http://themoderatevoice.disqus.com/enFri, 23 Oct 2009 00:12:32 -0000http://themoderatevoice.com/war/torture/18714/the-mccain-makeover/#comment-20836508<p>Nice one. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Others no doubt will like it like I did.</p>Swing TradingFri, 23 Oct 2009 00:12:32 -0000http://themoderatevoice.com/war/torture/18714/the-mccain-makeover/#comment-290145<p>Hmmm...actually, when I heard McCain's staccato delivery in the ad, I was reminded not of the Bush era but of a classic speech of American liberalism. Compare the two:</p><p>"Keep that faith. Keep your courage. Stick together. Stay strong. Do not yield. Stand up. We’re Americans. And we’ll never surrender.” -- McCain</p><p>"the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." -- Ted Kennedy 1980</p><p>Kennedy's is better of course. But the rhetorical pattern is strikingly similar.</p><p>The main difference lies in the militaristic tone of the former, and the social uplift tone of the latter. </p>MarlowecanTue, 01 Apr 2008 14:34:03 -0000