John McCain 2008 RNC Speech Transcript.
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>> Couric: Dan Bartlett was until last year a counselor for president bush now a
news consultant. Any surprises tonight.
>> We never know with john McCain. He shocked the political world last Friday.
So you can't rule that out. But more importantly, Katie, I think he has to build
on the momentum that we've seen developing over the course of the week. And he's
going by really focusing on reform. He feels he can trump change with reform.
>> Couric: The lights have
gone out.
Let's watch this biography.
>> A soldier, naval aviator,
POW.
A father, son, a husband.
They once called him
congressman, and now call
him senator.
Some call him hot headed;
some call him names that
can't be repeated.
But of all the names so many
have called john McCain, his
years of service to America
truly at his core, john
McCain is a --
>> Mama's boy.
>> A four-star warrior for a
grandfather who stood on the
U.S.S. Missouri and watched
the Japanese surrender.
Went home from war the next
day and died.
A four-star father,
commander of the pas civic
at the time his son was a
prisoner of war in Vietnam.
His father would take a
single guard and drive to
the border between north and
south Vietnam.
He would stand for hours
gazing north.
It was as close as he could
get to his son who was
imprisoned in downtown
Hanoi.
>> Our military family is
like all military families.
We, it's kind of a case of
make do.
We're all in this together.
It's -- a navy family in my
view is wonderful.
>> John McCain's remarkable
role in America's history
began before Vietnam.
He was on the first ship to
enter Cuban waters during
the Cuban missile crisis and
again on the U.S.S.
Forrestal strapped into the
cockpit awaiting his turn
for takeoff a missile
accidentally fired from an
f-4 phantom and hit a fuel
tank.
The fire burned for 13
hours.
134 men lost their lives.
John McCain's life was
somehow spared.
Perhaps he had more to do.
A year later came Hanoi.
Critically injured and with
>> In his book "faith of my
fathers" john wrote, in
prison I fell in love with
my country.
I had loved it before, but
like most young people, my
affection was little more
than a simple appreciation
for the comforts and
privileges most Americans
enjoyed and took for granted.
It wasn't until I had lost
America for a time that I
realized how much I loved
her.
>> When the north Vietnamese
realized who his father was,
they offered john early
release as a pr ploy.
He said no.
He would honor first in,
first out like everyone else.
And so he chose to spend
four more years in hell.
Five and a half years later
the war was over and McCain
was set free.
The constant torture and
isolation could have
produced a bitter, broken
man.
Instead, he came back to
America with a smile, with
joy and optimism.
He chose to spend his life
serving the country he loved.
>> Where else am the -- in
the history of the united
states of America have you
had a person over time with
experience that he has.
>> It's as much about the
man that senator McCain lead
the efforts to normalize
relations with Vietnam.
Five and a half years in
their hell, and he chose to
go back.
Because it was healing for
America.
That's country first.
He staked out I name for
himself as a common sense
conservative, pro-life,
smaller government, a faith
Fir.
He was one of but a handful
in Washington who said long
ago that we would never
reach a true success in Iraq
unless we provided the
manpower and material to get
the job done right.
And today our nation stands
thankful for that warning,
as our troops are now able
to provide the kind of
security in Iraq that will
lead to peace in that
country.
A more stable middle east,
and greater security for our
families here at home.
No one cherishes the American
dream more.
Father of seven, his
>> He will renew America.
He loves our country.
Country will always be first
with my son, john McCain.
>> When you live in a box,
you fear no man, you no have
known hate, you have known
elation, you longed, you've
dreamed, you've reached and
you've forgiven.
When you have live
approximated in a box, the
world becomes clear.
No time for petty, no time
for wrong, just time for
right.
Each moment sharply aware,
each step part of a journey.
When you've lived in a box,
your life is about keeping
others from having to endure
that box.
You shout, you push, you
lead, you left long ago the
shallow of self and put your
people first.
Your country first.
John McCain.
