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I have to agree, his speech is very honorable. Especially in the beginning when he quickly cut off the boos about "President Obama".
 
Yeah, I'm impressed--he really was just putting on a bland face for the electorate. Hopefully he'll know better than to abandon his well-cultivated image next time--if he survives to 2016, and the Democrats somehow manage to field a bad candidate, I might even vote for him.
 
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He doesn't really seem all that disappointed. I wonder if his heart was really in it at the end?
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I had the exact same thought when he was on SNL last Saturday.
It was extremely funny, but he didn't seem like a guy trying to win the election...
 
If only his supporters were as gracious as him. A fine speech.
 
McCain is giving his speech. He's well composed, gracious, and the speech is a good one, as these things go. I have to salute him on it.
 
Oh man, what a time for the forum to go down!

Congratulations America. For what it's worth, I think you did the right thing.

And hey, I gues you were ready after all!
 
I’m so happy!

The Embassy held a big Election Day function inside. They were projecting CNN onto a couple large screens. Diplomats from various countries attended. There was some media there so the American diplomats were supposed to keep their emotions in check so as not to appear partial to one candidate over the other. But the expressions on the State Department folks still clearly showed they were happy with the results. My DoD counterparts were a bit more mixed.

I liked McCain’s speech. It was the McCain that I use to respect, and maybe can again. But Obama’s speech? Holy crap! It took everything I had not to tear up. I always thought Reagan and Clinton were some of the best public speakers. Throughout the campaign I thought Obama’s public presence was very good, just not as good as Reagan and Clinton. But Obama’s speech was easily one of the most inspirational speeches I have ever heard from a politician. He just may surpass Reagan and Clinton in that arena.

I know it is just words. I KNOW that. But I’m sorry, being inspirational and being able to rally the people is important for a President. It will also be nice not being embarrassed around my foreign counterparts whenever my President speaks. We have a long road ahead of us to fix the mess Bush has made. I don’t expect Obama and the Congress to fix everything in the next four years…but they can do allot. Yeah, the prop 8 result sucks. That is a set back. But we need to look at the big picture today, and today we won. My hope is that eventually prop 8 will be moot.

I’m so happy!
 
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After all this can you not just let him two terms and forget about having another election campaign starting in 6 months time?
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Don't get me wrong, I have supported Obama since early in the Democratic primaries, and there are no prominent Republicans likely to run in 2012 I find compelling, but it would be nice to see how well he does (at least until the mid-terms) before talking about multiple terms. I loved the speech, but thought that the line regarding change taking more than one term to be a bit premature.
 
It was a good speech, the only negative part for me is that I listened to it just after hearing how the votes for the various propositions against "gay marriage" had gone so his "gay or straight" sounded quite hollow.
 
Darat said:
It was a good speech, the only negative part for me is that I listened to it just after hearing how the votes for the various propositions against "gay marriage" had gone so his "gay or straight" sounded quite hollow.
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I was under the impression that California's Prop 8 was likely to be defeated based on exit polling (meaning the ban on same-sex marriage would fail). If I am wrong, crap.

ETA: It looks like it may pass. Crap.

ETA2: The latest info makes it look like Prop 8 is losing. Blah, maybe they will have a real answer tomorrow morning.
 
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I think that McCain has a devious strategy...

...he knows that Bush has screwed the country up so badly that anyone who takes over the leadership this year is doomed to failure, and will lose the next election. So he publicly makes his "best effort", yet simultaneously does things that pretty much guarantee he doesn't get elected (like his inexplicable choice of Palin as his running-mate).

He loses, but with style; then waits four years, during which Obama's reputation suffers as he has to deal with all the garbage left over by Bush. Then in the next election, he swoops in as a savior, and the Republicans take back the White House.

do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do (that's the Twilight Zone theme)
 
Wolfman said:
I think that McCain has a devious strategy...

...he knows that Bush has screwed the country up so badly that anyone who takes over the leadership this year is doomed to failure, and will lose the next election. So he publicly makes his "best effort", yet simultaneously does things that pretty much guarantee he doesn't get elected (like his inexplicable choice of Palin as his running-mate).

He loses, but with style; then waits four years, during which Obama's reputation suffers as he has to deal with all the garbage left over by Bush. Then in the next election, he swoops in as a savior, and the Republicans take back the White House.

do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do (that's the Twilight Zone theme)
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This might ahve been what the Republican party had in mind, but I think McCain really wanted to win. These past few weeks, though, I think he knew it was over.

As for him running in 2012, I don't think so. The exit polls are showing that age was a significant factor and it will be even more so in 4 years.
 
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