After the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln was heard to have said, “well, that plow won’t scowl” referring to what he thought of his speech. It followed on the heels of some great and windy orator’s 1-hour rambling monologue that has long ago been forgotten.
I do not, for an instant, compare McCain’s speech to the Gettysburg Address nor do I mean to connote that Ms Palin’s speech was anything less than splendid — especially under the circumstances.
But there was an endearing quality to John McCain’s words — the way he struggled to orate, the honest, workmanlike effort to get the words out — that made it so endearing.
Should he win election, or, indeed even if Obama wins and becomes the train wreck of a president I believe he will be, people might well remember John McCain’s passionate expressions of love for his country and his exhortations for us to fight for a better America.
God bless John McCain and God bless the United States of America.
