{"id":121,"date":"2008-09-05T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/09\/unremarkable.html"},"modified":"2008-09-05T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:04:06","slug":"unremarkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/09\/unremarkable.html","title":{"rendered":"Unremarkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Palin&#8217;s acceptance speech sparked numerous posts and commentary, the reactions were strong, both positive and negative.&nbsp; However, Senator McCain&#8217;s speech seems to have passed by without much comment.<\/p>\n<p>Senator McCain&#8217;s personal story and heroism in Vietnam is indeed remarkable- as he reminded of us so eloquently last night.&nbsp; But the rest of his speech and presentation was remarkably unremarkable.&nbsp; No new ideas and no indication of a real break with the Bush policies of the last eight years.<\/p>\n<p>I thought former Bush speech writer, Michael Gerson summed it up best:<\/p>\n<p> <object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ym70CoF6h44&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ym70CoF6h44&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Palin&#8217;s acceptance speech sparked numerous posts and commentary, the reactions were strong, both positive and negative.&nbsp; However, Senator McCain&#8217;s speech seems to have passed by without much comment. Senator McCain&#8217;s personal story and heroism in Vietnam is indeed remarkable- as he reminded of us so eloquently last night.&nbsp; But the rest of his speech&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-08"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unremarkable - Progressive Revival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/09\/unremarkable.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unremarkable - Progressive Revival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Palin&#8217;s acceptance speech sparked numerous posts and commentary, the reactions were strong, both positive and negative.&nbsp; However, Senator McCain&#8217;s speech seems to have passed by without much comment. 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