The Knockoff

Now, I'm just sayin'...

After watching the Redskins horribly mismanage the game clock in the last 5 or so minutes of their opener against the Giants (someone get Jim Zorn and his staff an abacus: down by 9, TD = 7, need *2* scores! How about a little urgency??), I flipped over to watch Sarah Palin's running mate give his speech.

Riveting his audience with all the energy and excitement of watching milk curdle, John McCain gave a vapid address that inspired most who heard it to fall into a coma.

We did learn something interesting about John McCain, though (other than the fact that he was a POW. Side note: why hasn't the POW stuff been mentioned before? It's a terrific story. TIC). Boy howdy, does he love change. Though he couldn't match Obama's 14 uses of "change", he talked about change no less than 10 times throughout the course of his speech. Changing tactics, changing tone, changing Washington, changing a dollar, changing babies, ch-ch-ch-ch-changin, change, change, changidy, change change. If you missed the speech, here's a breakdown of what we heard:

Change - 10 times
Country - 27
Fight - 25
Economy - 7
Iraq - 2
Laura Bush - 1
George Bush - 0
President Bush - 0
George - 0
Specific plans - 1ish ("Doubling the child tax exemption from $3500 to $7000 will improve the lives of millions of American families.")

So John wants change. Change is what we need. He is the change we need... boy, this is sounding familiar... and looking familiar:





Obama : Ipod :: McCain : Zune

I'm just sayin'...