Stemwinder

To undo the harm the Wright videos had done to the campaign, Obama and Favreau concocted a five-thousand-word stemwinder to distance Obama from the man without exactly disowning him. ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

The next time he gives a stemwinder will be the first. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Video of our intrepid Lt. Governor John Cherry delivering a "stemwinder" at the 2009 ❋ Unknown (2009)

That populist stemwinder appeal still resonates, regardless of party. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Traveling to Republican Kansas, Mr. Obama chose the town of Osawatomie to deliver a stemwinder on a middle class being crushed by the greed of monied interests and their Republican enablers in Washington. ❋ Unknown (2011)

His speech was, literally, a stemwinder: He stood back from the lectern, bending at the waist as he spoke without benefit of notes or apparent structure. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He did have notes, and delivered a stemwinder about the meaning of Obama's election, the crises of California, the nation, and the world, the challenge of the biggest spending Republican campaign in history, and how Wall Street nearly tanked the economy and must be reined in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She needs to rally the party base (which she did with her usual stemwinder at the state party convention), castigate her opponents, and raise a lot of money (cue the president). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead, he gave a 10-minute stemwinder, in Dari and in English, that had them pounding on the tables. “We made mistakes,” he yelled. “But we did not make a mistake when we freed Afghanistan, and the job is not done. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Obama's response is nice, but typical of Obama it's a real stemwinder. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, didn't like the shouting, hoarse stemwinder style. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(I told you this thing was a dilly of a stemwinder of a bedlamite bloviation.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Funny -- I don't recall Blitzer asking Sen. Charles "Snake In The" Grassley his thought process after Grassley fashioned signs with cartoon dragons for one recent Senate health-care stemwinder, signs openly mocked that same evening by Jon Stewart. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A man with intellect and quit wit would have anticipated this anti-American stemwinder and prepared a brief response that would sell in this country as well as send the appropriate message to Venezuala and not just Ortega. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

It wasn't like Cuomo's '84 stemwinder, because of the policy prescriptions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[I dont have to] worry about losing my watch key because my [stem] [winder] has one built in. ❋ John Y (2003)

[Julie] gave me a [bitchin'] stemwinder the other [noght] ❋ Jason Freeman (2003)

❋ Kizzle (2003)

you [like to] [eat] the stemwinder, [boy]? ❋ Johnnymcjohnjohn (2003)