In an interview to 60 Minutes (which is excerpted<a title="CBS" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/05/earlyshow/main7025168.shtml" target="_blank"> in this CBS News piece</a> and which will air on Sunday, November 7), President Obama says:
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<span style="color:#888888;">"I think that's a fair argument. I think that, over the course of  two years we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff  done that, we stopped paying attention to the fact that leadership isn't  just legislation. That it's a matter of persuading people. And giving  them confidence and bringing them together. And setting a tone," </span></blockquote>
<span style="color:#000000;">Leadership is about inspiring people to follow you. Inspiration requires that you have an ability to communicate. </span>

<span style="color:#888888;"><span style="color:#000000;">I will be interested to see if the White House changes how it communicates.  And to see what the Democratic leadership does--will Harry Reid still be Majority Leader in the Senate?  Perhaps not such a great idea, since his failure to communicate nearly lost him his seat to an extreme candidate.</span>
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