[Revolting cat!]

The author pulled out his dusty Speech Writing Manual For Dummies and compared its list of must-have components to the text of Obungo’s speech. Voila (or, as my UC Berkeley educated boss used to say ‘Wolla!’), it did match!

[a fool in paradise]

According to someone on Bill Bennett's program this morning (I only heard someone on another program refer to it), part of the speech was plagiarized from one of Bush's speeches. It's possible that Bill's guest was someone who'd served in the Bush administration and was familiar with it.