Reply #14: I saw him a couple of times in 2003/4 and made a similar analogy [View All]

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He speaks like one of those revivalist preachers. It's not a negative comment. I'm not saying he has the same values as the preacher, but that he has the same speaking style. It is very effective and he's one of the few politicians that doesn't give the standard speech that is mostly drivel, with a few sound bites and a couple of punctuation marks where the crowd comes alive. When he spoke at the Portland, Maine caucus in 2004, even the people who weren't there to vote for him gave him enthusiastic applause.