Rhetoric Examiner Mugs

Inside the Candidates

'His best qualities are circumventing questions and evading answers.'

Information...political rhetoric

"Presidential approval ratings. US stock market confidence indices. U.S. dollar index. So much winning."

The Truth

'Actually, I think my use of hyperbole is not only iconoclastic, it is potentially revolutionary.'

And now, for a rebuttal.

'Interesting resume, would you mind if I kept it overnight? I'd like to take it home with me...and scare the living daylight out of my kids.'

"I pride myself on being able to walk that fine line between misdemeanor and felony."

Professor Dubreuil is blow away by the dynamic vitality of Dean Richmond's rhetoric.

"Yes, I suppose attention seeking may be considered by some as an asset, but frankly we need more than that."

"Smart stuff, Chip, but wise up and dumb it down."

"Some people say you can't put a price on a wife's twenty-seven years of loyalty and devotion. They're wrong."

Your logic is flaccid and your data suppositional, dawg!

Language of politics.

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes

Vote For Me: The winning over of voters.

Violent Rhetoric

'Wow! Can't you just feel the safe-ness!'

Critics In Love

'Hopkins, I want you to write me an inspiring, dynamic speech that bears my unmistakable stamp of genius.'

NBS NEWS DIVISION, 'You've written a nice editorial on Sarah Palin here, but change 'said' to 'spewed,' and 'speech' to 'vitriol.''

'Oh, the irony! Just guess who gave me the welfare check I bought this sign with!'

'This resume looks familiar. Were we once married to each other?'

Vicar and Devil at the Pulpit

"My platform can be summarized in a single word: Leadership!"

'I love your resume. Is it fiction, non-fiction, or plagiarized from the internet?'

'Your resume says that you were self employed and then you were fired?'

"Socrates, you have an answer for everything, you can convince anyone of anything, and you know everything. You ought to become a lawyer."