2 posts tagged “barak obama”
The Obama campaign made a good move today by launching a "Fight the Smears" website to counter all the false rumours. As I've repeatedly witnessed in business, media, and politics, the best way to fight bad press, screw-ups, or just plain false allegations is to be straight up and face the issues head-on.
"What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon – that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first." - Barak Obama, June 3, 2008
In a email list I'm on, we were analyzing the oratory style of Barak Obama. As it turns out, he tends to use a lot of statements that basically go like this:
"It's not A for B. It's B for A"
All this reminded me of a character called "The Sphinx" from a grossly underrated film from a few years back.
Decide for yourself.
Barak Obama: With the changing economy, no one has lifetime
employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.The Sphinx: To learn my teachings, I must first teach you how to learn.
Barak Obama: My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to
represent you to Washington.The Sphinx: He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.
And in homage to an underrated movie:
Mr. Furious: Okay, am I the only one who finds these sayings just a
little bit formulaic? "If you want to push something down, you have to
pull it up. If you want to go left, you have to go right." It's...The Sphinx: Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn
to master your rage...Mr. Furious: ...your rage will become your master? That's what you
were going to say. Right? Right?The Sphinx: Not necessarily.
