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When you think of truly inspiring speakers, who pops into your head?

NightshadeNightshade Registered User regular
edited September 2010 in Debate and/or Discourse
I hope you answered. . .

PHIL DAVISON! GOP canidate for STARK COUNTY TREASURER!

Ohio's be crazy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMgyi57s-A4

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  • mizakmizak Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I was gonna say Glenn Beck.

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  • Loren MichaelLoren Michael Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Matt Foley, motivational speaker.

    I think Phil Davidson came from the same VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.

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  • Loren MichaelLoren Michael Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    But seriously?

    Tony Robbins.

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  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    ah taking a page out of steve ballmer's book of public speaking

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  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    mizak wrote: »
    I was gonna say Glenn Beck.

    Well, he certainly inspires something...

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  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    His masters degree in communication was money well spent.

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  • VeritasVRVeritasVR Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Cinders wrote: »
    His masters degree in communication! was money well spent.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Jimmy Reid.

    I can't find a video of his UCS speech anywhere, though.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    What the fuck am I watching

    Why does he sound like he's choking back tears when he's talking about what he went to college for

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  • NightshadeNightshade Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Loren Michael wrote: »
    Matt Foley, motivational speaker.

    I think Phil Davidson came from the same VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.

    Good lord I know right?

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  • Casually HardcoreCasually Hardcore Once an Asshole. Trying to be better. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Black suit and tie? Who does he think he is? Mr. Pink?

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  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
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    This guy.

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  • NoughtNought Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Greeting Stark county....... I'm Phil Davison......

    BA in bla bla............ BA in communications......

    Wow!

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Drake wrote: »
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    This guy.

    Fixed.

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    He somehow went all Howard Dean on it without having a cheering crowd getting him to that point.

    YAAAAAAAAAAA

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  • Cedar BrownCedar Brown Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Truly inspiring? First name that comes to mind for me is Adolf Hitler. Then Barack Obama.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Cedar Brown wrote: »
    Truly inspiring? First name that comes to mind for me is Adolf Hitler. Then Barack Obama.

    I'd put Martin Luther King Jr. on the list, too.

    Maybe FDR or Kennedy...

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  • quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Auto-Tune the News in 3.....2......

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  • MyDcmbrMyDcmbr PEWPEWPEW!!! America's WangRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wil Wheaton

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  • LucidLucid Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    He's doing the pee dance.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    It seriously seems like he has some sort of social developmental problem or something.

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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Dolby.

    But seriously, though, there's lots of good choices. FDR, Kennedy, MLK.

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  • [Tycho?][Tycho?] As elusive as doubt Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Cedar Brown wrote: »
    Truly inspiring? First name that comes to mind for me is Adolf Hitler.

    Yup.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Nightshade wrote: »
    I hope you answered. . .

    PHIL DAVISON! GOP canidate for STARK COUNTY TREASURER!

    Ohio's be crazy.

    *snip*

    I'm frightened, and I'm sitting at home in New York watching this video on Youtube, which isn't live.

    Also "all politics is local"? "Is"? Really? Not to be pedantic, but you have a masters in communication, dude.

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  • Glorious CretinGlorious Cretin Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Drez wrote: »
    Nightshade wrote: »
    I hope you answered. . .

    PHIL DAVISON! GOP canidate for STARK COUNTY TREASURER!

    Ohio's be crazy.

    *snip*

    I'm frightened, and I'm sitting at home in New York watching this video on Youtube, which isn't live.

    Also "all politics is local"? "Is"? Really? Not to be pedantic, but you have a masters in communication, dude.

    BACHELORS

    Heehee.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Glorious Cretin wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    Nightshade wrote: »
    I hope you answered. . .

    PHIL DAVISON! GOP canidate for STARK COUNTY TREASURER!

    Ohio's be crazy.

    *snip*

    I'm frightened, and I'm sitting at home in New York watching this video on Youtube, which isn't live.

    Also "all politics is local"? "Is"? Really? Not to be pedantic, but you have a masters in communication, dude.

    BACHELORS

    Heehee.

    Oh that explains it then.

    ;)

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  • TalleyrandTalleyrand Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Jesus Christi! I'll vote for you just don't hurt me!

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I think of Bill Pullman from Independence Day.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    This thread makes me realize I've never been really inspired by a speech. I can see how a lot of speeches are meant to be inspiring but nothing has really rattled my bones. This short vid comes close. I wanted to grab my powder horn and fight the South after hearing it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5HwlkHo1c&feature=related

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Drez wrote: »
    Nightshade wrote: »
    I hope you answered. . .

    PHIL DAVISON! GOP canidate for STARK COUNTY TREASURER!

    Ohio's be crazy.

    *snip*

    I'm frightened, and I'm sitting at home in New York watching this video on Youtube, which isn't live.

    Also "all politics is local"? "Is"? Really? Not to be pedantic, but you have a masters in communication, dude.
    Tip O'Neill said those exact words.

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  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Drake wrote: »
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    This guy.

    Sorry, Shadowfire. G'Kar has lots of awesome speeches, but Sheridan has him beat.

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  • nstfnstf __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2010
    Is this a serious thread, if so MLK comes to mind as the most recent. Nobody in our generation or since then has really had anything worth saying or done it worth a damn.

    If it's not

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hGvQtumNAY

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    And that speech inspires you to ... handle the truth better?

    :P

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  • nstfnstf __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2010
    emnmnme wrote: »
    And that speech inspires you to ... handle the truth better?

    :P

    Chew out sissies and hippies, I fucking hate hippies!

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  • InvincibleInvincible Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Andrew W.K.

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  • EWomEWom Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    My favorite part of the OP is that the guy has to refer to his notes not only halfway through every sentence but when recalling what he went to school for.

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  • tallgeezetallgeeze Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Saw the title and this is what came to mind

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zc0BI7T1LA&feature=related

    edit: just saw a bit of the OP video. Did he say he lived in a village? How small does your place of residence gotta be to classified as a village?

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  • IgortIgort Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Invincible wrote: »
    Andrew W.K.

    This guy right here.

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  • DeebaserDeebaser on my way to work in a suit and a tie Ahhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I didn't know Rob Riggle had a retarded cousin.

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  • SpacklerSpackler Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    tallgeeze wrote: »
    edit: just saw a bit of the OP video. Did he say he lived in a village? How small does your place of residence gotta be to classified as a village?
    It might be an Ohio thing, but iirc "village" signifies a couple things about how the town is run w.r.t. mayor, council, zoning etc.

    For example, I grew up in a village, that was part of a city of the same name, which was itself part of a "township" of the same name. The village was mostly a "historic district" in one part of town.

    The local politics are, of course, hilariously corrupt in that way only a small town/city/village/historic district can be.

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