Thursday, August 31, 2006

Rhetorical hijacking

What seems like the single innovation in the latest round of George Bush speech cycles on the GWOT was the attempt to link the War on Terror to the civil rights movement, with a sequence of "We see a day when ...." sentences, doubtless designed to echo Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

UPDATE 5 SEPTEMBER: An identical usage occurs in the 2nd last paragraph of the 2nd speech in the cycle.

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