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mrfish · « **on:** January 07, 2003, 12:01:34 PM »

anyone catch his "i'm not running speech"?

he had a line in there where an old lady catches him by the arm in the airport and says "do your best.........do your best." he even had that sappy emotional look on his face to accentuate the moment...

this politician sap is so prevalent these days, i can even hear it in this bbs's rhetoric- you know, those posts that almost always end in a big

it was just making me think, wouldn't it be nice if a robot sat behind every one of our politicians and every time they tried to write a hallmark card to make their point they would get an electric shock?

"dear americans.....as i was praying and looking at the flag today i smelled a whiff of apple pie and..... ....ouch!.....ok! ok! i was just going to talk about taxes, i'll get to my point."

there- that's better

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2003, 12:04:04 PM »

midnight Target · « **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2003, 12:21:12 PM »

They're all trying to out-Clinton, Clinton. Can't be done.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2003, 12:28:18 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
They're all trying to out-Clinton, Clinton. Can't be done.

LOL!, Nope, he'll hold the record for quite some time.

mrfish · « **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2003, 12:53:55 PM »

bush is doing ok except he keeps saying nuke-yoo-ler which is driving me mad.

one thing i don't like about bush is that every time he gives a speech, the main ideas of the speech are posted behind him on a blue wall- they've been doing it since after 9/11 - that subliminal crap is cheap and really it's probably for the next election- each time they show a clip of his speeches there'll be that convenient synopsis behind him.

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2003, 12:58:29 PM »

Like Wolverine, Clinton is the best there is at what he does.

Whatever THAT is.

Shuckins

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2003, 01:00:08 PM »

On second thought, Clinton might have had a dynamite career working in the meat-packing industry.

Shuckins

Charon · « **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2003, 02:07:34 PM »

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it was just making me think, wouldn't it be nice if a robot sat behind every one of our politicians and every time they tried to write a hallmark card to make their point they would get an electric shock?

I would feel their pain... (wipes tear

)

Actually, it's saps like me in my former career who write the words and would feel the shocking stings. It's marketing 101, whether it's politics or hemorrhoid cream. Facts confuse, but emotion moves product.

[What's funny, is that as a speech writer you sometimes not only get to clarify policy, but actually set it if the speaker isn't paying too much attention. PR gets pretty weasely, but I kinda miss it actually. Especially on payday

]

Charon

mrfish · « **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2003, 02:28:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Charon
I would feel their pain... (wipes tear )

Actually, it's saps like me in my former career who write the words and would feel the shocking stings. It's marketing 101, whether it's politics or hemorrhoid cream. Facts confuse, but emotion moves product.

[What's funny, is that as a speech writer you sometimes not only get to clarify policy, but actually set it if the speaker isn't paying too much attention. PR gets pretty weasely, but I kinda miss it actually. Especially on payday ]

Charon

lol- i would too, i write product descriptions for labels of chinese import products, some of the marketing material too. i've said things about tea that no man should say.