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Like my friend Graham’s mom says, “good people find one another.” Whether you like his policies, here’s a president we can be proud of.

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Whattaguy. Yesterday, my friend Sego snapped this photo of the POTUS.

Political affiliations aside, it’s hard believing Newt Gingrich is a serious contender for the Republican crown.

Esquire magazine, September 2010: The real story is that Newt Gingrich is so deeply conflicted and strange, so erratic and unreliable, so scheming and secretive, that he’s way too much like a character out of Dostoevsky than a politician should ever be.

I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama, quite honestly, I am. Democrats eat their own. Democrats find singular issues and go, ‘Well, I didn’t get everything I wanted.’ I’m a firm believer in sticking by and sticking up for the people whom you’ve elected. If he was a Republican running, because Republicans are better at this, they’d be selling him as the guy who stopped 400,000 jobs a month from leaving the country. They’d be selling him as the guy who saved the auto-industry. If they had the beliefs, they’d be selling him as the guy who got rid of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ who got Osama bin Laden. You could be selling this as a very successful three years.

George Clooney. This is excellent PR. If you don’t tell people what to think, then they’ll believe what someone else has to say, and I’ve always felt it’s very important to put out the best possible version of yourself. But whoever it is, they’re not who they say they are. They’re a rockstar at what they do, this is why people believe in them, and that’s what defines the perception. Public figures are, to different degrees, entertainment properties. So it’s important to stand for something an audience wishes for, or believes in, and to rally others to be a part of that.

This is the largesse of “Yes We Can,” and brilliant undoing of a promise that wasn’t kept. Not because the job wasn’t done. But because people didn’t know it. Because certain persons played their part, and only when it suited them. There’s no belief without manifest destiny, and vice versa. This might explain why some disillusioned Democrats feel like they were part of a fraud on the scale of a long-term relationship. It leaves open the possibility that Obama’s legacy may be more as a player than a president. After all, hearts were broken.

For anyone who’s in the public, and I say this knowing I’ve had trouble remembering to do this in my own life, you have to declare intent when it comes to what you want your reputation to be. It should be specific. You should do it with empathy, and practice doing that not from time to time, but in all instances it’s appropriate. This is what people who believe in themselves do.

The worst case scenario is being bullied by what other people think. If you’re doing it right, you should never have to declare war. It’s not a difference of perspective, or who’s telling the story. It’s how you do it, so that you can be you in such a way that makes it difficult for other people to push you around.

My own case study as a publicist; it’s the difference between being called a professional liar, and a person who makes sure the truth is told. Is it manipulation or am I uncovering what’s real and making it valuable to others?

Conflicts I’ve waged.

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Washington Post: “The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is,” Cain said. Pressed for reasons, Cain added, “Because the more manly man is not afraid of abundance.

This guy’s a candidate? Americans must be more medicated than I thought.

Paul Krugman: Newt Gingrich Is ‘A Stupid Man’s Idea Of What A Smart Person Sounds Like’

According to Jon Stewart, perhaps Israel would be more inclined to negotiate with Palestine if they simply changed the spelling of their name to Palestein.