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Florida called for Obama.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 11:13:23 PM EST
And McCain is giving a concession speech...

where was that McCain during the campaign... it is incredible, classy, touching the american narrative with wonderful undertones...cutting any woos...

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 11:22:40 PM EST
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Yes, good speech by McCain. Obviously not an easy audience. Well, now he doesn't have to deal with them (the base) anymore.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 11:36:36 PM EST
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Glad that wasn't the McCain we say during the campaign.  It would have made it a lot more difficult to pull this off.
by ATinNM on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 11:50:29 PM EST
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Would have had a harder time with the bottom feeders, though.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 11:54:04 PM EST
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I don't know - I didn't like that speech.  Especially the bit about it being a victory for African-Americans.  And the crowd seemed... unpleasant.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 5th, 2008 at 12:24:11 AM EST
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I have heard like 5 concession speeches in US politics.. that was the best by far....

Better than Kerry.. and even Gore (given the circumstance).. better than Dole and Bush...

best.concession.speech.ever, one has to wonder, if this is the real McCain where was he before? and would it have such an awful president in the international arena?  Who is Mc Cain.. the bomb bomb bomb Iran or the one now which signaled in this speech that he is absolutely behind Obama on his Iran policies and Afganistan polcies (that was the under-narrrative... no doubt about it.. and the corwd there got it and woooed it)..

I just do not get it.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 11:35:06 PM EST
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AP via google: Text of McCain's concession speech
My friends, we have -- we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly.
A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him.
(BOOING)
Please.
To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.


Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 5th, 2008 at 03:32:18 AM EST
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I have asked myself if McCain had won, and Obama had said the same thing, how would his supporters have reacted.

I was impressed by McCain's concession speech (what I heard of it).  It showed so much grace and character that were not apparent these past several months.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Wed Nov 5th, 2008 at 08:01:58 PM EST
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