Yesterday 100,000 people showed up for a rally for Barack Obama in St. Louis, MO. On the same day 7,000 people showed up to listen to John McCain in North Carolina. This has been a constant theme that has played itself throughout this campaign period. This has been the basis of the McCain’s Camp’s assertion of Obama as ‘celebrity’- somehow inferring that this is undesirable. While I understand how the word is used I decided to check the actual meaning in the dictionary.
Definition: the state of being famous
Using this definition, the natural conclusion could be that both men are celebrities- with the international attention focused on this election, are they both not known to all around the globe? And yet the McCain camp may be on to something. If Obama fits the bill of ‘celebrity’, in stark contrast to McCain (by his own insistence), then by inference, perhaps McCain may be its opposite- ‘infamous’.
Definition of Infamous: Having an extremely bad reputation
Like energy attracts like energy. Energytic leaders understand that the positive energy of hope, passion, enthusiasm, confidence, affinity and collaboration brings out the innate positive energy that defines who we are. The negative energy of anger, fear, and hatred creates conflict, blame and less than desirable results.
The difference in numbers of people showing up at these rallies are a direct result of the attraction of the internal energies of these two leaders.
Perhaps Energytic leaders should strive for celebrity status.
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