Al Giordano: The Competence Gap

[Coexist]

A major party presidential campaign has hundreds of millions of dollars at its disposal. It can hire the best talent available at every level. When it screws up the simple things, that's an alarm bell to pay attention to the existence of a larger, behind-the-scenes, dysfunction.

Yet even in the case of, say, a town council election of scant resources, a union picket line or a modest demonstration or press conference for a political cause, every political pro, ad agency, PR flak and community organizer knows the importance of what we call "visuals."

You simply do not send your candidate or product out in front of the public and the media without constructing and controlling the panorama that will be in the camera angle. Political campaigns have an entire staff category devoted to that task: the advance team. Both parties have a cadre of professionals for that work at their beckon call. It's the first and easiest thing about organizing an event, and to mess it up is always an act of political malpractice.

In the case of the multi-millionaire presidential campaign of Senator McCain last night, that malpractice rose to a level of incompetence that sabotaged the most important night of his quest for the White House.

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[Beregond2]

1. Good points,

but he'd be a bit more convincing if he would proof-read his articles before posting. "Beckon call?"

[JBoy]

2. I loved this article!

I hadn't thought much before about the potential power of text messaging supporters during governance. Opens up a whole new way to help bring about change.

BTW, that picture looks to me like some little action figure outside the "international hall of justice", or maybe Gotham city hall.

[Cha]

3. Brilliant, Al Giordano! The whole piece!

Thanks, FLDem.. I loved reading his thoughts on the Obama mccain Competence Gap!

I forgot about the June 3rd Jello and cottage cheese night for mccain..deja vu for green backdrop.

I saw DUers who watched the speech keep asking "What's that Green in the background?!" :bounce:

[Coexist]

4. I love popping over to his site

he is very insightful

[Cha]

5. He's one of the very BEST and I was hoping more

DUers would be discussing this article just 'cause it's brilliant.

:party: :kick: