Stump speech (politics) BOMFOG. An example is provided by the Washington Post on a 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama speech, complete with time line, segmentation and videos. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/02/26/GR2008022600417.html. 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
Panty tree in a 2005 Grand Marnier advertisement, which stated, "You just recognized a pair of panties in the Sun Down Bowl tree… The conversation is waiting." In 2010, the panty tree at Vail had to be chopped down to make way for a new ski lift. Grand Marnier is not the only company to capitalize on attention-getting bra trees. In 2012, Axe ran an advertising campaign on ski lifts across Canada that stated, "Please Feed the Bra Tree." Panty tree A panty tree (or bra tree or bra/panty tree) is a tree underneath a ski lift decorated with bras, panties, and