Video: McCain goes after Obama in victory speech
posted at 9:35 pm on February 19, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Our gal’s all out of options. Unless Latinos come through, we’re looking at both races effectively decided on March 4. SECOND LOOK AT 2012!
Update: Like I say, second look at 2012.
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Still looks horribly tired reading from that teleprompter…
MrSteve on February 19, 2008 at 9:40 PM
That struck me as being a very lackluster speech.
Buy Danish on February 19, 2008 at 9:42 PM
good content
lousy delivery
he needs a B-12 shot and a speech coach…
D2Boston on February 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM
atleast he wasnt quoting Deval patrick
William Amos on February 19, 2008 at 9:45 PM
No more “my friends”; he really overuses that.
carbon_footprint on February 19, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Obama induces orgasms, McCain tells us what we want to hear and puts us to sleep while doing it. I can’t tell who is more frightening.
rockhauler on February 19, 2008 at 9:48 PM
I will cast my vote in December for McCain but I want it know that my vote is really for Debbie Lee and her son who deserve a better president that Barak Obama.
I want a president who honors our troops sacrifices not one that exploits them and abuses them for his own ppolitical gain (Cough Obama Cough)
William Amos on February 19, 2008 at 9:50 PM
His wife looks like a Grey.
p0s3r on February 19, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Yeah, I think he should avoid using the word “tired” in his speeches.
So, the big question is, will Obama be able to continue effectively disguising his lack of experience and radical-left policies with eloquent speeches, or will McCain be able to cut through the crap and effectively call attention to the fact that Obama hopes to change the USA into The Soviet States of America?
Splashman on February 19, 2008 at 9:52 PM
p0s3r on February 19, 2008 at 9:51 PM
You bastard…..I need an address for the spewed Stoli!!!
dmann on February 19, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Well, dude, it doesn’t matter then. :-) JK.
amerpundit on February 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Paul is taking 4% from someone on the Republican side. With not included the would be:
McCain 60%
Huck 40%
bnelson44 on February 19, 2008 at 9:58 PM
McCain’s delivery will always be wanting. But his content sounds better by the day, especially aginst the current crop of Dems.
Trouble is, when you pit emotion against rationality, emotion wins almost every time.
I am READY for change!
petefrt on February 19, 2008 at 9:58 PM
c’mon, the delivery was pretty good. you guys are getting spoiled by his holiness.
locke on February 19, 2008 at 9:59 PM
The guy sure knows how to ………………put you to sleep.
conservnut on February 19, 2008 at 9:59 PM
I used to think that the least charismatic guy the Republicans ever put up was Bob Dole. But Sir John makes old Bob look like Richard Simmons.
conservnut on February 19, 2008 at 10:02 PM
i agree. he literally makes my skin crawl when he says that. it is so contrived and phony it really makes me just stop listening every time he says it. and he says it a lot.
truecon on February 19, 2008 at 10:03 PM
McCain ‘08!
Go Rudy!
Go Fred!
Go Mitt!
—
get out Huckabee so I can add your name to the list!
Chakra Hammer on February 19, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Tylenol? Tylenol? Anyone got a Tylenol?
Kini on February 19, 2008 at 10:06 PM
funky chicken on February 19, 2008 at 10:07 PM
That is the time I will vote for him also. I hope others wait till December to cast their vote for that Amnesty &%**.
Those are the four letter words he uses to fellow Republicans during immigration talks and he loves on the liberal democrats during the same time.
livermush on February 19, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Go Jonny Mac!
We will not be decieved by eloquent but empty calls for change. We want no holidays from history. Hussain and his abortion touting, Islamic appeasing, socialism promoting policies can go to hell!
Pax americana on February 19, 2008 at 10:09 PM
The fake GOP cretins who will be supporting Democratic hegemony over this great nation can go to hell also!
Pax americana on February 19, 2008 at 10:10 PM
I thought his delivery tonight was less choppy for sure. I’m just glad he’s punching at the messiah.
SouthernGent on February 19, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Gang of Fourteen.
DfDeportation on February 19, 2008 at 10:14 PM
SECOND LOOK AT JOHN MCCAIN!
BKennedy on February 19, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Iraq. Fiscal responsibility. Health care. FISA.
amerpundit on February 19, 2008 at 10:15 PM
MAVERICK NEEDS TO GO TO IRAQ TONIGHT.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 19, 2008 at 10:15 PM
What about the fake Conservative cretins running for election?
Should conservatives tell them to go to hell?
