Reply #48: The thing is, I've done public speaking. [View All]

I know what it's like to present a position and bring the audience along with me. I've been a performing artist for a very large part of my life. I know what it takes to win over an audience, to pull them so far into your experience that they lose their own sense of themselves and are pulled along into a current that they never would have experienced otherwise.

Effective political advocacy is no different; you pull people out of themselves. You lure them into an expanded worldview by the power of your convictions.

I still haven't seen anything that leads me to believe that Obama has the power of very many convictions besides his own ambition and self-love.

I've given public speeches, just gave one today, in fact. It's NOT difficult to speak about the things that really matter to you -- not if you've been thinking about them for awhile.

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