Bill Clinton's Speech, September, 2012.

Just saw and heard the most amazing speech I have ever seen.  It was a Toastmasters Special Edition.  The Master of Ceremony, the Table Topics administrator, the Toastmaster, the Evaluator, and so on were all the same person:   Bill Clinton. 

His use of voice, gestures, inflection and changes of mood were all elements of presentation taught separately in Toastmasters.  After studying each method, the aspirant will then develop and present a speech designed to display his mastery of that technique.  The presentation will be closely observed by all members and then critiqued.  After that, the presenter will take a break of a month or two before begin the preparation of another speech designed to help him or her master a different element of presentation.  

Last night Bill Clinton presented the entire book – all THREE books prepared for Toastmasters – in one forty-five minute speech!  And he left thousands of  people standing, screaming, crying in both outrage and joy, and applauding and dancing.  Other people, elsewhere, are now busy preparing how to rebut this intense presentation.

Okay.  So all this will play out in the election which will follow month after next.  But this speech was a big deal.  We will look at it tomorrow and maybe some of the froth will have gone, some of the bubbles will diminish, some of the air will have adjusted, but the facts and figures and – oh yes, I can’t resist – the "Arithmetic” will still be there.  

Throughout Washington, D.C. great statutes of heroic figures from the past stand, strive, ride and otherwise emerge from granite.  This speech tonight was Clinton’s statute.  It will be talked about, remembered, embellished and IF he ever does get a granite statute in that city, it will be largely due to this speech that he gave tonight in Charlotte.