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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Reset Partisanship and Anger…..

Lots of anger out there. In the past days, I have received missives from four good friends of different ages, backgrounds, experience and communities (although all US citizens). They are all liberal Democrats and early Obama supporters, and all four of them sent angry, even furious diatribes against right-wing politicians, commentators, and George W. Bush.

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 4:02 PM | 3 Comments
Tags: obama, courage, leadership, politics, emotion, republican, geithner, congress

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Leadership and Passion

Much has been made of Barak Obama's coolness under fire, his capacity for staying calm when attacked, rising above the fray, distancing himself, what we call Getting on the Balcony.

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 7:08 AM | 2 Comments
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, biden, politics, dukakis, emotion, passion

Friday, October 3, 2008

Scapegoating and the Bailout Blame Game

Palin's repeated references last night to "Wall Street greed and corruption" was just the latest in a string of diversionary finger-pointing and blaming.

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Posted by Gregory Maher on 7:05 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, courage, palin, adaptive leadership, politics, bailout

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Obama and the race vote…..

Big conversation topic these days among my liberal friends is about what "those people" will do when they get into the privacy of the voting booth and no one else will know if they cannot vote for an African-American for President. I became a Republican in college because I thought my liberal Democratic friends were the least tolerant people I had ever met.

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 7:05 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, leadership, adaptive leadership, politics, mccain, election, bailout, republican, congress

Monday, September 29, 2008

What a Day for Leadership!

So, in the roll call vote 2/3 of the Republicans and 40% of the Democrats took the no-risk route and voted their politics today. So, predictably, Obama and McCain blamed each other and each other's party.

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 7:04 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, politics, mccain, election, bailout

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