elevating the general baseline of oratory

Michael Chertoff, head of the Department of Homeland Security, has come under criticism of late for being little more than a technocrat, steeped in the jargon of the profession and overly wonkish when what is really needed is a true leader capable of inspiring those around him.

Others believe Chertoff is exactly what the department needs, lending a bureaucratic expertise to a complex labyrinth of dissimilar departments.

With that in mind, we have given the following selected excerpts of soaring political oratory “the Chertoff treatment” so you can draw your own conclusions.

Abraham Lincoln – Gettysburg Address

During a period eighty-seven years prior to today, those with command and control responsibilities introduced a political framework designed to create an equality-based adoption model.

Now we are engaged in a civil conflict that calls into question whether or not that framework will conclude with a satisfactory value-added progress dimension. We are here today to create situational awareness of the public and private stakeholders who sacrificed their lives towards this mission-critical endeavor.

It is therefore for us the living, to dedicate ourselves to the reintegration of a unified national command structure so that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall remain a viable vehicle for the administration of public affairs to the satisfaction of its constituents.

Martin Luther King – “I have a dream”

I have near-term visibility that one day black men and white men will affirm their co-dependent interrelation and rejoice in their optimized connectivity. I have near-term visibility of a period in which men are not judged by the color of their skin, but by a non-prejudicial review of progress as measured against stated performance objectives. I have near-term visibility.

So go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to the slums and ghettos knowing that a properly risk-managed systems approach to community structure can transform current hierarchical architectures to more horizontal social ecosystems in relation to existing baselines.

And when we let freedom ring from every standard metropolitan statistical area and every incorporated municipal entity, from every duly recognized state governing authority and every semi-autonomous ruling sovereignty, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children will be able to join hands and vocalize as in a melody, the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Released from subjugation at last! Released from subjugation at last! Thank God Almighty, we are released from subjugation at last!"

Winston Churchill – “We shall fight them on the beaches”

We shall engage in forward-theater force projection in France, we shall engage in forward-theater force projection on the seas and oceans, we shall engage in forward-theater force projection with growing confidence and growing strength. Even if, which I do not for a moment believe, our security envelope diminishes in size so as to encompass an area substantially smaller than this Island, then we shall implement deployable assets from jurisdictions external to our current  zone of conflict  until, in God's good time, a cessation of hostilities will commence with appropriately favorable terms.

J.