(Cheers and applause)
>> Couric: Well, now this
former navy pilot whose life
story revolved so much
around his military service
comes out to a newly
energized republican base.
The whole stage as we
mentioned earlier has been
reconfigured.
It was done overnight.
He is literally the man in
the arena, like his hero
teddy Roosevelt who he would
like to emulate, another
maverick reformer who took
on entrenched interests.
And as we listen to the
>> Absolutely.
I think one of the keys to
his speech is a connection
with people who are not at
the top, who are in the
middle.
And he has to convince them
not only that he understands
what they are going through,
but that he has specific
ideas to make those people's
lives better.
A key challenge, Katie.
>> Couric: Dan Bartlett, do
you think we'll see or hear
any new policy proposals
announced tonight?
>> Well, I do think it is
going to be important for
john McCain to have a
forward-looking agenda.
Somebody who comes from a
generation once removed from
leadership today, it's going
to be important that he can
give confidence to the
American people, that he can
be the one to take them into
the future.
That will require being very
specific about how he will
go about doing that, Katie.
>> Couric: And bob, he is
going to have to appeal as
we mentioned earlier to
those crossover voters,
disaffected democrats,
independents.
Because there are a lot more
democrats in this country
than republicans right now.
>> Schieffer: I'm sorry,
Katie t is just overwhelming
down here.
We can't hear a thing.
>> Couric: I understand,
with the crowd going wild,
obviously.
What I was saying, bob, and
we'll stop when the applause
dies down, he is has to
reach out to these crossover
voters because there are so
many more democrats than
republicans right now.
>> Couric: Okay, don't
worry.
We'll talk about it after
the speech.
>> Thank you all very much.
Thank you.
Tonight I have a privilege
given few Americans, the
privilege of accepting our
party's nomination for
president of the united
states.
(Cheers and applause)
>> Thank you
and I aept I -
>> USA! USA! USA!
>> And I accept it with
gratitude, humility, and
confidence.
In my life no success has
come without a good fight.
And this nomination wasn't
any different.
That's a tribute to the
candidates who opposed me
and their supporters.
Their leaders of great
ability and love our country
and wish to lead it to
better days.
Their support is an honor
that I won't forget.
I'm grateful to the
president of the united
states for leading us in
these dark days, following
>> The worst attack on
American soil in our history
and keeping us safe from
another attack that many,
many thought was inevitable.
And to the first lady --
U.S.A..
U.S.A., U.S.A.,.
>> And to the first lady,
Laura bush, a model of grace
and kindness in public and
in private.
(Cheers and applause)
>> And I'm grateful to the
41s president and his bride
of 63 years for their
outstanding example -- for
their outstanding example of
honorable service to our
country.
As always, I am indebted to
my wife Cindy and my seven
children.
(Cheers and applause)
>> You know the pleasures of
family life can seem like a
brief holiday from the
crowded calendar of our
nation's business.
But I have treasured them
all the more.
And can't imagine a life
without the happiness that
you've given me.
You know, Cindy said a lot
of nice things about me
tonight.
But in truth, she's more my
inspiration than I am hers.
(Applause)
>> Her concern for those
less blessed than we are,
victims of landmines,
children born in poverty,
with birth defects, show the
measure of her humanity.
And I know that she will
make a great first lady!
(Cheers and applause)
>> Friends, when I was
growing up, my father was
often at sea.
And the job of raising my
brother, sister and me would
fall to my mother alone.
Roberta McCain gave us her
love of life, her deep
interest in the world, her
strength, and her belief
that we're all men meant to
use our opportunities to
>> And she doesn't want me
to say this, but she's 96
years young.
(Applause)
>> My heartfelt thanks to
all of you who helped me win
this nomination and stood by
me when the odds were long.
I won't let you down.
I won't let you down.
I won't let you down.
(Cheers and applause)
>> To Americans who have yet
to decide who to vote for,
thank you for your
consideration and the
opportunity to win your
trust.
I intend to earn it.
