…you did it RIGHT.
(John McCain)
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I definately respect him a lot more for that speech last night. It was very heartfelt.
It was kind of weird these elections. Sometimes, McCain stood in such a contrast to his running mate, Palin. I thought, RNC 1 would try to get McCain elected, and some other RNC 2 would like to see Palin as the new Vice… next time, choose different parties please.
Palin was always a joke…… Did anyone really consider her??!!?!?! Well said though… I voted for Obama but I quite liked McCain’s speech…. especially after some dirty-ass campaigning!
i think that if he’d been classy like that through more of the election campaign he could have stood a much better chance of winning.
thank god he wasn’t.
canada says “congrats”
Palin was the final proof that the RNC treats us like we don’t matter and can be governed by anyone they choose, since they’re only figureheads for the ultra-wealthy in any case. Bush was a joke on us too, but no-one got it until it was way too late.
I respected McCain until he had to bring the Rovians on board to run him, his VP nominee and his campaign. In the end the fact that they ran him and not the other way around was the deciding factor.
Well said both of you! I agree completely…
Bravo. A capital speech. Well done ol boy.
I know! I was very proud of him. I’m glad to see this one on here!
.. so am I!
First one to make it to the front page – glad it actually means something 
While I agree that his concession speech was well-written and–I truly believe–heartfelt, I can’t help but wonder if everyone’s forgotten his egregious campaign errors that were far from classy.
Srsly. If the John McCain we saw at the speech had been evident throughout the campaign, things might have gone differently.
Too true.
John McCain tried getting nominated as John McCain in 2000 and it didn’t work. If he’d shown that kind of bipartisanship and failure to toe the line of Political Christianity throughout he wouldn’t have even been in the running, so it’s a moot point.
Debating a moot point? Here? On Pundit Kitchen?
*gasp*
(Though if the (R) ticket had been McCain ‘00/Rice, I’d've given it more pause)
Yeah, but she was probably well aware of what was going to happen to her in terms of sexism. Which would explain why she didn’t run. I think this whole campaign was entriely to sexist. Hillary was treated like crap and while I can’t stand Sarah Palin I don’t think the media would have been so harsh towards her (and she wouldn’t have had her email hacked, pranked, etc.) if she were a man. Bush was on the same level and no one screwed with him nearly as much during his campaign.
Palin was hardly on the same level as Bush. One, she’s the governor of a state that, last I checked, still contained less that 3/4 of a million people and two, he’s from a political family. Not that it runs in your blood or any such nonsense, but it does help at the polls if someone can look at your name and think, ‘Hey, yeah, George W. Bush – I liked his dad – I think I’ll vote for him.’ Also, people don’t tend to screw with families that have political power, which the Bushes proved they did at that point in time.
I’m just sayin’…
The email was her own fault. The kid wasn’t exactly a “super hacker” invading the webnets of Yahoo. He looked up her biography – probably on Wikipedia – and answered her “security” questions.
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The woman should not have used a public email system for state business. I work for an education association and I would have been reprimanded for conducting work business through private accounts. Conducting state business on unsecured email accounts is foolish and supremely sketchy. She didn’t want people knowing what she was doing as an elected official and that is scary. We dodged a bullet by not letting her into the White House.
Blaming the victim.
When you smash your own hand with a hammer, it IS the “victim’s” fault. When you do something stupid and it comes back to haunt you, it’s your fault.
Saying “Blaming the victim” like you can equate Internet stupidity with getting raped is a cop-out of enormous magnitude.
Good try. Next bad tactic.
I would hardly put Hillary in the same position as Palin, not be any means. illart was in fact not treated like “crap” over all; she was generally treated like any of the male candidates. I would also point out that there was a fair amount of dishing out from the Clinton campaign as well. Hillary ran like a bona fide candidate that was ready to give as well as she got. The majority of the sexist commentary came from the general public and was words different from everyone’s perception of Sarah Palin.
The major reason Palin was lampooned was not because she was a woman, but because she was an unqualified woman being shoved into a role to grab votes among Hillary’s supporters. Palin as a VP choice demonstrated a level of contempt for women. Had she been anywhere near as qualified as Clinton, the response, not to mention the type of satire and comedy written about her, would have been more policy oriented. As it happens, she doesn’t know much about North America or Africa, apparently.
He didn’t get elected in 2000, not because he was McCain, but because Bush’s campaign hired a group of people to dig up all the dirt they could.
Thought not getting the Christian vote counted some some too.
i second that!
I was thinking the same thing. For the first time, he seemed real.
I’d have still voted for Obama though.
Me too. He must have punched Karl Rove in the face and told him to shut up for five minutes.
I’m a big time Obama supporter but I admit – if he had done that and then put it on Youtube, I might have voted for him.
Yea, I never had anything against McCain. I actually liked him, that is before he accepted that Karl Rove style campaign and got Palin as his running mate. Hopefully he’ll return to his old state, then he would be a great asset to an Obama government.
I had a lot of gripes with the way he handled his campaign and I felt he should have spoken up sooner than he did about all the lies and rumors some of his supporters and even his own staff had been floating but I have to say “Well done” for the way he bowed out last night. That was the McCain I’d been hoping to see all along.
After seeing his speech when he conceded, that made me really appreciate him as an American. Very well played.
Now if only his audience would follow his example… *shakes head* I think even McCain was a little pissed about the way they behaved. He sure looked that way…
Seriously. His audience had negative class.
Especially when you consider that Obama’s audience, who could’ve booed when McCain’s name came up in the victory speech, didn’t. Or at least that’s what I remember; I could be mistaken…
I’m sure part of it was that the Obama crowd was in a much better mood, but still the McCain crowd looked pretty nasty.
Well he catered to the lowest common denominators with his absolutely vile campaign. Is it any wonder that even when he tries to exit with a modicum of class and dignity his knuckle dragging base show themselves for the mouth breathing apetards they really are?
You = mouth breathing apetard win
Agreed. His crowd had been conditioned to behave the way they did. It was allowed at all the other rallies why would they expect this one to NOT be a hate-fest?
As to the “ape-tard” comment I think you need to look to your own before calling him names. The McCain Palin crowds were a study in “Ugly” people can come back and try to rewrite history and say the Liberals were the violent ones. The Dems were nastier, the Obama-nites were full of hate … Youtube will always prove you wrong.
No Obama supporters walked around with racist literature or called others terrorists. No Obama supporter had a monkey doll with McCain stickers on it. I saw no reports of Obama supporters heckling voters at thew polls. No one carved backwards J’s into their faces and blamed the ubiquitous black guy..
I think McCain should be VERY ashamed of some of his supporters and also ashamed of himself for driving them to behave that way. It would not have escalated if he and Palin had called a halt to it from the beginning.
Wow…you’ve got a different You tube.
Throw down. If you have proof, bring it. If not, stfu.
You can’t blame McCain for his supporters. I heard him speak some time ago and have since wished he hadn’t run for president at all… because having to try to court the far right was going to mean sacrificing his real personality – which we saw in that wonderful speech – to the war-mongers and the ultra-right. The Republican party has been pandering to people who think it’s okay to NOT think things through, rush to judgement, and SUPPORT OUR (insert cause) without question.
