{"id":406,"date":"2008-09-29T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/?p=406"},"modified":"2008-09-29T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:11:08","slug":"leadership-in-an-obama-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/09\/leadership-in-an-obama-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership in an Obama administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama campaign has a unique opportunity to show us what leadership in his Internet-savvy administration might look like. Americans are panicking now over the crisis on Wall Street, panicking but completely at a loss as to what we should do. This is Obama&#8217;s chance to show us real leadership through running a serious of Web spots and TV ads that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explain, in simple English, what is happening on Wall Street, and how that affects Main Street;<\/li>\n<li>Use graphics and Ross Perot charts to illustrate rather than use words;<\/li>\n<li>Outline the options, and the pluses and minuses of each one in as non-partisan way as possible;<\/li>\n<li>Do it in the calm, serene, and non-partisan manner in which Obama excels &#8212; and which the citizenry really need right now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assert high-minded leadership at a time when everyone else is embroiled in politics;<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate Obama&#8217;s belief that we are mature and intelligent;<\/li>\n<li>Spread like wildfire &#8212; because we are all desperate for answers, and no one &#8212; including the MSM &#8212; is giving us any.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obama has run a spectacular, Internet-infused grassroots campaign for the Presidency. I&#8217;m ready to see how that translates into leadership and governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama campaign has a unique opportunity to show us what leadership in his Internet-savvy administration might look like. Americans are panicking now over the crisis on Wall Street, panicking but completely at a loss as to what we should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/09\/leadership-in-an-obama-administration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}