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Believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America
The Jawa Report — November 05, 2008 Believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America american-flag-2a.jpg McCain : I call on all Americans. I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history. By Jane at November 5, 2008 09:34 AM | | l ...

Believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America
Armies of Liberation — american-flag-2a.jpg John McCain : I call on all Americans. I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.

Moved
Bitch. Ph.D. — ... For me, the thing that made me break down in tears during an otherwise tear-less night was McCain's concession speech (text). I know it sounds weird, but there it is, and I think this is why: Over the last year, we've heard so many speeches, after primaries, conventions, and debates, from McCain and from all the candidates who were, in some sense, running against Barack Obama--all the Republicans, all the Democrats. And in every one of those speeches, there was talk of the past "we fought hard and thank you for your support" and talk of the future "we will go out and win ...

cynically naive?
Classical Values — cynically naive? A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States. -- John McCain Truer words were never spoken. And in what I consider the best "I told you so" of the election (which ...

Bonnie Blogistic Again: A Cloudy Turn-On
The Real Muck — ... The text of the speech can be found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-race-speech-read-t_n_92077.html And here is a word cloud created from Senator McCain’s concession speech. The text for this speech can be found here: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hmJfimrZW3jBur_BmaFtqj7mfFgQD948JFJG5 And then I was curious about how David’s blog post, the letter to Barack Obama, would form as a word cloud. Here it is: After I created these, I discovered ...