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...Moore is the scruffy, paunchy, bespectacled rock star here. And unlike most performers, he has enough fresh material to make each of the appearances included in the movie seem as if he was giving a new speech every night. His jolly, intimate style sells every zinger to audiences who would have bought his line anyway. He's also an ad-lib adept. When one clutch of Catholic protesters recites the Our Father and Hail, Mary aloud during a rally, Moore asks them, "You're not gonna do the whole rosary, are ya?" and then the more pertinent, "What did Jesus...
...privacy, and other topics of legitimate discussion. But in the midst of this, a number of people viciously mocked Caldwell for lisping during a television interview. While some moralists among these bloggers deemed many of the jabs against Caldwell as inappropriate, very few questioned the attacks on her speech...
Whether Thompson ultimately makes it to the office those two held is an open question. But what we do know is that no matter how much he, or any other candidate, uses late-night TV or YouTube, there are time-tested templates - like the announcement speech - that will never change...
This approach echoes Bill Clinton's announcement speech in 1992, which also was built around three themes: opportunity, responsibility and community. And like Clinton and Ronald Reagan in 1980, Thompson also explicitly offered his views on the proper role of government and his theory of governing. In fact, his may be the only announcement speech this year to offer a view on the wonky topic of federalism...
...doubt Benedict is playing to his strengths. And he may still be trying to regain his footing after his most ambitious attempt at jumping into the global debate ? his speech in Regensberg, Germany, last year about faith, reason and violence in contemporary Islam - largely backfired. Indeed, many in the Vatican were pleased that this trip to Austria came off with little controversy...