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"It's called cynicism..."

Which Willem is a philosophy that questions the presentation, or is an "unpleasant way of telling the truth". Classically it is "advocating the pursuit of virtue in a simple and unmaterialistic lifestyle" and criticised greed.

The Haight-Ashbury district of the 1960s was full of Cynics. You probably called them "hippies". Now it's full of investors in upscale real estate development that helps finance the candidacies of men who take favors from crooks and use pork barrel legislation to filter money to the employer of their wife and then into their own pockets. In the 1960s, before the era of greed, these same investors were called "hippies".

Call that... Cynical.

"Obama complained about how long McCain has been in Congress but hasn't gotten problems solved. Apparently he's unaware that his VP has been in the Senate longer than McCain."

The difference is simple. Obama's VP pick GOT THINGS DONE for the middle class during his tenure.

The worst mistake the GOP will make this cycle is underestimating Obama and the Democrats.

"Ryan, Biden has spent more time in Congress than McCain and your guy is thinking HE'S change you can believe in?"

Biden has fought for the middle class including the family leave act, the college access act and his efforts to reduce crime.

McCain has done NOTHING for the middle class.

Compared with Obama's flip-flops, McCain's is minial. Anyway, can you offer some real meat showing that Obama can stand against his own party? He has said so much about his willingness to cross lines. I hope it is not the ethic reform, I have heard so much about it.

Ryan, Biden has spent more time in Congress than McCain and your guy is thinking HE'S change you can believe in?

So Amy you offer that McCain fought against the Bush tax cuts as an example of his being anti-Bush(at the time he called them irresponsible) when MCain is campaigning on making those tax cuts permanent.

LOL!

Flip flopper & bush policy champion!

"I voted with Bush 90% of the time" - John McCain.

John McCain voted with the Republican party 88% of the time this Congress.

McCain's problem is that political parties rarely nominate mavericks, and McCain has decided the only way he'll ever be president is as the Republican nominee. So today he cares very much about what hurts him or helps him in his own party.

The most flagrant sign of this was his February vote to continue Bush's dividend and capital gains tax cuts, which he once eloquently opposed. "It's a big flip-flop," one-time McCain foe Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, told The Washington Times' Donald Lambro, "but I'm happy that he's flopped."

If only democrats can think logically. Obama people can not define McCain as Bush. It is a rare opportunity to nullify the entire Democratic line of attack and McCain should seize on it

"The truth is, of course, that McCain is the most unlike Bush of any of the Republican senators. (When Obama's people claim that Bush and McCain voted the same 94 percent of the time, they forget that most of the votes in the Senate are unanimous.) The fact that McCain backs commending a basketball team on its victory doesn't mean that he is in lockstep ideologically with the president.

The issues on which McCain and Bush differ are legion:

• McCain fought for campaign finance reform -- McCain-Feingold -- that Bush fought and ultimately signed because he had no choice.

• McCain led the battle to restrict interrogation techniques of terror suspects and to ban torture.

• McCain went with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a tough measure to curb climate change, something Bush denies is going on.

• McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts when they passed.

• McCain urged the Iraq surge, a posture Bush rejected for years before conceding its wisdom.

• McCain favors FDA regulation of tobacco and sponsored legislation to that effect, a position all but a handful of Republican Senators oppose.

• McCain's energy bill, also with Lieberman, is a virtual blueprint for energy independence and development of alternate sources.

• After the Enron scandal, McCain introduced sweeping reforms in corporate governance and legislation to guarantee pensions and prohibit golden parachutes for executives. Bush opposed McCain's changes and the watered-down Sarbanes-Oxley bill eventuated.

• McCain has been harshly critical of congressional overspending, particularly of budgetary earmarks, a position Bush only lately adopted (after the Democrats took over Congress).

I agree Amy.

McCain just needs to show he is a man of action for the middle class.

Just one problem.

He's spent decades in Congress and hasn't done squat for the middle class.

Maybe he can explain why Obama's tax plan gives the middle class more money than his.

That would be fun.

Exactly, Amy. McCain got alot of material to counter attack from that speech tonight. My first one would be, "This is the second time Sen. Obama you have said you'd debate me anytime, anywhere, and I said let's do 10 town halls at the beginning of summer. You backed off then, but let's set a date for next week...name the place".
Plenty of other points McCain can jump on too.

Just read the official McCain response.

That crack team cited a factcheck article that calls one of their ads false.

McCain Campaign: Obama is lying, see this non partisan org that called our ad flase, well they said Obama voted to raise taxes"

This is what the bully looks like upon being socked in the mouth.

Confused and scared.

As long as McCain can help people see the difference between a "SPEECH" and real "ACTION", then Obama's lofty words mean nothing, and the feel-good moment will fade soon.

Obama offered a laundry list of government spending. McCain group can just go one by one to dispel them, and then ask a question, Can Obama deliver? look at his affordable housing policies in Chicago. The results: 39 defunct housing projects, 11 in his own district.

McCain can run this in a new ad -- what has Obama accomplished? his housing policy, his education reform (40million spending with no impacts), his urban garden project (10 million spending with not a single garden built). There are too many holes in Obama's record, one good speech will not fill them.

MSNBC internet poll is showing 75% saying they are more likely to vote for Obama after his speech. Over 21,000 votes so far.

Obama already has over 2 million donors and his donation site is so busy it won't load

Today is just the beginning, Republicans.

You are going to own your failures,

Way to go Barack. Hit the repubs HARD, LONG,and OFTEN.

The old man will be spitting up blood by October.

When that idiot bush shows his face at the republican convention, they are DONE !!!!!!!!

Conventions NEVER determine the outcome of an election, or a speech. IT WILL BE THE MEASLEY 3 DEBATES OBAMA AGREED TO (since he's afraid of McCain and town halls/debates). That will determine our 44th president.
50% of voters vote with emotion
50% vote party policies
I AM ONE PROUD HILLARY SUPPORTER WHO WILL STILL VOTE McCAIN!
The fraud BO unelectable.
You have to do MUCH public service before we hand you the keys to the WH...not just get asbestoes removed from a building. Skin color is not a determining factor in my decision.

You are going to OWN your failures Republicans!

Not even Mittens and his country...err...um..campaign serving sons can save McCain.

Obama laid waste to him.

This speech will be seen over and over.

Then next week, Americans will get to see the pathetic alternative.

I'm still astonished how thoroughly Obama demolished McCain and the Republican party and all they stand for.

I just listened to Senator Obama's speech the second time (rerun on TV) and I certainly came away angry from some of his lies, distortions and bogus promises. He is not a new politician with fresh ideas but the same old political rhetric and pandering. It sounded just like a speech a true socialist would make when trying to hide his agenda. And no, I will never vote for a man that thinks government should be a DO ALL for its citizens. The price is too high and too extreme. This whole thing was a spectacular event for his benefit--to make himself a super star, rock star but a perfect fool. He offers nothing for me, my family, friends, neighbors that I believe he will and can deliver.

I think McCain should start off his convention with just getting out among the people, no prompters, no stiff speeches and say he's going to take it down a bit and get serious...this isn't show biz.
Not into the over the top glitz and bs about fixing our economy....could have saved millions on his set alone.
HILL SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN....BEFORE AND AFTER THE CONVENTION!