Monday, September 28, 2009

Newsweek article


I came across a Newsweek article that so reflects some of the thoughts I had when President Obama was being elected.  It's an article by Howard Fineman "The Limits of Charisma - Mr President, please stay off TV".   In his article, Fineman said, "Despite his many words and television appearances, our elegant and eloquent president remains more an emblem of change than an agent of it. He's a man with an endless, worthy to-do list—health care, climate change, bank reform, global capital regulation, AfPak, the Middle East, you name it—but, as yet, no boxes checked "done." This is a problem that style will not fix."  He also said "The president's problem isn't that he is too visible; it's the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube."   I totally agree.  I've always felt that actions do speak louder than words.

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