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    The President Whose Words Once Soared
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    And if that remains the case heading into next year, it could make it more difficult for the Democrats’ own Great Communicator to promote his program and carry along allies in crucial midterm elections. "Really inspirational speeches like the Iowa caucus victory speech set expectations for Obama’s rhetoric that would have been difficult to meet, and he hasn’t met them" said Michael J. Gerson, who was President George W. Bush’s chief speechwriter. Full Article at The New York Times
    Really inspirational speeches like the Iowa caucus victory speech set expectations for Obama’s rhetoric that would have been difficult to meet, and he hasn’t met them
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
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The President Whose Words Once Soared
  1. In a media environment like this, the attention span is rather short so it may seem like the magic isn’t there. But there are still moments when he rises to the occasion when he needs to.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  2. The stakeholders have changed. Congress matters a lot more. When you’re on the campaign trail, they don’t matter as much.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  3. The difference now is it’s much more difficult to have to explain complicated policies consistently day in and day out
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  4. President Bush in 2007 actually gave some pretty good speeches about Iraq and nobody was paying attention anymore and so it just didn’t matter
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  5. When you do four or five speeches a day, not any single speech is going to be the biggest speech he ever does
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  6. He’s had one really large explanatory task, which is trying to motivate people on health care reform, and the polls have gone the other way. He will now have another very difficult task, to explain his Afghan policy, whatever it is, to a country that’s deeply skeptical.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  7. No one ever believed that the power of communicating was in and of itself enough ... It’s important to communicate what you’re doing and why. But without the what and the why, the communicating is of little value.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  8. I think it continues to be valuable ... But ultimately we’re going to be judged not on the power of the oratory but the record. Everybody here understands that.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago

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