--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Greene > On July 27, 2004 I sat in The Fleet Center and watched State > Senator Barack Obama give his 16 minute Keynote Address at The > Democratic Convention in Boston. After it was finished I knew that > I had seen "Words That Shook The World," as impressive in every way > as the others included in my book.
Interestingly, that is the very moment at which I first noticed Barack Obama, too, and the moment at which I knew he would be President. Simply put, there had not been a better orator or a person from whom the oratory came from as deep a place in decades. Yes, he stood out because of his charisma and command of the spoken language, but more he stood out because of the lack of charisma and the mediocrity of the spoken lang- uage in the other politicians around him. This campaign -- the most effective and profes- sionally run in American history -- has proved that those two factors are not all that he brings to the table. As many have said, it may be his oratory and his charisma that first capture your attention, but it's his hard Yankee pragmatism, his love of reason, and his reserve in the face of unconscion- able provocation and attacks that holds it. May all of these qualities serve him -- and us -- well in the next 8 years.
