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Obama delivers energizing speech at Colorado College

For a guy who’s supposed to be cool, cerebral, detached and unemotional, Barack Obama sure knows how to energize a friendly crowd. About 2,500 of the (mostly Democratic) faithful braved the afternoon heat at Colorado College’s Cutler Quad to hear, see, and maybe even shake hands, with the President of the United States. For a [...]

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Bennet’s commencement speech

No, I didn’t actually suffer through Sen. Michael Bennet’s commencement speech at Colorado College – I tend to subscribe to a corollary of Noel Coward’s famous axiom “television is not to watch, but to appear on.”  Similarly speeches are not to listen to, but to deliver. But Bennet’s office released the text after he’d given [...]

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