I have to say that I had the pleasure of processing this election with my middle school students. It was interesting - some didn't care, and there were passionate supporter for everyone from McKinney to The Constitutionalist Party candidate (whose name I am blanking). After the election we watched McCain's speech and then Obama's. Between the two, after we watched McCain's speech, I asked if this speech had any affect on their feelings about McCain. We talked, and a lot of kids asked "Why didn't he run like that? He might have won." I said that I think he knows that, and that's why he took the blame for losing. They definitely said ithat speech made them proud to be Arizonans.

It's nice to see the real McCain (I hope) may be back, and that he's doing okay.


McCain at ease after loss
By ROGER SIMON | 11/6/08 4:37 AM EST

On the day after his victory, Barack Obama faced a world in financial crisis, shooting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a nation that expected him to deliver on all his promises.

John McCain faced a barbecue.

“I got nine racks of ribs,” McCain told his closest aide and co-author, Mark Salter. “And I will be cooking them up.”

McCain was in Phoenix, where Tuesday night he had delivered a gracious and eloquent concession speech. Then he got about six or seven hours’ sleep before preparing to head out to his Sedona home with his wife, Cindy — and enough friends to consume all those ribs.

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As for McCain, Salter says he is “remarkably relaxed and at ease” after his loss.

“He is the most resilient, toughest human being I have ever met in my life,” Salter said. “For 50 years, he has followed the orders he received from the American people. Last night, he held his head up and he bowed to history.”

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McCain showed himself to be a class act with his concession speech.

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Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Maybe and maybe not. Seems that the blame game on Palin seem to be coming from him.

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Actually, it is coming from his former advisors that are pissed and don't realize that McCain was losing before he picked her.

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Tensions between McCain and Palin camps come to light - Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Phoenix -- Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party lawyer would be dispatched to Alaska to inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession.

What?

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Former advisors, former aides, not much difference, but still not McCain himself.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Lmao Looks like a good merger here!

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies

I think McCains speech deserves much credit and made me feel much better about him.

I think the fact that the republicans turned off the screen when Obama gave his speech shows how childish and unbending they really are.

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seems to me that most politicians become likable people after they loose or win an election.

I thought Hillery was more tolerable after she lost.

And it seems Obama has lightened up a bit. he was cracking jokes at his press conference today.

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I think there's much truth in what you say but I also think that the election needs to be a stressful experience so that we can see at least some of the metal that the candidate's possess. After the election is over they know there defined rolls and that makes it easier for them to be real.

I respected McCain becuase he took his loss like a man with strength and generosity. I think most of the crap that is flying in the press right now is just the last winds of a mediocre group out of date republican political operatives who are to bitter to be magnanimous.

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"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."