The Republican National Committee sent me a census the other day addressed to a "fellow Republican."
Joseph Romm | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
You can't debunk a myth by verbally repeating it. This is actually very basic stuff, so it is surprising that neither Obama nor his team understand it.
Nazee Moinian | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
Both Ahmadinejad and Napolean were short in stature, came from humble backgrounds, fought in wars, ruled over 70 million people, dreamed big -- and wanted to reshape the world.
Jerry Weissman | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
Everyone now is focused sharply on Obama's rhetoric, specifically having to do with verbal focus: Self- or other-directed, exclusive or inclusive, "I" or "you"?
Marc Kusnetz | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
Each time Obama steps on a new stage, the press criticizes his rhetoric as high-falutin' but devoid of content. Do they think Berlin was the perfect time to announce a new initiative for the earned income tax credit?
Adam Blickstein | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
The stakes are far higher now in dealing with a war than with adultery. But in both instances, the manipulation of words, whether active or passive, matter.
Janet Ritz | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Credit where it is due, Senator McCain. In the case of "Clear, Hold and Build," that credit belongs to H.R. McMaster and those who tried for so long to have his strategy implemented; too long for the many lives that have been lost.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics
Unlike some who think Barack's use of "sweetie" necessarily belies a patronizing sentiment toward women, I'm going with the politician frame. Very little of what politicians do publicly is accidental.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 04.12.2008 | Media
It's a strange thing, reading your first book review. You want to rush through it, find the judgment. You force yourself to read it in full. And of course you look for the pull quote.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton's oratorical skills are less easy to define than Obama's. She aims more for a plainspoken wonkiness -- sort of a midwestern political nerd.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
This morning's speech is the critical moment of Obama's campaign: Failure could trigger the kind of political collapse for which the Clintonites have been waiting.
Joel Weinberger | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
An abstract action like the passage of a bill or an executive order, no matter how important is not as powerful as the words that accompany them.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
If Obama's words are somebody else's, and do not spring from his own inspirational story, then they become as irrelevant and hollow as a Super Bowl Budweiser feel-good commercial.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
If politics is sports, then Obama's rhetoric is like a filthy fastball that opposing hitters haven't managed to hit yet. He keeps running it out there until someone connects off of him.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
Here's a good read on Barack Obama's speaking style.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
There may now be scientific proof to the adage that you campaign in poetry but govern in prose.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
The reason JFK and Ted Sorensen are the benchmark for speechwriting is that Sorensen worked for Kennedy for eight years before they entered the White House.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics
Rudy's latest ad running in Florida asserts that on -- wait for it -- 9/11, "When the world wavered, and history hesitated, he never did." History hesitated?
Bruce Kluger & David Slavin | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics
Will the senator nicknamed "O-Bambi" transform himself into a mudslinging, flame-throwing "O-bomb-a?"
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Erik Lundegaard | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics