Obama fundraising didn’t make McCain pathetic, Johnny did that all by his lonesome.
McLames distorted view on being an affable adversary was BOs greatest advantage.
If you wrote up a formula for success in making it to the White House, and then applied the idea of a fairly old candidate with average speaking talents....then you just took twenty-percent of your odds away. I suspect that you could have picked Jeb Bush for the VP position of McCains....and it wouldn’t have mattered.
I think one of the key moments was his lying to David Letterman so he could be on Katie Couric. That, for me, totally changed my thoughts on the man any level of respect.
You don’t lie, telling the electorate that you’re going to Washington to vote on a bailout package when you’re just going to the next studio for a more preferred interview.
McCain performed excellently as Hussein’s running-mate.