John McCain’s Concession

I have to take a moment and acknowledge John McCain’s speech last night.  He was gracious in defeat.  He pledged to work with the new president.  His speech started the healing, I think.  Good for McCain for saying so.

One question: Why was that McCain absent from the campaign trail?  Instead of the guy a lot of us really liked from 2000, we got the McCain from 2008, complete with Rovian politics.  If we’d seen that old McCain, I still think Obama would have won, but it would have been a lot closer.

Congratulations to John McCain for becoming his party’s nominee and running a tough campaign.  Congratulations to him, also, for the way he handled his loss.  It was classy.