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Plenty of politicians combine inspiring rhetoric with grand ambitions.
Obama represents a different model of a politician: he is a policy-driven person who tries to pass legislation by uniting interest groups and by creating new majorities for these policies through inspiring rhetoric.
The other, which includes everyone from Barack Obama to Canada's Justin Trudeau to Brown, offers inspiring rhetoric on fighting global warming but refuses to rein in fossil-fuel exploration and development.
The academics reckon higher taxes or lower spending equal to a staggering 8% of GDP a year are necessary to contain those costs and stabilise the long-run debt.Despite his inspiring rhetoric, Mr Obama's plans for dealing with those long-term obligations have been frustratingly vague.
Barack Obama wants to tackle health-care costs and rebuild the economy on the rock of solid education and a sound infrastructure rather than the sands of financial speculation.Whether Mr Obama can deliver on his promises is open to doubt: his inspiring rhetoric is marred by a willingness to compromise with his party's free-spending establishment in Congress.
… Not since Bobby Kennedy spoke in the immediate aftermath of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., quoting Aeschylus and prophesying that this was not the end of bloodshed — not since R.F.K. has there been such inspiring rhetoric mouthed by a legitimate presidential contender.
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Nuclear weapons have had a tremendous influence on our agonies and obsessions since 1945, inspiring desperate rhetoric, extravagant theorising, wasteful expenditure and frenetic diplomatic posturing.
It has been over three decades since Mario Cuomo's inspiring political rhetoric at the 1984 Democratic Convention: a sharp, but still respectful discourse with "Mr. President" Ronald Reagan.
In an unfortunate inversion of Obama's most inspiring stump speech rhetoric, we are the United States of America, indeed, but sadly we are also a gay America and a straight America; a black and Latino America and a white America.
Other than that, he really doesn't have much to offer -- no fun, lively or exciting personality or rhetoric, no inspiring life story, no big ideas.
And is enabling this type of rhetoric, and perhaps inspiring further real-life violence, all that neutral after all?
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