To the suspicious, it all sounded distinctly like a campaign speech, and it got the pundits twittering.
They were expressed instead in rhetorical terms more suitable to a campaign speech than to a serious budget plan.
Mr Romney ran through a campaign speech that has evolved a fair bit since I last saw him in the flesh.
It is a campaign speech, as has been reported, so I would refer you to the campaign for more details about it.
Although the White House said Mr Obama's address was not a campaign speech, it follows critical remarks about his foreign policy from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
But it may also be that he thought it would sound inappropriate to make a campaign speech which would have to have attacked his opponent and sounded at least a little upbeat.
Carnahan said she had been working at her computer on a campaign speech she had been planning to deliver the next day for her husband when he called her, shortly before the crash.
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Would Mr. Giuliani truly forget to turn off his phone before he begins a major campaign speech or even carry it in his pocket instead of giving it to an aide?
Imagine a politician who gives a particularly rousing speech at a campaign rally and then asks for a donation.
Obama provided the material in a May 9 campaign speech in Beaverton, Ore.
The Obama administration has responded by sending the president on a quasi-campaign bus tour and announcing a speech of a jobs plan in September.
Tony Blair opened the campaign with a speech to his party faithful in Glasgow last month in which he asked voters to give him a second term in office so he could complete his task of transforming Britain.
And then we'll travel to Cairo, in which I am delivering on a promise I made during the campaign to provide a framework, a speech of how I think we can remake relations between the United States and countries in the Muslim world.
"No one's rights will be left out of it, and no one will dominate over the other, " he said in a speech at his campaign headquarters in Cairo.
It worked: On television, his speech looked like a campaign rally, with people jumping up and down, cheering.
In short order liberal rabbis Michael White and Jerome Davidson took over the opposition to Geller and launched a media campaign attacking her as a bigot and demanding that the Great Neck Synagogue cancel her speech.
Just as Obama was finishing his speech, his campaign released a statement about Clark's remarks.
While it might not be forgivable, it would at least be understandable had Ryan made this speech in the heat of a campaign where he has proven himself willing to say or do just about anything to solidify his base.
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During the campaign season, a typical candidate's stump speech may belie the rich and eloquent history of American rhetoric.
"Don't fool yourselves that you're the good and we're the bad, " Capriles said in a 45-minute speech at his eastern Caracas campaign headquarters.
To his critics that sounded as if Hollande wants to revive left-wing tax and social policies of the past, a view reinforced in the first speech of his campaign when he attacked the financial community.
To his critics that sounds as if Hollande wants to revive left-wing tax and social policies of the past, a view reinforced in the first speech of his campaign when he attacked the financial community.
Last month, after learning of her talk, a consortium of Islamic and leftist activists in Nassau County led by Habeed Ahmed from the Islamic Center of Long Island launched a pressure campaign to coerce the synagogue into cancelling her speech.
The Obama campaign posted an excerpt of the speech and a series of animated GIFs portraying the speech on its Tumblr page.
He is scheduled to appear at a campaign-style rally Saturday in Minnesota and has planned another speech for next Tuesday.
Bhutto gave a political speech Thursday in Rawalpindi to thousands of supporters in her campaign for the Jan. 8 parliamentary elections.
Mr Blair used Tuesday's campaign tour to announce the priority legislation for a Labour Queen's Speech.
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