[Windflier]

Would have been MUCH BETTER if he had delivered the same speech in about 15 minutes, maybe, just maybe, 20 minutes. TOO PONDEROUS.

I could have listened to Ted speak about his ideas about America all day. I am starved for that type of uplifting talk from a real American leader.

[Arthur McGowan]

When someone speaks about 30% as fast as I can listen and think, I get annoyed. I suspect millions of other people do, too, and move on to something else.

Listen to Reagan’s Acceptance Speech at the 1980 Republican Convention. It’s on YouTube. He talks like a normal human, not declaiming or announcing—just talking. And he trusts the MICROPHONE to make him heard.