whonew wrote:
I was going to look for some language from some of the president's speeches that I thought fit the bill but I stopped myself.

Nobody here is going to change their mind about one damned thing.

If he was able to give Kennedy's speech for the first time the same people would find very good reason to shit all over it.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see "his brilliance at soaring rhetoric - inspirational rhetoric". I hear people telling me it is there, but when I ask for an example, I pretty much get what Tom gave me, which while I will happily agree is rhetoric, it is neither soaring nor inspirational.

Soaring and inspirational rhetoric is something that hits you so profoundly that it becomes a part of you. "Yes, we can" is a good example of soaring, inspirational rhetoric from candidate Obama. It moved people to do something (in this case, vote for Barack Obama).

JFK, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" got folks to volunteer for the Peace Corps.

That is the power of soaring, inspirational rhetoric and I'm sorry, but since President Obama has been elected, I haven't seen it. From what the Obama supporters try to pass off as soaring, inspirational rhetoric, neither have they.


"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." --Benjamin Franklin