(Applause)
>> And finally, a word to
senator Obama and his
supporters, we'll go at it,
we'll go at it over the next
two months.
You know that's the nature
of this business.
And there are big
differences between us.
But you have my respect, and
my admiration.
Despite our differences,
much more unites us than divides us.
We are fellow Americans.
And that's an association
that means more to me than
any other.
(Cheers and applause)
>> We're dedicated to the
proposition that all people
are created equal.
And endowed by our creator
with inalienable rights.
No country, no country ever
had a greater cause than
that.
And I wouldn't be an
American worthy of the name
if I didn't honor senator
Obama and his supporters for
their a -- achievement.
But let there be no doubt,
my friends, we're going to
>> And after we've won,
we're going to reach out our
hand to any willing patriot,
make this government start
working for you again and
get this country back on the
road to prosperity and peace.
(Applause)
>> I know these are tough
times for many of you.
You're worried about -- USA! USA! USA!
>> Please.
Please.
Please.
My friends my dear friends,
please, please don't be
diverted by the ground noise
and the static.
(Cheers and applause)
>> I'm going to talk about
it some more.
But Americans want us to
stop yelling at each other,
okay?
(Applause)
these are tough times for
many of you.
You are worried about
keeping your job, or finding
a new one.
And you're struggling to put
food on the table, and stay
in your home -- USA! USA! USA!
>> All you've ever asked of
your government is to stand
on your side and not in your
way.
And that's what I intend to
do.
Stand on your side, and
fight for your future.
(Applause)
>> And I found just the
right partner to help me
shake up Washington, D.C.,
Governor Sarah Palin.
(Cheers and applause)
>> Governor Sarah pal
the great state of Alaska.
(Cheers and applause)
>> And I want to -- and I
want to thank every one here
and all over America for the
tremendous, wonderful, warm
reception you gave her last
night.
Thank you so much.
She deserved it.
What a great beginning!
(Applause)
>> You know, she has an
executive experience and a
real record of
accomplishment.
She's tackled tough problems
like energy independence,
and corruption.
She's balanced a budget, cut
taxes, and she's taken on
the special interests.
(Applause)
>>'She's across the
aisle an republican independent stern administration. She's the wonderful mother
of five children.
(Applause)
>> She has helped run a
small business, she's worked
with her hands and knows --
and knows what it like to
worry about mortgage
payments and health care,
and the cost of gasoline and
groceries.
She knows where she comes
from.
And she knows who she works
for.
She stands up for what's
right.
And she doesn't let anyone
tell her to sit down.
>> I am very proud to have
introduced our next vice
president to the country.
But I can't wait until I
introduce her to Washington.
(Cheers and applause)
>> Let me just offer an
advance warning to the old,
big spending, do nothing, me
first, country second crowd,
change is coming.
(Cheers and applause)
>> I'm not in the habit of
breaking my promises to my
country.
Neither is governor Palin.
And when we tell you we're
going to change Washington,
and stop leaving our
country's problems for some
unluckier generation to fix,
you can count on it.
And we've --
(applause)
>> And we've got a record of
doing just that.
And the strength, experience,
judgment and backbone to
keep our word to you.
(Applause)
>> You well know, I've been
called a maverick.
Someone who -- someone who
marches to the beat of his
own drum.
Sometimes it's meant as a
compliment, sometimes it's
not.
What it really means is I
understand who I work for.
I don't work for a party.
I don't work for a special
interest.
I don't work for myself.
I work for you.
>> I've fought corruption,
and it didn't matter if the
culprits were democrats or
republicans.
They violated their public
trust, and they had to be
held accountable.
I've fought the big spenders.
I have fought the big
spenders in both parties who
waste your money on things
you neither need for want.
And the first big spending
pork barrel-marked bill
that comes across my desk I
will veto it.
I will make them famous.
And you will know their
names.
Will you know their names! (Cheers and applause)
>> We're to the going to
allow that while you
struggle to buy groceries,
fill your gas tank and make
your mortgage payment.
