Posted on 05/06/2008 7:29:50 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
How Hillary found her voice - she hired a voice & drama coach By Kathy Miller | The Hillary Project Posted 3 months ago email to friend tool nameclose tool goes here By: Mary Ann Akers
After her big upset in New Hampshire last month, Hillary Rodham Clinton famously declared, "I found my own voice." What she also found was her own voice coach.
According to Clinton campaign's latest federal campaign disclosure report, the Democratic presidential candidate paid $7,500 to voice and drama coach extraordinaire Michael Sheehan in October.
Sheehan, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama who once was the associated producer of the Folger Theater Group, also helped shaped the voice and image of Bill Clinton, who Sheehan features prominently on his web site. If anyone could help Clinton soften her style, as the campaign sought to do in the weeks leading up to the New Hampshire primary, it would be Sheehan.
According to Campaign & Elections magazine, Sheehan is "a political candidate's best hope for developing the techniques to appear confident and in-control in front of a television camera or a live audience. While some pundits criticize candidates for using this type of service, people like Lloyd Bentsen, Ann Richards and even Bill Clinton have all benefited from his expertise."
Sen. Clinton also sought Sheehan's guidance for the publicity tour for her memoir, "Living History," in which she describes her upbringing as well as her "terrible, painful experience" in the White House.
Sheehan's clients include such media companies as the Washington Post and AOL, as well as big oil companies, HMOs, insurance companies and defense contractors.
"At some point, every kind of leader faces an important audience from behind a lectern or in front of a television camera," goes the pitch on the Sheehan Associates site. "A confident, relaxed ability to communicate effectively can be your competitive edge."
Sheehan was traveling abroad Monday and unable to talk to us about his work with Clinton. No word back from the Clinton campaign on whether Sheehan did, indeed, help the New York senator find her own voice.
SOURCE: Washington Post
Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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They cannot refuse you at polling places if you wear them
What if you go there in an “I hate Hillary and Obama” T-shirt? Guess you just suffer the glares of other voters?
For some reason I thought there were some rules about that. Like ‘signs’ having to be so far away, etc.
LOL!
Love that one! hahahaaa!
Lol! You afraid wife will show you up? You should feel lucky to have such an intelligent better half. ;)
Anyone with half a brain had to already know this .
Sheesh, Hillary looks like she’s morphing into Mad Maddie Albright in the “I Know Nothing” photo.
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