I tell you, this is a great speech. I read a couple of people call it "rambling." I don't think it rambles. She makes a point, comes back to it, the speech does not wander off.
Beginning with this post I am going to highlight the parts of the speech that impressed me the most. We'll start with these. The numbers are the order in which they appear in the speech.
1. Looking around at all of you; you hard-working Iowa families, you farm families and teachers and teamsters and cops and cooks; you rockin’ rollers and holy rollers!
"Cops and cooks, rockin' rollers and holy rollers": She uses alliteration, parallel construction, rhythm and cadence to make her points, here, the appeal of Trump to disparate groups. She speaks the language of her audience. It's a pop song speech.
2. When asked why I would jump into a primary — kind of stirring it up a little bit maybe — and choose one over some friends who are running and I’ve endorsed a couple others in their races before they decided to run for president, I was told left and right, 'you are going to get so clobbered in the press. You are just going to get beat up and chewed up and spit out.'
You know, I’m thinking, 'and?’
That is really quite charming.
3-And, like you all, I’m still standing.
"I'm still standing:" Elton John.
4-Well, I am here because like you, I know that it is now or never.
"It's now or never," Elvis Presley. Elvis is the only popular singer ever to have a number one hit single on the pop, gospel, rock, and country music charts. Like Elvis, Trump, she says, appeals to all, rockin' rollers and holy rollers.
5-I'm in it to win it.
That could come from the pulpit in an AME Church or from Johnny Cochran.
6-He is from the private sector, not a politician, can I get a 'Hallelujah!'
Church or Revival meeting.
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Beginning with this post I am going to highlight the parts of the speech that impressed me the most. We'll start with these. The numbers are the order in which they appear in the speech.
1. Looking around at all of you; you hard-working Iowa families, you farm families and teachers and teamsters and cops and cooks; you rockin’ rollers and holy rollers!
"Cops and cooks, rockin' rollers and holy rollers": She uses alliteration, parallel construction, rhythm and cadence to make her points, here, the appeal of Trump to disparate groups. She speaks the language of her audience. It's a pop song speech.
2. When asked why I would jump into a primary — kind of stirring it up a little bit maybe — and choose one over some friends who are running and I’ve endorsed a couple others in their races before they decided to run for president, I was told left and right, 'you are going to get so clobbered in the press. You are just going to get beat up and chewed up and spit out.'
You know, I’m thinking, 'and?’
That is really quite charming.
3-And, like you all, I’m still standing.
"I'm still standing:" Elton John.
4-Well, I am here because like you, I know that it is now or never.
"It's now or never," Elvis Presley. Elvis is the only popular singer ever to have a number one hit single on the pop, gospel, rock, and country music charts. Like Elvis, Trump, she says, appeals to all, rockin' rollers and holy rollers.
5-I'm in it to win it.
That could come from the pulpit in an AME Church or from Johnny Cochran.
6-He is from the private sector, not a politician, can I get a 'Hallelujah!'
Church or Revival meeting.
(more)