Put simply, none of that is the real McCain, but he had to pretend it was so to gain support from his party. Ron Paul refused to do so, and it cost him much earlier on.
I voted for Obama, and would have anyway, but after what I heard from The Real McCain early in the campaign, and from what I saw on November 4, I hope he remains in government. He’s a true patriot and a good man. I genuinely hope we don’t lose him.
Actually, some Obama supporters were arrested in Memphis for harrassing people at the polls. They were threatening to follow people home and hurt them if they didn’t vote for Obama.
Both sides has their people who acted like idiots. It’s what happens when people don’t agree.
Notice how when McCain mentioned Obama’s name during his speech, the crowd booed? And notice how when Obama mentioned McCain’s name during his speech, the crowd cheered a bit? If that doesn’t show what each candidate inspired (McCain = hatred & intolerance, Obama = tolerance & open-mindedness), I don’t know what does.
Now wait a minute. In the interest of full disclosure, let me say this, I voted for Obama and I’m glad I did. But the accusation you’re making against McCain doesn’t hold water. If you want to judge the man, then consider his words and actions. Don’t hold over his head what people around him did. When they booed at the mention of Obama’s name, what did he do? He chided them for it. He told them to stop. McCain is just as tired of the divisiveness as anyone. What you’re saying is that the actions of a few bad sports in a crowd of people (because they weren’t all doing it) is enough to put them all on the same page. It simply isn’t true. I know too many McCain supporters who want to see the country more unified and who, while they voted for McCain, realize that regardless of our choices on November 4, we’re still Americans and we will get through these hard times together. Look, on the fringes of society there are always going to be nuts who can’t stand change and won’t try to be open-minded. The sad part is that they level the same charges at those on the opposite end of the spectrum. What’s worse is that the majority gets caught in the middle and finds itself pulled to the outside. Why do the moderate right seem to be going further to the right? Because the far left keeps pulling the moderate left further away from them. We need to learn to be vocal about not listening to nor accepting the vitriolic attitudes from the fringes. We need to pull them in instead of letting them pull us out.
I think you’re wrong about the general attitude of people on the left. Keep reading the old posts for a while and you will see that most of the regular posters are very reasonable, even when they disagree(both sides) Many lefties here have applauded McCain’s efforts in this speech to try to aim at unity and heal the divide. All they are saying in criticism is that they wish this was the man who had shown up for the entire campaign, instead of the fear/smear monger we saw for the last few months. If that guy hadn’t been promoting division, he probably wouldn’t have had any crazies to shush, because they wouldn’t have gotten so riled in the first place. The effort to pull them back in is laudable, as we’ve said, just that it doesn’t cancel out all that has gone before. We will move on. I’m all for promoting unity. Just understand that everybody’s feeling were a little raw about the way the GOP ran this campaign. It’s too bad McCain got caught up in the Rovian politics.
I suspect you’re right, that McCain was tired of the divisiveness. The biggest problem for him was the inability to reign in the less enlightened within his campaign. One cannot be sure how much control he would have in the White House.
Sure, when Obama was making his speech they cheered. There was plenty of booing for McCain before and after Obama got there.
If only he’d shown more of this side of him over the past few months, he might not have lost, or at least lost so badly.
I’ve heard this from both sides, and I totally agree ( I voted Obama.) He’s a good man who’s served his country to the utmost, and while some ads were negative (on BOTH sides, I might add), he tried to stay above it in how he spoke publicly about Obama. Anyone remember him taking the mike away from a woman becuase she called Obama an “A-rab”? He know a) it wouldn’t win him votes and b) it’s no way to run a country.
I think the Republican party pushed his campaign into a lot of things he was uncomfortable with, and that allowed him to be gracious in defeat. Not because he wanted to lose, but because he felt like his side may not have deserved to win due to their vicious attacks. I would have been okay with a McCain presidency. It’s a GOP presidency I didn’t like.
I can’t say that a McCain presidency would have not been a GOP presidency.
A class act for sure.
my mom was on the verge of tears, his speech really was incredible.
Me too, I didn’t vote for him but I’ve always respected his service. And now his grace.
I’m not a McCain fan, but I was very impressed with his speech and bowing out. I think if he’d have shown this kind of class the whole time rather than mostly negative adds, he would have had a much better shot.
Yes he did! Thanks!
That he did.
I may not like him that much, but that was a good speech. I respect him a lot more now. Good job.
i was always an obama supporter, but this guy was classy after it ended. Kudos to you Sen. McCain.
to bad his supporters didn’t do the same, it’s sad they they couldn’t let the man go out with some dignity. He was too good for them there at the end.
agreed
Eh, some people are assholes, whether they vote republican or democrat. I’ve seen quite a few poor winners as well.
kerry much????
He won a lot of respect in my eyes. Amen!
gotta respect mccain for being classy
Punctuation…
…you’re doin’ it wrong. ^_^
Nitpick aside, yay for glorious speeches all around. It seems like now that the election is over, people can agree on what they like about the new president rather than whine about each side.
Damn, I DID miss a period.
Can you all forgive me? I was too busy running Conceding through the spell check. LOL
…you’re pregnant? O_O
ck – HA!
Very nice… I give that a solid Win!
…you’re pregnant? O_O
Here here!
Hear, hear…you’re doin’ it wrong.
He was back to the John McCain I really liked once upon a time. I missed him.
I second this. While watching him speak, all I could think was “This was the John McCain I once knew and loved. Where was he for the rest of this campaign!?”
Indeed. I hope Obama appoints him to the cabinet or similar. It will help in unifying the country, and McCain really does have some serious skillz, even if his campaign managers didn’t let him show it.
(I voted for Obama.)
I hope Obama does the same. McCain would be a great asset, despite what we’ve seen during this campaign.
As far as McCain’s campaign managers are concerned, I think as soon as he was nominated as the R candidate, he should have told them to screw off and ran his campaign the way HE wanted to instead of pandering to the wrong people in his party to secure the vote. I felt bad for McCain during all this time but I lost an incredible amount of respect for him too. I always saw a man truly conflicted with himself whenever he spoke and I wish that he had had the strength to believe in his own values instead of showing the country, no the WORLD, a man who needed no seat in office.
Actually, MaCain would be most effective in the Senate where he is.
Secondly, if you’re trying to end a war, you don’t bring someone that was for that same war into your cabinet. They disagree on most fundamental aspects of social, fiscal and foreign policy, and McCain has difficulty fighting against the most conservative elements of his party, which he could not control during the election..
Seriously, there’s admiring someone for a nice speech and hoping to heal campaign wounds, and then there’s making unrealistic suggestions just for an artificial feel-good ending.
Same here. There was a time when I would have gladly, enthusiastically even, worked for his campaign, but something happened between then and this campaign. I was very impressed with how it ended, though.
Something happened? It’s called Sarah Palin.
It was before that. He seemed, to me, like a watered down version of himself.
That second Bush election really messed him over, I think.
Amen. I noticed that also. I’ve missed him, and I wish him well in the future.
It’s amazing what the presidential race can do to individuals. Regardless, I really enjoyed his speech.
McCain conceded with dignity, too bad his followers didn’t. They were all booing Obama during McCain’s speech. The mention of McCain received applause at Obama’s rally.
