Okay, I can’t remain silent any longer about the Obama craze. Every media pundit you turn to is analyzing, forecasting, mimicking, or scratching their heads about this junior senator from Illinois. What is it about his communication style that causes 20,000 people to turn out to hear him as if he were a rock star [...]
On this President’s Day, I thought it might be a good idea to reflect on possibly one of the most often quoted speeches in history: The Gettysburg Address. As you read it, notice the power of the simple language. Of the 278 words, 203 are only one syllable. Four score and seven years ago our [...]
Everybody spins. I’m not knocking it. If we didn’t spin, we’d never get a date, a mate, an employee, a job, or a contract. Spin is putting the best face on things. And that’s just what the presidential contenders did late Tuesday evening and Wednesday, coming off the grueling campaign trail to hear the voters’ feedback in [...]
