Technical comment: I noticed in one of the wide shots of McCain's speech that they had blurred the image on the video screen backdrop in only the part of the screen directly behind him, so that when they cut to his close-up, you got a nice fake depth-of-field look. Very smart. Nice move.
Political comment #1: the rampant hypocrisy present in the Republican party right now makes my brain want to explode. They're claiming that electing McCain will somehow change things. How will allowing the Rs to retain control of the White House do that, exactly? Please! McCain didn't become the Republican nominee by maintaining his maverick status, he became it by casting it aside and by embracing W, both figuratively and literally. How else does one explain McCain's being against torture (of all things) before voting for it? As always, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show did a great job of highlighting other Republican hypocrites, including, yes, Sarah Palin.
Political comment #2: criticizing Obama for being a "community organizer." Loved the one-liner sent in to Daily Kos: "Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor."
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