A lot of fear and safety and military references throughout beyond his own POW experiences. A lot of we have to do this and we have to do that, but no specifics. He did at least repudiate Bush & Co.’s incompetence. Sort of. I did have to laugh at his talk about kicking out the lobbyists and special interests while (as ABC showed clearly in their nightly newscast piece) those very people put on the biggest parties and were given choice seats at the convention. Just coincidence that Jack Abramhoff was sentenced earlier in the day.

In short, the message seemed to be, Here’s a nice man who went through hell just so he can now get tough and use his experience to protect us from the evil Democrats while working to change everything his party has screwed up while it was in power.

Oh, and I was impressed with the chanting of “USA” when protesters (what the hell was that woman in the pink nightie around the 8 minute mark about?) interrupted. How did they ever spontaneously think of doing that?

So, what did you think? Did you like it? Fall asleep? Do you believe McCain will do what he said in last night’s speech?

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