Always stay on task and read EVERY speech bubble.
Today is the big sign-up, as Mont Blanc pens are put to one of the maddest deals ever struck by any government, let alone by David Cameron, who has the word "security" on a repeat key for every speech.
The obsessive Republican insistence on closing every speech with the phrase "God bless America" conflicts with the truly religious person's desire to have God bless all of His children, but a Tribalist only asks God to bless those who are mostly closely related to him.
But there is a slightly constricted quality to his campaign appearances, which is probably attributable to the fact that he insists on writing out every speech, and then reading the text aloud.
Indeed, Mr. Obama cites Mr. Lee's views on education in virtually every speech he gives these days, including one in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, holding up the hard-working Asian country as an example of what the United States needs to do.
They have deep-dyed villains who appear onstage to the sound of authorial hisses: notably Senator Edward M. Kennedy, whose family compound in Hyannis looks out on the sound, and Mitt Romney, then governor of Massachusetts, who began nearly every speech on Cape Wind with "I support renewable energy" and then blocked the project at every turn.
He began his keynote address by saying, "In the last few months, virtually every speech on this subject has started with criticism of the United States.
The findings show that the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has spoken of a mass culture of welfare dependency in every speech on benefits he has made in the past 12 months.
From the sand-filled trucks on First Avenue to most every speech in a warm-up debate on "Dialogue Among Civilizations," the General Assembly has left no doubt of the centrality of the terror attacks on Sept. 11 in its delayed annual gathering.
