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The Return of the Raider

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I've been watching since I got home from work. I watched Ted Thompson, Laura Bush, and Joe Lieberman.

Thompsons speech was excellent. He gave a history of McCain, and went into detail about his time while a POW. I really liked that, and his comment about how "these two mavericks don't care about the alligators are getting uncomfortable, they will just go ahead and drain the whole swamp!" (paraphrased)

Laura Bush was just whatever - a cute first lady.

Joe Leiberman was extremely boring. The guy really brought nothing to the table, and was trying to make the audience believe that his presence as a Democrat at the RNC was some kind of big deal. His speaks extremely slowly, and appears to need about 3 cups of coffee. Nevertheless, I listened closely and couldn't take anything from it.
 
About the only thing positive I can say about McCain as a person is that he's a true life hero. So was Bob Dole.
 
I thought Lieberman's speech was better than Thompson's. Thompson sucked at first but picked it up. Lieberman was solid from beginning to end.
 
Fred not Ted :lol: This isn't the Packer forums.

Fred Thompson gave a keynote speech that someone like Kaine should have for the dems. It was a little boring but it's hard to lose attention or walk away from the TV when you're listening about McCain's story. Plus it sounded like it worked. That's something that plays to the republicans advantage.
 
porky88 said:
Fred not Ted :lol:
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Fred/Ted....My brain is on overload with MNF fast approaching.

Fred Thompson gave a keynote speech that someone like Tom Kaine should have for the dems. It was a little boring but it's hard to lose attention or walk away from the TV when you're listening about McCain's story. That's something that plays to the republicans advantage.
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It's an incredible story.
 
Ted is the bad guy from the other side.
 
Real said:
Lieberman was solid from beginning to end.
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Lieberman:

"J Mac puts country first..."

"Repub or Democrat doesn't matter. We are all Americans... It's important to be an American..."

Did I miss anything? I think I covered his whole speech. Was he just reading the little signs (cliches) that people were holding up in the audience? I really wasn't inspired by any of it. I'm an American, just like Hulk Hogan, just like John McCain. Tell me something I don't know.
 
He could do no wrong when he was Gore's VP choice.
 
Nevermind. He just lost me with his support for warrantless wiretapping.

Eff you, Joe Loserman.
 
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Best part for me personally was when the First Lady was talking about McCain's wife, and she mentioned that Cindy had visited and met with Kosovo's president and prime minister. Put a smile on my face. :)


She had been there about 2 months ago, just after the independence. John on the other hand visited my country 20 years ago when noone knew about Kosovo but things had started back then with the discrimination, and all the other bad things that were happening. So he's been there a couple of times and I'm pretty sure he'll visit again as the President of the United States.


GO MCCAIN!!!!!!!
 
Mitt Romney just gave the best speech of the Convention. Maybe of both conventions. He just destroyed the Democratic party and rallied the convention hall.
 
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I'm not a republican, but I liked this quote from Huckabee: "I'm not a republican because I grew up rich. I'm a republican because I didn't want to be poor and wait for the governement to rescue me."
 
Keith Olbermann seems compelled to point out "factual" problems with the Republican speeches, like how the Republican party was not founded by Abraham Lincoln.

Glad he was so fair to do this to the Democrats last week. Oh wait a minute....

Anyone else noticed that he pussied out by staying in New York this week? Sure he was put there because of the hurricane, but the hurricane has been over for two days.
 
Watching Palin speak now. She made me feel extremely warm about her and her family. She then went into defense mode, responding to rhetoric with more rhetoric. Finally, she's now talking about what she has been up to as governor.
 
She's partway through her speech. In some respects, she's absolutely nailing it.

Part of her purpose is to introduce herself and her family, because she's not well known. First she talked about herself and her family on a personal level.

Now she's talking about her accomplishments as governor, which is good.

She needs to address some national or foreign policy issues that are relevant to this campaign to call the speech a real success.

Otherwise, all she's doing is proving she's a very cool person.
 
Denny Crane said:
She's partway through her speech. In some respects, she's absolutely nailing it.

Part of her purpose is to introduce herself and her family, because she's not well known. First she talked about herself and her family on a personal level.

Now she's talking about her accomplishments as governor, which is good.

She needs to address some national or foreign policy issues that are relevant to this campaign to call the speech a real success.

Otherwise, all she's doing is proving she's a very cool person.
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I'm sure that she is proving that she can read, also.
 
I don't think she's reading much. She's certainly rehearsed this speech for days and been coached. She is looking at the teleprompter periodically to remind herself where she is in the speech.

Not that there's that big a difference - I am sure she's saying what she was told to.

On the other hand, she's quite comfortable with the material.
 
This speech has just as much rhetoric as any of their opponents. I really liked it though. You know a speech is good when it moves you, and makes you think about something.

This style of speech reminds me of a rap battle, but without the rhyming.
 
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I don't think she's reading much. She's certainly rehearsed this speech for days and been coached. She is looking at the teleprompter periodically to remind herself where she is in the speech.

Not that there's that big a difference - I am sure she's saying what she was told to.

On the other hand, she's quite comfortable with the material.
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Right, any person might use notes on the podium for thier speech. I was just amazed at how sophisticated their electronic, clear, teleprompter was. Looks high tech.
 
Denny Crane said:
I don't think she's reading much. She's certainly rehearsed this speech for days and been coached. She is looking at the teleprompter periodically to remind herself where she is in the speech.

Not that there's that big a difference - I am sure she's saying what she was told to.

On the other hand, she's quite comfortable with the material.
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well, I meant more that she didn't write the speech; that the content has just been orchestrated by others.
 
Let's put it this way, she did not flub it in any way.
She did the attack dog bit well at the end, too
She's certainly no Dan Quayle, or even W, when it comes to speaking.
 
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