Stump speech (politics) Stump speech (politics) A political stump speech is a standard speech used by a politician running for office. Typically a candidate who schedules many appearances prepares a short standardized stump speech that is repeated verbatim to each audience, before opening to questions. The term derives from the early American custom in which candidates campaigned from town to town and stood upon a sawed off tree stump to deliver their speech. In presidential campaigns in the United States, a candidate's speech at his or her party's presidential nominating convention usually forms the basis for the stump speech for the duration of
Speaker for the Dead having fallen in love with Libo but fearing that he will find out from Pipo's files what led to his death, marries another colonist, Marcos Ribeira, so as to lock her files from being opened, under colony law. Emotionally driven, she then makes a call for a Speaker for the Dead for Pipo. Ender responds to Novinha's call, and as Valentine is pregnant with her child, he decides to travel alone save for an artificial intelligence named Jane that appears to live in the ansible network that enables faster-than-light communications. After relativistic travel, Ender arrives at Lusitania 22 years later,