Obama’s nature to make disagreements agreeable. It seems he looks beyond the moment to how are we all going to work together later.

Quite the change from the Rovian tactics (or is that strategy, John) of slash and burn and salt the earth and rule through an agitated

minority rather than a true majority. peace, mjh

side, and I adore Obama please don’t get me wrong here, but he has a “verbal tic” he might want to try to avoid using so frequently. By

way of explanation, one trial technique used by some attorneys, when questioning an expert witness, is to ask a series of questions to

which the expert will have to answer “No.” This is done so that the jury is left with the impression of negativity from that witness.

Obama might do well to reconsider his tendency to start his responses with the phrase “John is absolutely right, . . .” I realize he adds

his ironic punch a while later, and, I don’t mean to be insulting, but I think it’s not unfair to say that his Mark Anthonyesque

rhetorical technique may be a bit too subtle for some. Instead many viewers may be left with the impression that, well, Obama really

thinks “John is absolutely right.” And that’s, to apply the technique to a Martha Stewartism, a bad thing.