I'm vibrating.

[chargirlgenius]

Jon Stewart has just called it for Obama.

:-D

ETA:

John McCain is an honorable man, and gave a good concession speech. It's the John McCain that I thought he was before this campaign.

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[marwen42.livejournal.com]

That's where I watched it too.

Dang, I'm crying.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

I've had tears in my eyes a few times today, but then found myself laughing my a$$ off at the actual moment. :D

[marwen42.livejournal.com]

I loved that their producers held off the scheduled ending time to let them be able to say that.

JM speech

[kevindharner.livejournal.com]

I agree; complete with his show of displeasure when the crowd booed

[fiberferret.livejournal.com]

I was more impressed by McCain's concession speech than the rest of his campaign. I've never watched the speeches before, so I have no idea how it compares, but I was VERY impressed by how gracious he was. Hope on two fronts, yeah!

[snolan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's interesting that McCain's two best public speaking moments this whole year have been his charity humor the night after the 3rd debate, and his concession speech...

I am glad it was so and will not ask why too deeply.

[1-big-grizz.livejournal.com]

Is it me, or was McCain a totally different person than he's been for the past 18 months?

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

I think that last night was the real McCain. Unfortunately, by his choices during the campaign, I don't think that's who we would have had for president.

[kevindharner.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing...where was this man for the past several years?

[syrrichard.livejournal.com]

This man was letting the RNC and Karl Rove run his campaign. I think at heart he is a decent man who sold his soul to Satan for a chance to be President.

McCain has been struggling for a long time. As a POW he sold out his country with his chats with the N Vietnamese - something his father the Admiral could not forgive him for. He took a more vigorous tone when he was offered early release because he knew he would pay a price for cooperating. The NVN were never going to kill him. He was too great a prize as the Admiral's son.

He went into politics and took money from Keating. After they dragged his butt into the investigation, he suddenly developed a major case of righteousness.

He's only human. He's never been perfect. I can't bring myself to call him a hero. But I have real problems with the mocern American definition of hero. Heroes are those who face death for a cause greater than the life of the individual. But now we have sports heroes and survivor heroes and people who never face a moment of death heroes. I think we have radically dropped the bar on the hero thing. Look at the CMH winners. They are quite often posthumous, they have always faced death, and usually to save the lives of their comrades in arms. These are heroes.