The sweeping grand speechifying by Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy has been replaced by the next generation's conversational rhetoric. Yesterday the eulogies delivered at the funeral mass in Boston for the late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy by sons Ted and Patrick had the tone and content of, well, Everyman. Unlike their father and uncles they did not assume the voice of leadership or authority. It was just two guys talking about their dad and themselves.
President Barack Obama's eulogy echoed that simple tone. It was, of course, on a plane a bit higher than the other orations, but not by much. The speech in America, even in such heady settings, has gone from eloquence to an attempt to connect, one human being to another.
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Question: Will the old-style fire-eating rhetoric of the Southern Church also cool down?
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