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This is Rembrandt\u2019s imagining of Paul in prison. Rembrandt didn\u2019t paint any Clintons or Trumps. Image in the public domain, taken from Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

By: Anonymous<\/p>\n

Where you are when you give a speech is a way to subtly influence (or sometimes not so subtly) what you are saying.<\/p>\n

I received my Family Medicine training in St Clair County, Illinois, just east of East St Louis. \u00a0In St Clair County, there are three malpractice lawyers for every one doctor. \u00a0At the time of my training, it was the most litigious county in the US. \u00a0Consequently, then-President George W. Bush came to St Clair County to launch his platform for Tort reform. \u00a0Arrayed with a multitude of doctors in white coats positioned in a standing, silent testimony behind him, he delivered what could have been a wildly unpopular speech advocating for caps on medical malpractice claims. \u00a0Instead, it was received positively. \u00a0I doubt it was his words that made the difference\u2026 \u00a0It was more likely being in that county with those doctors standing behind him that people took away as the actual message, regardless of what he said.<\/p>\n

The apostle Paul also knew how to \u201cplay to the camera.\u201d \u00a0Paul, imprisoned in Rome, sends the Ephesians, Phillipians, and Collosians letters entreating them to \u201cstay the course\u201d with Christianity. \u00a0First scene, closeup of Paul, writes furiously by a meager candle. \u00a0Pan out to\u00a0a dark stone room with no furniture save a solid wood desk at which Paul writes. \u00a0Camera rests on the solid wooden door at the far side of the room. \u00a0There is a furtive, odd-tempoed knock on the door. \u00a0Paul pushes the scroll through a gap above the door, which is hanging heavily on its hinges. \u00a0Next scene, the scroll is being unrolled amongst a small group of Christians, who crowd around the reader. \u00a0The reader lingers on Philippeans 1:7, \u201c\u2026in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel,\u201d fast cut to another reader in a different house with a different group of Christians reading Colossians 4:3 \u201cPray\u2026.that we may declare the mystery of Christ, for which I am in prison.\u201d \u00a0Truly, Paul has mastered the ability to make the place of the speech matter as much as what is being said.<\/p>\n

This idea isn\u2019t lost on our current political candidates. \u00a0Here is Hillary at her finest<\/a>\u2014 giving speeches about low income housing while taking a housing tour with low income residents of Harlem. \u00a0It also includes a clip of Hillary beating the residents at a game of dominoes.<\/p>\n

Compare that to Donald Trump\u2019s economic speech<\/a> a few\u00a0weeks ago in Syracuse\u2013 same state, same economic topic, but a completely different visual image\u2026.<\/p>\n

While Hillary sits playing dominoes with low income residents to discuss economic reform for the low and middle classes, Trump does it from behind a podium with blue velvet drapery and American Flags behind him. \u00a0Which location gets the candidate\u2019s message across louder than their words? \u00a0Somehow I don\u2019t see Donald Trump showing up in Harlem to give a speech about low income economics.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Anonymous Where you are when you give a speech is a way to subtly influence (or sometimes not so subtly) what you are saying. I received my Family Medicine training in St Clair County, Illinois, just east of East St Louis. \u00a0In St Clair County, there are three malpractice lawyers for every one doctor. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2196,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nPaul, Hillary, and Donald Giving Speeches<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By: Anonymous Where you are when you give a speech is a way to subtly influence (or sometimes not so subtly) what you are saying. 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