John McCain Concession

I watched John McCain's concession speech. His was unlike any of the other very dry speeches we have watched in class. McCain truely appears to be sincere and his supporters are clearly upset. At the begining of the speech they began to boo at Obama's name but McCain told them not to. He really seems to want the country to come together and put this election behind him. He is ready to move on and he wants his supporters to know support Obama. It was interesting to see the emotion that is not seen in the other candidates. Instead of thanking everyone in the begining he wait until the end to thank everyone specifically.

Watching a Video

For this assignment I watched president Bush's acceptance speech in 2000. It was interesting to see his promises and how he wanted to change the country and now looking at what has happened. The speech had a lot of promises for change after the long run of president Clinton. I think this years speeches will be very interesting to see.

How my perspective has changed

I really had no idea how many people talk about McCain's age. I had always thought it was a small group of people that thought he was too old but in reality a lot of people think he is too old including people his own age. I think he is a little older than I would like but I still think he is capable of doing the job.

Primary Sources

My sources have given me insight to different age groups opinion on McCain's age. Not only are younger generations concerned with McCain's age but his peer also consider it dangerous since they know the dangers and health problems concerned with growing old. Not only are people concerned about McCain's age but they also believe that Palin was not a wise choice since she has no national experience. Allowing me to see all the opinions of different generations is helping setting up a case against McCain's age.

Research

So once I started researching I realized how much harder it is to find primary sources and not opinion pieces. I am having a hard time finding pieces about John McCain's age affecting his appeal but the ones I am finding are helping out a lot so hopefully after class today I will have some more ideas on where to look.

Unit #2

For this unit I want to change my focus from the environment to this issue on age. I know there has been a lot of talking about John McCain's age. I want to take that topic and focus more on the experience he has because of his age. A major debate in the election is the amount of experience people have. I think alot of people are concerned with John McCain's age and are talking about the issue. I think it will be very easy to find articles about the topic and people have the write to know the facts.

Hummorous Argument

This past Saturday SNL did another opening skit with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. The skit was about Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Curic and how Palin was unable to answer some of the question or she would resort back to her same steady answers. It really makes you think about the idea of whether or not she is ready to be the VP and if she will always resort back to what she is told to say.