F15Mech on February 19, 2008 at 10:19 PM
“eloquent, but empty call for change”…yes, he hit the nail on the head!
(sorry I did not read all of your posts before posting)
lsutiger on February 19, 2008 at 10:19 PM
OMG what a terrible terrible speaker. After 8 years of Bush’s stuttering, we get this. What an embarassment !
It’s over for us. It isn’t even going to matter what conservatives do - mcCain is going to lose with or without them.
This is just so sad. Please, let there be some wonderful 3rd party person come forward that could win.
stenwin77 on February 19, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Is anyone timing Obama’s Rant? It’s got to be at least 35 to 40 minutes by now. Even his guests behind him are nodding off
colep on February 19, 2008 at 10:20 PM
I find his wife incredibly sexy. I know that’s shallow and irrelevent, but I’m ok with that. I’m also betting that in a death match with Michelle Obama, Mrs. McCain would rip her eyeballs out.
Chest_Rockwell on February 19, 2008 at 10:20 PM
ah why?
stenwin77 on February 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Note to obama: we haven’t defeated fascism yet, you are one of the heirs of the mommy form of it.
jp on February 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM
My Friends…
At least he wasn’t wearing his favorite blue sweater and sport coat combination tonight.
He might be a horrible candidate, but he’s our horrible candidate.
Time To Suck It Up. We Have To Vote for This Clown. Don’t Just Stay Home.
Dorvillian on February 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Boring, pompous, arrogance. He just might defeat hisself in the general.
paulsur on February 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM
I don’t think David Koresh preached this long in waco
colep on February 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM
“will we make the right changes to restore the peoples trust in their government”
Is this premise based on the idea that the people can’t trust the government anymore because they aren’t protecting us from global warming and they are manhandling terrorists?
Buddahpundit on February 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I’m sitting hear listening to Obama speak in Houston give away money the country doesn’t have, I tried to keep up with all the giveaways. I maybe streaching but it sure sounds like socialism. He even wants to give habeas corpus to the people in gautanamo. I hear the call for 2012, I do not think we can aford the damage not only to our wallets but to the courts, out safety and the things that cann’t be fixed in 2012 or anytime in the future.
KBird on February 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM
45 minutes…..of hotair
jp on February 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Ok my friends, it’s time to either get energized or prepare yourselves for a Marxist in the White House. McCain is tough and totally capable of dealing with the dangerous world we live in . . . the other two possibilities pose a serious threat to the Republic.
rplat on February 19, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Can’t stand the Mac. He’s been coming across as quite the clumsily spoken little brat.
I can honestly say that I won’t be voting him since, well .. I live in Illinois. The only reason to go to the polls in Nov is to vote against Durbin - and even then ….
yo on February 19, 2008 at 10:26 PM
He’s talking about Obama, but he could also be talking about himself. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to vote for this sob. God, everything is going to hell in a handbasket.
cjs1943 on February 19, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Huh? NO we don’t. I don’t. This is America. Not a Castro hand-off.
Montana on February 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Believe me, after we start getting heavy doses of the Messiah, you guys are going to LOVE Maverick. Look, he was my fourth choice. But Rudy, Mitt, and Fred ain’t walking through that door folks. He’s what we got and he’s a megacrapload better than what the Dims are offering up to lead the free world.
Sugar Land on February 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM
“Will we make the right changes. . .?”
He’s been listening to Newt–” Let’s talk about the right change versus the wrong change.” http://newt.org/tabid/102/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3173/Default.aspx
I wish he would quote him more.
smellthecoffee on February 19, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Interesting statistic. In Wis where a candidate is supposed to be a lock on the Rep nomination, where voters are given a choice, 45% want to vote for someone else.
Further, with 48% of the vote, 468,000 votes in the dems and 150,000 in the Reps……..and some think the election in November will be close?
Starlink on February 19, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Just watched the video. 2012 indeed.
He needs to take lessons on speaking from GW…….oh never mind.
Starlink on February 19, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Someone linked a fact sheet a while back, which showed Republicans just about always underperform Dems in primary turnout. Including in 2004 and 2000.
amerpundit on February 19, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Tylenol?Tylenol?anyone got Tylenol?
Kini on February 19,2008 at 10:06PM.
Kini:Hey Kini,you need it,or has McCain caused it !hehe
canopfor on February 19, 2008 at 10:44 PM
I have a full pitcher of John McCain koolaid. MMM it’s good. Drink up.
