As TIME?s Nancy Gibbs recounts Barack Obama?s final victory in the Democratic presidential contest, she makes the following unattributed assessment of Republican John McCain?s speech the same night:
It was a strong attack, but watching him deliver a set speech with a clenched grin to a partisan crowd may have made voters miss the McCain who made them feel like part of some feisty rebel band, not deckhands on the Death Star.
The Death Star? Really? The next five months of media spin should be interesting.
