What I will do is draw on one section of Barack Obama’s concession speech after the New Hampshire primary. “We’ve It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land: Read my lips: no new taxes!” In my last post, I touched on three ways to make your speeches more memorable . I

Super Tuesday's New York Times focused on Hillary Clinton's success in speaking before small groups --roundtables, town hall meetings and the like--in moving, emotional ways that connect with the group, versus her large-rally speeches, seen as less successful. The article, which notes that Clinton will need to connect more with the large crowds ahead in a presidential campaign, uses a rally last week in San Francisco as an example. After a warm and personal introduction by actress Mary Steenburgen, Clinton delivered a fact-filled speech that " sounded like a university lecture ."