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http://slate.msn.com/id/2100720/

This is not perfectly executed (it's a bit tendentious), but it's easy to
imagine it done perfectly, and it seems like a great idea.  It does a
great job of capturing what's wrong with the man's speech.  It's not that
he makes gaffes, but rather lards that he lards so many of his sentences
with "caveats and pointless embellishments."  And the result is a language
of "pomposity and evasion" -- even when he's saying the right thing.

Michael



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