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What Candidates Can Learn from the Stage
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ABC News' Richard Davies and Hannah Yi Report: According to British acting coach Patsy Rodenburg, Republican candidate Mike Huckabee emerged from the back of the pack to become one of the top-tier because "he listens, he's connected and that's very attractive."
(Listen to the audio from this report on ABC News Radio.)
Rodenburg tells ABC NEWS, "Whether we like what he's saying or not, he is actually with us and we feel human when we are in that presence."
She says many politicians have much to learn from actors. Huckabee's success has as much to do with his comfort level as his socially conservative policy views. "He's got something very powerful," says Rodenburg. "He is in second circle."
"Second Circle is my code for being present, being engaged and connected," she says. It's also the title of her new book, and her ideas on politicians as performers are based on many years of coaching actors such as Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes. "
You can be on stage talking to two thousand people, and everybody feels you're with them in second circle. Every great performer that you've ever seen that you will remember years later is in second circle," she explains.
Most politicians are usually third circle people, says Rodenburg. "They push their energy out. They often speak too loudly, and look past you." She classifies those in the first circle people as shy and disengaged.
When Hillary Clinton's eyes teared up in a New Hampshire diner this month, shortly before the primary, "she suddenly dropped her third circle front, " says Rodenburg. "Suddenly we saw into her, and we saw her as a human being."
January 24, 2008 in Tancredo, Tom, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (1)
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Is suggestive thinking dangerous?
Bill Clinton drops - Hit job'?
The former president also reacted angrily upon being told that Dick Harpootlian, a former South Carolina Democratic chairman and Obama supporter, had called the Clinton campaign "reprehensible" and suggested it had borrowed tactics from Lee Atwater, the late South Carolina GOP strategist who famously practiced negative campaigning.
IMO (I think the Clinton's owe America and Obama an apology, It i funny when things are going good theyare one in a team, but when things are going bad, SORRY YOU HAVE TO ASK HIM like they dont sleep together anymore????)The Clinton's words are hedging on dumb talk.
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Structured in Right Way?
"It's OK, I'm for tax rebates, put some money in people's pockets, though it has to be structured in right way," Clinton said.
IMO (So that she gets credit for it, if it doesn't go her way it gets stalled and we go into a recession and she will shift the blame on someone else) Hey Hillary it is already a done deal!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ed | Jan 24, 2008 2:32:50 PM
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