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Whose rhetoric was hollow?
June 16, 2017Numerous times in the six months prior to the last US presidential election, I heard Mrs Clinton proclaim that...
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A trail of excuses and missed opportunities
June 8, 2017In the April 5th edition of The Financial Times, columnist Edward Luce penned a thought-provoking article entitled “Beware of...
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Using a narrative-based approach to explain the failure of Hillary Clinton’s campaign
May 25, 2017In the next few posts, I plan to go deeper into my explaining my conviction that Hillary Clinton’s loss...
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Emotion and effectiveness in the discourse of Donald Trump
May 4, 2017In the last post, we focused our attention on the power of emotional discourse. As we noted, a significant...
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Why is personal narrative so important in politics?
February 2, 2017For me as a blogger, the American presidential election and its aftermath have become a gift that just keeps...
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How to lose an election
December 22, 2016John Kerry’s storytelling failure: As we observed in the previous post, I noticed a similar phenomenon in the presidential...
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Hillary Clinton’s failure was as a storyteller
December 16, 2016As we saw in our previous post, Barack Obama used his personal stories—uplifting and aspirational tales garnered from his own...
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The president as master storyteller
December 1, 2016At the end of the previous post, I cited Barack Obama as an example of a public official who...
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Storytelling in political campaigns
November 26, 2016This week, I have continued to watch analysis of Donald Trump’s stunning and unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton. It…
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Pope Francis’ story for the future of the Catholic Church
November 29, 2013Once again this week, news from the Vatican drew me back to writing about Pope Francis. I continue...