I should add that my own speeches are mesmerizing, masterpieces or the rhetorician's art, and invariable insightful and original as well as inspiring. Unfortunately there is only one of me, so I can't turn the whole thing around myself. jks    Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Nathan Newman wrote: >It's kind of amazing the assumption that speeches at rallies should be >forgettable. From union rallies to civil rights rallies, some of the most >memorable rhetoric in history, that the media picked up and played over and >over again, came from speeches at podiums at such rallies. Well there was MLK's "I have a dream," for sure, but how many orators like that do we have? What else do you have in mind? Almost everything I've ever heard at rallies has been dull. Doug ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/mailsig/*http://tax.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Tax Center</a> - File online, calculators, forms, and more