christelsabine 1 #1 November 1, 2008 Just a little outlook at next week: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5046c458-a5c2-11dd-9d26-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1 dudeist skydiver # 3105 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tkhayes 348 #2 November 1, 2008 you have to register with ft.com to see if, so most people will not bother.... me included Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christelsabine 1 #3 November 1, 2008 Sorry. For me it's still working dudeist skydiver # 3105 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miked10270 0 #4 November 1, 2008 Quote you have to register with ft.com to see if, so most people will not bother.... me included Here's the text of the article - McCain's concession speech to Barack Obama. OR... Barry O'Barmagh as he's known to the Irish Vote.Mike. I have had my victories. Just not tonight... By Christopher Buckley Published: October 29 2008 19:23 | Last updated: October 29 2008 19:23 Note: some years ago my phone rang. “Chris? It’s John McCain, and you’re really going to regret taking this call.” He was to be the featured speaker at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, at which the media and politicians pretend for one night of the year that they like each other. I told him that I did indeed regret taking his call – writing 20 minutes of stand-up takes, well, a while. Senator McCain did not call me this time but I thought to volunteer a draft of a concession speech for him next Tuesday, in the event. My friends, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I have just called Senator Obama to congratulate him on – (Boos. Shouts of “Terrorist!” “Arab!”). No, no, please – none of that, now. Let’s all just breathe into a paper bag and calm down. OK. As I was saying, I have just called President-Elect Obama to congratulate him on a – it would appear – decisive victory tonight. Looking on the bright side, it looks like I’ll get to go to bed a little earlier than I’d hoped to tonight. To tell the truth, I’m so tired after this 22-month (looking away from TelePrompTer) clusterf ... after this very long campaign that I won’t even have to take a sleeping pill. My friends, this is a historic night. Tonight America elected its first African-American president. I’m proud of my country for doing that, though I kind of wish it hadn’t done it on this particular November 4. But no, seriously, I congratulate Senator Obama on a tremendous achievement. And I congratulate the country. Tonight, America has shown that it truly is the land of limitless opportunity. If a self-described “skinny black guy with big ears and a funny name” can become president of the United States – well, my friends, I guess there’s hope for just about anyone. Who knows, maybe next time it’ll be a Martian or some other type of little green man off a spaceship. Well, as that great philosopher, Yogi Berra, said when someone told him a Jewish man had been elected mayor of Dublin: “Only in America.” My friends, we fought a good campaign. (Looking away from the TelePrompTer) Well – no, actually ... you know, it’s kind of liberating, losing. Because now I can go back to what I used to like to engage in – straight talk. Remember those days? So, no, it wasn’t such a good campaign, was it? If it had been, I’d be standing up here doing a “power dap ” with Cindy and announcing that Joe Lieberman was going to be my secretary of defence. My friends, now is not the time for recrimination. There will be time for that. Like tomorrow morning. For now, let me just say, I thank you for your tremendous effort and hard work. I could not have done this without you all. I’m just sorry that so many of you will now not get patronage jobs in the federal government. I would like to thank Governor Palin for her (looking away from TelePrompTer) ... well, OK, maybe that wasn’t such a smart choice, after all. But look – did you really want Mitt Romney? Heck, I wanted Joe Lieberman. He’s Jewish. “Only in America”, right? But, foolishly, I let my so-called “brain trust” (makes quotation mark sign) talk me out of that. Good move, McCain. They said: “Governor Palin will appeal to the base. We need the base.” The base (sighs heavily). In other words, the same people who were credulous enough to believe Karl Rove’s [expletive deleted] robo-callers in South Carolina back in 2000 that my adopted Bangladeshi daughter, Bridget, was my love child. The base. Well named, aren’t they? You’ve got to appeal to them, they told me. Well, my friends, I guess this time around I was the credulous one. Because I bought into their brilliant genius idea that my running mate should be a ... (sighs) . . . Oh, well, what’s the use. As she would say, go tell it to the fruit flies. (Returning to script.) So let me thank Governor Palin for ... all that she did to me. For me, I mean. Little Freudian thing, there. My friends, the motto of my campaign was: “Country first”. And that will remain my motto in the days ahead. I am a flawed man. I have never pretended or said otherwise. I ran a flawed campaign. I was not, as Shakespeare or one of those other writer jerks used to say, “to my own self true” or however the hell it goes. But I have been in the service to my country since I was 18 years old. And I am now 72. So that’s my record and, I hope, my legacy. Service to country. And whatever mistakes I have made, and there were mistakes – like accepting public funding for the campaign, when my opponent ... whatever. Well, look, I’ve had my victories. I just didn’t have one tonight. My friends, in what years remain to me, I will continue to fight the good fight in Washington. I just won’t be living in that nice government housing down there on Pennsylvania Avenue. But I’ll be in Washington. Oh, yes. Along with my fellow – sheesh, what a night – 38 Republican senators. You know the story of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. They didn’t have it so easy, either. I and my fellow Spartans will be the only thing standing between the taxpayers and an army of big spenders. When the Spartans were told that the Persian army was so numerous that their arrows blotted out the sun, one of the Spartan captains said: “Great! Then we shall have our fight in the shade!” Well, my friends, as someone who’s had skin cancer, let me say, fighting in the shade suits me just fine. Tonight I pledge that I will fight. And to my last breath. I’m a tough old bastard, you know. And it’s going to take more than a landslide to keep me down. Thank you. God bless President-Elect Obama. God bless my good friend Vice-President-Elect Biden. God bless you, even you jerks in the media. And God bless the United States of America. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christelsabine 1 #5 November 1, 2008 Quote .... Here's the text of the article - McCain's concession speech to Barack Obama. OR... Barry O'Barmagh as he's known to the Irish Vote..... Thank you so much, Sir! dudeist skydiver # 3105 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,460 #6 November 2, 2008 That was pretty good. He's a fine man, and he has contributed a lot. Not the right one for President right now as far as I'm concerned, but I'd've voted for him in 2000. I thought Palin was smarter than she turned out to be. The thing that these "appeal to the base" people forget is that the base aren't going to be voting for Obama. Lieberman would have pulled some folks from Obama. I don't think Palin pulled a whole lot of them, unless their single issue was "woman." Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
