http://talkradionews.com/2008/06/obama-is-building-a-persuasion-army/ The Talk Radio News Service is the only information news service dedicated to serving the talk radio community. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:46:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://talkradionews.com/2008/06/obama-is-building-a-persuasion-army/comment-page-1/#comment-9125 Dr. Rick Kirschner Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:15:08 +0000 http://talkradionews.com/?p=19681#comment-9125 The tactical advantage of having a persuasion army is potentially big. Why? For people struggling to get by, dealing with the challenges of a worsening economy, or just trying to keep their lives together day to day, the media circus is at best an afterthought, and the horse race of presidential politics a point of perceived irrelevance. By engaging people with a grassroots approach, and if done wisely, Obama has the opportunity in this information age to deliver a stunning new kind of campaign and result to the body politic. It would be a service to all of us to have the current system shifted to something more functional, as the smear and dirty politics campaigning of the past has gotten us only more polarization and ignorance of the real issues facing us. I, for one, am eager to see someone break out of the mold, think different and run a different kind of campaign, as this puts pressure on others to keep up or fall farther and farther behind. Obama already demonstrated the power of this in his race against Hillary Clinton, defying the odds and turning a long shot candidacy of a relative newcomer in a pre-ordained race into an upset that still has many scratching their heads. Can he do it again? The tactical advantage of having a persuasion army is potentially big. Why? For people struggling to get by, dealing with the challenges of a worsening economy, or just trying to keep their lives together day to day, the media circus is at best an afterthought, and the horse race of presidential politics a point of perceived irrelevance. By engaging people with a grassroots approach, and if done wisely, Obama has the opportunity in this information age to deliver a stunning new kind of campaign and result to the body politic. It would be a service to all of us to have the current system shifted to something more functional, as the smear and dirty politics campaigning of the past has gotten us only more polarization and ignorance of the real issues facing us. I, for one, am eager to see someone break out of the mold, think different and run a different kind of campaign, as this puts pressure on others to keep up or fall farther and farther behind. Obama already demonstrated the power of this in his race against Hillary Clinton, defying the odds and turning a long shot candidacy of a relative newcomer in a pre-ordained race into an upset that still has many scratching their heads. Can he do it again?

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