Like any other political junkie, I checked out last Tuesday’s hat trick of political speeches by the two presumptive presidential nominees, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, and the one leveraging holdout, Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Let’s briefly put salient issues aside. On oratorical points, Obama carried the historic night as expected.
Clinton speaks well but couldn’t speak to Obama clinching the nomination. McCain was McCain with the Snide Talk Express. A sore loser and a sour nominee.
I would if I could, but I can’t top this assessment by “Rolling Stone.” The magazine nailed McCain’s awkwardly delivered, ungracious presentation:
“Worst. Speech. Ever. Good God, John McCain gives bad podium. It’s like watching the out-takes from an Andy Rooney kvetch.”