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July 28, 2004
Boston | Is Al Riffing? I Think So ...

FYI, the content on Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation, which produced by far the largest reaction of the speech to that point, was not in the version of the speech pre-released to journalists. I don’t know if he was riffing or if it was a late change … but it sure worked.

Update: This, too wasn’t in the pre-released speech: “With all due respect, Mr. president, read my lips: Our vote is not for sale.” He is riffing large parts of this speech, I believe, including much of the alliteration in the close. There’s simply too much new content for these to be late changes.

Amazing stuff …



Posted by Alan at July 28, 2004 08:36 PM | TrackBack
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