Well, he did spend his entire campaign riling up fear and hatemongers. Now he can’t even control them anymore. You reap what you sow. I just hope one of them with a few crossed wires doesn’t decide to take a shot at Obama.
There were fear and hatemongers on both sides of the fence. The biggest difference was that Obama won, so his party was cheering at everything.
There was just too much emotion wrapped up in this election for everybody to just let it go calmly.
Heck, I’m one of those emotionless engineers, and I got too wrapped up in it too.
I sincerely hope that he’s as great as everyone said he was going to be, and I do respect him much more now than when he got the bid.
There was not an equal amount of fear and hatemongering from both sides, though. Yes, the fact that Obama won made cheering John McCain easier. But I have never before seen a concession speech where the crowd booed the president-elect.
There’s always accusations and smarmy suggestions. But I don’t recall anyone attached to Obama’s campaign suggesting McCain was friend with terrorists, so I can’t even begin to see the parity here.
Maybe because McCain wasn’t friends with terrorists?
I don’t know exactly what the relationship was between Obama and Ayers, but Ayers did help Obama start his political career, and they both served on the some group’s board together.
Get. Over. It.
We won.
Friday night, Charlie Rose Show, Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose.
ROSE: I don’t know what Barack Obama’s worldview is.
BROKAW: No, I don’t either.
ROSE: I don’t know how he really sees where China is.
BROKAW: We don’t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
ROSE: I don’t really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?
BROKAW: You know that’s an interesting question.
ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches, two of them.
BROKAW: I don’t know what books he’s read.
ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
BROKAW: There’s a lot about him we don’t know.
They don’t know any of this because they weren’t PAYING ATTENTION. They were too busy reporting the lies to ask real questions.
Don’t worry, no one wants a President Biden… It’s good life insurance for Obama.
Or is it?
I still think they’re actually the same person. Tell me, when have you seen both of them together?
Uh… last night after Obama’s acceptance speech.
Maybe it best for you to crawl into a cave until 2010.
2010? What do you know we don’t know? I’m moving to the mountains, maybe I can find a good cave…
Need to stay clear of the new Civilian Security Force.
The end of the world is in 2011. She’s off by a year. That’s okay, though, she has an excuse: she’s from New Jersey.
Huh, I heard it was 2012…
That’s funny, I thought it was 2000.
Ask Leonard Bernstein.
It’s Dec 21st 2012
According to the Mayan Calender, and Nostradaumus.
That’s just the énd of the Mayan calender. Yea indeed, I’m a party-pooper, and lóving it 8D
End of a calender…
Why would they make a calendar that ends?
This is why many say (usually in jest) that it will be the end of the world.
I thought the end of the world was Dec 31, 2008?
That’s when my calendar ends, and they’re usually very accurate with that.
PiMan: If I understand it correctly, the Mayan date is just a five digit (base 20) number counting the number of days from a particular point in the past. 2012 is just when five digits ceases to be enough to count from that date.
The Mayan Calendar doesn’t end so much as recycle. It starts again on the following day. The reason the world is supposed to end is because of the number of times it’s cycled all the way around. It’s like the end and rebirth in one.
Might I recommend some wonderful property along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border?
They’re not the same person. Obama is black, has good hair and is articulate. Biden is white, has hair plugs that look like a Chia Pet and can’t open his mouth without putting his foot in it and then shooting his foot.
WIN! Although, I *do* like Joe Biden.
This comment made me laugh so hard!
I’m glad the election is finally over. On the down side, that means no more Palin jokes…
Speaking of that: Click my name and vote! Down with Plain jokes!
How about jokes with nuts?
Yeah… almost makes you wish mccain/palin had won so tina fey would have at least four years of material…
But Tina was sick of doing Palin…
was too easy for her
Come to think of it, Palin was too easy a target, period.
LOOK I GOT MY PERIOD BACK!!!!! …………………^^^^^^^^
Ooo I doubt that, the election just got her started up! Be prepared for more Palin in the future.
Oh, no…people say that she won’t really be going away. I suspect there will be more to come from the helicopter hunter.
Besides, since when did someone returning to obscurity actually mean no more jokes?
Biden will keep SNL in business, now that their best material is yesterday’s news.
haha i love Joe Biden but that comment was a total WIN
The debates?
Obama’s crowd applauded McCain because they had to. Their hero was applauding McCain, how could they not?
Ah, Cynicism… very last season.
So McCain supporters don’t consider him a hero. Got it.
The Republicans hero was telling them Obama was a decent man and wasn’t an Arab, didn’t seem to convince his acolytes though.
Arabs are generally decent too by the way. I think most Arab-Americans would agree with me on that one.
McCain never stopped his crowds from booing. Obama never made a stump speech without giving McCain his props for service to our country. Keep it real.
Apparently you watched a different concession speech… the man most certainly DID stop the crowd from booing.
Well, he tried his best. They didn’t stop immediately, but his effort was certainly appreciated.
I was almost expecting him not to stop them, but based on the honourable things he was saying earlier had me hoping he would, and the man didn’t let me down.
Anyway I was very glad to see this one pop up. It appears that (almost) everyone on both sides of the coin will agree that his speech was amazing.
I definatly dissagree, he was almost constantly trying to stop them. Did we watch the same speech? He really looked genuinly pissed at his supporters, tried to stop them, they just kept going. Not his fault. Well, ofcourse he accepted the Karl Rove tactics. Why did he ever do that? Yesterday I saw a documentary, completly unrelated to the elections, but the “old school” McCain was in that. He looked nowhere near the McCain I saw during the election. Such a shame.
Why accept the ‘tactics’? Orders. When he went as himself the Reps pissed down his leg and threw him out on his arse. So he gave them what they wanted this time.
When he didn’t have to make nice to the baying hounds he didn’t. One could almost think Campaign McCain was performance art.
He could’ve stepped out whenever he want, the candidate is still in charge, or at least the boss over his own body and mind
He ain’t no sock puppet.
But yea, ultimatly it’s a choice: who do I want to appeal to? The fanbase, or Independents and the like. I just wonder how the hell he could’ve supported such a campaign, worked with it. If I watch the old McCain, it’s almost the opposite of what he did in the campaign.
Now, that’s just naive.
Funny how every time someone reminds you where the power and the choice really is that he gets called “naive”. It’s not naive to say that once McCain was selected as the GOP nominee that he suddenly *should* have had much more say in how his campaign was run. Since his campaign didn’t change, one of two things must be true:
1) He agreed with it.
2) He had advisors telling him that this was the only way to win.
Given my own experience with McCain before and after the campaign, I’m convinced it was the latter. He is still ultimately responsible for his own choices – he said so himself in his speech! – but I think he was given endlessly bad advice.
I think it was unfortunate, because he seems to be a generally genuine person. I suspect he thought this was his last shot, and brought some of the wrong people into his campaign. Once he did so, it was impossible to do much to change it again, and the more vocal displays of hate and ignorance was beyond his control. I feel bad for him to an extent, though not enough to say that he was a victim; more like a pawn who realizes that he’s no longer in charge of his own campaign..
Without reading the replies to the horrifically long thread of fire you created… lol … I want to say that the booing is what caused me to create this LOL..
