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This is Something Republicans Would Never Do

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

Changing Minds

Information...political rhetoric

Tonight: Town Hall Meeting. With free speech, sometimes I think that you get what you pay for!

Sybil Obama

"Mr. McMurdo has been called 'guilty as the day is long.' And yet, do not biblical scholars tell us a day can mean many things?"

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

Like Minded

The Truth

Masters of Political Oratory

And now, for a rebuttal.

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

Rush Limbaugh

"Writing that book was a real strain."

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

Your logic is flaccid and your data suppositional, dawg!

Language of politics.

Vote For Me: The winning over of voters.

What came first, the chicken or the egg

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes

"I'd like to start by saying that anything I say that will come back to haunt me will be something taken out of context."

Violent Rhetoric

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

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

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

"I don't know how he does it. He preaches entire sermons without using the words like, cool or awesome."

Trumped by Semniotics

Vicar and Devil at the Pulpit

Inside the Candidates

Four More More Years

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

Trumped by Semniotics

"Sure he riles up his base, but where's the positive message?"

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