Comments on: The Power Of Oratory

A Great Speech Requires Eloquence, A Moment Of Consequence, And Ideas Of Importance

[bugszie]

Did you really think that no one would notice that the only one you really critized was the Women. You have got to be kidding about McCain. He is boring. Hillary is not. You are an expert of what again? It is amazing how subliminal the campaign against Hillary has become. I call what you did was, trying to taking the women out. Not too unlike all the male candidates, who run on experience, and then endorse Obama. It is time that Women take a stand against this out and out abuse of women. Expert analysis my foot.

[ceclark1-2009]

your clip from the Reagan "challenger" speech says more than you may realize. This often quoted line was not written, as you might think by Peggy Noonan who is generally considered its author. Rather, it was merely plagerized from a 1941 poem "High Flight" written by a soon-to-be-killed US aviator, Lt. John MacGee. You might want to do a special piece on political speech that takes, without attribution the words of others.

[ceclark1-2009]

your clip from the Reagan "challenger" speech says more than you may realize. This often quoted line was not written, as you might think by Peggy Noonan who is generally considered its author. Rather, it was merely plagerized from a 1941 poem "High Flight" written by a soon-to-be-killed US aviator, Lt. John MacGee. You might want to do a special piece on political speech that takes, without attribution the words of others.

[pameladonehe]

Thank you for this commentary on "The Power of Oratory." I am a high school teacher teaching aunit on the "Power of Vocabulary." It is most powerful when I can backup my assertions with the most powerful of validators----the media. This segment will certainly help to make me more believable to my students.