The Rhetoric of Hillary Clinton
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); This is the first in a 3 part series where I examine the rhetorical styles in the various speeches of the three main Democratic Candidates for...
View ArticleIs Immigration the new Gay Marriage?
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By all accounts, we are a nation in turmoil. We continue to fight an never ending war in Iraq, the housing crisis continues to spread throughout the...
View ArticleFirst Hillary Attack Ad – Analysis
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Crossposted at Daily Kos Yesterday, Democratic Courage, a independent PAC which seems to have only one goal – bring down Hillary Clinton – began...
View ArticleDebuking the Post-NH Media Narratives
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The media narratives are out. The Clinton’s, once again the Comeback Kids, the race is thrown into disarray. With New Hampshire and Iowa finished,...
View ArticleWedge Issues ’08: A Historical Preview
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); As we get closer to November, I thought it would be useful to examine the devil in modern politics. The wedge issue. What role will it have this...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street: Lessons from the 1950’s on Creating a Movement
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks helped changed America by refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, launching the Montgomery bus...
View ArticleAmerican History is a Sad History
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The appeals – especially from Romney and the right, who seem to believe in a 1950’s American utopia – to American exceptionalism are peaking right...
View ArticleHow History Repeats Itself: Hiroshima and American Rhetoric
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 69 years. Have we learned from the past? I wondered that when, recently, I had an enlightening conversation with an elderly American social worker in...
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