John McCain has never voted for a tax increase in the history of his career, Obama promises me that he’s going to take my money and give it to lazy, unproductive people.
John McCain has, can and will defend America. Obama is a coward that has never sacraficed anything for his country.
Obama is married to an arrogan, elitist, leftist that wears her hatred of America like a badge that she is proud of. John McCain and his wife have been proud to be American’s every day of their adult lives.
Obama has a vision of change and it is a horrifyingly scary one. Listening to his speech tonight, it is clear that this moron has not even the most basic understanding of he free market system.
Capitalism is the engine of Democracy. Look what socialism did for North Korea, USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, et al, and yet this idiot and the other leftis morons would dismantle this system.
When he made his reference to people being “tricked” by mortgage brokers? Are we not adults? Can we not make our own decisions? Is it the governemtns job to tax other people to pay for my bad decision?
I bought a house in 2004, during the peak of the housing boom. I negotiated and receieved a 5.75% Fixed loan. I could have got a Variable with a starter rate a full point lower.
Why didn’t I?
Because I am not a moron. I made a good decision and will not be foreclosed on. I do not want to ge stuck with the bill for morons that are too stupid to make prper decisins in their life.
We are adults. We are citizens. WE ARE NOT PROPERTY OF THE STATE.
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 19, 2008 at 10:45 PM
I wonder if ‘04 and ‘00 were 3:1 in votes cast? May not end up that lopsided before the night is out, but is it too simple to wonder about motivated base?
Starlink on February 19, 2008 at 10:48 PM
I guess I’m the only one who thought he did a good job tonight. Go figure.
NeoconNews.com on February 19, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Wisconsin was an open primary, alot of Repubicans voted for Obama, I don’t think they were for him more likely they were aginst her.
KBird on February 19, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Cindy’s going to make a great first lady! You gotta love America if you want to live in the white house.
JustTruth101 on February 19, 2008 at 10:56 PM
I’m calling you out, Allah, you whining mope. Remember this comment on November 4th, when Fox calls the race in a rout for the Great Conservative Leader John McCain at 9pm Eastern, while the California polls are still open.
Jaibones on February 19, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Bill Clinton: The First Black President
Hussein Obama: The First Black David Koresh
faraway on February 19, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Stoli?! You should be thanking him that you spewed it.
Jaibones on February 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM
sorry, but I plagiarized colep a little.
faraway on February 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM
I am a mortgage broker, and I approve of this message.
Jaibones on February 19, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Yawn! Isn’t it past your bedtime McCain? Get in your shots now because you will soon be changing you message to win over the libs and latinos…
wonder what you will say then? will your experience with “immigration reform” kick in?
TOPV on February 19, 2008 at 11:12 PM
I know that you are enjoying soaking in the bitterness of having McCain as the nominee, but what will comments like this accomplish for you at this point?
Do you actually think that there is any chance, whatsoever, of Mac not getting the nod at this point?
Of course not, he has won it.
You hate Mac cause he voted for Shamnesty and he promised to build your “goddamned” fence.
What policies will Billary or Nobama(c) bring that you like better than John McCain’s policies. Is there any? If not, then what is the point of your MacHatred(c)?
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 19, 2008 at 11:20 PM
Lovely War Hero (cough) we have here:
(Loveley Presidential Material here; dedication, commitment, yeah I’m feeling the warmth)
Yup, Johnny boy, we know about your selfishness and immaturity..we saw it during the Shamnesty fiasco.
You are one classy Presidential candidate.
TOPV on February 19, 2008 at 11:25 PM
JayHaw, naw, TOPV lurves Barry O, has for weeks (months?) now.
Kaus doesn’t share the love though.
Is that an S-Chip on Your Shoulder or Are You Just Glad to See Me? John Podhoretz argues that Michelle Obama’s comment–about how “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country”–
suggests the Obama campaign really does have its roots in New Class leftism, according to which patriotism is not only the last refuge of a scoundrel, but the first refuge as well — that America is not fundamentally good but flawed, but rather fundamentally flawed and only occasionally good.
He could be right!
Her comment is also of a piece with the cavalier Obamaesque dismissal of the achievements of the Clinton years and her church’s focus on “this racist United States of America.” But is the explanation necessarily political? Even Dennis Kucinich would probably have no problem finding something to be proud of in the past two decades.
