Check this out:  Slate.com’s editors have annotated Barack Obama’s acceptance speech from the Democratic National Convention.

Now, they focus more on allusions and nods to previous speeches and events than the actual rhetoric, but it is an interesting read.

Major bonus for anyone who chooses to annotate all or part of the speech.  We’ll look at McCain’s speech from the GOP Convention after September 4th.

This is a test of a new blog post publisher I’m trying.  If it looks weird, I’ll go back to the old one.

An article on oration from The New Republic.

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