All Entries Tagged With: "President Obama"
Town Hall or Community?
How do we create innovation through words? How often do we overuse words? How original are we with words, and when do words lose passion? I watched a panel discuss President Obama’s use of “town hall” meetings recently on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and the pundits all praised the President for inventing the concept, [...]
Saturday Night at Amtrak
President Obama is calling for increased federal funding to improve Amtrak, the passenger train company in America, especially in what’s called the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston. He wants to give Amtrak $1.3 Billion. Sounds like a pretty good idea but I doubt if the President has ever ridden on an Amtrak train between [...]
Just Say, “Creating Jobs for America”
Our government’s leaders in Washington, D.C., fail so miserably when it comes to finding words that will inspire unity of purpose and build bipartisan consensus across the country. Quite the contrary, the wealthy, well-paid, and expensively-tailored pols in the White House and on Capital Hill – regardless of political party – have a style of [...]
Veteran’s Day
It was the image in the New York Times of President-elect Barack Obama embracing Tammy Duckworth, a veteran of the Iraq war, that will create a lasting memory about this Veteran’s Day. Ms. Duckworth had lost both legs in the war, and today is director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs. They were at [...]
