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Today the United States finds itself adrift on a sea of uncertainty; its economy floundering under the weight of oppressive debt and mismanagement, its status in world affairs at its lowest ebb since the beginning of the 20th Century and its citizens openly questioning the future. At such a critical time the country has as its President a man unable or qualified to lead. Barack Obama is a man without a core, leaving the ship of state without a rudder in the management of foreign affairs and domestic policy which have spun dangerously out of control over the past two...

America should hand it to Bill Clinton. The man is the master of manipulation, an oratorical genius. Clinton can use words to turn the argument around like no one else on the planet. Ex-President Clinton is able to parse language in such a way that after he is done playing with your head even the meaning of the word "is" becomes debatable. Bill Clinton is so good that a whole generation of people actually believe sex isn't sex. Moreover, in the midst of playing lexicon Twister, Clinton somehow always includes in everything he says self-aggrandizing subliminal messages that relate to...

Never normally at a loss for words, New Yorkers are ridiculing their leaders for relying on oratory from the past rather than writing their own speeches for next week's anniversary of September 11. The ceremony to mark the destruction of the Twin Towers features the mayor and the state governor but, instead of delivering new addresses, they will perform a medley of "greatest hits" from American rhetorical history. New York's day will resound with renditions of the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Franklin D Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech. While reaffirming America's pride in its heritage, the selection also...