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Oct 17, 2008 07:35

There's still a small glimmer of hope for our country. ( There's hope where there's humor. )

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drdeleto October 17 2008, 14:59:59 UTC

(Pardon me if this is being inappropriately divisive, but could it be that this is the one time McCain outperformed Obama?!)

goobermunch October 17 2008, 15:42:46 UTC

I don't know. I really felt that Obama's delivery was smoother. McCain seemed to stumble at a couple of key moments (not that Obama's delivery was flawless).

Either way, I laughed out loud at some of the things both our candidates said.

--G

drdeleto October 17 2008, 15:48:55 UTC

Yeah, Obama's speech is still smoother, although something about his delivery--the pauses, I guess--made it sound at least as scripted as McCain, perhaps more. I think the main factor for me was McCain's timing. Somehow it just worked better, but maybe that's low expectations talking.

drdeleto October 17 2008, 19:54:33 UTC

There was the moment (right after he had the line about spilling his "soy chai latte on his shih tzu") where Obama had a look on his face that said "
Who wrote this?"

I have to agree with Dr. Deleto. I think McCain did slightly better. Particularly in his introduction of Obama. Not that Obama wasn't good, but he seemed not quite 100%.

derbiser October 17 2008, 19:55:14 UTC

That was me. D'oh!

drdeleto October 17 2008, 22:06:26 UTC

Yeah, someone wrote him a tongue-twister with that shih-tzu line.

melted_snowball October 17 2008, 15:55:35 UTC

I thought so, too, and I'm quite strongly supporting "that one".

(It did feel a bit like a very gracious concession speech at the end, to be fair. But I do feel like McCain will lose this election with some graciousness, which I don't think my side did a good job at in 2004.)

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