Charisma Boys
I’ve never heard negative things about charisma. Sure, you will sometimes hear criticism about people “misusing” their charisma to push through their agendas but that’s really an objection against how a person uses (or abuses) his charisma, not against charisma itself. With the US elections drawing near and the endless coverage of their parties’ conventions, I got to see 2 instances of charismatic people, one from each party, almost being a liability to their respective candidates! The first guy was some senator, Marco Rubio, who was asked to speak in support of his party’s candidate, Mitt Romney. I don’t follow it yet, but I heard that Romney is like the exact opposite of charismatic. Rubio, again a guy I had never heard of (but got to see during a Jon Stewart interview), is the exact opposite. No wonder then that Stewart jokingly asked Rubio if his party bosses had told him to be careful when he went on-stage to endorse Romney. The exact phrase Stewart used was: “Hey, Charisma Boy