campaign rhetoric 2008

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

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in other news....
http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/othercalls/rhetcit.asp

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For some reason, I accepted an invitation to give a ten-minute after-dinner speech at a banquet honoring graduating seniors and their parents in the Honors Program at Texas A&M. The speech is tomorrow night, and I'm having major rhetor's block. Can you readers/fellow-bloggers help me brainstorm a few talking points? I was thinking of pandering and making the organizing theme "Why Texas A&M Works," but I'm not sure I can pull it off. Thoughts, anyone?

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Thanks to Dana Cloud for sending me this one:

Cal State system ousts another instructor who objects on religious grounds to a pledge adopted by California in 1952 to root out communists.

Article Here.

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Gets closer, according to Scott Ritter. Should this happen, how will it affect the presidential race?

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thanks to sam clemens for posting on facebook!

THIS U IS OUR U (drip drip drip)
words and music by CAS 297a (in D)

This U is your U, this U is my U
From Beaver Canyon, to the Nittany Lion
From JoePa’s statue, to the Willard Preacher
This school was made for you and me

As I was walking I looked around me
I saw above me IST walkway
I saw below me a happy valley
This school was made for you and me

This U is your U, this U is my U
From Beaver Canyon, to the Nittany Lion
From JoePa’s statue, to the Willard Preacher
This school was made for you and me

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resolutions.

more examples to come. despite coming from red lion PA, ms barrett rocketh. :)

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Is well-expressed by Adam Gopnick of the New Yorker in a piece on the Columbine shootings:

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Astrophel and Stella

Philip Sidney

XLIX

I on my horse, and Loue on me, doth trie
Our horsemanships, while by strange worke I proue
A horsman to my horse, a horse to Loue,
And now mans wrongs in me, poor beast! descrie.

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teaching

I don't think I've ever made a new year's resolution, but I always find myself making them at the end of a semester, even if I tend to forget them in a few months. I have had a unusually good teaching semester; my joint English/Comm class on 20th century theory was probably the best graduate course I've ever taught. It was a perfect mix of personalities and theoretical, critical, historical competencies. My only resolution for that course is to do a better job of teaching Foucault.

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