Word: speech
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...populist superstar of Fox News has made a refrain of predicting that government policies are leading to disaster - dark, ruinous, blood-in-the-streets kind of disaster. Pausing for a 17-minute speech rebutting his critics for calling him "dangerous" and "crazy," he took out the block-tower game. On opposite sides of the tower were written the words solution and problem, taxpayer and children. Then he spent much of the hour critiquing the plan, all the while pulling pieces from the wobbling tower and stacking them on top. (Read an interview with Glenn Beck...
...typical Barney Frank speech,” he said, “He wrote this bill that paid these companies, with no strings attached. He’s a smart guy, but obviously far left...
...staged months of protests last year, including the seizure of New Bangkok International Airport for eight days. (Last week, that group's leaders reported to police to face charges for their takeover of Government House during that round of protests; they were released on bail.) Abhisit said during his speech that only police, and not the army, will be assigned to keep order at the protests, and that they will not carry guns...
...Obama also used his first visit to a Muslim country to send a message of reconciliation to the greater Islamic world. "America is not, and will never be, at war with Islam," he declared in his address to Turkish MPs. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Obama's speech "reflects a clear attention toward the two-state solution" for Israel and the Palestinians and described Obama's words as "important" and "positive...
...have helped that Obama introduced a personal tone to his appeal. Introduced as "Barack Hussein Obama" before his parliamentary speech, he referred to his own identity as the son of a Kenyan Muslim and his upbringing in Indonesia. "The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans," he told the Turkish deputies. "Many other Americans have Muslims in their family or have lived in a Muslim-majority country." (See pictures of Obama's family tree...