[jern]

I ran across this looking up some Reagan speeches today, and I thought everyone would want to tear into this...

[Let's Roll]

I don't know when the list was compiled but I have seen a side by side comparison of GWB's 9/20/01 speech with FDR's "Day that will Live in Infamy" speech and Dubya's was considered much better by the author(s). In fact the author pointed out that the only inspiring thing that anyone remembers about the FDR speech was the "...day that will live in infamy..." line. I have to agree. As for this list - Malcolm X, Ma Richards, Eugene Debs etc.? No bias there.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

As far as a lib slanted list, this one is dead on.
I looked through the list and posts, so sorry if there are any repeats;

I would eliminate most of the lib specches and add these;

"The Man in the Arena" by Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3745/tr.html

George S. Patton's Speech to the Third U.S. Army
http://knox-www.army.mil/museum/pattonsp.htm

Charlton Heston "Winning the Cultural War"
http://mizai.tripod.com/

[mrustow]

Folks seem to have missed the real point of this list: Affirmative action for left-wing women. The list served merely as a pretext for larding it with 23 mostly mediocre speeches by women. The dead giveaway, is that only speeches given by women are linked to the speeches' texts.

[BillyBoy]

Is it just me, or is this list extremely heavy on speeches to various Democrat National Conventions and the Inagural Addresses of Democrat presidents? Anyone see famous speeches to GOP conventions like MacArthur's in 1952 or Reagan's 1992 quip about "blowing rhetorical smoke"? Hmmm.

[Lincoln]

Evidently this list is mainly for politically-themed speeches.

Otherwise, why doesn't it mention the incomparable Sally Field "You like me... you really like me!" speech??!

[tcostell]

If not now... when? If not us... who?

[rightofrush]

For JFK, read Ted Sorenson.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

Where is GW's speech before congress after 9/11?

[StockAyatollah]

Mario Cuomo, Barbara Jordan, Jesse Jackson? If these truly were the greatest orators of the 20th Century, we would have to tag that era as being the Century of Mediocrity and Marxism.

[Tribune7]

Tear into it? You mean you can't quote Barbara Jordan's Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention on 12 July 1976 from memory? The only reason that speech is number 5 instead of number 1 is because we live in a racist/sexist/ageist/lookist society!!!!!

SHAME, I say! SHAME!!!!

[GOPcapitalist]

Left wing bilge.

One must seriously doubt the sanity of a person or group of people who would consider putting ANY speech by the politicized likes of Jesse Jackson, Ann Richards, Stokely Carmichael, Mario Cuomo, Geralding Ferarro, and Anita Hill above the perfectly well known, non-partisan "no brainer" inclusion of Lou Gerhig.

[The Raven]

This is actually humorous. Guess they'll add Terry McAuliffe soon?