Spoken Gems

At the 65th Annual Congressional Dinner of the Washington Press Foundation, Senator Amy Klobuchar delivered a hilarious roast. The speech starts at  33:10.

Other speeches in the video are given by Nancy Pelosi, Candy Crowley and Kevin McCarthy.

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If you haven’t had enough, here is the list of speeches I promised earlier this week. If you don’t know with which to start, I would recommend the speeches from Joe Biden, Dick Durbin, Martin Luther King III, John Lewis, Claire McCaskill, Ted Kennedy, Maya Soetoro-Ng and Mark Warner.

• Madeleine Albright
• Tammy Baldwin
• Evan Bayh
• Joe Biden
  Joe Biden’s acceptance speech as VP candidate (see also the introduction by his son Beau)
• Tom Daschle
• Howard Dean
• Dick Durbin
  This is the introduction speech for Barack Obama.
• Susan Eisenhower
• Rahm Emanuel
• Martin Luther King III
  He gave this speech at the 45th anniversary of his father’s "I have a dream" speech.
• Ted Kennedy
  Terry Gault describes this speech as feisty and warm. The first part is an introduction by Caroline Kennedy, following a tribute to Edward M. Kennedy and finally the speech by Ted Kennedy himself.
• Tim Kaine
• John Kerry
• Jim Leach
• Patrick Leahy
• John Lewis
• Claire McCaskill
• Janet Napolitano
• Deval Patrick
• Nancy Pelosi
• Jack Reed
• Harry Reid
• Ed Rendell
  It’s clear: the only thing green in John McCain’s energy plan is the billions of dollars he’s promising in tax cuts for oil companies.
• Bill Richardson
  I have a question for you: Is anybody here going to miss Dick Cheney?
• Brian Schweitzer
• Kathleen Sebelius
• Maya Soetoro-Ng
  Maya Soetoro-Ng is the half-sister of Barack Obama. She talks about how she grew up with her older brother.
• Ted Strickland
• Mark Warner