McCain Needs an Acting Class--Quick!

By Chip Hanlon | June 03, 2008 | 9:01 PM | 1 Comment

I'm sitting here watching Senator McCain's victory speech in Louisiana as I type this and boy, is it awful.

The words he's clearly reading for the first time seem powerful enough, but every word, every movement seems forced-- like he's straining to see not only the speech on the tele-prompter, but the parentheses directing him to (smile here) at certain points along the way.

Since Obama's likely getting over the hump tonight, I intend to write a series of posts in coming days about why he's a horribly flawed general election candidate-- but not terminally so. The power of communicating like he does cannot be understated and could be enough to get Obama--who is essentially an empty suit--across the finish line in November.

His communication skills will never match those of Barack Obama, but if John McCain can't deliver a speech without looking like he's straight out of a wax museum, as he's doing tonight, he's going to have a hard time getting anyone to listen.

Totally agree. He is no Totally agree. He is no Dutch or Clinton. It will be interesting to seem him debate Obama without a script. He is 98. So I will cut him some slack. Submitted by The Real Todd H on Tue, 2008/06/03 - 9:18pm » reply |