Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History
by Jan R. Van Meter
Barack Obama might have been the more praised public speaker, but John McCain too delivered some crowd-pleasers on the campaign trail. The best, perhaps, was his defense of his Iraq war platform, which called for increasing the number of troops there. It had rhythm, it was simple, and it claimed the moral higher ground: “I’d rather lose an election than lose a war.”
Most of his listeners probably didn’t hear the echo of Henry Clay. The …