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They booed, and not only did he calm them, not just give that creepy grin, but he ended on that wonderful AMERICAN note – that the election is over, and Barack Obama is to be our President, and we should get behind him.
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Epic Class.
Actually, the only time McCain got applause at the Obama rally was when he gave his concession speech and Obama mentioned him. Whenever CNN projected a state for McCain, there were boos all around.
Oh wah. The McCain party was booing at every Obama projection too.
Um…if someone was having a party in the hopes that they won something…doesn’t that make sense?
I’m just saying, don’t make the crowd out to be some class act that cheered for the other side, because they weren’t and they didn’t. Especially when they were saying afterward how they hoped he would kick the bucket soon and that they hoped “that b*tch will stay in Alaska from now on.”
Dude. Even the GOP is sorta hoping she stays in Alaska and keeps her mouth shut.
There is still no reason to call her a b*tch. It’s sexist and unwarranted.
I think calling Palin a b*tch is an insult to all our fine female canine friends out there.
Considering that I find her excessively annoying and disgusting as a human being, I find it painfully fitting but insulting to our canine companions who happen to be female.
Agreed.
What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and a pitbull? The pitbull has class.
You’re comparing apples and oranges. We’re talking about the speeches after the election. How is mentioning booing during hearing election results by state at all a point in favor of your argument?
Yeah, but keep in mind; Obama was speaking to a crowd elated with victory, drunk on the joy and hope that that brought them. McCain spoke to group likely on the verge of despair and fearful of both the liberal in Obama and in the unknown man that they still don’t know. People fear the unknown, and people hate what they fear (hating even that they fear and hating themselves for fearing.)
But I agree, McCain’s speech was good; a class act till the end and on still. There is still hope. And that’s very good.
Unknown? Who the hell are you talking about? Obama and Biden have been in the spotlight for months and months now. For them to be unknown, you have to not be paying attention.
You’re not really seeing what she’s saying. Hearing what the candidates have said and being confident in what that means for the future are two different things.
Only unknown because the McCain legions didn’t want to get to know Obama. They saw the color of his skin and weren’t having any of that.
You can’t make that assumption for the entire block of voters that went McCain’s way.
Such a class act!! I was very impressed. If only the rest of the country could really listen to him, and if we could ALL put it aside and unite…
wouldn’t that be something?
If only…
Amen!
Yes, yes it would.
Wish in one hand and do what in the other?
I was pretty hardcore set against him, but my last line of defense (my vote) didn’t work, so I’ll give him a chance.
Oooh! Oooh! I know the answer to that! CRAP in the other!
HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT! A positive McCain lol.
Totally agree, the man went out with more dignity than he had the whole election, I think. Kudos to the man. Let’s hope he makes a comeback without those puppeteers next time. 
I wish him a quiet, relaxing retirement.
Hell no, the old-school pre-election McCain should get in Obama’s government
Umm…no. Even factoring in old school McCain, the two men have fundamental differences. One speech is not enough. McCain also is on a different platform over the war…he is not a good fit for Obama’s cabinet.
Such a suggestion smacks way too much of “and they lived happily ever after” to me.
I agree that a cabinet post would be too much “happily ever after.” There’s having a healthy debate and then there’s having vehement opposition within the ranks.
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That said, the man has a lot of experience, and showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that he loves his country first and foremost. Whether you agree with him or not, he’s the sort of guy you’d want to keep close – bonus points for appearing “bipartisan” – since you might have an opposing opinion that you could trust. (If that’s ever possible in Washington.)
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Obama’s background is pretty academic. Academics know that one of the best ways to learn something is to study the side you *disagree* with. Couple that with someone whose interest genuinely appears to be the COUNTRY and not the PARTY and McCain starts to look like a valuable advisor (though again, not cabinet level, for reasons already stated by multiple posters).
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Plus, put quite simply, *losing* McCain would be an incredible WASTE. I could do without Palin for the rest of my life, but McCain actually has something to offer. No reason they can’t work together.
He was the “old McCain” again, finally. If he had stuck to his guns, this election would probably not be decided by now. I’m glad he’s “back.”
My similar take:
http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=2495564
Definitely restored some respect with that.
I’ve listened to them call for unity for decades, maybe this time…
MRLE – moderate republicans lose elections
at least he didnt bitch and moan for a dozen recounts
I think the insane right lost it this time. I pity the centrist Rep
I concur.
As do I.
Definitely classy. It was a shame his audience was so ugly.
I totally agree. It seemed to be a trend through the 2nd half of McCain’s campaign that you can tell just really got under his skin.
Absolutely. When the crowd booed, I saw genuine shame in McCain’s eyes. That wasn’t the race he wanted to run. If McCain had not listened to the RNC and had run his campaign as the maverick he is, it would have been a much closer race. I know he never would have picked Palin, for one thing, and that right there would have made a huge difference.
He would have picked Lieberman… that would have been a hell of a ticket!
He should have picked Romney because of the economic problems, but hindsight is 20/20 they say.
Romney in 2012 – I’m gearing up for it now, unless the Libertarian party comes up with a decent candidate. Bob Barr? Puh-leeze!
Seriously, is America ready for a Mormon? I might be wrong, but I doubt it.
Well, America was ready for the first black president, why not a Mormon?
Because Mormonism is a cult.
Mormonism is a cult in the same way that black people are loud and uneducated.
But Mormonism was on the top of an official list I saw a couple of years ago of the US’s top 10 most dangerous cults.
There are different schools of thought on that. And it really depends on the sect you look at, the same way that Christianity in its freakiest form could be considered a cult.
Mormonism is a perversion of the teachings of the Bible. They have secret ceremonies and temples that are accessible only to the faithful. They require payments. Those that question or speak out against the church are excommunicated and shunned.
Trix:
Many mainstream Christian churches do the exact same
thing. There’s just no official ceremony for kicking a person
out. They’re just shamed and told they’re not true Christians
or made unwelcome by condemning a list of so-called
“unChristian” lifestyles…despite the fact that Jesus said
absolutely nothing about them.
Your objection to them appears to be little more than whining
about their lack of transparency, which makes it impossible
to control.
That’s the same reason, by the way, that the Mormon Church
was considered a cult in the 19th and early 20th century.
Officially, it’s the FLDS that has the cult status.
Wrong.
Apparently that’s all that is necessary to win an argument these days. I’ve run up against tiresome people like you this entire election.
All organized religions are cults.
I don’t regard mormonism any differently than I do catholicism or seventh day adventism, but the above comment is why I don’t think mormons have a shot.
sorry, the catholics were first, the protestants, in all the variations, represent various cults. not that I support any organized religion, just get the dates straight.
Mormon… Muslim… what about an atheist? Or a Gardenarian? Hell, enough people are having a hard time wrapping their minds around a black American christian.
I’m convinced that if some of our founding fathers were to run today, they’d never make it through the primaries. Deists and the like.
That and all those crazy liberal ideas, who did they think they were, challenging the great conservative government of King George.
Ooo! Romney/Palin, or is that too religious?
Holy jumping salt of the Earth, Batman!
Too scary… back to America: The Stumbling Demented Child-King of the world.
Srsly. All my family in Utah was PISSED he didn’t get the nomination. A huge amount of Utahns were so disillusioned they didn’t vote. My mom actually voted for Obama.
