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\"\"<\/a>
George Lakoff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe choice is not doing or<\/span> communicating. It is doing and<\/span> communicating\u201d I wish these words were mine, but they belong to George Lakoff<\/a>, the guru for progressives in properly framing our language so that conservatives don\u2019t mis-define the landscape.<\/p>\n

Lakoff is talking about President Obama\u2019s response to the oil rig disaster in the Gulf, particularly in the president\u2019s press conference on Thursday, May 27.<\/p>\n

Lakoff summarizes<\/a> the president\u2019s narrative this way: This is a tough, unprecedented situation, but I’m in charge, and I’ve been very busy, in the Situation Room where I belong, not on TV. I’m fully competent. I’m a good policy wonk – ask me any question about details. I’m honest. I admit my few policy mistakes. I think about the details day and night. Don’t think I’m oblivious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lakoff goes on to state:<\/p>\n

It’s not that he said nothing to tie them together.\u00a0 But there was no home run, no unifying narrative, no patriotic call to the nation on the full gamut of issues. Instead, there were only hints, suggestions, possible implications, notes of concern – as if he had been intimidated by the right-wing message machine.<\/p>\n

And yet Obama, of all political leaders, could have done it, because he did before in his campaign.<\/p>\n

The central idea is Empathy. Democracy is based on empathy, on people caring about one another and acting to the very best of their ability on that care, for their families, their communities, their nation, and the world. Government must also care and act on that care. Government’s job is to protect and empower its citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every president brings his (or hopefully her) comfort zones into the White House.\u00a0 President Obama is cerebral and has been methodically trying to solve a problem that unfortunately is largely out of his control.\u00a0 But Lakoff is concerned about perception, and that\u2019s where the president has fallen short.\u00a0 Consider what actions the previous two Democratic presidents have taken in showing their connection to the American people and that they care:<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton had ways of sharing people\u2019s tears; of emoting in ways that others did.\u00a0 Perhaps the best example of this was after the Oklahoma City bombing.\u00a0 While Clinton mounted an organized (and successful) effort to address the immediate problem of capturing the perpetrators, he connected with Americans by sharing their outrage, despair, and desire to \u201cend the madness.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Jimmy Carter seemed aloof at times and not always in touch with the \u201cheartbeat of America,\u201d he did something that may well have been the \u201chome run\u201d that Lakoff and others felt was necessary and missing so far from President Obama\u2019s response.\u00a0 As president, Carter continued something he had done as a candidate: actually staying in the homes of regular American citizens.\u00a0 He shared dinner and breakfast with them; talked about what was on their minds and on his.<\/p>\n

When President Obama went to south Louisiana on Friday, May 28, he spent only a few hours there.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t go out into the most distressed areas, in the Bayou marsh.\u00a0 He also did not pick up on the advice of pundits and perhaps advisors that he follow Jimmy Carter\u2019s example and arrange to stay with people who were suffering from the effects of the rig explosion and oil leak.\u00a0 Bill Clinton said and could act as if he could \u201cfeel your pain.\u201d\u00a0 While we can\u2019t expect Barack Obama to emote in ways that seem contrived to him, he might have taken the step of staying with a family that makes its living off the economy of the Gulf Coast and that is now in distress.<\/p>\n

Lakoff tried to paraphrase president\u2019s thoughts as \u201cI’ve been very busy, in the Situation Room where I belong, not on TV. I’m fully competent. I’m a good policy wonk. I’m honest.\u201d\u00a0 While Lakoff is somewhat critical of Obama\u2019s priorities, the president\u2019s commitment to studying and implementing policy is one of his characteristics that I admire most.\u00a0 He is doing his \u201cday job,\u201d and as citizens of the United States, we are entitled to expect him to do that.\u00a0 Parenthetically, this is why it is extremely irritating to me when he leaves the White House to (sometimes semi-surreptitiously) attend fund-raisers for candidates or the party.\u00a0 It borders on shameful (though probably necessary in the absence of campaign finance reform) for the president to shill for money.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Billy Nungesser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the president does his day job, I wonder about others who have become darlings of the media during the oil rig disaster.\u00a0 Billy Nungesser<\/a> is president of Plaquemines Parish (County) in Louisiana.\u00a0 It is almost as if he came from central casting as the south Louisiana insider; I\u2019m almost expecting him to take John Goodman\u2019s place on “Treme” next week.\u00a0 But he does a great job of expressing a reasoned outrage about what has happened, with most of his ire directed at BP.\u00a0 I see him doing interviews with Anderson Cooper (his favorite) and others from CNN, as well as virtually every other cable and broadcast news outlet .\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to imagine anyone describing the situation more vividly than Billy Nungesser.\u00a0 But at the end of the day when he\u2019s doing his final interview with Anderson, I have to ask myself, \u201cWhat did he do in his day job today?\u201d\u00a0 While he has apparently become good friends with Barack Obama, at times he appears to be the \u201canti-Barack,\u201d because he is \u201cfeeling others pain\u201d while the President is trying to devise solutions to take away people\u2019s pain.\u00a0 Too bad they can\u2019t be melded.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Thad Allen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another is Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen<\/a>.\u00a0 He seems to be extremely competent and committed to ensuring that the federal government is doing everything that it can to keep the government\u2019s \u201cboot on BP\u2019s neck,\u201d while using much more delicate language.\u00a0 He was widely praised for his work in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.\u00a0 But with the BP disaster, he seems to be on television so much that he might be out of the information loop. In fact, he was in the dark when BP suspended its \u201ctop kill\u201d approach to plugging the leak on the first day of the effort.<\/p>\n

So as it might be advisable for President Obama to see if he can spend more time with more citizens in the Gulf Region, it might be good for Billy Nungesser and Thad Allen to hold one press conference a day for all media representatives and then perhaps a single one-to-one interview with someone like Anderson Cooper.\u00a0 When it\u2019s 2:00\u00a0 in the afternoon, I\u2019d feel better knowing that they are doing their \u201cday jobs,\u201d as is the president.<\/p>\n

None of this is easy.\u00a0 JFK called courage \u201cgrace under pressure,\u201d which is what he exhibited during the Cuban missile crisis.\u00a0 But that grace may have been learned from his failure during the Bay of Pigs.\u00a0 We all have our good moments and our not so good ones.\u00a0 Let\u2019s have empathy for all who are sincerely trying to improve the situation, but no one should be immune from a little outside critiquing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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