Mrs. Bush and Mrs. McCain at the RNC

Cindy McCain and Laura Bush’s appearance at the Republic National Convention proved a couple of things. First, the Bush Administration learned something from Katrina about how to react in a national disaster crisis. Second, it was good public relations for the possible next occupants of the White House. But there are enough political pundits weighing [...]

Michelle Makes Nice

Democratic National Convention, Denver, 2008
It doesn’t matter which side of the political fence you sit on, who can argue with the oratory skills of Barrack Obama? His speech performance at the DNC 2004 took him from obscurity-except for Illinois and Washington-to the national stage almost overnight. Wednesday night he delivered the most important speech of [...]

Willie Wows on Wednesday

Day Three of the Democratic National Convention
Love him or not, voted for him once, twice, or never, Bill Clinton delivers an impacting emotionally charged speech like nobody else. He lived up to the Bill Clinton speaking magic on Wednesday night at the DNC. No one, not even the “Great Communicator,” President Reagan or any [...]

Is it over for John Edwards?

What happens when yet another politician gets caught having an extramarital affair? Americans are no longer shocked by infidelity in people with power and influence, but if the accused happened to be running for President of the United States it becomes a breaking news story.
Everyone in the media has varied emotions about John Edwards’ affair. [...]

All Candidate Kerry Needs Is An Excellent Leadership Coach

(originally posted October 31st, 2006)
We’re in the heat of the election season with November 7th looming around the corner, so politicians might want to heed the advice from the column I wrote for The Daily Business Journal prior to the memorable election between John Kerry and George W. Bush in 2004:
It hasn’t happened yet, but [...]