Having just made the mistake of watching Hillary Clinton deliver a stupefyingly dull speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Iowa, I knew that Clinton’s mannequin-like delivery reminded me of something…
Oh, you want substance? Check out GFR, Crowley and Ben Smith for that. Suffice it to say that Obama’s speech is a collection of a better class of cliches than Clinton’s.

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