The best summation I’ve read of where a lot of us think the Obama presidency is.
Read the rest of this entry »Instant Classic
Instant classic.
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, President Obama
I like the quote below from President Obama’s interview last night with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. It’s the kind of quote people in my profession always advise clients not to make. Words like these become fodder for an opponent’s television ads. But Americans like to see humility in their leaders, so I think this one is a net […]
Read the rest of this entry »Meet the New Bus; Same as the Old Bus
President Obama is boarding a bus for a three-day visit to 2012 must-win swing-statesVirginia and North Carolina. And his handlers are insisting politics have nothing to do with the President’s visits this time, USA Today reports, so the trip can be 100% funded by taxpayers. Is it me, or is this White House reaching the surreal?
Read the rest of this entry »Is “Soft” the New “Malaise”?
President Obama has been doing interviews with local television stations for months now in the hopes of getting softer questions than he might speaking to network anchors. But that didn’t help him one bit yesterday in Orlando while speaking to the local NBC affiliate. Here, very much reminiscent of President Carter’s “malaise” remarks, President Obama inexplicably says that America has gone “soft.” […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Obama Brand Squandered
Maureen Callahan pens an 1,800-plus-word piece in The New York Post today on the rise and fall of President Obama’s brand. It’s a great read. Callahan captures a presidency at sea brilliantly, at one point equating the President with the 1980’s “New Coke” marketing fiasco. “What happened to Cool Barack Obama?,she asks. “The one who sank […]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama’s Squandered Gift
I’ve written about this once before, but it bears repeating in the wake of President Obama’s widely panned remarks following the stock market crash yesterday. This President got overexposed within weeks of being elected. The phenomenon was first pointed out to me by a friend and former Reagan White press officer who was aghast […]
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