Posted on 03/31/2009 1:55:41 PM PDT by Zakeet
More Roosevelt… Less Jimmy Carter… that’s what this brand needs!
Folks, there’s been a lot of scrutiny of President Obama in these first 100 days. It goes with the territory. The attention is brutal no matter who’s in the Oval Office and it always will be.
Exposure is something most marketers covet . . .but over-exposure especially of the wrong features can be deadly for a personal brand.
That is why, Barack Obama –whom I’ve called a first-rate poli-marketer (see the past few weeks FOX Forum posts here)– had better stop behaving like Jimmy Carter and start emulating Roosevelt.
In the last week and a half, he’s said and done things and appeared in ways that could lay the foundation for a negative brand image that no one will be able to reverse.
I can hear the peanut gallery objecting: “But President Obama isn’t oozing Carter-sque doom and gloom.” Fair enough. But he’s oozing something worse: he’s oozing too much intelligence.
Yes, too much intelligence. Intelligence is not a bad thing, but a president should never put too much of it on display.
Jimmy Carter’s mistake wasn’t really the doom and gloom, it was his professorial, uber-competence and his legendary micro-managing. The doom and gloom was an inevitable product of his putting too much intelligence on display.
Basically, it was his publicly-aired honesty and wandering intellect that got him into trouble. These traits obscured the sacred/universal qualities of the presidency and the need for strongly directed leadership. It actually diminished the presidency in the electorates’ eyes.
Instead of seeing assured leadership, the American people saw Hamlet — a bright guy constantly re-evaluating and refining his positions (something that presidents and all other effective leaders should basically do behind closed doors and well out of sight).
(Excerpt) Read more at foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com ...
So that’s how Tiger won all those tournaments? Come on black has nothing to do with it. The guy would be just as incompetent if he were pink.
He’s oozing something alright, but it isn’t intelligence. I believe it has the odor of Communism.
Oh it is mourning in America and will be mourning until the SBOTUS is gone
Oh dear, is it satire? If so it’s the second time I’ve been caught today. Best shut the computer down.
Oh Sh!t... Laughing so hard I pissed a little.
The problem then becomes, what are we going to do about it? Someone is going to have to rise up and say follow me, and lead the militias to the firing line. This is getting to be totally ridiculous. We Americans are sitting here on our hands whining while Obama destroys our nation. What is it going to take for the masses to rise up and say ENOUGH ALREADY. OUT! OUT! OUT! Back to Africa where you came from.
“Is Obama Too Bright To Be President? “
Now let’s not be too hasty - if he’s willing to use that as a reason to immediately move on to something for which he’s better suited, I’ll be happy to agree he’s too “bright” to be president.
That headline is the perfect exemplar of the phrase "assumes facts not in evidence"...
Is Obama Too Bright To Be President?
This is satire right?
Someones idea of a joke?
Did the writer ever listen to this man speak?
Has the writer ever looked at any of the programs this man has suggested to fix problems he obviously has no knowledge about?
Come on, Obama is as close to a moron that this Nation has ever had in the White House.....
I'd rather have the fired GM CEO running the country than Obama...who couldn't manage GM!
And his college transcripts?
How can you be considered smart when practically everything you know about how the world works isn’t so?
Obama and Hillary—the world’s smartest people.
The author needs to check his calendar. April Fool’s Day is tomorrow!!
That's just what we need; Obama to shift from emulating a crappy president who screwed things up for about a decade to a crappy president who screwed things up on a huge scale for 2/3rds of a century and counting.
But he could never have been elected if he were a pinkie.
Why not? Clinton was a pig.
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