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While taking out the trash, I was pondering your words and literary comprehension. No causation or correlation, just free association. I think too many people weren't used to concentrating in the way necessary to listen to Kerry. So they tuned him out. All we have left is "I was for it before I was against it", which is quite short for Kerry.
I find it interesting that the two suprise candidates, Obama and Huckabee have such strong oral skills. I wonder if their success is partially an unconscious reaction to the Bush years. I find it painful to listen to him.
Where are those linguistic anthropologists when you need them?
