Reply to: What happened to beautiful political speeches?

[chicane]

Who wants emotional vague crap like that? I would much rather have someone who tells us concisely and in plain terms what he plans to do. Party political broadcasts should read like technical reports.

Indeed. It's one thing telling people what your plans are. It's another thing telling them how you're going to implement these plans within a constrained budget and taking into account bizarre humans rights laws pushed onto us by Europe.

But then again. party political broadcasts in the form of technical reports would be a bit like a Mr Kipling cakes advert describing the cakes as "rehydrated chunks of hydrogenated fat, moulded with flour in a greasy factory together with a mix of sugar and mashed-up fruit that was too old for Tesco".

[xoggoth]

Who wants emotional vague crap like that? I would much rather have someone who tells us concisely and in plain terms what he plans to do. Party political broadcasts should read like technical reports.

[Troll]

Tried to Google it but no matter which bits I searched on the results always pointed back to your original post...so thought it might be your own.

Wot ... made it up??

[wendigo100]

... but true, nevertheless

Aha! I thought so too but was too scared to say so out loud.

[Joe Black]

Berlin, Reichstag speech on October 6, 1939

Tried to Google it but no matter which bits I searched on the results always pointed back to your original post...so thought it might be your own.

[Joe Black]

Comes of being a vegetarian humanist apparently.:

I'm a vegetarian, and human apparently.

[DBA_bloke]

Not very elegant, but true, nevertheless

Did Rumsfeld write the Abbott & Costello "Who's on First?" sketch?

[sasguru]

There are known knowns.
These are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns.
That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns.
There are things we don't know we don't know.

Not very elegant, but true, nevertheless

[DBA_bloke]

"Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down. It is difficult to know how to make this speech today."
- Blair's farewell speech

Could have been written as, "I'm off. This bloody war's a f--- albatross round me bleedin' neck. All yours, Gordon..."

[King Cnvt]

Education, edukation, ejukashun.

[Bagpuss]

There are known knowns.
These are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns.
That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns.
There are things we don't know we don't know.

[sasguru]

Berlin, Reichstag speech on October 6, 1939

Yes Hitler was a devious git, wasn't he?

[Troll]

Where's that quote meant to have come from Troll?

Berlin, Reichstag speech on October 6, 1939

[DBA_bloke]

I thought it was the Mafia, but hey! what do I know?

Russian Mafia. You were half right.

[DBA_bloke]

Or there's this one...

Or, in short: "Those feckin Ruskies will look like a bunch of twats if we land on the moon first."