In the press centre installed in the Xcel Energy Center, the hockey stadium in Saint Paul, the capital of Minnesota, where the Republican National Convention, commented yesterday that Hurricane Gustav ended favoring the candidate John McCain. The natural phenomenon, now weakened and turned into a tropical storm, hit the coast on Monday, U.S. Gulf of Mexico and prompted President George W. Bush suspended his trip to encounter.
Many Republicans sigh of relief by the absence. The levels of popularity of Bush are very low-around 30 per cent-so that McCain has systematically avoided appearing in public with the agent, and even took away many of their political stances. Counsellors image aspirant have striven to present it as a maverick, a horse that is not Sun, freely and without owner. The word in English that is spoken in the United States, also described a "dissident" or "maverick". In return, the great absentee gave a speech in support of scarce nine minutes via satellite from Washington.
The message brief, concise and from afar, played in favor of McCain. "I know what it takes to be president and in these eight years I have sat on the desk of the resolutions, he reviewed the security and intelligence reports and reports from commanders in the line of fire, he studied the ruins of buildings destroyed by murderers and I promised to survivors who do not disappoint them. I know that John McCain is ready to take those decisions and to lead this country, "Bush said in the same tone that has used the actor George C. Scott interpreting the General George S. Patton in World War II. And even allowed to joke: "John is an independent man who thinks for himself. Not afraid to tell you when it disagrees. Believe me, I know. "
But much more effective than the message presidential remote spot was the speech by Senator Joe Lieberman, former Democrat candidate vicepresidencial become independent. There is no worse that the spine of the same suit: the representative, a conservative who was companion formula Al Gore in the disputed election of 2000 that ultimately favored Bush by a decision of the Supreme Court, said that McCain is working on a bipartisan , "Favors the nation rather than his party" and "is the best choice to unite our country."
