I watched a good part of John McCain's speech on CNN, and have also read the text. I think that, after the electrifying speech by Palin the other night -- a speech which was, in retrospect, quite unrestrained in its negativity towards Obama -- McCain's speech was much more in character for someone who wants to be President (and more in McCain's character).
However, Democrats will be reassured, after that speech, that McCain has very likely lost his last opportunity to really sprint past Obama. The speech was somewhat dull and uninspiring and rather full of recent Republican cliches -- too me-oriented, in an increasingly stale kind of way, for a candidate who claims to want to put his country first.
It was, moreover, revisionist and even "cunning" in its (and RNC's) attempt to pull a hero-as-leader rabbit out of his (McCain's) POW experience in Viet Nam so many years ago now. Isn't it a stretch to label (and to condone the labelling of) a POW, in a war that was in fact lost, as a national "hero"? If you did not know better, you would think that McCain had somehow levitated to the ranks of McArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, Westmoreland or even Powell -- or that he was allowing all and sundry to so elevate him!
P.S. Here is a video of McCain's acceptance speech.
And here are some reactions to the speech.
Here is another reaction.
And yet another reaction.
Here's a more recent one.
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