Gergen gives McCain's speech an "A," says he'll be "formidable"...

[regnaD kciN]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

:wtf:

[skooooo]

1. lol...

He hated Palin's speech too, I think..

[Sugarcoated]

2. Ah, man

I usually agree with the Gerg

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

4. Yeah, he's usually sane. Not so much tonight.

[Mme. Defarge]

3. The "leniency effect"

is a standard error by some performance raters.

[the Sundance Kid]

5. eventually, Gergen will choke on his own tongue

[geek tragedy]

6. He also said it was a retread of old Republican

ideas.

[ailsagirl]

7. Gergen had said that Obama's acceptance speech "was less a

speech than a symphony." He was very impressed I remember.

"Oprah Winfrey cried so hard her false eyelashes fell off, while David Gergen, a normally restrained ex-White House counsellor, described it as '"less a speech than a symphony'".

Now this... formidible??? ("splutter")

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2646809/US-Election-2008-Barack-Obama-has-poll-lead-after-Denver-speech.html

[last1standing]

8. He also called it "less than compelling".

"In terms of addressing America's big challenges, however, I found the speech much less compelling. It was a very general recitation of fairly standard Republican approaches (how is he really different from Bush on policy?), and it did not address many issues such as getting us out of an economic ditch, heading off the worst financial crisis since the Depression, exploding health care costs, and more. Overall, I thought that part of the speech was thin."

He only called it an "A" for it's political impact.

[grannylib]

9. Huh??? Whatever...it was lame, we all know it was lame, no

question about it.
Wishful thinking, Gergen. Dream on.