Letters to the Editor
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Too bad McCain is such a stiff speaker because
I think these 'graphs are very effective in drawing a contrast between him and Obama:
"To encourage a country with only rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas that trust in the strength and courage of free people is not a promise of hope. It is a platitude.
"When I was a young man, I thought glory was the highest ambition, and that all glory was self-glory. My parents tried to teach me otherwise, as did the Naval Academy. But I didn't understand the lesson until later in life, when I confronted challenges I never expected to face.
"I do not seek the presidency on the presumption that I am blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need. I seek the presidency with the humility of a man who cannot forget that my country saved me. I am running to serve America, and to champion the ideas I believe will help us do what every American generation has managed to do: to make in our time, and from our challenges, a stronger country and a better world."
Having run against one messianic loonie in the Repug primary, he can position himself as someone well suited to beat another in the general election. Humility and selfless service to country are very effective notes to strike against Obama's grandiose self-aggrandizement.