I thought he looked like an exasperated schoolteacher giving the death glare to a classroom full of rowdy kids.
That, Tessie, is disrespectful to rowdy kids everywhere…
Hmm… I’m guessing that a fair percentage of the jerks in the audience started out as the kind of rowdy kids who think throwing your lunch out the window is ever so funny. Maybe if they’d had a stern teacher or a parent with half a brain to put a foot in their ass (figuratively speaking) and say in no uncertain terms, “This is NOT acceptable!”, they wouldn’t have grown up to be such jerks. Just a guess.
True. Asshole kids mostly grow into asshole adults.
Now, Mr. McCain, if you want to really balance out your karma, I suggest going on national TV, ‘fessing up to calling your wife a trollop and a cunt, and issuing a public apology. Then take her out to dinner and buy her about ten dozen roses. Then never call her a nasty name again.
While you’re at it? An apology to Carol is also in order. You’ve been good enough to support her all these years in various ways but you only managed it because you married into money.
It is easy to be classy when you’re smart enough to figure out you’d never live it down if you were bitter. You probably also knew ahead of time you were going to lose. Now make the extra effort. Unless you somehow wind up on Obama’s cabinet you have just been made irrelevant; do something humane and ethical with your last bit of spotlight, please.
Ouch. I’m not a fan of the Repubs, but that was just unnecessary ugly.
OMG, who pissed in your Cheerios?
Stop giving the rest of the Obama supporters a bad name you gritty kitty. Always somebody out there trying to ruin it for someone else.
Playing devil’s advocate, can anyone repudiate the statements made?
Thank you. The fact of the matter is, lest this feel-good mutual masturbation get out of hand, some key issues do remain. It’s overly simplistic to avoid pertinent questions in the name of reconciliation.
I thought the shoutout to Obama’s grandmother was an exceptionally nice touch. I’ve heard many say it was the best concession speech ever, and it likely was. I really got the impression that McCain does respect Obama after hearing that speech. The RNC pushed him through a lousy campaign, but he gets to leave with his dignity.
Damn straight. You go, old man. You’ve got my respect.
As a longtime and hardcore conservative, I really do with the rest of my political contemporaries would all get the chance to see this video and take notes on how to be a GOOD REPUBLICAN.
Good run, Maverick. Good run.
Damn straight.
Amen… Thanks for saying that!
I would argue that it was not a “good run,” but the way he finished the race showed true class. I think he’s a worthy force in the Senate, and good for him getting another term.
really do wish**
Whoopsie.
Suddenly he’s a great guy… Wow.
I know, it’s like the GOP control ray that sapped his bipartisanship and maverick power like kyptonite had been turned off.
Goddam McCain, I wish you could have been like that throughout the entire race.
Yeah, definitely not the same guy who was running right along. I was glad to see him finally take the high road at the last. It was really gracious and seemed more natural than he has in months. Maybe the RNC will learn something from the massive failure of all out smears? I hope so. The country can only benefit as a result.
He got Roved and Palin made things worse. Sad.
Ya, when the dicketry stops and he shows grace, we love him. Fancy that.
Appreciate the class and absence of a protracted (and likely pointless) legal battle, I does it. I haven’t agreed with many of McCain’s policies for quite a while, but I do appreciate him bowing out graciously.
Ahh…I’m so glad the old McCain is back. (Not a pun, I’m being figurative here
)
In other news, Obama’s victory has led to the first anti-Obama add I’ve ever seen on this site…Huh. (Not confused, just one of those “imagine that” moments)
This wasn’t anti- anything. It was praise for the classy (finally) way McCain behaved at the end of this long road. I was surprised and impressed that he stepped out from under the control of his handlers at the end and showed everybody that he wasn’t necessarily Grampy McNasty (as someone else said) all the time.
Actually I’m talking about the “Did Obama BUY the election!!!?” ad that is located just to the right of the above image.
Oh. I haven’t gotten that one yet.
Firefox with Adblock Plus… marvellous thing.
I don’t know where you’ve been, I’ve gotten anti-Obama ads all election season.
I heard he wanted to take away my guns dontcha know! Strange.. I still have my
guns…
Now now, he can’t take anything until Jan 20. I could only hope he’ll take away your (collective) guns, but there are slight issues such as the constitution and a lack of desire to do so that prevents him.
>_>
<_<
*buries guns in backyard in waterproof, airtight container*
What guns?
*whistling innocently*
The gun nuts have such a castration fear, it’s just bizarre. Here’s the facts: with the exception of a few weirdos, the left got over the gun issue years ago. Movement progressives don’t care if Americans own guns for legal purposes. It’s a dead issue. I’d be more worried under a republican administration, like the one that ordered all weapons seized in New Orleans after Katrina.
I resent being called a gun nut, lol. The fear stems mostly from people doing their best in the past to take away a constitutionally given right, or at best, restrict it to the point that you can’t carry a gun unless it is broken down into small pieces.
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I don’t want to told that I have to keep a gun lock on my gun I use for home defense. I dont’ have it where kids can get it because I’m not stupid. I don’t want to be dead because some crimminal won’t stand still and not shoot me while I’m fumbling with a key.
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I don’t want to be told I can’t carry a weapon in my vehicle for protection. I live in a town where violent crime is a daily occurance. And I don’t want to have to carry my gun broken down in the trunk. I want it next to the seat where I can get to it.
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I don’t want to be told that if I shoot someone who is in the process of robbing my house, I will go to jail and be sued.
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I don’t want to be told that because some nut mowed a bunch of people down with an assault rifle, that now I can’t carry a 9MM handgun because it’s too dangerous for other people.
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I don’t want to have to leave my gun at home when I go to school, because what happens if that same nut comes to my school and tries to mow me or my child down?
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I don’t want to leave my gun at home when I go to Federal property, state property, or any other place that currently restricts guns, because that’s exactly where the nuts with the guns will be shooting people. Have you ever heard of a shooting at a gun show?
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The fact that people still talk about taking people’s guns away is enough to keep me scared. If you’re going to take away a right guaranteed by the Constitution, what other rights are you going to take away?
I absolutely couldn’t like you more right now.
don’t you find living in something that small and paranoid cramped?
O_o… I think she is right. She isn’t going to kill anybody who isn’t attacking her first. Why call her paranoid? If you go out camping, you still take OFF because there will probably be mosquitos. If you live in a dangerous area, protect yourself.
It isn’t rocket science. This is where I am very conservative. I’ve seen the crazy shit that happens. I just lack proper space and area to own a gun that wouldn’t end up in my son’s hand somehow so I just deal with it.
I do still have a sword by my bed in case coming downstairs naked isn’t scary enough.
Dual wielding with one hand.
Camping? I don’t beleive we’ve had 10,000 years evolution so I can pretend to enjoy a cloth cave…
And I do forget that you chaps live in one of the most Darwinian countries on the planet.
People enjoy different hobbies – if you can’t cope with that, then you’re experiencing some evolution-related difficulties. Even if you don’t like it, don’t insult someone else for it.
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Unless they’re furries.
