The Kerry style
Marc Cooper:
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"Even during his Super Tuesday national victory speech, virtually claiming the Blue mantle, Kerry still seemed to be rambling, groping for an overarching theme. As Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe says: 'Kerry can come up with sentences that have a dozen subordinate clauses in them that you couldn’t diagram on five blackboards.'
"The problem is not just stylistic. Kerry’s looping oratory is clearly a symptom of excessive processing, of a basic ambiguity that blurs his political soul. Even as he speaks, Kerry is simultaneously second-guessing the reactions of his audience, correcting, updating and re-charting his course, sometimes several times, in one given response.
"Kerry argues that Bush will fight the election around national security and taunts him to 'Bring It On.' But the Bush campaign isn’t so stupid as to bet the White House solely on a direct challenge to war-hero Kerry’s military credentials. Instead, the president has already hinted his attack will focus on Kerry’s 'uncertainty' — that the Massachusetts senator has been for the war and against it, for the Patriot Act and against it, for NAFTA and against it, for the tax cut and against it, for gay marriage and against it.
"How on target does that sound?"
Marc Cooper:
...
"Even during his Super Tuesday national victory speech, virtually claiming the Blue mantle, Kerry still seemed to be rambling, groping for an overarching theme. As Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe says: 'Kerry can come up with sentences that have a dozen subordinate clauses in them that you couldn’t diagram on five blackboards.'
"The problem is not just stylistic. Kerry’s looping oratory is clearly a symptom of excessive processing, of a basic ambiguity that blurs his political soul. Even as he speaks, Kerry is simultaneously second-guessing the reactions of his audience, correcting, updating and re-charting his course, sometimes several times, in one given response.
"Kerry argues that Bush will fight the election around national security and taunts him to 'Bring It On.' But the Bush campaign isn’t so stupid as to bet the White House solely on a direct challenge to war-hero Kerry’s military credentials. Instead, the president has already hinted his attack will focus on Kerry’s 'uncertainty' — that the Massachusetts senator has been for the war and against it, for the Patriot Act and against it, for NAFTA and against it, for the tax cut and against it, for gay marriage and against it.
"How on target does that sound?"
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