They've got heat in their background, stints at NASA and the ear of a president who probably wouldn't have won a primary against a post-scandal Larry Craig and who approaches oratory as if he were doing voice-over for a Burger King ad.
The candidate herself takes a workhorse approach to oratory, driving in her talking points like she's hammering nails through drywall, and on Thursday, she hit her marks again, helped along by the enthusiastic crowd.
Another expert who has long studied public opinion about war and worked in the administration of several presidents said that as the November election approaches, inflammatory oratory is likely to increase, even if it is unsuited to a problem as complicated as Iran's nuclear ambitions.
In a foreign policy speech in April, Mr. Trump offered much the same thrust as in Wednesday's address — presenting an at times paradoxical approach of using fiery oratory to promise a military buildup and the immediate destruction of the Islamic State, while also rejecting the nation-building and interventionist instincts of George W. Bush's administration.
Their records show them both to be more nuanced in their approach to government than the oratory suggests -- Mr. Gore as a fiscal conservative and budget-balancer, Mr. Bush as an advocate for more spending on education and poverty programs.
But as the November election approaches, Mr. Feaver said, inflammatory oratory is likely to increase, even if it is unsuited to a problem as complicated as Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Obama, who hadn't shown any particular gift for oratory in the race, now learned to shed his stiff approach to campaigning — described by Preckwinkle as that of an "arrogant academic".
Even so, the convention oratory reflects an underlying reality that the Democrats do offer a fairer approach to parceling out the benefits of the Clinton boom.
More significantly, Mr. Obama himself is still making the transition from campaign oratory — and in the case of Russia, very strong campaign oratory — to the more nuanced approach that many advisers say will be necessary for him to navigate what are bound to be contentious relationships.
However this approach plays to voters, it's bad news for fans of rafter-ringing oratory.
