The way John McCain talks....and the birds in the background.
- By Jason Savage
- Published 07/3/2008
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Okay, this has to be the greatest mismatch in any single quality or skill I have ever witnessed in Presidential politics.
Yesterday morning I awoke, stumbled toward the coffee pot and turned on the television. There sat John McCain, in Columbia, mumbling, his voice being drowned out by the twitter and chirp of dozens of birds.
First of all, was he sitting in an atrium? If so, who the hell made the decision to put a mumbler on national television in a noisy background environment? Especially when his opponent is one of the most gifted speakers in American politics?
Second of all, does anybody in McCain's circle have the courage to tell him to SPEAK UP?
I have seen him do interviews on airplanes and buses where you can't hear him over the drone of the engines, stand at podiums in front of highways, and now, mumbling under the call of the wild?
He does not sound half as bad in a debate or closed set interview, so I wonder, why not keep him in those environments? Does he actually think it helps him to appear so calm when he speaks that he could fall asleep at any moment?
I am no political expert, but one thing I can determine, is that it does not matter how good his platform is, or how well he knows the issues, if half of the American public has to read lips to understand him.
Show some emotion Senator McCain, or it will cost you the election.
Yesterday morning I awoke, stumbled toward the coffee pot and turned on the television. There sat John McCain, in Columbia, mumbling, his voice being drowned out by the twitter and chirp of dozens of birds.
First of all, was he sitting in an atrium? If so, who the hell made the decision to put a mumbler on national television in a noisy background environment? Especially when his opponent is one of the most gifted speakers in American politics?
Second of all, does anybody in McCain's circle have the courage to tell him to SPEAK UP?
He does not sound half as bad in a debate or closed set interview, so I wonder, why not keep him in those environments? Does he actually think it helps him to appear so calm when he speaks that he could fall asleep at any moment?
I am no political expert, but one thing I can determine, is that it does not matter how good his platform is, or how well he knows the issues, if half of the American public has to read lips to understand him.
Show some emotion Senator McCain, or it will cost you the election.
