[fieldmarshaldj]

Yeah, I saw that 94th and I almost had to grab for the air-sickness companion bag. That is one of the single greatest speeches ever made in the past century, bar none (perhaps with the greatest single line -- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall !). I have not even heard of half these speeches, let alone the rantings of supreme genocidal racist Margaret Sanger and the overrated windbag Barbara Jordan (may she rest in peace) complaining about Nixon, or Mario "Mumbles" Cuomo (MARIO CUOMO !?!) getting ranked so far ahead of the Brandenburg Gate speech. Utterly sickening.

[gitmo]

That is one of the single greatest speeches ever made in the past century, bar none (perhaps with the greatest single line -- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall !).

I have to rank it even with the "Day of Infamy" speech by President Roosevelt. (Not by Truman, as I stupidly stated in a post yesterday. Sheesh! %*$## public education!)

And if it weren't a list of American speeches, I would have to put Churchill's "Blood Sweat and Tears" speech right up there. (Nothing to do with the rock group.)