Entries Categorized as 'Campaign ‘08'

Obama’s TV Appearance Nod to Lagging Power of Newspapers

March 19, 2009

 It’s clear that Pres. Barack Obama’s appearance tonight on “The Tonight Show” is an attempt to reach a broad spectrum of Americans. While the president is definitely dragging the Oval Office into the 21st century with his weekly video chats, Web sites, and Twitter account, it seems that this decision says more about the decline […]

Would a World’s Fair Revival Improve U.S. Image?

February 20, 2009

At a time when U.S. international relations are weak and foreign policy heavily criticized, Manuel Delgado, CEO of Houston-based Hispanic marketing and research firm REALITY, proposes the ‘ultimate’ PR recovery tool: a U.S. expo.
According to an article from the 2/19 The Wall Street Journal, Delgado isn’t the only one to back this “solution”:
“A group in […]

Remembering the Inauguration

February 6, 2009

It has been two weeks and three days since the inauguration of President Barack Obama.  It’s hard to keep track, since the time of that jubilance and shining optimism has been replaced by secretary nominations (and regrets), tax scandals, unemployement figures, missteps and some lost magic.  But I wanted to end this week with a bit of […]

Obamarama

January 21, 2009

For most people, the first day on the job is filled with tension, uncomfortable, and awkward. Yet today was the first day of work for the 44th president of the United States. But if Obama is the newbie of the office, it’s quite apparent that he’s already been to the staff party, mingled with the […]

Social Media and Barack Obama: A Powerful Combination

November 21, 2008

“Thomas Jefferson used newspapers to win the presidency, F.D.R. used radio to change the way he governed, J.F.K. was the first president to understand television, and Howard Dean saw the value of the Web for raising money,” said Ranjit Mathoda, a lawyer and money manager who blogs at Mathoda.com. “But Senator Barack Obama understood that […]

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