I mean, the morning after that acceptance speech in front of 80,000 people, even Richard Nixon's personal Rasputin, Pat Buchanan, was on MSNBC calling Senator Obama "manly".
"If this prize means anything," she said in her acceptance speech, "it is that small stories in so-called hidden places matter because they implicate and complicate what we consider to be the larger story, which is the story of people who do have political and economic powers".
Yes, it's flattering to be asked to give a commencement address, but that doesn't mean your remarks should amount to an acceptance speech.
"He spoke for 70-odd minutes — and I do mean odd," she later quipped about Trump's acceptance speech last week in Cleveland.
"I don't think this makes me a real director," Mr. Affleck said gratefully in his acceptance speech, "but I think this means I'm on my way".
Shrum wrote Kennedy's concession speech at the Democratic National Convention ("the dream shall never die"), which upstaged the acceptance speech of the nominee and incumbent, Jimmy Carter, and was meant to.
She HAS to WIN! Which means we can all look forward to lower-lip-quivering and a #grateful and #blessed acceptance speech.
"Everything in the speech reflects what he wanted in the speech, if you know what I mean," said his top consultant, Carter Eskew, one of three aides who helped edit the vice president's acceptance speech.
In his acceptance speech last night Obama seemed a bit short on specifics for what his second term would mean in the area of policy.
