Sentences with phrase «convention speech»

It is now a lot easier to avoid a presidential address or a Republican convention speech and to have all your peers avoid those experiences too.

The Ohio governor also said he watched the Democratic convention speech delivered by the grieving father of a fallen Muslim US soldier, who attacked Trump from the dais, prompting Trump to engage in a multi-day feud with the Khan family.

During a morning service at God's Battalion of Prayer Church in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, Cuomo echoed his father's acclaimed 1984 «Tales of Two Cities» Democratic national convention speech to condemn the alarming disrepair and danger at NYCHA's properties on de Blasio's watch.

Will you be watching Trump's Thursday night Convention speech?

Controversy surrounds Melania Trump's convention speech as portions of it appear to have been lifted from Michelle Obama's 2008 address.

In his Democratic convention speech President Obama said;

(CNN)- Barack Obama's Thursday convention speech contained insights into the president's faith life and subtle messages to religious voters - if you knew what to listen for.

Unlike his father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, who gave a stirring convention speech in 1984, Cuomo did not address the entire gathering.

Clarke said from the lectern at Quicken Loans Arena at the onset of his prime - time convention speech.

[166] At the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, Hillary Clinton called for her supporters to endorse Obama, and she and Bill Clinton gave convention speeches in his support.

Nobody is rope - a-doping anybody - Romney didn't give a bad convention speech and have a lousy September in order to lull Obama into a false sense of security.

Is that why everyone now agrees that Obama's speech — a speech by a very gifted orator — was easily the worst of the major convention speeches?

This is just another cost of Romney's wretchedly cynical convention speech.

Rubio's speech compares favorably with Romney's Republican convention speech despite Rubio having a tougher environment.

I remember John McCain's 2008 convention speech where he would make a vague perfunctory comment about some policy and then circle back to his war stories over and over again.

Throughout his AIFST Convention speech, MP Laundy highlighted the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in driving economic growth in the Australian food and agribusiness industry.

Romney has already read convention speeches prepared by Christie, presidential primary opponent Rick Santorum and Ann Romney, said Romney adviser Russ Schriefer.

Former President Bill Clinton, whose Democratic convention speech got better reviews than President Obama «s, will campaign in Florida for Obama on Tuesday in the Miami area and Wednesday in the Orlando area.

He had just declined a draft movement to run for president, and he had been regarded nationally as a sort of uber - Democrat ever since his stirring convention speech denouncing Ronald Reagan's America eight years earlier.

Cuomo's father gave a keynote convention speech in 1984 which catapulted then - Gov.

Mario Cuomo's 1984 Democratic Convention speech still ignites emotions more than 30 years later.

Donald Trump Jr. suggested that Barack Obama's convention speech lifted a line from his RNC remarks, pointing out that both addresses contained the line «that's not the America I know.»

Former President Bill Clinton is set to deliver his 10th convention speech this evening, but he is likely to face a different, and potentially tougher, crowd tonight when he boosts his wife's nomination for president.

Convention speeches invite hyperbole, that's understood — but such sentiments are insulting to teachers who believe education is their whole job, not just half of it, and who are not motivated by a desire for power, as Van Roekel admits he is.

School choice hasn't come up much during the main convention speeches, but DeVos, chair of the pro-school choice group American Federation for Children, said the school choice discussion has exceeded her expectations.

But Vice President Biden's convention speech illustrated the problems comfort words pose to persuasive legal writing — literally.

Abortion was mentioned in one sentence of Romney's Republican National Convention speech.

Will you be watching Clinton's Thursday night Convention speech?

New York's current governor acknowledged the legacy of Mario Cuomo's convention speech as he began his own: For many, Cuomo said, that speech «defined the values and the principles of the Democratic Party.»

Trending hashtag today include #Riccing, Christina Ricci's hashtag used to show her fitting in small spaces; #LeBroning when someone is being a tad overdramatic; or #Eastwooding when talking to an empty chair inspired by Clint Eastwood's 2012 Republican Convention speech.

In his Democratic convention speech President Obama said; «And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax.

It's not for nothing that the two best received remarks of the general election season have been Bill Clinton's Democratic convention speech and Romney debate performance.

It appears one section may have been lifted from Michelle Obama's convention speech in 2008 — or at the least is strikingly similar.)

Donald Trump's campaign blamed Hillary Clinton on Tuesday for the backlash to Melania Trump's convention speech, as the presumptive Republican nominee's wife faces accusations of plagiarism due to strong similarities between her speech and Michelle Obama's convention address in 2008.

One night after reuniting Jon Stewart with his former Colbert Report alter - ego, Colbert opened Tuesday's show by poking fun at Melania Trump for cribbing pieces of her convention speech from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech.

His convention speech emphasized populist, nativist themes, as did his inaugural address — not the high - road, unifying rhetoric that Americans expect at such national moments.

Trump running mate Mike Pence was in a tough spot following the Ted Cruz train wreck but he nailed his convention speech, says GOP strategist Sara Fagen.

«I am happy to tell you that at the Democratic Platform Committee there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns and we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party,» Bernie said in his convention speech.

In a series of responses over the weekend, Trump alternately called Khan's son a hero, while claiming that the argument was a matter of «radical Islamic terror» and also suggesting that Khan's wife stood silent during his convention speech because their religion forbade her to do so.

Journalist Jarrett Hill did a bit of digging and found that two paragraphs were very similar to Michelle Obama's convention speech in 2008:

The goals set for it by some backseat drivers were ahistorically lofty: as a test of the crucial importance of convention speeches in Canadian politics, please feel free to quote any convention speech ever delivered by anyone ever.

For instance, in reaction to Trudeau's convention speech, Conservative house leader Candice Bergen tweeted: «With their long track record of failure, Trudeau Libs are desperate to change the channel on their dismal record...»

After his corker of a convention speech, NDP elder statesman Stephen Lewis said members need something intellectual to chew on after the type of «vacuity of policy» that left - wing parties occasionally find themselves in.

She's brought in comprehensive climate reforms and a carbon tax, but she is using those commitments to try and secure national support for the Energy East and Trans Mountain pipelines, references that received only tepid applause in a convention speech that otherwise had NDP delegates overjoyed by her enthusiasm and winning ways.

I make fun of the policy shallowness of Romney's convention speech and how he tried to use personal anecdotes to try to get people to like him without giving any real idea of what he would try to do as president.

I suppose Romney could have spared a few moments in his convention speech to explain the principles of his health care policy, but that would have interfered with the endless mentions of his business experience and the story about how he misses his kids.

Romney's convention speech was even more shallow and even less effective.

Rubio's convention speech, even if it had been much better and more substantive than the one he gave, could not have changed that impression.

All three networks carried Reagan's 1976, 1980, and 19784 convention speeches and the UHF channels probably ran reruns and got lousy reception.