Lynn Espinoza is a broadcast news veteran with more than a decade of media, presentation and executive coaching experience. She has developed personal coaching sessions for Fortune 100 C-level executives, corporate communicators of all kinds, doctors, lawyers and leaders in non-profit.
Blog posts on this site tagged with 'Obama'
Putting Lipstick on the Negative Ads
It seems to me there is a fair amount of passive-aggression going on, and I don’t think it serves the process of election well.
The ads, you may have noticed, have gone crazy.
“He called her a pig!”
Can we just stop for a moment? We all know that both campaigns were blowing smoke when they promised a […]
A Most Critical Speech: Is Barack a Mile Too High?
If anyone can pull it off, master-orator Barack Obama can. Still, delivering his democratic nomination acceptance speech at mile-high Invesco Field is risky.
A lot has changed since 1960 - the last time a party acceptance speech was delivered from an outdoor stadium. Then it was John F. Kennedy. The stadium was Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. “The […]
Now the Fun Starts
So Pennsylvanians did their thing. Now the real fun starts. Fun, that is, if you make a living delivering speeches, watching speeches and coaching others who need to speak well to do well. That’s what I do. And it’s why this time in the political cycle is more fun for me than a weekend at […]
A Dissapointing Debate
Oh, I had been hoping for something more. The Great Pennsylvania Debate turned into a slow rake over old coals - especially for Senator Obama. Some say the real loser was ABC News - I say voters lost the most. It was an opportunity to move the conversation forward - on health care, the economy, […]
Hell Yes, We’re Bitter! Or.. Better Know thy Audience
I’ve been watching the Clinton/Obama dust-up over those “Bitter Pennsylvanians” with great fascination. My focus has not been on the candidates, but the audience. Machine Clinton was so quick to pounce - painting a picture of an out-of-touch elitist who insulted the very fabric of rural Pennsylvania. Although she’s running with a 54% negative, she […]