The Obama-McCain Matchup
Now that the fall political line up is (semi) official, what can we expect from our two candidates, and what ...
The Candidates’ Speeches Tell the Story
Last night public speaking aficionados were treated to a wonderful set of case studies from the last 3 candidates standing ...
Obama’s Speech on Race: Real Public Discourse at Last
I'd seen the clips from the speech -- the white grandmother story, and the denunciation of the extreme reviews of ...
Why are the spouses so much more interesting than the candidates?
Michelle Obama takes to the hustings and all of us start to pay attention to the race again. Why? Because ...
Is Hillary fading?
It is of course too early to predict with any certainty the outcome of the fascinating Democratic contest for the ...
Body Language and the Democratic Debate
What can the non-verbal communications from Senators Obama and Clinton tell us about the debate last night? Overall, they performed ...
The State of the Union Speech is….Irrelevant
President Bush got down into the weeds of policy in the State of the Union speech last night, and the ...
Ronald Reagan’s Famous Question, Updated
Terminal timidity seems to have overcome the Democrats, and gloom the Republicans. But both parties, preceeded by the chattering nabobs, ...
Why speak?
I was so depressed after watching John McCain read his victory speech badly -- very badly -- in New Hampshire ...
The bar is set too low.
The public speaking bar is set too low. I used to think it was only in the business world. But ...
