The virtue of being succinct
Written by: Beck
Presented without commentary--none is really necessary, and besides, I'm starting to feel like I've already said all there is to say (yeah, obviously that feeling won't keep me shut up for long)--
an excerpt from the Scotsman:
To the dismay of his speechwriters, Mr Kerry's attempts to "make it real" at rallies has led him to ramble so much that any snappy phrases composed for him are drowned in a sea of verbosity.
[...] During one speech, Mr Kerry's script writers had crafted the concise pledge: "I will work with Republicans and Democrats on this healthcare plan, and we will pass it."
In the candidate's hands it became: "I will work with Republicans and Democrats across the aisle, openly, not with an ideological, driven, fixed, rigid concept, but much like Franklin Roosevelt said, I don't care whether a good idea is a Republican idea or a Democrat idea. I just care whether or not it's gonna' work for Americans and help make our country stronger.
"And we will pass this bill. I'll tell you a little bit about it in a minute, and I'll tell you why we'll pass it, because it's different from anything we've ever done before, despite what the Republicans want to try to tell you."
The rest of the article is fairly humorous as well.
(Hat tip: Best of the Web)
