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想学英语presentation,看这个演讲吧,昨天的Bill Clinton,什么叫passion, 什么叫powerful, 什么叫smart punch line, 什么叫调动观众.什么叫articulate..全在这里了。

Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) -- Wednesday's convention programming followed Tuesday's standard script: red meat for the base in the early hours, capped off with a slightly sweeter offering in prime time for independent consumption.

But there was nothing routine about Bill Clinton's speech. The 48-minute address -- nearly 3,200 words of prepared text and a thousand more of classic Clinton riffs -- checked off nearly every item on the Obama campaign's wish list:

• Appeal to the persuadable who cite bipartisanship as a key quality: Clinton praised Eisenhower. He quoted Reagan. He even got an arena-full of loyal Democrats to cheer George W. Bush.


"Through my foundation, in America and around the world, I work with Democrats, Republicans and independents who are focused on solving problems and seizing opportunities, not fighting each other," Clinton said. "When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better."

• Re-frame Romney without alienating bipartisanship-worshipping swing voters: Heading into Wednesday, Clinton's presidential record and his assessment of Romney had played a starring role in campaign ads... for the Republican nominee. Both members of the GOP ticket have maximized that advantage by singing Clinton's praises on the trail. But the risk for Romney had been that in highlighting and praising Clinton's judgment, he invested in it a legitimacy that gave Clinton's attacks Wednesday even more potency.
Romney and GOP under attack at DNC
Clinton: No one could fix mess in 4 years
Watch Bill Clinton's full DNC speech

Clinton's toughest punches came wrapped in silk gloves; his most brutal critiques were paired with a side of smiles, jokes and ad libs -- the sort of delivery that allows an attack line to resonate far beyond the base.

Hillary Clinton in Asia, misses husband's speech

• Push back on the GOP's welfare attack: Despite near-universal pans from fact-checkers who have repeatedly found the claim that Obama has gutted the work requirement for welfare a false one, Republican and Democratic consultants alike had concluded Romney campaign's summer push on that front had begun paying real dividends.

Enter the man who signed the original 1996 welfare reform bill into law.

"This is personal to me," Clinton said. "....But I am telling you the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true. But they keep on running ads claiming it. You want to know why? Their campaign pollster said, 'We are not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.' " The Romney campaign made a gamble with its Clinton praise. Wednesday was a case study in the inherent pitfalls of that sort of approach.

• Cast Obama as his ideological heir and most likely to bring back the Clinton boom years: Clinton acknowledged the sluggish recovery but drew a direct parallel to his own presidency: "I experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995. Our policies were working and the economy was growing but most people didn't feel it yet," he said. "By 1996, the economy was roaring, halfway through the longest peacetime expansion in American history."

Obama was starting with a much weaker economy, he said -- and "no president" could repair the damage in a single term. "But he has the foundation for a new modern, successful economy of prosperity. If you renew the president's contract, you will feel it. You will feel it." In other words: an Obama second-term economy would look a lot like mine.

Obama has used some variation of that theme in his stump speech for months. But Clinton was able to draw a straighter line between their records. Republican strategist and CNN contributor Alex Castellanos dubbed it "the moment that probably re-elected Barack Obama."

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  • 工作学习 / 外语学习 / 想学英语presentation,看这个演讲吧,昨天的Bill Clinton,什么叫passion, 什么叫powerful, 什么叫smart punch line, 什么叫调动观众.什么叫articulate..全在这里了。
    Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) -- Wednesday's convention programming followed Tuesday's standard script: red meat for the base in the early hours, capped off with a slightly sweeter offering in prime time for independent consumption.

    But there was nothing routine about Bill Clinton's speech. The 48-minute address -- nearly 3,200 words of prepared text and a thousand more of classic Clinton riffs -- checked off nearly every item on the Obama campaign's wish list:

    • Appeal to the persuadable who cite bipartisanship as a key quality: Clinton praised Eisenhower. He quoted Reagan. He even got an arena-full of loyal Democrats to cheer George W. Bush.


    "Through my foundation, in America and around the world, I work with Democrats, Republicans and independents who are focused on solving problems and seizing opportunities, not fighting each other," Clinton said. "When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better."

