McCain graduation speech mis-characterized in press
This diary by Pericles at DailyKos gives a pretty good apologia for McCain's graduation speech at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. It turns out the speech was quite a good one, encouraging tolerance on all sides. While I certainly won't support McCain for President, this makes me think he still is keeping to his core principles, for which I applaud him.
posted by walldon | 4:55 PM
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Thanks for posting this, Walldon!
I had only seen the summary article in the NYT today, where I caught the note of tolerance, at least. My immediate reaction had been, yeah, tell that to Malkin, Coulter, et al.
This diary puts a slightly different spin on it. Interesting how a blogger reports on the speech (especially taking context into account) better than the "pro" over at the MSM.
It IS an excellent speech -- maybe a great speech. McCain is going to be a formidable candidate. I said it before and I'll say it again: Democrats will make a huge mistake if they attack McCain's integrity. His only vulnerability will be his conservative views on certain issues -- a great guy who happens to be wrong, and here's why -- and the fact that he is a Republican -- no matter how great personally he is, he cannot shake the wealthy right-wing that props up that party. Could we actually have an election fought on bona fide policy and principles?
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