I don’t mind people’s hobbies, it’s just getting capped by accident in their fire fight I object to…
It’s only paranoia if they’re not really out to get you
Yep! Good post Froofrou!
best concession speech i’ve ever heard, for sure!
As an Obama supporter, I tuned into McCain’s speech hoping to be amused. Instead, I was just amazed at the sheer grace and humility he showed. He gave an absolutely amazing speech, and hopefully his staunch supporters who were booing will take the chance to re-watch it. Only then can we hope to see anything close to a united country.
My only thought now is, had this been the same McCain throughout the campaign, this election may not have been so decisive.
Bravo, John. Bravo.
Epic Agreement
I have to agree, the call to unify was something we all need to hear.
I know! I watched that speech and was like, “Who the hell is this guy and why haven’t I ever seen HIM all year long?!”
LOL, exactly.
Yup.
I’m a Brit, but if I were in the US I doubt I’d vote Republican as my beliefs are too different.
But I gotta say McCain restored my faith in Republicans quite a bit… while any group has good and bad people in it, Mcain has made me see that a lot of Republicans are good people with just different views. Rather than just idiot caricatures like Bush.
I think MCain ran his campaign with dignity and respect, and all Americans should be proud of a well fought campaign from both sides.
Same feelings, only I’m Australian. While I don’t agree with many of the values espoused by the Republican Party, I can at least respect/understand them when a level-headed speaker puts forward their argument. When Bush talks on the subject, all I see is a blustering, stubborn, desperate man…
This election just gone is the only one I’ve ever had any emotional investment in. Well done, both sides.
What a f*ckin’ crock. He ran the ugliest campaign ever. He doesn’t get a pretty pass because he mouthed a whole lot of nice words after the fact. Give me a BREAK.
I’d claim liberal tolerance, but over my time here I’ve learned you just bat s*** crazy all by your little self.
Lol TC!
It’s because in a concession speech, he can say whatever he wants and express HIS feelings, not those of his campaign. If you think a nominee has most of the control over the direction of the campaign you should examine how big political machines really are. Also, emotions do get high and people change. Ever get drunk and say something you didn’t mean because it was a heat of the moment thing?
Are you saying he isn’t responsible for the way he ran his own campaign? Who is in charge here? Like I said give me a break.
Not entirely, he has advisers and speech writers and let’s face it, when he was running as the actual maverick, he didn’t do so well. There is a lot going on around him and I guarantee most of the dirt was not him.
At least a grain of truth to that. An article on the innertoobs contrasted McCain’s body language and facial expressions during the campaign (twitching, grimacing, etc.) with that which he exhibited during the concession speech (calm and composed). The writer’s opinion was that the former was evidence of the great stress McCain was under, aside from the stress that goes with any campaign, because he was constantly trying to be everything to everybody.
I don’t know if I agree 100%, but I think that writer may have had a point.
I believe you’re very right. Not only through the debates, but in several interviews – there was a notable one in TIME a few weeks ago – when asked something that was off his talking points he would get all tight-lipped, narrow-eyed & start the twitchy kernal-about-to-pop thing and say, “No comment”. Not a guy who likes being reigned in. And considering his reigns, I cannot blame him.
I heartily disagree. In comparison to the 2000 and 2004 (shudder) campaigns, this election was relatively dignified, respectful and reserved. A lot of the hate-mongering didnt come from McCain himself, but his supporters (”Obama is a half-breed Muslin” anyone?). I got the feeling that McCain wanted a clean campaign, but getting his base to observe the same rules of civility was like holding back a raging bull with a stick. Lets not mention that Palin’s comments were just as derisive, i.e. the “real America” schtick.
A pass? No, he doesn’t get a pass. He wasn’t asking for a pass. Everything about that speech, his words, his body language, his reaction of anger and sadness to the booing of the crowd, it tells me he was asking for forgiveness. John McCain is a decent guy who wants to do right by his country. He seems, unlike Bush, to be capable of honest introspection. I think he honestly regrets how his campaign was run, specifically the divisiveness it caused in a time when our country needs unity, and his speech was an attempt to rectify that. Don’t be the douche who tosses that back in his face, we don’t need any more us versus them mentality.
yeah, I thought he looked a bit relieved and tired. I don’t give him a pass either, but I recognize the effort made to try to get the acolytes on board with unity. I applaud the effort, though I wish it hadn’t been so late.
You are bang on, Seth. He is asking for forgiveness and I think it is because he KNOWS how badly he behaved during the campaign. “Who is the real Barack Obama?” is not the question of a man trying to “rein in” his handlers.
He was of two minds; his true self and the self that badly wanted to win and knew that his true self wasn’t going to swing it.
I’m glad for his sake that this is over and he can become whole again. It’ll take a bit before I can say I forgive him, though….. sorry.
Now let’s get rid of the Russia jokes, C’mon! Click my name and vote!
Abso-floggin-lutely.
I’ve not been a fan of him or his supporters, but i thought he did an excellent job last night. for the first time, he required his fans cut out the booing and the negativity and start working towards the best nation we are capable of having. it was a rough campaign, ugly at times, but John McCain has my respect for his words and actions last night. he finally represented what politicians should be.
Finally the McCain from 8 years ago shows his head… It was good to see him. Way to make it a happy ending and go out with class. If only McCain won 8 years ago…
Some alien took him over these past eight years? He was only let out last night? McCain was right here all along.
indeed he was… the aliens are called the RNC.
*nod nod* I wonder where we’d be today if he did…
NOT where we are, I wager. A lot better off, more than likely. Wonder how he would have handled 9/11? I’d like to request a time reset to eight years ago so we can vote that man into Bush’s place!
first of all i don’t think we would be in Iraq. I do think he would have been in Afghanistan, but any president in the right mind would have gone looking for Osama.
I’m pretty sure we’d have Osama. And there most likely wouldn’t BE an Afghanistan anymore. Just sayin’.
Bush is pretty much ‘Osama who?’… he got what he wanted, a mandate into Iraq.
*cough* what 9/11? *cough*
*goes back to the corner with his tin foil cap*
He probably would have handled it by stopping the attack when he had the chance. Ditto for Gore. Only some PNAC loving dip with no love for American citizens would have known so much about the attack and not done anything to stop it!
It was the first time I looked at him without any negative feelings. Good, heartfelt speech.
He conceded gracefully. Even if his crowd was an angry bunch :s
and just *why* was that?
It was a classy, well-spoken speech. I can’t say the same about his fans though. They kept interrupting him and it even started to piss me off. I was thinking “let the man finish his sentence!”.
He could have been an a**hole for his concession speech, but he spoke with honor and dignity. He silenced (or tried to) those in his crowd who were being jerks. Win.
This speech was the real John McCain, and I think we all missed him. He was sincere, relaxed, and nonpartisan. I hope we continue to see this John McCain through the rest of his time in the Senate.
I am very inspired by these comments.
I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either candidate because they both had an equal amount of stuff I liked and stuff I didn’t like. I’m a moderate conservative who is sick of putting up with Bush’s bad choices, as well as the night show jokes and name-calling.
What I saw Tuesday night may have been one of the purest forms of politics I have ever seen in my life. It doesn’t even deserve to be called “political” so much as “American.” I had to smack my head when McCain’s crowd started booing, but he handled it so well. And I got a little choked up when he said, “Obama will be my President.” Such grace in politics is unheard of.
