In actuality, he's spoken of less use of whips and more debate on policy - both of which limit his ability to push his party.
Affirmative action has been supported in every Democratic presidential platform since 1972, but since the Reagan era, Democrats speak of it less and less.
Then on a variety of fronts – from the ambitious graphic novel or history Maus, which uses the language of comics to speak of no less grave a theme than the Holocaust, to the scabrous reinvention of the Beano that is Viz – comics suddenly became OK for adults.
If you spoke too much of your deceased grandmother, for instance, during a dinner date, you may want to speak of a less morose topic with your next prospect.
But some still speak of staging something less dramatic, like a work slowdown.
On a continent where public officials speak of religion far less openly than in America, he also said he agreed with Benedict that Europe could not ignore its Christian roots.
They created 'THE BLACKBERRY.'" Ironically, when the movie came out 24 years ago, there were no PDAs, no cell phones to speak of, and much less addiction.
EVEN in Napa Valley, where only the rare vintage is spoken of in less than superlatives, 2007 was considered nearly perfect for cabernet sauvignon.
McCain speaks of nonfiction less often but told me he has read — twice — Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
But in Israel, Barak has spoken of having less than a year to act; Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, has talked about making the "right decision at the right moment"; and the prospects of drawing the US in behind an Israeli attack have been widely debated in the media.
