I knew I was sunk when I went from a mental fence-sitter to a relatively quiet advocate of a certain presidential candidate. I didn’t set up a protest outside of my house, though. Despite my asserted virtue (however ill thought at times) of not taking sides in many matters, there are of course many things [...]
September 11, 2008
The Public Relations Society of American threw down a challenge yesterday to both presidential candidates. In a statement, PRSA Chair & CEO Jeffrey Julin, on behalf of the PRSA Board of Directors, asks the campaigns to sign a formal pledge obligating them to abide by the PRSA Code of Ethics in all communications, stating that: “The [...]
August 30, 2008
“The ideologies of the left and right took shape before Darwin, before Mendel, before anyone knew what a gene or a neuron or a hormone was. Every student of political science is taught that political ideologies are based on theories of human nature. Why must they be based on theories that are three hundred years [...]
March 13, 2008
Contrast how New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has handled his demise with Geraldine Ferraro, who also recently resigned from working on the Hillary Clinton campaign. Ferraro recently said of Barack Obama: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in [...]
March 11, 2008
Whether he will weather the storm–as of this writing, there’s talk of him potentially resigning–New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s brief statement yesterday alluding to his sexual escapades with a prostitute was appropriately to the point. Rather than engage in histrionics, denials and explanations, Spitzer was correct to preempt the story with his own admission. By keeping it [...]
November 4, 2008
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