Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Thursday, September 06, 2012
Bill Clinton's Speech
Wow! Why can't any other Democrat politician make the case even half as effectively. I knew all these things. I read them from Paul Krugman and Ezra Klein. I read them and more in Clinton's book. And still, no one else counters the attacks and builds it into a convincing argument. He even got his facts almost completely right (and often when he didn't, he was giving the Republicans too much credit) and managed to ad lib some of his most memorable lines (here's a transcript of the prepared text).
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I agree. I particularly like hearing him talk about the value of compromise and working together.
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