To the suspicious, it all sounded distinctly like a campaign speech, and it got the pundits twittering.
Obama provided the material in a May 9 campaign speech in Beaverton, Ore.
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.
The presidential election is over, but Barack Obama gave another campaign speech.
In contrast, campaign speech restrictions tend to privilege the influence of groups, like the press and entertainers that are far more ideologically homogenous.
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He volunteered to give the first campaign speech at Camp Buckner.
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But Mr Putin's opening campaign speech was broadcast live by one channel and dominated news bulletins for the rest of the day on the main networks.
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.
His final campaign speech, for example, seethed with nationalistic bombast.
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?
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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"The court must then explain its abandonment of, or at least qualify reliance upon, the proposition that the identity of the speaker is an impermissible basis for regulating campaign speech, " he told the audience.
"Unlike the typical campaign stump speech, they are not trying to mobilize their respective bases, " said Gerhard Peters, co-director of the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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.
Valeo in 1976 and in more recent cases, the court essentially equated campaign money with free speech and outlawed any efforts to restrict interest groups from pouring money into "issues" advertising that helps their chosen candidates.
Just as Obama was finishing his speech, his campaign released a statement about Clark's remarks.
Imagine a politician who gives a particularly rousing speech at a campaign rally and then asks for a donation.
"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.
Last year's twice-failed Disclose Act and the recently introduced Wyden-Murkowski Act aim to reregulate campaign spending by groups whose speech was liberated by the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
But instead of the elders of the Democratic party, the campaign prefaced Obama's speech with appearances from six ''ordinary Americans'' who took the stage to explain why they support Obama.
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.
It worked: On television, his speech looked like a campaign rally, with people jumping up and down, cheering.
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