Tuesday, January 08, 2008

JOHN MCCAIN

One of the Great Speeches of McCain's Career

I couldn't transcribe fast enough. Go find the video of McCain's victory speech tonight. It's a different style from Barack Obama's wow-inducing speech from last Thursday, but he knows how to bring out the stirring rhetoric.

"The history of the world will not be determined by this unpardonable foe, but by the courage of free peoples. In this historic task, we will never surrender. They will."

Churchillian.

(The unpardonable foe is the jihadists, in case it wasn't clear.)

UPDATE: I tuned in after it started, and am being told by some that they thought it was awful. I don't know - the closing struck me as pitch-perfect; different strokes for different folks, I guess.

01/08 09:23 PMShare