At the time, reviewing that speech, I noted the rhetorical technique: "By escalating criticism, he knocked down a straw man, the oldest speechifying trick in the book".
After reviewing a speech he was due to deliver on Social Security before a group of newspaper publishers in May, Ms. Hughes said, Mr. Bush was puzzled by the content because he was scheduled to deliver a Social Security address the next week.
Beyond that, Republican organizers said the convention aides in charge of reviewing every speech delivered from the lectern are now on the watch for blunt attacks on Mr. Obama's readiness to lead, and reviewing how much to emphasize what had been the convention theme: "Not Ready '08".
"And Blake will say, 'Well, he's reviewing a speech right now,' or 'He's got a couple of members of Congress up in the stateroom on the plane, so it would be better to wait half an hour".' Part Sherpa, part butler, part air traffic controller, Mr. Gottesman, 25, is the president's personal aide.
On another occasion, after reviewing a speech written for him by Bledsoe, the governor was said to have remarked, "Well, Mr. Bledsoe, I know you think you are a damned sight smarter than I am, and so you are in many respects; but this message as it is now, won't do at all; I'll be damned if it will".
And back in June 2013, as he prepared to give a spending review speech, he posted a photo of himself "putting the final touches" on his speech.
The controversial change – omitted from the chancellor's spending review speech in the Commons on Wednesday – means that on average a former student will pay £306 a year more in 2020-21 compared with 2016-17.
The portly Mr Pickles, who was on the receiving end of a Osborne jibe during the Spending Review speech - when the chancellor dubbed him a "model of lean government", exacted public revenge with a Twitter picture mocking the Osborne's ill-judged photograph of a late-night gourmet burger and chips meal.
George Osborne has defended his choice of a £10 burger, which featured in a tweeted picture of him finishing off his Spending Review speech.
Diagnosis was made according to operational definitions, after review of the video and audio recordings and review of speech and language test scores as described below.
The Obama campaign has been meticulous in reviewing the speeches at the convention with, so far at least, one notable exception: the address on Wednesday night by former President Bill Clinton.
