http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1022
It’s actually about more than just inaugural speeches, and it’s phrased very well, ex:
“It’s not so much that the superficial rules for writing promulgated Orwell and by Strunk and White are toxic and meretricious (though they do poison young minds, and should be condemned for that); it’s that if you think they are deep and important and determinative of quality, it is YOU that will get hung up on trivialities of form rather than important aspects of content.”
