"What we have seen this week from the McCain campaign is chaos and petulance." Time magazine's Joe Klein, who has seen many campaigns, was not impressed with Senator McCain's speech on The Brian Lehrer Show today on NPR. New York Post Op Ed writer Robert George, who was also on the program, was equally critical. Last night Robert had some incisive Twitters on the speech, live, including, "Generally blah speech saved by a truly vibrant passionate ending."
Klein compared the two camps and how they picked their running mates. "Obama's was orderly and risk averse," said Klein, "..no drama .. McCain was probably mumbling under his breath, 'I wanna have Joe Lieberman' ... (the choice of Palin) shows you what kind of we had this weird -- well, not weird -- petulance ... against the press when we tried to vet this candidate."
George, on the subject of Giuliani's contentious speech, said, "That kind of a red-meat approach certainly worked inside that venue .. one of the reasons why Rudy had trouble ... how his marriage fell apart, how his children aren't talking to him ... talking about how Obama was too cosmopolitan where he's still married to his first wife and his kids love him ..." Agreed.
Klein, comparing the speeches of McCain and Palin, concludes: "sloppily written and sloppily produced presentation especially considering how well-prepared the Scott Scully speech by Sarah Palin's was."
Klein's full analysis of the speech in Time.
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