McCain

I feel like McCain rewrote half of his speech after watching Obama's. McCain knows that living such a privileged life hurts him. The fact that he owns 9 houses (not 7) separates him from average Americans in a way that he can not relate. In an attempt to try and help his campaign he told stories of a solider killed in action and a struggling mother who's son was recently diagnosed with autism in order to convince Americans that he is able to relate to them through his acquaintances. He wanted to convince Americans that he does want change and he can go against his own party (even though he voted with Bush 91 percent of the time). He told Americans that he would lower taxes while Obama would increase them (although that's not what I heard in Obama's speech) and lower government spending when Obama would raise it.
The only part of McCain's speech that I felt was truly genuine was his prisoner of war story. He spent a large portion of his life defending his country and made sure his audience knew it. I was quite bored by McCain's speech and very bothered by how he kept using conjunctions and slang like "we're gonna". We're gonna do this. We're gonna do that. Very annoying. And what about Sarah Palin? The audience was more excited for her than for the man who is running for president of the United States. It is cheap that McCain chose a woman as his vice president. I'm all for feminism and woman's rights(Hillary was my first choice), but not for McCain's strategy of choosing a woman to gain woman's votes. The announcers said that Sarah will appeal to the disabled citizens because her baby was born with Down Syndrome. Well yea, what do you expect when you have a child at 44? Almost 1 in 30 babies born to mothers over 40 have down syndrome. And she doesn't believe in global warming?! OMG! Ahhh I'm just so frustrated I need to stop writing! OBAMA '08!!