Ok, so maybe ignore the point of the article but I wanted to grab one quote
Conventions often leave analysts star-struck - Yahoo! News
Piers Morgan said of Clinton: "An oratorical genius right up there with Churchill, Kennedy, MLK and Mandela."
It's so hard to make a call like that because we only remember the great speeches and to take an "everyday" speech and put it up there against "I have a dream", for instance, seems hardly fair. I gotta think Churchill had his off days or Mandela wasn't always perfectly on note. Hell, I bet Kennedy had a lot of gaffes in his campaign but the media wasn't there like it was today. So I'm not sure this is such crazy hyperbole as the story makes it out to be. Clinton doesn't have that defining speech (and no, "what the definition of 'is' is" or "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" don't count as defining speeches) but I bet his "average" oration is up there with those others.
(As an aside, I found it laughable that noted Cardassian and Fox News "analyst" Charles Krauthammer called the speech the other night a "giant swing and a miss". I get being partisan and, for instance, Bill O'Reilly is a master of the backhanded compliment which works well in this situation but, really, I think Clinton's speech had to be viewed positively, even if it's grudgingly)
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