and what he did giving the speech the way he did it is only brought the issue back front and center at a krcritical time of e race. more he needs to go and have people like you thinking new about him, think he s a nice, interesting, likable, accessible guy. if he kblt convince people like you, chris, that s what he is he will have a hard time winning the nomination. if he does, he can t win the general election against barack obama. he has i m not knocking these guys. they re fine people. dukakis has it, gore had it. meeting them in the green room backstage, they re just like us here. they have regular conversations. they can be charming and funny. they re like normal people and yet the minute they get before the camera, they do this dudley dooright number. you interview them with a pencil. you know them off camera. i mean a pen. he s not he s got flaws as a kand ditd. one is he doesn t come across as
each student left with a plastic wallet-size card with my advice. this is what i told the graduates today. for your children, for your hopes for them, and also for yourselves and your ambitions in life, they are based on watches politicians close-up for decades. watching, i said, paying sharp attention to how they get where they get into high positions of power and leadership. number one show up. woody allen was right. when you want something, go there, don t e-mail, don t phone, put yourself in their face. if you want a job, show up for it. nobody is going door to door asking what you re good at, what your dreams are. nobody. number two ask. it comes down to looking somebody in the face and telling them what you can do for them. you, you ve got to ask to do it. it s like asking for a date, that s the easier way to get a no. ask yourself what s the easier way to get a no? e-mail. second easiest, over the phone.