John McCain is a horrible speaker.

[Guaranteed]

Just really bad.


I'm watching parts of this speech on KO. He sounds like he's reading a really stupid story to kindergarteners.

[lsusteel]

1. Debates...

Kennedy v Nixon - the redux.

[Guaranteed]

2. I know.

I know, dude. Obama's gonna just kill him.

[JTG of the PRB]

10. It won't even be CLOSE!

Not even a hidden earpiece could save McLame in those debates... The debates between Clinton and Obama had their moments of good back and forth, but there won't be any of that with McLame and Obama... It'll be all Obama, all the time, smacking McLame down left and right.

[Guaranteed]

15. Yup, He's going to be stuck defending the indefensible

and he can't even talk in the first place.

And, this time, the Republican is going up against someone who DIDN'T vote for the IWR....

BIG, big difference...

[JTG of the PRB]

25. Exactly! HUGE difference!

Obama is going to run circles around McLame... I'd be surprised if the spin afterwards doesn't somehow mention McLame's age as a reason he lost the debates so badly... "Well, you know the Senator is a bit older than his opponent, and he did spend the better part of this afternoon arguing about a coupon at the grocery store, so as you can understand he's very tired right now."

[Guaranteed]

27. Yup. Oh, the freedom.

The freedom to tell some dumbfuck Iraq War supporter exactly how fucking stupid they are on national television with Jim Lehrer looking on.

Unleash the fury. It's gonna be fun.

[cyndensco]

31. Yup, mccain's bad performance will be blamed on his age

like bush's bad performance was blamed on his bedtime...It'll be fun watching post-debate coverage on fox. :)

[elocs]

11. Right, people will see McCain next to Obama and say, "Oh-my-God".

"Look at that little old man next to that robust young man".

[The Ghost]

3. This is why hes gonna lose

Ive been saying it all primary season, he is a HORRIBLE campaigner and speaker, and right now, people want someone who engages them. Thats Obama, not McCain. Plus, McCain is a stinking corpse. HE. IS. TOAST.

[LSparkle]

13. He keeps taking days off ... during the GE campaign, he won't be able to

He'll be running on less sleep, be crankier, put his foot in his
mouth MORE frequently than he already does ... Comedians are probably
salivating at the upcoming campaign season because Bomb Bomb will
be such great fodder for them.

[GoesTo11]

18. Rope-a-dope ought to work well then

Tire him out. Then knock him out.

[Orsino]

29. There may be a sort of grim amusement in watching the MSM...

...tell us how wonderfully he performs in televised debates. It might make up for having to listen to Matthews wax eloquent about the taste of the sweat on McSame's brow.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

4. My friends,

please don't pay attention to my speech, my friends, because I'm about to give you a little straight talk, my friends. O.K., look, so here's a little straight talk, my friends, o.k., my speech, well, you know, I proudly graduated at the bottom of my class, my friends, and so, heh, heh, and so, my friends . . .

[Thrill]

5. My friends, that is no way to talk about Grandpa

[Guaranteed]

12. LOL nt

[Upton]

6. He's a geezer

probably in the early stages of dementia. Not only is he wrong on the issues, but he's just too old to be POTUS.

[babylonsister]

7. He's a snooze without a stand on anything. He'll be ripped apart

when they get to chatting.

[FrenchieCat]

8. It will be contrast and compare......

[AllentownJake]

9. We'll get out of the war by 2013

Yeah...this was supposed to last 60 days originally so we'll believe anything you guys have to say again concerning the war :sarcasm:

[TheDonkey]

14. he has to turn his entire body to show movement. Painful to watch him speak

he will be an awful candidate for the rethugs.

[PoliticalAmazon]

16. YES. I watched the whole danged speech this morning....

and I kept saying to my husband, "Obama is so much better, he HAS to be able to connect better with the voters.

I think the new definition of "political junkie" has to be "One who will listen attentively to an entire McCain speech."

[Greyskye]

17. He never looks 'comfortable in his skin'

Watch when he is approaching a podium, or walking with someone. He rarely looks 'natural' - it kind of creeps me out LOL. It certainly doesn't help my impressions of his public speaking ability.

[Guaranteed]

20. He probably has really serious anxiety issues.

I mean, shit, he WAS tortured and imprisoned for five years. Could do it to a person.

[Greyskye]

23. True that.

I've had the same thought myself. And as much as I honor him for his service, I can't say I want someone with issues such as that as POTUS.

[burythehatchet]

19. He speaks like a 7th grader reading his awesome term paper in front of the class.

[Guaranteed]

21. ROFL I think that's the better analogy. nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

22. Stultifying comes to mind.... then there's this....

his vision of the future is a little blurry

And his song and dance is not without comic interludes

If he does land in the WH

We'll probably see more of this,

And more of this....

So let's hope he continues to insert foot in mouth as expected.

[Hawaii Hiker]

24. McBush is just an all-around horrible candiate

Jesus Christ, the guy looks like some character in a Walter Matthau/Jack Lemmon movie, McBush neither looks or ACTS presidential....

[Guaranteed]

26. *snort*

Exactly.

[Warren Stupidity]

28. I ran into Johnny way back on his first pretzledunce campaign

in a hotel in Nashua NH. He was sitting in the lobby looking old tired and stupid, and I had no clue who he was and was thinking he was somebody's lost or maybe a bit touched in the head with the altz grandpa, and then I saw the straight talker express bus out in the lot and realized it was mccain himself. I swear the guy is near-null, but that is only on first impressions.

[Solomon]

30. I'm giggly because we get to watch Obama unfold all over this

guy. Now we will start to see some sharp jabs, crosses and uppercuts.

[Condem]

32. My friend.....

The absolute worst!

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34. He has a really annoying and repetitive cadence to all his sentences

and that's in addition to his way-overused "my friends" cliche.

If you could chart the rise and fall of the tone in all his sentences, you'd find that the way he hits his words in each sentence and at each stage of each sentence is really repetitive. He's got to be really easy for a comedian to imitate because of that predictable, repetitive rise and fall in his words. It's kind of the same cadence as you might hear a teacher using in a classroom with really young children.

[anonymous171]

35. It's going to be Clinton v GWHB all over again.