His official Web site has pages devoted to "Speeches," "Testimony," and "Professional Reading List," but, three years into his tenure, the page marked "Interviews" remains blank.
Asked about the comments at a news conference in Chicago on Wednesday, Mr. Obama said Mr. Nader had not been paying attention to his campaign, where "I've devoted multiple speeches, town-hall meetings to" the issues Mr. Nader raised.
And today he devoted his speeches and interviews to hammering his rival for the cost of his proposals and for the tens of millions that Mr. Corzine, a Wall Street success story, has spent on the race.
The following week three times as many clocked his objections to an article criticising his father in the Daily Mail, a newspaper.A better explanation for the time and energy devoted to such speeches is that party leaders and their staff find the process helpful.
Putin has devoted dozens of speeches to rooting out corruption.
There are a lot of websites devoted to wedding speeches, which I'm pleased to say I did not consult when writing mine, and they confirm the point.
But in his five months in office, he has not devoted a speech to the cares of migrant workers at home.
Much of his research was devoted to speech perception, or the way people identify the consonants and vowels that make up words.
Romney, who also conceded the primary to McCain, devoted a speech to supporters in St Petersburg, Florida, to pointing up the differences between him and McCain, mainly over economic experience.
Unlike Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, Mr. Gore's Republican rival for the presidency, Mr. Gore has not devoted a speech to the single topic of the China bill.
