John McCain's Acceptence Speech

John McCain just won the presidential election, at least in my book. Last night his speech was not the old party line speech, like Barack Obama's a week ago. He didn't just rail on his opponent and opposing party's; he didn't look to the past in hope of gaining a certain future; he didn't say what he was suppose to say, he said what needed to be said. There were even parts of the speech where the hall (filled with hard-righters) stood silent in shock as McCain criticized the GOP. He said they lost their way in the Bush years in areas like social spending and pork barrel spending. Although he pointed out that since 9/11 there has not been another domestic attack against America, praising the President (not by name) on keeping on the offensive.
In other areas of the speech McCain did an amazing job of showing comparisons between himself and Obama, without seeming to be a mudslinger. He simply stated the facts; he is for off-shore drilling now, Obama is not; he is for lower taxes (all of them), Obama is not (although in his speech he said he would lower taxes for 80& of Americans, don't be fooled, he is going to raise taxes on companies, which trickles down to all the companies employees); he is for staying on the offensive against terrorists, Obama was not even for the serge in Iraq (he said to Bill O'Rielly that it succeeded beyond our "wildest dreams"). Another amazing statement from McCain is saying that education was the "civil right issue" of the twenty-first century. He argues schools should be accountable to parents, not to politicians. As usual he also talked about developing energy Independence (both Obama and McCain are for developing new technology, but only McCain is for off-shore drilling, which is the fastest way to lower gas prices).
The end of McCain's speech was perhaps the best part. He told the much-told story of his capture and maturity during his POW experience in Vietnam. However this time was much more personal. McCain cited how he was a prideful navy pilot, bending rules and engaged in fights just for his own pride. He then said how he had been broken in his torture and explained to a captivated audience how he returned not as his own man, but as Americans man. He explained that before the experience he loved America for its privileges, but afterwards he loved it because of the time he didn't have those privileges, and realized what was needed to keep them.