Word: oratorical
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"I like him, but he has so little experience," Cheryl Collier told me when I visited her bookstore near the train station in Lee's Summit. "He's an amazingly gifted orator, and you think, If only he could show where he has accomplished the things he talks about."
Whether hot or cold, says Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist who helped steer Howard Dean's meteoric 2004 campaign, Obama would be wise to keep a few scraps of advice in mind. First, he should keep his answers crisp. "I would tell him to go back to his appellate argument...
But Barack Obama laid down an important marker at Invesco Field - and he may have convinced more than a few white working-class skeptics to give him a closer look when the debates roll around. He stood there not as an orator, but as a plausible chief executive. His message...
In the late ’70s and ’80s, as an editor in New York, I could only read and hear about his triumphs, fighting off the Reagan Administration’s attempts to retreat on civil rights and his legislative landmark, the Americans with Disabilities Act...
Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, at 11, with physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg as orator, and poet Carl Phillips. Sanders Theatre.