McCain Refuses To Own Republican Failure

The best part of Barack's speech at Mile High is when he said exactly what the Republican Ownership society means... that YOU are on your OWN.  

And not only that.  The Republican's refuse to even acknowledge--to OWN up to the complete and total failure of George W. Bush and John McCain and Bob Schaffer's Congress and Republicans party and its ideas.

So much for personal responsibility.

Joe Biden lays it out perfectly:

Al Rodgers from Daily Kos provides the transcript for the impatient and/or video impaired:

This ain't your father's Republican Party, by the way.  This is a different Republican Party.

But, I'll tell you, it's not so much of what I heard in the Republican convention. When you heard John speak last night.  It's not so much what I heard, when I heard part of what the Governor had to say, the vice presidential candidate.  It's what I didn't hear.

(Applause)

THE SILENCE - THE SILENCE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS DEAFENING.  IT WAS DEAFENING.  ON JOBS, ON HEALTH CARE, ON ENVIRONMENT, ON ALL THE THINGS THAT MATTER TO THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS I GREW UP IN.  DEAFENING!

(Standing Ovation)

Ladies and gentlemen, THEIR AMERICA IS NOT THE AMERICA I LIVE IN. THEY SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN I SEE.

This video rocks.  Watch it please.

More transcript below...

Biden:  I didn't hear a thing, a thing, about any of the things that matter to the lives of the people of my hometown of Scranton....

Rick Davis, John's campaign manager, said two days into the convention, he said "this election is not about issues."  That's what he said.  And everything I saw at the convention demonstrated that.

It was about how well placed -- and boy she is good -- how a left jab can be stuck pretty nice.  It's about how Barack Obama is such a bad guy.

It's about how in fact, how in fact, they got great quips.  Man, they're like the kids you know when you went to school and you were very proud of the new belt or the shoes you had, and there was always one kid in the class who said, "oh, are they your brother's?"

Crowd: Yeah.

Remember that kid?  That's what this is reminding me of.  "Oh, I love your dress, was that your mother's?"

You know what I'm talking about.

What do you talk about, when you have nothing to say?!

What do you talk about when you CANNOT EXPLAIN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS OF FAILURE?!

(Standing Ovation)

What do you talk about?!  What do you talk about?!

You talk about the other guy.

Crowd: Giv'em Hell, Joe!

Biden: Remember what Harry Truman used to say.  The crowd would yell, "giv'em hell, Harry."  And he'd say, "I'm not gonna to giv'em hell, I'm gonna tell them the truth, and they're gonna think it's HELL."

(Standing Ovation)

The truth is hell if you're a Republican.

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