{"id":5007,"date":"2010-11-03T20:07:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T01:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2010-11-03T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T01:42:58","slug":"president-obama%e2%80%99s-press-conference-lets-find-those-areas-where-we-can-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/11\/03\/president-obama%e2%80%99s-press-conference-lets-find-those-areas-where-we-can-agree\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama\u2019s Press Conference: &#8220;Let&#8217;s Find Those Areas Where We Can Agree&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"282828\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/xml\/video\/22690\/config.xml&#038;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/plugins&#038;path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/xml\/video\/22690\/config.xml&#038;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/plugins&#038;path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf&#038;share_url=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/president-obama-s-press-conference-lets-find-those-areas-where-we-can-agree\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This video and accompanying text is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/president-obama-s-press-conference-lets-find-those-areas-where-we-can-agree\" title=\"White House web site\"><strong>on the Whitehouse Web site<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I see that the President is still struggling to learn what I was saying in my previous post, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/11\/03\/explain-explain-explain\/\"><strong>Explain! Explain! Explain!<\/strong><\/a>.  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.<\/p>\n<p>In my previous post <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/15\/interview-of-klaus-schwab-chairman-world-economic-forum\/\"><strong>Interview of Klaus Schwab, Chairman, World Economic Forum<\/strong><\/a>, I said that Schwab&#8217;s last sentence finally convinced me that he got it.  I didn&#8217;t post it then, but that last sentence was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would say political leadership today is very much an educational job<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This came in response to Charlie Rose&#8217;s lead in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe 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&#8217;s at stake for them and what&#8217;s the challenge for them as participants in the process<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before he got to his very last sentence, Klaus Schwab replied to Charlie Rose:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI fully agree.  I think we have now a tendency where politicians have a tendency to simplify the issues instead of being straight forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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