I have fought to get million
dollar checks out of our
elections.
I've fought lobbyists who
stole from Indian tribes.
I've fought crooked deals in
the pentagon.
I've fought tobacco
companies and trial lawyers,
drug companies an union
bosses.
(Applause)
>> I fought for the right
strategy and more troops in
Iraq when it wasn't the
popular thing to do.
(Cheers and applause)
>> And when the pundits
said -- and when the pundits
said my campaign was
finished, I said, I would
rather lose an election than
see my country lose a war.
(Applause)
>> And thanks to the
leadership of a brilliant
general David Petraeus and
the brave men and women he
has the honor to command.
(Applause)
>> That strategy succeeded
and it rescued us from a
defeat that would have
demoralized our military,
risked a wider war, and
threatened the security of
all Americans.
(Applause)
>> I don't mind a good
fight.
for reasons known to
god, I've had quite a few
tough times my life.
But I learned a important
lesson along the way.
In the end, it matters less
that you can fight.
What you fight for is the
real test.
(Applause)
>> I fight for Americans.
I fight for you.
I fight for bill and sue
from Farmington hills,
Michigan, who lost -- they
lost their real-estate
investments in the bad
housing market.
Bill got a temporary job
after he was out of work for
seven months.
Sue works three jobs to help
pay the bills.
I fight for Jake and tony
Wimmer of Franklin county,
Pennsylvania.
Jake -- Jake works on a
loading dock, coaches little
league, and raises money for
the mentally and physically
disabled. Tony is a schoolteacher
working toward her masters
degree.
They have two sons.
The youngest Luke, has been
diagnosed with autism.
Their lives should matter to
the people they elect to
office.
And they matter to me.
And they matter to you.
(Applause)
>> I fight for the family of
Matthew Stanley of new
Hampshire.
Matthew died serving our
country in Iraq.
I wear his bracelet and
think of him every day.
I intend to honor their
sacrifice by making sure the
country their son loved so
well and never returned to
remains safe from its
enemies.
>> I fight to restore the
pride and principles of our
party.
We were elected to change
Washington and we let
Washington change us.
We lost -- we lost the trust
of the American people when
some republicans gave into
the temptations of
corruption.
We lost their trust when
rather than reform
government, both parties
made it bigger.
We lost their trust when
instead of freeing ourselves
from a dangerous dependence
on foreign oil, both parties
and senator Obama passed
another corporate welfare bill for oil companies.
We lost their trust when we
valued our power over our
principles.
We are going to change that.
(Applause)
>> We're going to recover
the people's trust by
standing up again to the
values Americans admire, the
party of Lincoln, Roosevelt
and Reagan is going to get
back to basics.
(Cheers and applause)
>> In this country we
believe everyone has
something to contribute, and
deserves the opportunity to
reach their god-given
potential.
From the boy whose
descendants arrived on the
may flower, to the Latina
daughter of migrant workers.
We're all god's children,
and we're all Americans.
(Applause)
>> We believe, we believe in
low taxes, spending
discipline and open markets.
We believe in rewarding hard
work and risk-takers, and
letting people keep the
fruits of their labor.
We believe --
(applause)
>> We believe in a strong
defense, work, faith,
service, a culture of life.
(Applause)
personal responsibility, the
rule of law and judges who
dispense justice impartially
and don't ledge state --
legislate from the bench.
(Cheers and applause)
>> We believe in the values
of families, neighborhoods
and communities.
We believe in a government
that unleashes the creativity
and initiative of Americans.
Government that doesn't make
your choices for you, but
works to make sure you have
more choices to make for
yourself.
(Applause)
>> I will keep taxes low and
cut them where I can.
My opponent will raise them.
I will open -- I will open
new markets to our goods and
services.
My opponent will close them.
I will cut government
spending, he will increase
it.
>> My tax cuts will create
jobs.
His tax increases will
eliminate them.
My health-care plan will
make it easier for more
Americans to find and keep
good health care insurance.
