polipundit.com - 8/29/2008
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I can usually sum up the impact of a speech or debate within the first five minutes of watching it (I did this, for example, after John Kerry's 2004 convention speech, and the 2005 California gubernatorial debate.)
After watching the first five minutes of Obama's speech, I'm certain that - barring ...
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HERE'S THE FULL TEXT OF OBAMA'S SPEECH. As with McCain, I have to go to The Corner for these things.
UPDATE: The trademark five-minute take from PoliPundit.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Hmm. Will this line play well with Hillary fans? "And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman." Maybe, maybe not.
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