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Election 2008

What Made Obama's Speech Great

By George Lakoff, Open Left. Posted March 26, 2008.


The true power of the speech is that it does what it says. It not only talks about empathy, it creates it.
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George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley; senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute; and author of the forthcoming The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st Century Politics with an 18th Century Brain (Viking/Penguin), available June 2, 2008.

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