Competing Reformers

by digby

Did anyone know that John McCain was a POW? Wow. That changes everything…

Seriously, I think this election is now framed as the tough old patriotic reformer who will knock heads together to make things work and keep the country safe (stand up and fight with me!) vs the smart young visionary who will inspire and organize everyone to work together to solve problems and create a new world (yes we can!)

For anyone who hasn’t made up their minds on the basis of policy, party identification or something else, this is probably how the two choices look. Which style are you on?

He laid it on a little thick for me, but I would imagine some people will find it moving.

Update: The consensus is that the speech was terrible. (I didn’t think it was that bad, but I only heard it, didn’t see it, so maybe that explains it.)

But I have to laugh at this:

Swampland- McCain versus the Teleprompter Posted by Jay Carney He’s struggling, as he sometimes does — misplacing the emphasis on words, sounding at times like he’s reading the speech for the first time, losing energy during the sections on issues he’s never been particularly passionate about, buring applause lines in a string of sentences. It’s as if he can’t bring himself to pretend he’s not reading a teleprompter — that the charade distracts and frustrates him.

That old rascal. He just can’t be anything but authentic and true to himself.

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