His plan will force small
businesses to cut jobs,
reduce wages, and force families in to a
government-run health-care
system where a bureaucrat --
(boo (.
>> Where a bureaucrat stands
between you and your doctor.
>> We all know that keeping
taxes low helps small
businesses grow and create
new jobs.
Cutting the second highest
business tax rate in the
world will help American
companies compete.
And keep jobs from going
overseas.
(Applause)
>> Doubling the child tax
exemption from 3,500 to
$7,000 will improve the
lives of millions of
American families.
>> Reducing government
spending and getting rid of
failed programs will let you
keep more of your own money
to save, spend, and invest
as you see fit.
(Applause)
>> Opening new markets, and
preparing workers to compete
in the world economy is
essential to our future
prosperity.
I know some of you have been
left behind in the changing
economy.
And it often seems that your
government hasn't even
noticed.
Government assistance for
the unemployed workers was
designed for the economy of
the 1950s.
That's going to change on my
watch.
(Applause)
now my opponent promises to
bring back old jobs by
wishing away the global
economy.
We're going to help workers
who have lost jibe that
won't come back find a new
one that won't go away.
(Applause)
>> We will prepare them for
the jobs of today.
We will use our community
colleges to help train
people for new opportunities
in their communities.
For workers and industries,
for workers and industries
that have been hard hit,
we'll help make up part of
the difference in wages
between their old job and a
temporary lower paid one
while they receive
retraining that will help
them find secure new
employment at a decent wage.
(Applause)
>> Education, education is
the civil rights issue of
this century.
(Applause)
>> Equal access to public
education has been gained,
but what is the value of@v
access to a failing school?
We need -- we need to shake
up failed school
bureaucracies with
competition.
Empower parents with choice.
(Applause)
>> Let's remove barriers to
qualified instructors.
Attract and reward
teachers and help bad others find there work
pp
>> When a public school
fails to meet its
obligations to institutes --
when it fails to meet its
obligations to students,
parents deserve a choice in
the education of their
children, and I intend to
give it to them.
(Applause)
>> Some may choose a better
public school.
Some may choose a private
one.
Many will choose a charter
school.
But they will have the
choice.
And their children will have
that opportunity.
(Applause)
>> Senator Obama wants our
schools to answer to unions
and entrenched bureaucrats.
I want schools to answer to
parents and students.
(Cheers and applause)
>> And when I'm president,
they will.
(Applause)
>> My fellow Americans, when
I'm president we're going to
embark on the most ambitious
national project in decades.
We're going to stop sending
$700 billion a year to
countries that don't like us
very much.
And some of that money --
(applause)
>> We'll attack the problem
on every front.
We'll produce more energy at
home.
We will drill new wells
offshore and we'll drill
them now!
We'll drill them now!
(Applause)
>> My friends, we'll build
more nuclear power plants.
We'll develop clean coal
technology.
We'll increase the use of
wind, tide, solar and
natural gas.
We'll encourage the
development and use of flex
fuel, hybrid, and electric
automobiles.
(Applause)
>> Senator Obama thinks we
can achieve energy independence without more
drilling and without more
nuclear power.
But Americans know better
than that.
(Applause)
>> We must use all resources
and develop all technologies
necessary to rescue our
economy from the damage
caused by rising oil prices,
and restore the health of
our planet.
My friends --
(applause)
>> -- It's an ambitious
plan.
But Americans are ambitious
by nature.
And we face greater
challenges.
It's time for us to show the
world again how Americans
lead.
(Cheers and applause)$
>> This great natural cause
will create millions of new
jobs, many in industry that
will be the engine of our
future prosperity.
Jobs that will be there when
your children enter the
workforce.
Today.
The prospect of a better
world remains within our reach.
But we must see the threats
to peace and liberty in our
time clearly and face them
as Americans before us did.
With confidence, wisdom and
resolve.
We have dealt --
(applause)
>> -- We have dealt a
serious blow to Al-Qaeda in
recent years but they're not
defeated.