If Michelle Obama’s default position is set to “Aggrieved,” it also suggests something personal, no? Maybe, like many strong wives, she wonders why her husband is the one on the top of the family ticket–which might also explain her strange occasional habit of belittling him in public (”snore-y and stinky” ). Beats me. For whatever reason, she sure seems to have a non-trivial chip on her shoulder and it’s not a winning quality.
funky chicken on February 19, 2008 at 11:25 PM
McCain’s a SINNER!
funky chicken on February 19, 2008 at 11:27 PM
Right. But with those decidedly conservative themes, he might have been quoting the Gipper.
jgapinoy on February 19, 2008 at 11:34 PM
That is exactly the message I got from her comment. I have heard it a million times from America loathing liberals and it took less than a tenth of a second to figure out what she meant when she said it.
Is America a force for good in the world?
Is America the greatest nation in the world?
Are you proud to be an American citizen?
I answer an enthusiastic yes to each and every one of thse questions.
If you even hesitate before answering yes to any of those questions, clearly there is something wrong with your perceptions or loyalty or both.
If you have to parse those questions, you should not be in the white house, not as first lady, not even as janitor.
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 19, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Go McCain!
Chakra Hammer on February 19, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Oh, so fidelity matters now? I thought in 1998, the Dems decided that it’s ok to cheat on your wife as long as you favor regulating globa warming.
I’ll take John McCain’s fidelity to America over Obama’s fidelity to the hateful shrew he married anyday of the week.
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 19, 2008 at 11:38 PM
The Messiah has converted me…to think seriously about voting for McCain.
1ST LOOK AT MCCAIN!
SouthernGent on February 19, 2008 at 11:43 PM
I won’t vote for the bastard (McCain), but I must say that I liked the digs at Obama.
Obama is definitely the most worthless empty affirmative action scumbag I have ever seen. A far-left smarmy snake oil salesman for stupid Americans.
He’s anti-defense, anti-free trade, anti-free enterprise and clueless in so many ways. An unrelenting Lefty with as phoney a black accent as Hillary’s. I’m sure those nice folks who raised him didn’t talk like that. What a worthless creep..
But he probably will win.
Then this country will really tank.
TexasJew on February 19, 2008 at 11:48 PM
STOP WORRYING:
sure mccain sux at reading frim a telepromnpter, but that’s not hoiw campigns are won.
and remeber this fact:
almost every single potus since jackson defeated jqadams has been the more manly/heroic/rough.
the egghead always loses.
dubya beats little lord gore.
bellicose jfk beat nixon.
ike schmeared adlai.
harry whoooped dewey. and so on…
americans want self-made men not intellectuals.
obama is intellectual.
a darling of lefist intelligentsia.
the pauline kael crowd who has picked the dem nominee every year except 1992.
so relax.
you can turn your tv off until mccain is inaugurated.
it’s over. we won.
reliapundit on February 19, 2008 at 11:56 PM
*Cough*
Empty rhetoric, vague promises and appeals to hope.
Not a lot of intelectual meat, IMO.
Although, I do agree he is a cowardly pantywaist, especially compared to Mac.
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 20, 2008 at 12:04 AM
TexasJew, McCain is McCain and everyone knows what he is about, but if you care about the survival of Israel vote for him. I hate Shamnesty as much as anyone but Obama isn’t any better. Yet Israel is likely to be in great danger under Obama because of his foreign policy advisors, one worse than the other.
Igor R. on February 20, 2008 at 12:09 AM
It was a fair speech, but he really does need to get more excited.
William Amos on February 19, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Now if he put Debbie Lee on the ticket, he just might earn my vote.
Conservative Voice on February 20, 2008 at 12:10 AM
You forgot the “ANTI” in that intellectual.
Igor R. on February 20, 2008 at 12:11 AM
That was good.. If McCain can keep that kind of rhetoric up, he’s gold, baby! Second look at 2012? Nah, no need.
amkun on February 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM
McCain has figureed out that Obama is vulnerable to ridicule. I’ve been saying for a while that Mac has to go completely negative on Obama. He should call him a Marxist, a foregin policy illiterate, a third-worlder, empty suite, a man with no record. Obama the king has no clothes.
Igor R. on February 20, 2008 at 12:17 AM
Dude. I’m sorry, but even those on our team are not allowed the level of illiterate drivel that you have claimed for yourself. Cease and desist.
Jaibones on February 20, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Well, we do seem to have a greater interest in governing that nation than we do in governing our own. Maybe we should all go. It’s our only chance to run anything, because we’re not going to be running anything here, except for our mouths.
