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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 06:41 PM
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5. A speech should be irrelevant.
Speeches are where lackluster leaders can level the playing field with their betters. (I'm not saying that was the case with Obama. I'm just speaking generally.) Speeches are stagecraft and good writing--easy venues for fraud.

Reportedly Bush gave a great speech to Congress after 9/11. I saw it and was amazed at how lackluster and really pathetic it was. This was shortly after Bush finished bunny hopping around the country and snivelling on national TV. All his vacillating, dithering, scurrying, babbling, and yes, even his lips quivering on national TV suddenly meant nothing.

So much for speeches. They are usually written by other people anyway.
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