And they'll strike us again
if they can.
Iran remains the chief state
sponsor of terrorism.
And is on the path to
acquiring nuclear weapons.
Russia's leaders, rich with
oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected
democratic ideals and the
obligations of a responsible
power.
They invaded a small
democratic neighbor to gain
more control over the
world's oil supply,
intimidate other neighbors,
and further their ambitions
of reassembling the Russian
empire.
And the brave people of
Georgia need our solidarity
and our prayers.
(Applause)
>> As president I'll work to
establish good relations
with Russia.
So that we need not fear a
return to the cold war.
But we can't turn a blind
eye to aggression and
international lawlessness
that threatens the peace and
stability of the world and
the security of the American
people.
We face many dangerous
threats in this dangerous
world.
But I'm not afraid of them.
I'm prepared for them.
(Applause)
>> I know how the military
works, what it can do, what
it can do better.
And what it shouldn't do.
I know how the world works.
I know the good and evil in
it.
I know how to work with
leaders who share our dreams
of a freer, safer and more
prosperous world.
And how to stand up to those
who don't.
(Applause)
>> I know how to secure the
peace.
My friends, when I was five
years old, a car pulled up
in front of our house.
A navy officer rolled down
the window and shouted at my
father that the Japanese had
bombed pearl harbor.
I rarely saw my father again
for four years.
My grandfather came home
from that same war,
exhausted from the burdens
he had borne, and died the
next day.
In Vietnam, where I formed
the closest friendships of
my life, some of those
friends never came home with
me. I hate war.
It's terrible beyond
imagination.
I am running for president
to keep the country I love
safe and prevent other
families from risking their
loved ones in war as my
family has.
I will draw on all my
experience with the world
and its leaders, and all the
tools at our disposal,
diplomatic, economic,
military and the power of
our ideals to build the
foundations for a stable and
enduring peace.
(Applause)
>> In America we change
things that need to be
changed.
Each generation makes its
contribution to our
greatness.
The work that is ours to do
is plainly before us.
We don't need to search for
it.
We need to change the way
government does almost
everything from the way we
protect our security to the
way we compete in the world
economy, from the way we
respond to disasters, to the
way we fuel our
transportation network.
From the way we train our
workers, to the way we educate our children.
All these functions of
government were designed
before the rise of the
global economy.
The information technology
revolution and the end of
the cold war.
We have to catch up to
history.
And we have to change the
way we do business in
Washington.
(Applause)
>> The constant partisan
rancor that stops us from
solving these problems isn't
a cause, it's a symptom.
It's what happens when
people go to Washington to
work for themselves and not
for you.
(Applause)
>> Again and again, again
and again I've worked with
members of both parts to fix
problems that need to be
fixed.
That's how I will govern as
president.
I will reach out my hand to
any one to help me get this
country moving again.
My friends -- I have that
record and the scars it to prove it.
Senator Obama does not.
(Applause)
>> Instead of -- instead of
rejecting good ideas because
we didn't think of them
first, let's use the best
ideas from both sides.
Instead of fighting over who
gets the credit, let's try
sharing it.
This amazing country -- this
amazing country can do
anything we put our minds
to.
I will ask democrats and
independents to serve with
me.
In my administration we'll
set a new standard for
transparency and account
ability -- accountability.
We're -- we're going to
finally start to get things
gone for the people who are
counting on us.
And I won't care who gets
the credit.
My friends, I have been a
perfect -- imperfect servant
of my country for many years
but I've been a servant
first, last and always.
(Applause)
>> And I've never -- I've
never lived a day in good
times or bad that I didn't
thank god for the privilege.
(Applause)
>> Long ago something
unusual happened to me that
taught me the most valuable
lesson of my life.
I was blessed by
ms. Fortune.
I mean that sincerely.
I was blessed because I
served in the company of
heroes, and I witnessed a
thousand acts of courage and
compassion and love.