Then Obama was equally gracious, delivered a speech comparable to the “I have a dream” speech in importance, and immediately called upon both parties to help him out. I have NEVER seen anything like that before. I was proud to be an American for the first time in years.
Now, let’s hope Obama delivers the change in January we all need so desperately. And let’s try to keep this unity strong. McCain really inspired me to support Obama, no matter what his party alignment. America is in too big of a mess to nitpick over party preference
I agree entirely. They were both so respectful and classy, I was proud, for the first time in 8 years, to be an American.
With the way those two senators behaved last night…I was in absolute awe. It was one of the greatest nights in American history and I am so PROUD I had the privilege to witness it and participate in it; even though the one I voted for did not win.
All respect to McCain for showing everyone how a gentleman behaves.
This is the first remotely positive conservative lol I’ve seen. And of course it’s because he conceded. I believe the term you all have is called ’schadenfreude’.
I’m going to say that yes, it was a nice speech. I’m just sad it was a concession speech.
As an Obama supporter, I can say I honestly I’m sorry it was a concession speech too.
I was rather excited to hear McCain was in the running, but then the old man that was ruled by his party showed up and he lost me. Last night McCain was fantastic and I wish he hadn’t lost his way. I think things would have turned out very differently.
do you really think that he would have won a presidential election by saying ” my opponent is my president and i’m proud to serve under him!!”?!!!!!! you people re nuts!!!! Now that you folks see the class act Mccain is , go through and see how funny all those ” zombie” pictures are. then try to tell yourself that Obama supporters are the real classy people.
huh?
She said, we’re mean people and she doesn’t like us because McCain people are classy and McCain is teh awesome and we made fun of him so we should feel bad.
Hey, I didn’t know you could speak Troll! *is jealous*
No that wouldn’t get him elected, but this is the first speech that he gave without heavy RNC influence. This was the true blue moderate conservative John McCain America use to know. I almost didn’t vote for him due to the political antics, but i just hoped he would turn into the candidate he use to be and he did, it is just too bad he did so while conceding. I am proud of both Sen. John McCain and Pres-Elect Barack Obama they indeed undeniably made the country more unified. Heres to a hopefully prosperous and unified four years *raise glass*
*raise glass*
Hear, hear.
*clink*
(BTW I am an Obama supporter)
I think Senator John McCain deserves a lot of respect, he truly is a man that has been working for the USA for half a century, that alone makes him as a figure in the history of the country to not forget.
Mistakes? yeah the campaign was a little odd at times, but we could see the John McCain from 2000 the one that really shows what a good man he is in this concession speech in his appearance at SNL and other times, I may disagree with his political views -and some of the attacks their campaign managers thought were needed to run the election-And I truly think that the ones to blame are the campaign strategist -like Nancy Nancy Pfotenhauer who said a lot of real stupid things during the campaign- but he is a charismatic figure, a war hero and a politician that has been serving and doing sacrifices for this country that many of us wouldn’t even do for one week.
I am happy and rejoiced to see Senator Barack Obama is going to be our new president and he will bring us hope -but we have to help too!!-, but I am also happy to see the real Senator John McCain back too
the gentleman politician that he really is, the real McCain that should inspire many.
As long as mccain doesn’t question the massiah hes a saint! NOW you all say he’s a war hero, a month ago you all said he was a bad fighter pilot, and got special treatment in Hanoi………………..amazing!
Two pages later you people ridicule the man because he cant use a computer….Republicans win the class act vote every time.
Eh.. this is a humor site after all..
Actually, the computer gag was BEFORE the speech. There hasn’t been a single McCain joke on this site since the speech. He has basically shown enough dignity that he’s earned a break. Probably not a permanent one, but credit where credit is due and all that.
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As for being a bad fighter pilot and getting special treatment, those can both be true AND he can be a war hero. The thing that no one will dispute, though, is the fact that the man’s body was broken because he fought for his country in an unpopular war, he lost the presidential election by a rather wide margin, and he STILL gave a moving, unifying, wonderfully patriotic speech.
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There was mud-slinging both ways. Accept the compliments to your man with some grace. It may be easy to be magnanimous for those of us who are Obama supporters, but keep in mind that it has been a LONG TIME since we saw even ONE presidential candidate with such class. This year, we had TWO.
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Republicans don’t win the class act vote every time. Neither do Dems. Neither do Libs. Parties don’t. People do. McCain did it.
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Stop whining about his loss and the bitterness of the campaign and try to realize that your guy won the instant respect of MILLIONS of his opponents. That’s big news for you and your party, chum. Enjoy it.
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The cynic in me would like to point out at this time that because of that one speech, the 2012 election may see a totally different kind of campaign from the GOP. If they were paying attention, they’ll give Obama a real run for his money next time (especially if the next four years don’t go well).
Um, no. The McCain campaign wasn’t “questioning.” It was accusing. It accused without facts to back up of any number of outrageous allegations. Most of us with the ability to reason think that McCain was bought or hijacked by the GOP and the practitioners of Rovian politics. We would have liked the race better if more of the man he showed last night in the concession would have shown up for more of it.
if he would’ve won , you people would have the speech with a picture of Palpatine next to it. lol
DAMN RIGHT!!!.. But all in the name of unity, of course
LMAO
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Just barely.
He spit those words, he had to pry them from his mouth. I admit, I feel sorry for the poor thing, but you could tell he just wanted to punch Obama, with his cold, dead, zombie hands.
hahaha.
I’m not going to sit here and debate anything with you, let’s just say I live in the bible belt, and this is a rather bitter victory for me, with every believing in defeat, despite hope. This campaign has cost me friends, money, and a good portion of my life.
I’m glad it was for a good cause, but again, I can’t help but be bitter towards McCain.
If we all pull together, it’ll be worth it I’m sure.
There for a few tense moments I thought my own mother was about to disown me for supporting Obama…
Mine nearly did. They believed all the crazy stuff that came out of the McCain campaign. I also got an “I hope you’re happy since we’re all doomed now” sort of message.
Yeah.. but with all fairness – some of those ads were directly from the GOP – and other things that were ‘believed’ were flat out rumors and lies – like the whole “He’ll take your guns” thing.
Did McCain ever elude to this, or did I miss that part?…. honest question
The McCain campaign used the ayers and wright stuff, as well as alluding to being a muslim. I’d have to go look up the guns thing. I don’t think that was brought up on either side of the ticket, only by a few of the special interest groups. Either way, my family probably believed it. I’d refer them to snopes and they said that it was biased. *sigh*
I know my family did.
idiots 
Well, you could consider pulling an Amityville on them
Nah. I’ll keep them along with all their foibles. They MEAN well, even if they’re misguided.
They may as well not mean well, since the result is the same.
But then, I’m so eugenic, I don’t pass my own criteria to breed
I managed to turn out a free thinker raised by them. They must have done something right.
I haven’t really spoken with my parents in months, my sister’s husband is getting scarily bitter, my nephew is convinced Obama is a socialist and a Muslim, I haven’t spoken to my brother or his family since April (I think?) and Thanksgiving is coming.
This will be fun.
I have stepped on multiple toes-
Republicans, closet racists, etc.
