McCain's final speech

Last night as the election concluded, Barack Obama won very convincingly. Almost immediately after Obama was declared the winner of the election, McCain had to speak to his supporters.



This must have been an incredibly hard moment for the Arizona senator, but his speech became one of the most talked about stories of the night. I looked to various blogs to see what they had to say about the speech.
At Huffington Post, well known liberal Alec Baldwin blogged that he felt that McCain’s speech was “the most moving moment of the night for him.” He stated that McCain was in the hardest spot of the night, but pulled through. He also said that he “believed” McCain and that the “real” McCain that many democrats used to like of the past came back that night.
Beth Fouhy at Yahoo News talked more about the content than the nature of McCain’s speech. She seized on the fact that he said that he would work with President Obama and about moving forward. It also talked about McCain’s call for unity in the country and him fully putting his support behind Barack Obama.
Steven Hayes at Real Clear Politics felt that McCain’s speech brought back the “old John McCain,” just as Baldwin did. He called the speech magnificent and heartfelt. Many liberals such as Hayes had a similar opinion, some even saying that if all of McCain’s speeches were like his final one that McCain would be our president. In fact, of the 20 search pages I went through, I could not find one negative statement about McCain’s acceptance speech. All of the conservative blogs said they loved the speech, even if they still hated Obama. It was deemed to be one of the best moments of the night by many blogs and “healing” many of the struggles. His final speech was the most popular within the blogosphere of any all of his campaign.