Syndicate: RE: blair speech

["Ivan Zassoursky" <iiz@cnt.ru>]

RE: TONY BLAIR'S SPEECH TO NEWSPAPER SOCIETY LUNCH

It is a magnificent speech indeed. I have to admit that admire it.
I am impressed.

Believe me, this is a good one. I can tell you definitively, because as an
advisor to a governor and then to a deputy prime minister I can really tell
a brilliant speech from a mediocre one.

I used to write them myself. But it takes a lot of courage to put so much
pathos and style in it at once. As a top government official you will
address a huge audience with different tastes and opinions. And you have to
give it to them all.

It is also extremely hard for a speechwriter to keep up with the individual
style of one particular political leader. Indeed, read it a second time
over. There are a couple of lines where Blair transforms to Clinton (you can
almost hear his voice pushing ahead in slight cycles), but then goes again
to Blair.

Of course they remind us of asymmetrical twins sometimes, but there is a
huge difference between this openness and almost serene sincerity in Blair
that you can't find in Clinton simply because you would never believe this
guy, or could you?

Newspapers of London, a developed political culture and lexicon all come
together in this address and deliver at once. You have excerpts from the
media debate spinned nicely, you have human rights alert and victims for
pure emotion, you have boldness and you have style.

You have a personality here, a spectacularly developed institution, capable
of arousing compassion and devotion to a cause, inviting you to a sacrifice.
He won't give you any reason to keep him in the argument: you must fall just
for the beauty of it.

Another collective Churchill is here. What a distraction, what a menace for
our virtual Gandhi. But what a gift...



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