Romney’s Rough Room
“If you want a president who will make things better in the African American Community, you are looking at him,” Mitt Romney tells members of the NAACP.
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more”
“What will be remembered,” President Obama says in the aftermath of the shootings in Aurora Colorado, “are the good people who were impacted by this tragedy.”
WATCH: The worst corporate speech in the world
Delivered purposely by media consultant Gerard Braud at the 2012 World Conference of the International Association of Business Communicators, June 27, in Chicago
“The U.S. economy has continued to recover, but …
“… economic activity appears to have decelerated somewhat during the first half of this year.” So said Fed chairman Ben Bernanke in a speech to the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.
“The reason I called you all together” … is emotional, not intellectual
“Ladies and gentlemen, the reason I called you all together this evening …” —Thomas Murray, my dad, at the beginning of every family dinner Okay, people, I’m sharpening my argument …
Vital Speeches editor crawls out from under mountain of commencement speeches, tells strange stories
Still bleary-eyed from reading many dozens of commencement speeches and sore-armed from sifting them with a flat-shovel for the special commencement-speech August issue of Vital Speeches, allow me to indulge …
Leadership forums don’t take vacation!
Here’s what’s happening, and what’s fixin’ to happen, in the conference business in July.
The nerve of that young man!
Twenty-three year-old Obama administration scribe tells ambassador where he can go with his dumb speech idea.
Have you ever truly loved a client?
Part three in a four-part “speechwriter’s digest” of Robert Caro’s new book on LBJ, The Passage of Power.
Should White America Be Afraid of Becoming a Minority?
Only if minority continues to be defined as isolated, disenfranchised, powerless.