Sorry, ya’ll. I’m just dispirited. We are so going to get our asses handed to us.
paul006 on February 20, 2008 at 12:46 AM
TexasJew on February 19, 2008 at 11:48 PM
So let me get it right, you are going to sit back and not do anything to stop it. Why do even waste you time on this or any site.
KBird on February 20, 2008 at 12:59 AM
“Eloquent but empty”. That’s good.
Halley on February 20, 2008 at 1:51 AM
Stop B.O’s Endless Illusion!
Call him out!
Chakra Hammer on February 20, 2008 at 1:54 AM
McCain should work at getting the audience concentrating on disliking the opponent, because then they won’t be thinking about how little they like him … especially with this kind of delivery.
Keep it short, keep it aimed outward, and keep it moving.
Obama floats like a bee and stings like a butterfly.
Have at ‘em.
profitsbeard on February 20, 2008 at 2:13 AM
Cindy’s definite MILF material.
I’d take a Michelle Obama Cindy Mac double dog with Kraut.
mylegsareswollen on February 20, 2008 at 4:43 AM
All of you who think that McCain can beat Obama. The Dem ticket will be (in some form) Clinton/Obama. Think about trying to beat that. Ain’t gonna happen, especially if the Conservatives won’t support McCain.
stenwin77 on February 20, 2008 at 7:37 AM
Great a cheer from the crowd. NOT!
McCain needs someone from his camp to hold that “Applause” sign, higher and longer.
Maybe it’s a good thing Huckabee is staying in the race. To help McCain stay awake!
Conservaboomer on February 20, 2008 at 8:35 AM
Great words, inspiring and timely.
Needs more excitement in delivery which equates to the sense that he believes in what he is saying.
Finally, watch out-the Demoncrate will say that McCain is plagiarizing the teleprompter.
MSGTAS on February 20, 2008 at 8:43 AM
I agree with the not staying home part. There are local, state, and Congressional candidates that should be supported.
As to the “sucking it up” and voting for McCain. That’s really up to McCain. He and his cronies have made it clear that they not only want to exclude social conservatives and evangelicals from the GOP- they want to punish this part of the party and don’t really care about the consequences. GHWB’s endorsement the other day was really nothing more than screw you conservatives get in line and vote for John. McCain has performed very badly in traditionally GOP strongholds like the South and he is toast if he continues this “payback” stance vis-a-vis social conservatives. Large black turnout in these same states would all but assure an Obama victory.
So…… Suck it up McCain, stop your vendetta against everybody who didn’t elect you in 2000. Grow up and start acting like an adult you petulant sniviling crybaby.
highhopes on February 20, 2008 at 9:17 AM
McCain, please!!!
1. Start speaking with some passion, and get some sleep!
2. Sorry, but get rid of most of the “Old white Republicans” standing behind you on the podium.
3. Get some young people and any minority supporter’s behind you up on that podium.
4. This is because every time McCain makes a speech, it looks like an AARP convention.
Hope this helps!
Conservaboomer on February 20, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Compare the size and the energy of McCain’s crowd to that of Obama or even Hillary.
We’re in big trouble, MY FRIEND.
stenwin77 on February 20, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Democrats always have bigger crowds because many of their supporters don’t have full time jobs. Those that don’t, the rich and powerful NOW/NAACP types know that their agenda will be passed, and are simply glad that college kids and drunken hippies, while unreliable voters, do pump up crowd numbers.
BKennedy on February 20, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Even when McCain dumped his first wife for his new trophy wife? You know, the one that stuck with him while he was a POW, but then got into a car accident and he left for a young heiress hottie.
So, did you mean the first wife, who stuck with him through thick and thin (even while he was self-admittedly cheating on her); or the new model he traded in for during his “mid-life crisis”?
Really dude, take this as a lesson. Don’t mention McCain’s marriage, his wife, or anything related to that. And if Hillary wins, do NOT bring up Bill’s philandering. McCain doesn’t size up well in the “couple/married/fidelity/morality” area here; and Bill’s problems are well known. McCain’s haven’t really been in that spotlight yet.
Because, in “middle America” they disapprove of cheating on a wife who stuck with you through your hardships, and then leaving her after she gets injured, trading in your 40 year-old wife for a 25 year-old party-girl heiress.
That just doesn’t show him in a good light; which I think was your goal.
And guys, yes; his wife is “hot”. She’s also over a decade younger than his first wife. “Trading in for a newer model” often results in an attractive wife. Which doesn’t mean it’ll play well in the election…
gekkobear on February 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM