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...African nations and Cyprus and that it was part of a trend of “big changes.” But not all in the audience shared Barker’s positive impressions. Although he said he entered with high expectations, Lockshin said that “the speech?? was very, very long, challenging the most mind-numbing of professors for inducing restlessness in the crowd.” The biggest “turn-off” for Lockshin was Castro’s comment regarding the rights of a government to appeal trials just...
...risks of becoming so popular as to create impossible expectations. Yet, for now, Obama has exceeded the expectations of yet another foreign nation, leaving even President Vaclav Klaus somewhat overwhelmed in his wake. Klaus told the media the speech was not the “cosmopolitan speech?? he had expected, in which Obama would exploit his presence in Prague to make a general message—instead, Klaus praised the talk as “unexpectedly Prague and unexpectedly Czech...
...speech??in front of a full house at the IOP—was unabashedly partisan, and Frank set that tone in the first few minutes of the speech when he said jokingly that “when Obama talked about post-partisanship, I got post-partisan depression...
...self-made man” has become a Super Myth, an idea so deeply carved into our national identity and cultural consciousness that we refuse to believe that some people will get lucky and some people won’t. The specific purpose of Frederick Douglass’s speech??often glossed over in history books—was to argue that freedmen ought to be given equal opportunities for success, and that they should jump at those opportunities when they presented themselves. We forget that ultimately even Douglass concludes that “properly speaking, there...
...Instead of a President who waves at Stevie Wonder, says things like, “Awesome speech?? to the Pope, and calls the Italian Prime Minister “Amigo,” we will have a president who draws crowds of thousands to hear him deliver coherent speeches in which he pronounces the word “nuclear” as God intended it to be pronounced. But before we mope from used bookstore to used bookstore, picking up dog-eared copies of “Bushisms: Volume Eight” and trying to relive old times...