cawacko
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Sorry for being late to the game here. I missed the debate last night. Who said the 'change you xerox' quote and what promoted that line?
I doubt Hillary wrote "change you can Xerox"
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Sorry for being late to the game here. I missed the debate last night. Who said the 'change you xerox' quote and what promoted that line?
I am hoping she will resist the urge to fight on after super Tuesday #2. I know she wants it bad.. and in 8 years shes going to be an old duck.. what 69, 70years old?
cawacko
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who brought that up during the debate?
Bush has, without doubt, been the most scripted candidate of my lifetime. His aides are famously concerned when he goes "off script," and I think we're all able to identify those times fairly easily.
Reagan read off of index cards in meetings at the White House, but even he could be somewhat extemporaneous at times. Bush is truly blithering.
charver
You lookin' at my pint?
Using notes to keep yourself organized is not scripting. Now Bush, yeah, scripted. Reagan. It is desperation to pretend that the man had no brains of his own. There are decades and decades of speeches and evidence of his intelligence to go by.
WRL
Well...the right is right
Having a speech writer and using another's speech word for word, two different things. When Americans are lying dead in American streets it's not the time to resort to half assed proxy wars like the little bombing campaign Obama has lined up for our ally who just went to the polls a few days ago, Pakistan. We'll have all kinds of friends bombing our allies we've had jump through hopes and 'democratize'
He was in a meeting with a group from Japan and spent the 1st 5-10 minutes reading off of index cards that were mistakenly given to him & that had been meant for a meeting with representatives from the auto industry.
Oops.
you all ever present or give speeches? earlier in my career i did it to huge groups.. 400+ people and believe me i could not remember all of it. With the nerves and trying to remember everything else about presenting including looking, interacting, body language, speech clarity.. its inevitable that without notes with at least bullet points you will forget something.
Now times that by thousands per year. thats multiple times per day the candidates are doing this.
Now times that by thousands per year. thats multiple times per day the candidates are doing this.
WRL
Well...the right is right
It's actually the exact opposite, his strength is in his off the cuff talking to people, big stuffy speeches is definitely not his forum.
Who wrote yours in law school? Or were you not required to write any?
I wrote my own, and was required to write plenty and publish one.
But I consider myself more literate than Dumbya.
Which Bush have you been watching over the years? I have never seen him in any sort of true comfort or eloquence. He's a mess.
I love how speeches, which are kind of a big part of the job, are now nothing more than "big, stuffy" things, just because you know Bush is a flunkie who can't talk.
WRL
Well...the right is right
"There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans," said Obama in a speech billed as a major security-issues address.
"They are plotting to strike us again . . . If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."
Gee, where to start . . .
Pakistan is a fiercely Islamic nation of 170 million, possessing deliverable nuclear weapons and comprising some of the most militarily challenging terrain on the planet...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08022007/postopinion/editorials/obama_bombs_editorials_.htm
Imagine the uproar WRL would be in if it was Obama who could not speak in complete sentences.