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John McCain's Acceptance Speech: Sleep Inducing

By Robert Paul Reyes

"The media verdict on John McCain's acceptance speech is that the Republican presidential nominee is a narcolepsy-inducing contortionist.

At the biggest moment of his political career, he delivered a flat, stupefyingly boring address that drained away all the excitement generated by Sarah Palin's pit-bull-with-lipstick performance the night before." Dan Kennedy/Guardian.Co.UK

Dan Kennedy is spot on in his assessment of McCain's acceptance speech, but in deference to McCain's feelings he softened his blows.

A McCain speech is a cure for insomnia; I'd rather have a heart attack inducing nightmare than be forced to listen to McCain speak.

McCain has no sense of timing, doesn't know how to read from a TelePrompTer, and laughs at the most inopportune times. His gestures are robotic -- he doesn't have full mobility of his arms as a result of the torture he endured in Vietnam. If Sarah Palin is a Pit Bull with lipstick, McCain is an incontinent Poodle.

I promised to myself that I would listen to his entire speech, but after five minutes and fifty "my friends", I turned off the TV and watched a YouTube video of a lady watering her lawn.

McCain tried to paint himself as a reformist who will clean up Washington. Give me a break, McCain voted with Bush 90 percent of the time. Nothing will change with McCain at the helm, he will continue Bush's disastrous foreign and domestic policies.

Hearing McCain speak only serves to remind the electorate about his biggest liability: His advanced age. A good speaker takes command of the stage, McCain seems like an insignificant old man as he dodders around the stage.

McCain would be well-advised not to give another speech until he concedes to Barack Obama.

Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.