The End Game
Last night marked the end of the Primary process as McCain accepted the nomination of his party at the Republican National Convention. We now move into the End Game for the Presidency of the United States, and the stakes have never been so high – which we will probably say again in 2016, 2016, 2020 and beyond.
The speech last night by John McCain was a bit of the same old McCain, but it appears as though his handlers told him to keep his tone low key and to sound caring – which he did. Oddly enough, I wasn’t completely incensed by his speech, though he took hits at Barack Obama. He spent most of his speech reminding Americans that September 11th happened and because of that we should elect a President that knows what to do with terrorists, because it is of course the President that “actually” decides what actions are taken, ahem… Right.
The media, in it’s continuing wisdom, after the speech, pointed out that Barack Obama spoke about McCain some twenty plus times in his speech last week, and that McCain only mentioned Obama 5-6 times. How great it is to know how to spin something, because he may have mentioned Obama BY NAME 5-6 times but if you count the times that he talked about “his opponents” and the “there are people” statements, I’m sure twenty is a low number.
The speech would not have been complete with John McCain reminding us that he was a POW in Vietnam and that he survived because of his sheer love of America and his neighbor fellow POW who encouraged him to stand up and keep fighting for his beloved America! He got the usual ocean of applause for this part of his speech, and the cameras hit the faces of a few crying members of the audience, and the Veteran with his head down, possibly remembering his own stories from Vietnam. Now, I absolutely have the utmost of respect for Veterans and what they have done for our great Country, but, I keep asking why is it SO important to continuously remind us that McCain went through this? Connecting that experience with September 11th and the fear of God instilled by the Boogeyman comments? Fear. As usual. We must FEAR that this will happen again, maybe to a loved one.
I’m not sure what I am trying to say here, honestly, I don’t even have a clear thought right. However, one thing is clear… The End Game is here.
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