I work at a private (Christian) school, and am such a minority!
My Dad was a great guy, but we would have probably fought about this a few times…
My husband and I are actually on opposite sides this time…
in a friendly, “you’ll see” kinda way.
Classy concession speech. Had he ran his Presidential campaign with such class and dropped the harebrained Palin he would have a better chance of winning. I hope Republicans learned the lesson that lies. fear mongering, Joe the Plumber and pitbulls with lipsticks are not enough to win an election. They must have a plan for the country and sell it to the American People.
It was a very very classy speech. I was honestly impressed. Now if all of his supporters would have stopped interrupting him with their boos and chants it would have been a lot better for the party as a whole, but that’s just my opinion though.
Who cares? His policies are still the same.
He DID concede with class, I will give him that! He also recognized the historic importance of the voters’ choice and he did it more than once. I commend him for that. He rose above partisanship with a very noble speech.
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Do you know what is driving me nuts with these comments? People are saying “Wow, if I heard this speech during the election, maybe I would have considered voting for him.” WAKE UP PEOPLE! Politicans have very talented speech writers, so if you are basing your opinion on someone based on a speech they once gave, you are wasting your vote. Obama is a great speaker, but one look at his voting record made me doubt his credibility as a leader. McCain isn’t a great speaker, but his record is strong. The ability to give a speech shouldn’t win an election.
But apparently, it did. Everyone is saying “For the first time, I’m proud to call myself an American.” Me? I’m the other way. I’m ashamed of my country for the first time in my life.
..must be a short life..
.. or did you just wake up from a 30 year nap and turn on the news?
Some of the McCain speech was scripted, but it was far from a GOP script, and the flashes off script gave a better measure of the man than the foulness he’d been handed DURING the campaign when it counted by people who were supposed to handle the campaign strategy… and for the record, I still don’t actually trust anyone who was running for that office.
So what are you ashamed of? Democratic process? I’d suggest you deal.
NOW you know how WE have felt for the last 8 years! Learn to deal with it.
……. hmm?
you are ashamed because your country has made a major step in overcoming one of it’s most difficult problems, racism? or are you ashamed because the rest of your country didn’t agree with you on who would make a great leader? or are you ashamed of the fact that perhaps, you are wrong?
I’m not saying that you are, but the fact that you might be… is that what makes you ashamed?
Now President Elect Obama has not lead out country, so we don’t know how he will do, but the assumption that he will make a terrible president is not the best way to handle things. Sorry sir, but your shaking fist is, to me, a mildly pathetic display of someone who can’t deal with how the world changes.
Speeches don’t make presidents, but speeches do make history. I have a dream…
Do you?
I assume, from xes tone and the words xe used, that xe is ashamed because this country elected to the office of President someone that xe believes is incompetent to hold that office.
Overanalyzing others’ opinions is always a bad idea, especially when you let your own bias creep in.
I thought liberals prided themselves on being empathetic.
The word it ‘empathic’… and so much for democratic republic.
Your right, I probably shouldn’t of said anything, but but the way that bmcain stated his position seemed to chepen what was an excellent speech by an excllent american. He stated that McCain is not a great speaker, but from what I saw, he is not a great DoubleSpeaker. He showed a lot of humility, and great pride in his country, with the speech that he didn’t have to fight his own values to give. To me, McCain was one of the greatest winners of tuesday night, because he was able to show a truthful face, that a lot of the world really appreciated and respected. I may not agree with bmcain on his politics, but I do respect his opinion, until that opinion tried to destroy a great man.
I’m not a liberal, I’m a moderate, and I’m not empatheic with those that cheapen greatness.
“I’m ashamed of my country for the first time in my life.”
really? all the painfully retarded, pointless, and flat-out brutal things this country has done, and you’re ashamed ov it for the first time when representatives ov both parties finally get something right? i strongly suggest you jump your happy ass off the nearest bridge. we won’t miss you.
For all you ‘deep thinkers’ here is yet another point of view. I truly believe this election turned out exactly the way is was supposed to from the beginning. We now have Obama as a token black president-elect and as such, have put him in the ‘figure-head’ position to take all the flak coming his way, we have Joe Biden as vice-president-elect for Comedy Central and SNL material, we have McCain in the REAL position of power as senior senator from Arizona and we have Palin back in Alaska shooting bears and wolves, etc., where it’s OK to ’shoot yourself in the foot’ even verbally. I really believe the American voting public ‘done good’ for a change.
You completely discredit the power that the President of the United States has. A single senator voting against the majority is not more powerful than the president.
Amen.
Too bad he didn’t show more of this “class” during his campaign. He might have picked up more votes. Too bad so sad.
I thought he was too hard on himself, I was depressed when he said it was all his fault. He acted with SUCH class, and had so much grace, and the way he looked forward reinforced just how hard a choice we had to make on Tuesday, a great candidate beat another great candidate.
Wow, a photo of McCain on punditkitchen that hasn’t been photoshopped!!!!!!
It was a classy speech.
If he’d run his campaign with as much class, he might have won.
It was a very classy speech.
Makes one wish he’d run a similarly classy, honorable campaign…
I’m not from the U.S. but I was really proud of McCain when I watched his concession speech, I felt really moved by it. Like everyone else I wish his campaign had been run with as much courtliness as we saw there. I do truly believe that part of the problem was the pressure from the GOP campaign machine, I knew of McCain before he was in the bid for the presidency and I liked him then. That’s not to say I would have voted for him, were I a U.S. citizen. Some of our values and hopes for the world and the U.S. just differ too much. But I would have been okay to see him as the next president of the U.S. He lost me when he chose Palin and the campaign turned ugly.
I’d never call the man classy, but it was a pretty good speech.
Not as good as Obama’s though.
He gained my respect because of how he conceded.
Go John, great run, and VERy classy exit. You are and always will be a hero to me.
McCain is a class act all the way. He ran honourably on his own terms
McCain had class his supporters headed back to their trailers to cook some squirrel and screw their sisters and spew more hate~
With comments like that, you’re talking about someone else spewing hate?
46% of Americans voted for McCain, so I don’t think such a blanket statement is remotely accurate, let alone “unifying.”
Both sides need to stop with the hate.
Not all Democrats are whining, crying, chest-pounding emocrats.
Not all Republicans are uneducated, unsophisticated rednecks.
I’m a registered Republican who voted for Barack Obama. It IS possible to be one country instead of two parties.
Just stop the hate.
Yes, the Repubs swapped boats rather quickly and shamelessly, however, I am grateful to them for admitting that they lost with grace and humility, and not trying to get one final “jab” in, or start making hints at 2012.
Oh wait.
Well Sarah Palin hardly counts as a Republican… I think even -they- have standards.
Just recently found this site. Like what I see. One thing that I think hasn’t really been pointed out in the greater scheme of things is that yes, his concession speech was classy. However, a significant portion of the campaign that preceded it wasn’t. People say that Rove did this, and the Party(TM) did that. Isn’t he supposed to be a leader? If he can’t tell some pencilnecked reprobate to sit down and cork it, how can we honestly expect him to run the billion legged beast that is the US government (an example of attempting to push rope uphill (by the cord mile) and herding cats if there ever was one).
you go girl.
Pardon?