Credit where it is due: I watched McCain’s concession speech live at a theater in Oakland where several thousand of us were celebrating Obama’s victory. It was one of the most dignified and graceful concession speeches I’ve ever seen.
McCain likely would have been disastrous as President, possibly starting war with Iran and who knows what else. But he treated his political adversary with respect and even interrupted and corrected his own supporters when they tried to spread the kind of racist lies about Obama’s birthplace and religion that Trump would later embrace.
