This video and accompanying text is on the Whitehouse Web site
I see that the President is still struggling to learn what I was saying in my previous post, Explain! Explain! Explain!. I hope he gets it soon. If you have to get fewer specific programs accomplished, but you have more of the people with you on the ones you do accomplish, then I think that is an excellent political trade-off. The President may actually have to try to do less, but explain more.
In my previous post Interview of Klaus Schwab, Chairman, World Economic Forum, I said that Schwab’s last sentence finally convinced me that he got it. I didn’t post it then, but that last sentence was:
I would say political leadership today is very much an educational job
This came in response to Charlie Rose’s lead in:
The best leadership I know has the capacity to level and have a conversation with those people it wants to lead. The ability to take complex issues so that the vast majority of people can understand what’s at stake for them and what’s the challenge for them as participants in the process
Before he got to his very last sentence, Klaus Schwab replied to Charlie Rose:
I fully agree. I think we have now a tendency where politicians have a tendency to simplify the issues instead of being straight forward.
Here’s something he can chart and show the US population to get them yelling “We’re number 4, we’re number 4!”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101104/hl_afp/unhealthsocial_20101104145621
I have been saying recently that we need an educator in chief. What’s wrong with the Ross Perot method of putting the facts out there in graphs and charts, and explaining them?
Perhaps a graph showing when the expenditures were made plotted against the occupant of the oval office. A graph showing the employment trends similarly plotted. Graphs or charts explaining the health care bill, perhaps comparing to the UK and others.