On an October morning in the
gulf of Tonkin I prepared
for my 23rd mission over
north Vietnam. I hadn't any worry I
wouldn't come back safe and
sound.
I thought I was tougher than
anyone.
I was pretty independent
then too.
I liked to bend a few rules
and pick a few fights for
the fun of it.
But I did it for my observe
selfish -- my own pleasure, my
own pride.
I didn't think there was a
cause that was more
important than me.
Then I found myself falling
toward the middle of a small
lake in the city of Hanoi
with two broken arms, a
broken leg and an angry crowd waiting to greet me.
I was dumped in a dark cell
and left to die.
I didn't feel so tough any
more.
When they discovered my
father was an admiral they
took me to a hospital.
They couldn't set my bones
properly so they just
slapped a cast on me.
And when I didn't get better
and was down to about 100
pounds, they put me in a
cell with two other
Americans.
I couldn't do anything.
I couldn't even feed myself.
They did it for me.
I was beginning to learn the
limits of my selfish independence.
Those men saved my life.
(Applause)
>> I was in solitary
confinement when my capers
offered to release me.
I knew why.
If I went home they would
use it as propaganda to
demoralize my fellow
prisoners.
Our code said we could only
go home in the order of our
capture.
And there were men who had
been shot down long before
me.
I thought about it, though.
I wasn't in great shape.
And I missed everything
about America. But I turned it down.
A lot of prisoners had it
much worse --
(applause)
>> A lot of prisoners had it
a lot worse than I did.
I'd been mistreated before,
but not as badly as many
others.
I always liked to strut a
little after I had been
roughed up to show the other
guys I was tough enough to
take it.
But after I turned down
their offer, they worked me
over harder than they ever
had before.
For a long time.
And they broke me.
When they brought me back to my cell, I was hurt and
ashamed and I didn't know
how I could face my fellow
prisoners.
The good man in the cell
next door to me, my friend
Bob Craner saved me.
Through taps on a wall, he
told me I had fought as hard
as I could.
No man can always stand
alone.
And then he told me to get
back up and fight again for
my country.
And for the men I had the
honor to serve with because
every day they fought for
me.
(Applause)
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The city he had just ordered
to be carpet bombed.
It was a love for America
above all else for the
McCain's.
wounds never properly
addressed, for the next five
and a half years john was
tortured and dragged from
one filthy prison to another,
violently ill, often in
solitary confinement, he
survived by the faith he
learned from his father and
grandfather.
A faith that there is more
to life itself.
First in the united states
house of representatives.
in the
American people's
ability to chart their own
course, committed to protect
the American people.
A ferocious opponent of pork
barrel spending and would do
most anything to keep taxes
low, keep our money in our
pockets.
John McCain abhors waste.
Outspoken, brash, but honest,
honorable and razor sharp
effective.
He's not in it for the glory,
not to please any political
party.
John McCain has seen too
much to think petty.
His is a larger cause, a
faithful ,a love
r America.
children represent an
all-American panorama
stretching from an airline
pilot to a son in the navy,
a son in the marines, to his
youngest daughter, a
teenager now who became a
McCain after his wife Cindy
discovered her as a baby in
one of mother Teresa's
orphanages in Bangladesh.
What a life.
What a faith.
What a family.
What good fortune that
America will choose this
leader at precisely this
time.
The stars are aligned,
change will come.
The change must be safety,
prosperity, optimism, and
peace.
The change will come from
strength, from a man who
found his strength in a tiny,
dank cell, thousands of mile
from home.
applause,
Jeff Greenfield,
he still has a gap with
Barack Obama when it comes
to understanding the
problems of the average
American.
He's going to have to tackle
that tonight, is he not?
the worst attacks -- in
American history.
(Cheers and applause)
make ourselves useful to our
country.
I wouldn't be here tonight
but for the strength of her
character.
(Applause)
win this election.
We're going to win this
election.
(Cheers and applause)
(Cheers and applause)
(Cheers and applause)