ORATORY – ADVOCACY LESSONS FROM OBAMA

By |January 21st, 2009|closing argument, Obama, opening statement, oratory, persuasion, speaking|0 Comments

MAKING A GOOD SPEECH TO THE JURY (OR TO ANY AUDIENCE)In his inaugural day Washington Post article entitled “Obama’s way with words,” Henry Allen states that “Obama is an orator, a rare thing in a time when educated people — a lot of them Obama supporters — have been taught to distrust old-fashioned eloquence.” Rare [...]