More on McCain Posted by Michael Cohen

Caught a McCain rally in Concord today. Uninspiring is putting it generously. First, I hate to say this, but he looked his age. His voice was shot and he looked really tired. Second, his speech was kind of a mess. He started off by oddly talking about the need to combat global warming. I couldn't tell if this was planned or a response to folks in the crowd who were carrying global warming posters. (Once again, there were more Ron Paul signs then McCain signs; a phenomenon also seen at the earlier Huckabee, "Huckaburger" event. For those of you curious, a Huckaburger is a bison burger on a multigrain bun with bean sprouts . . . I wasn't too sorry that I didn't get into this event).

Next he attacked government spending and then made a joke about comparing Congress to drunken sailors was unfair to drunken sailors. That got a good laugh, but no one in the crowd seemed to make note of the fact that this was an ironic attack coming from a guy who has been in Congress longer than any other person currently running for President. This seemed to be his "change" message of the day, but I can't say it really revved up the crowd.

Finally, he launched an attack on Islamic radicals, extolled General Petraeus (saying that he, not Putin, should have been Time's Man of the Year. In fact, he even made a joke at Bush's expense noting that when he looked in Putin's soul he saw the letters K G B) and claimed that when it came to the Iranians "he knew how to deal with them."  Not surprisingly, McCain praised the troops for a while in an obvious effort to draw a contrast with Romney and his message was, for the most part, boilerplate, GOP rhetoric on the war and terrorism in general.

In the end, I was pretty confused about McCain's message and frankly he came across as a bit angry. All in all, not his most impressive performance. It only reinforced my belief that Romney is going to do better then expected on Tuesday (although I appear to be the only person in Manchester who feels this way).

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