Sunday, January 20, 2008

2008 presidential race

While Hillary Clinton is a huge front runner in the race for the 2008 White House, Barak Obama holds quite an air of charisma, especially with black voters.

He holds a vocal command over his audience with a deep and hard hitting inflection.

Regardless of whether you are democrat or republican or any other party line, you must admit that there are only a limited number of candidates who have the charisma to control a presidential audience.

When you are speaking to people on a national level, you have to talk on a different level than when you speak to a region or township.

Obama manages to transcend this boundary quite while who someone who is not seasoned in Washington.

Perhaps since the Iraq war, CNN and Fox News pundits, as well as many others, only manage to talk about the issues so much. A big area of recognition that is probably overlooked, is a candidates ability to sell.

It's clear in the world of sales, the sales industry and business in general, that in order to win, you have to have PR ability. Ability to speak and control the conversation, to have the credibility, to have the integrity or appearance thereof so that you may convince people that you are the one to take advice from.

Monday, January 14, 2008

New England storms

Parts of New England get as much as 20 inches of stormy snow with freezing temperatures prevailing.

This is not news however since December of 2007 was the snowiest on record in some regions.

A woman died and her child was injured in Maine during an accident. What else would be expected in such conditions?

It's interesting to see how much of a contrast there really is between different regions concerning the weather.

Area of Maine that got the most snowfall include Gardiner, Denmark and Auburn which got from 14-20 inches.

The people say that it is a fast moving storm.

The advisory includes staying indoors when possible and avoiding prolonged exposure to such harsh elemental conditions.

More than 9,000 lost power in Massachusetts and even more in Rhode Island.

If you were involved in these storms, please tell us quickly what it was like.

New England weather, weather news, north east snowstorms

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Blogger gets flogged

It's hard to believe that some countries do not have the freedom of speech right we like to think we enjoy here in the states.

A Saudi Arabian blogger who was arrested for his political blog, may be freed soon.

The man, Fouad Al-Farhan, operates the website alfarhan.org and he posted an email to his own blog saying that he was faced with possible arrest for supporting a group of reform advocates.

He was accused of supporting terrorism.

It's a shame that there are places like this that won't allow the free discussion of ideas by the people and citizens of the state or country.