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Politics is conversation (or should be)
: Virginia Postrel nails it:
The most remarkable thing about the speech wasn’t its content but how it was delivered. Giuliani spoke fluidly, but in an utterly conversational way, as though he had no text. Instead of trying for old-style oratory, which works for few contemporary speakers, he gave a model 21st-century performance.
This is the era of the Cluetrain. Conversations win.
We all see things not as they are but as we are. Virginia included. Try this
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8441
Truly, the triumph of style over substance. Always a Giuliani strength.
“Instead of trying for old-style oratory”…
as opposed to Ron Silver, who went on oratory overkill.
He spoke the way Hollywood thinks political speeches are delivered. It was as if Ron was in (another) bad film instead of at the GOP Convention