For someone who's making "Country First" their catchphrase, John McCain spent an awfully large section of his RNC speech talking about himself and not what he could do for his country.
By
Nickedy Pod
on September 05, 2008
I'm making this claim not as a backhanded way of supporting Obama, but rather as someone who watched McCain's speech last night hoping to hear something of his politics. Unfortunately the only things I heard were: 1)Iraq, let's keep fighting; 2)Democrats kill babies; 3) Obama's politics suck, come back in 30 years; 4) let's talk about my life's story all night.
Part 1:
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oZ5mi-lWMo
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijIst0EuAVE
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxPBycqXQI
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdK97QdK4Go
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7xR5kn0Ke4
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believing your country is worth more than you is ridiculous
as for the claim: didn't watch, no opinion
*country as an institution or organization, not as a sum of all the individuals within its borders
Well, I would like to think that when people speak of "what they can do for their country" they generally are thinking of the people in it. When it refers to the institutions, hopefully it's out of the belief that their version of the institution leaves the people better off than whatever version they're trying to prevent, not that the institution is better off.