corner.nationalreview.com - 11/5/2008
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I went to bed after John McCain's exceptionally gracious, unusually eloquent concession speech, not having much interest in watching jubilant crowds celebrating their win. That speech touched all the grace notes, and went the extra mile in speaking about the wonders of a country that elected ...
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concession speech Tuesday in Phoenix, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions. ___ MCCAIN: Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here ...
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"The Grace Notes"
THE CUNNING REALIST —
... Lisa Schiffren this morning: I went to bed after John McCain's exceptionally gracious, unusually eloquent concession speech...That speech touched all the grace notes...Was it me, or was the Senator that much more ...
Electing a Scary Black Man President Isn't the End of the World
Jon Swift —
... Obama is being treated precisely like every other Democrat politician of the last 16 years. His race is not holding him down. His race is not propping him up. This should be cause for celebration, I think. We’ve clearly moved past race.” So even if Obama had lost the election it would have proven that racism doesn’t exist because white people lost elections, too. Still, some conservatives believe that more could have been done to prove that Obama’s race didn’t matter. Lisa Schifrin points out one of the reasons McCain lost was that he was too squeamish about the race thing and ...
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latimesblogs.latimes.com 11/5/2008 — Complete Text of Arizona Senator John McCain's concession speech, Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 4, 2008
MCCAIN: Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.
(APPLAUSE)
My friends, we have -- we ...
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“My Friends,
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PARISI: McCain owes GOP a second concession speech
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