Funny: in February, I led off a presentation at the Ragan Speechwriter’s Conference with the story of how Bob Rae was booed loudly (and embarrassingly) at the Skydome when he appeared to congratulate the Blue Jays on winning the World Series.

Now the same thing has happened to Dick Cheney.

So, for both Dick and Bob, and the folks who book them, here are the salient points from that presentation [PDF]: seven reasons to give a speech, and seven reasons not to.

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