Tag archive for ‘Obama’
Credit’s due where it’s due
After writing back in September (see here) at my disappointment that Labour had failed to support Adair Turner’s call for a Tobin tax, I was delighted to see Gordon Brown endorse the idea at this weekend’s G20 summit in St. Andrews.
The UK Prime Minister called for “a better economic and social contract between financial institutions [...]
Is the US Guilty in Honduras?
As a Tottenham Hotspur season ticket holder (cue hate mail…) I have a new love in my life and his name is Wilson Palacios. Palacios, a burly central midfielder whose strength and awareness have transformed the traditionally weedy Spurs team in the middle of the park, hails from Honduras and I have been intermittently trying [...]
Daniel Hannan MEP attacks the NHS on Fox News – Trash TV at its best!
I know a few of my fellow bloggers here on SEJ are preparing posts on the frankly ridiculous debate about health care in the US. Especially the attacks on the British NHS are just nuts. Even though it is certainly not a perfect system it is miles ahead of what is the current state of [...]
World Wide Webbed: The Obama Campaign’s masterful Use of the Internet
Just as President Barack Obama has shaken up the status quo in his first 100 days in office, his campaign overturned old formulas about how to win the presidency. The Obama campaign did not focus only on battleground states, but instead charged into states that previously had been solidly Republican turf. With a historic economic [...]
Strategy and Organising – Lessons from the Obama Campaign
Sun Tzu wrote that, ‘strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.’ Obama and his campaign internalised this maxim. They combined a political strategy that focussed on a singular narrative and open organisational structure with modern tools to maximise fundraising and voter mobilisation. The critical difference [...]
Where now for European Political Parties?
Political parties perform important roles in European societies. Parties are institutions in which citizens with similar political views organise, develop political programmes and actively participate in the political process. They are vital for democracy because parties offer the most clear-cut political choices that are put to the electorate. Parties are also recruitment organisations, through which [...]