John McCain to wrap up campaign swing in Prescott
March 28th, 2008, 2:13 pm · 1 Comment · posted by Paul Giblin
John McCain will launch the next phase of his presidential campaign with a cross-country tour starting Monday. The tour will mark his first work as the Republican nominee, rather than as a candidate for the Republican nomination.
The five-day biographical road show is being billed as his “Service to America Tour.” It features speeches in Mississippi, Virginia, Maryland, Florida and
Arizona.
The Arizona portion will be a speech from the steps of the Yavapai County Courthouse in
Prescott. It’s reminiscent of how McCain launched his first Senate campaign to succeed Barry Goldwater. The event is set for 10 a.m., Saturday, April 5.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
So the McCain campaign has finally made and is distributing a Presidential ad. This is not an ad to win more primaries. It is an ad directed at the American people, asking them what they want in a President. The Campaign issued this today…. “John McCain will embark on a “Service to America” tour where he will introduce himself to the nation through a series of speeches and visits that trace the life of a man indebted to his nation, humbled by the opportunity to serve his country, honored by his family’s love and deeply moved by his fellow Americans’ courage and sacrifice. The tour will highlight the events and figures that shaped his views of right and wrong, forgiveness and grace and the tradition of service and sacrifice ingrained in him from generations of McCains. This “Service to America” tour will fundamentally be about the future of America and the change John McCain will bring as president, informed by the values that have guided his life.”
I hope I am able to catch one of these stops of his. What a refreshing change from what the other side has to offer. Neither Obama nor Clinton are veterans. Neither knows which side of a gun is the business end. Hillary had to lie to make us believe she has combat experience. John McCain plans to show, first, that he is a man who is “indebted to his nation.” I recall that One Democrat’s wife said that in her forties she was proud, for the first time, of America. The other Democrat believes that America owes every American many, many things…health care, a decent job, a decent retirement…on and on. John McCain is indebted to America. This coming from a man who served in an unpopular war and was a POW, for five years, in horrendous conditions that make GITMO look and feel like the local Hilton.
John McCain is also humbled to have the opportunity to serve America. Now why do I believe it when he says it and not when Obama and Clinton say it? The latter lies like a rug. The former has sat in a pew where he heard, on continuing basis, things that make America sound like Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Is that reason enough not to believe that neither of those two are “humbled”?
Now we’ve talked, ad nauseam, about experience enough to be President. But McCain will talk about what shaped his ideas of right and wrong, his ability to forgive and the willingness to sacrifice for his nation ingrained in him. Again, when John McCain says this I believe it. I hope the other two don’t even try and say something like this. Clinton will sound like an Saturday Night Live spoof of herself if she does, and Obama will sound like he’s reading lines from some B movie script if he tries it.
Finally, that much bandied about word… “Change”. The need for change. The audacity of hope for change. Change, change, change. What they are going to change, who they are going to change and when they are going to change. We have even heard that one of them will interrupt her inaugural address to make a change. Boy is that fast enough?
But the Democrat candidates both come from the party which got a mandate, from the electorate, to change in the 2006 election. So what happened? What happened to Pelosi’s 100 day change promise? Remember that? So, can we trust two sitting Senators from the same party, when they promise change? I don’t think so. I certainly wouldn’t. But let’s see what McCain has changed. He changed the way lobbyists can donate to campaigns. He changed the way the senate committee spends money. Remember the $7 billion tanker that no one needed. He has never had an earmark. In any budget. So, I think that when America discovers the real McCain, the real change will be that the cute guy and the tough gal from the other side will start loosing hearts and minds from sea to shining sea.
Reaganite