    • Re-frame Romney without alienating bipartisanship-worshipping swing voters: Heading into Wednesday, Clinton's presidential record and his assessment of Romney had played a starring role in campaign ads... for the Republican nominee. Both members of the GOP ticket have maximized that advantage by singing Clinton's praises on the trail. But the risk for Romney had been that in highlighting and praising Clinton's judgment, he invested in it a legitimacy that gave Clinton's attacks Wednesday even more potency.
    Romney and GOP under attack at DNC
    Clinton: No one could fix mess in 4 years
    Watch Bill Clinton's full DNC speech

    Clinton's toughest punches came wrapped in silk gloves; his most brutal critiques were paired with a side of smiles, jokes and ad libs -- the sort of delivery that allows an attack line to resonate far beyond the base.

    Hillary Clinton in Asia, misses husband's speech

    • Push back on the GOP's welfare attack: Despite near-universal pans from fact-checkers who have repeatedly found the claim that Obama has gutted the work requirement for welfare a false one, Republican and Democratic consultants alike had concluded Romney campaign's summer push on that front had begun paying real dividends.

    Enter the man who signed the original 1996 welfare reform bill into law.

    "This is personal to me," Clinton said. "....But I am telling you the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true. But they keep on running ads claiming it. You want to know why? Their campaign pollster said, 'We are not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.' " The Romney campaign made a gamble with its Clinton praise. Wednesday was a case study in the inherent pitfalls of that sort of approach.

    • Cast Obama as his ideological heir and most likely to bring back the Clinton boom years: Clinton acknowledged the sluggish recovery but drew a direct parallel to his own presidency: "I experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995. Our policies were working and the economy was growing but most people didn't feel it yet," he said. "By 1996, the economy was roaring, halfway through the longest peacetime expansion in American history."

    Obama was starting with a much weaker economy, he said -- and "no president" could repair the damage in a single term. "But he has the foundation for a new modern, successful economy of prosperity. If you renew the president's contract, you will feel it. You will feel it." In other words: an Obama second-term economy would look a lot like mine.

    Obama has used some variation of that theme in his stump speech for months. But Clinton was able to draw a straighter line between their records. Republican strategist and CNN contributor Alex Castellanos dubbed it "the moment that probably re-elected Barack Obama."

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    • I watched the whole speech. It is successful, has many techniques. I like what Abraham Lincoln said: "I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."
      • Obama的演讲流畅,华丽,激动人心,而Bill Clinton有着与生俱来的幽默,平易近人,再加上他讲话时的感染力,看他们的演讲,就像听场音乐会。
        • 看他们演讲,就像吃一大碗没有几根面条的汤面,当时很饱,过不大一会儿就饿了。我天生戒备极具感染力、煽情的言论、影视作品,不把这些东西分析个底儿掉,我的脑袋是不会闲着的,呵呵。。。
          • 和听音乐会还是不同的。 我记得我有一本书,名字叫“跟美国总统学英语”, 里面收录的是当时美国总统克林顿每周的广播讲话。
    • 罗姆尼的演讲也很厉害!
    • 抛开政治观点,只看Obama昨天的演讲,He hit all the marks: acknowledge that things aren't rosy; paint a plausible picture of rosier times down the road; and drawing contrasts to GOP..a job well done.
      • sure. Obama is great in speech, but very bad in Action.
    • 老猫啊,你关心的只是表面现象,多看些有关竟选的材料。现在最大的问题是失业率,有史以来从未有一个执政党在失业超平均率(5.8%)时能连任。
      • 我的美国同事说romney这次会赢,不知道是真还是假.
        • 谁赢都无所谓。 政客嘛, 说管说,到底有多少实现了,还不知道。
          • Being cynical and give up the choice we can make, that's not a responsible citizen...
            • I am not eligible to vote. I think only US citizens can do so.
      • Hard to tell...it will be a close call...hope it won't repeat what happened in year 2000..what a disastrous 8 years following Florida count, re-count....
        if this election is about Obama's performance, against what he talked about in year 2008, of hope and change..it is a no brainer... end of story...but if this election is about the two different paths that America is going to take, if it is about the alternative that GOP has to offer... I really can't tell...If I could. I would vote for Obama.. He may not be the best President, but I know he is a good person.. he cares... I trust him...with the extreme right taking control of GOP, and the hatret and dispare displayed from Tampa convention, against the liberal side of the society.. I can't trust Romney and Paul..
        • My American colleague said “They voted for Bush, doesn’t matter how stupid he is. They’ll vote for Romney.” It would be interesting to see how it turns out. BTW, I don’t think Bush is all stupid.
          He is reportedly very good at making people he met feel important.
    • Great. I like him.