Highly recommended reading

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/31/AR2006013101468.html

This link gets you to the President's State of the Union address. I recommend reading it, and circling cliches (which appear in all politicians' speeches, of course). What do these cliches do for the President that using concrete details would not?

aloha, sms