Reader comments: McCain can't match week's best speeches
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Mark B | 10:19 a.m. Sept. 5, 2008
I'm surprised the GOP strategy isn't obvious to more people. Palin, with little or no risk coming from a completely red state, gets to be the chief verbal slime-thrower in the campaign and will be harder to attack because of her gender. McCain gets to be the nice old grandpa who's out to "change" government even though he's now 72 and is neck-deep in lobbyists and corporate money, which the Democrats decline. Given the dismal GOP record since 2000, it shouldn't work, but at least they can count on the Beehive State.
CBA | 2:43 p.m. Sept. 5, 2008
Rhetoric is for salespeople and the standard by which most people judge whether a speech of good or not. The point is that rhetoric is designed to cover some other defects. McCain let us see what he really is, and that was a speech that affected the masses. Too bad more 'public servants' are not servants at all. Here is a real servant of the people, and if we are too stupid to see it, that speaks more of us than him.
CBA rationalizes | 5:53 p.m. Sept. 5, 2008
That's a pretty lame cover for the most boring, self-aggrandizing speech of the entire campaign.
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