corner.nationalreview.com — I thought Hillary's speech was workmanlike. She's not a great performer and tonight reminded me of why she was bested by Obama, who can truly dazzle from behind a podium. But it was good enough and, as others have pointed out, said just enough about Obama. You can imagine Bill and Hillary, when the speech was being drafted, putting the stuff about Obama on a scale, and calibrating it word for ...
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Weekly Standard Blog —
... , "So she's announcing 'Yeah, I'll do the minimum required of me, but gee, if you wanted me to be an attack dog, you should have made me Veep, and if you wanted my full support of the Democratic nominee, you should have made me the Democratic nominee.'" And at The Corner, Rich Lowry concludes, "Nothing she said tonight will be incompatible with what she'll want to say if Obama loses in November: 'Told you so.'" Still, Power Line's John Hinderaker ...
Thoughts on Hillary’s Speech (from one who didn’t see it)
GayPatriot —
... was how, well, Clintonian it was. Barone called it “carefully tailored” while Rich Lowry imagined “Bill and Hillary, when the speech was being drafted, putting the stuff about Obama on a scale, and calibrating it word for word, syllable by syllable, until they had reached the perfect bare minimum about Obama.“ ...
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By Anne E. Kornblut BILLINGS, Mont. -- In contrast with the grandiose set-up being erected in Denver, Sen. Barack Obama is working on a speech that will try to bring his lofty ideas down to a human scale. He has described it as potentially much more "workmanlike" than his address in 2004. And with expectations for his Thursday night speech soaring, Obama has betrayed some anxiety about the ...
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By Anne E. Kornblut DAVENPORT, Ill. -- Sen. Barack Obama downplayed expectations on Monday for his convention address later this week, saying he expects it to be a more "workmanlike" speech than the one he gave in 2004. Obama, holding his first press conference in weeks, also continued to demur on the question of how seriously he had considered Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate. ...
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By some accounts, Barack Obama has spent more than a dozen hours already practicing his Invesco field acceptance speech. Clues about its substance are hard to come by, but the campaign has begun to let some details out. Let's get this out of the way: the speech will not be a reprisal of his 2004 convention keynoter, or so the campaign says. 2008's speech will be "workmanlike." Less ...
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