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The Art Of The Small Speech

By The Daily Dish
Sep 3 2009, 11:22 AM ET

by Patrick Appel

DiA gives Obama some advice about his upcoming healthcare speech and suggests a venue change:

[A] big-ticket, fill-the-rafters speech isn't what's missing in this campaign. Bill Clinton did that almost precisely 16 years ago, and while it was well received, it netted him nothing. What's missing is the one kind of presidential address Mr Obama has yet to try: the Oval Office speech.The soft, behind-the-desk address is something of an early TV-age relic. It's gotten easier to stage massive events, but there's a distinct appeal to the image of the president, elbows on the table where he just wrapped up workat any desk, reallytalking quietly to his short-term subjects.



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