Tag: barack obama
Can You “Say it Like Obama”?
Why is Barack Obama one of the most gift speaker of this generation? And, more importantly, how can you learn some of Obama’s speaking techniques to become a better public speaker yourself?
There’s a new book coming out which attempts to answer those questions. “Say Read more
Posted: September 15th, 2008 under Books on Public Speaking.
Tags: barack obama, books
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Barack Obama – Masterful Public Speaker
There’s not much more I could add about what an incredible orator Barack Obama is. Some say his acceptance speech before the Democratic National Convention wasn’t his best. But, it was incredible. The man has to be one of the best, if not THE BEST, public speakers in the world Read more
Posted: August 29th, 2008 under Great Speakers.
Tags: barack obama, Barack Obama's speech, Democratic National Convention, famous speaker
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And John McCain is Not
Just noticed the use of the epistrophe in Nancy Pelosi’s speech to the National Democratic Convention. An epistrophe is the opposite of the anaphora, which I wrote about earlier. An anaphora “is repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, Read more
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Public Speaking Tips.
Tags: anaphora, barack obama, democratic convention 2008, epistrophe, nancy pelosi
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