The Identity Circle Blog

An identity for Obama

Posted By: Larry Ackerman on May 07, 2008 @ 02:50 AM | Comment (2)

"What identity could Barack Obama choose that will be both sincere and successful?" This is the opening line of a recent article from Chron.com entitled, The Search for an Identity that works for Barack Obama. My answer? The one he was born with. Politics labors under the weight of its obsession with "becoming" something or someone other than who you already are. Why? What's wrong with being yourself?

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Keywords: brand, identity, integrity, Obama, politics

What Eliot Spitzer is hiding isn't just about sex

Posted By: Larry Ackerman on Mar 12, 2008 @ 06:52 AM | Comment (2)

Eliot Spitzer had a lot going for him, at least, as measured by his attempts to right many seeming injustices that, to most of us, needed fixing - outsized pay packages to undeserving CEO's among them. In some ways, it's a shame that Spitzer got outed for having a night (a few hours?) with a high priced prostitute; on balance, he was doing a lot of public good.

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Keywords: identity, politics, scandal

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