THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY ONE YEAR ON: SUBSTANCE OR STYLE?
Dr Helen Pringle
TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 12:30-1.30PM

During the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton criticised her opponent Barack Obama for being "all hat and no cattle". Many commentators one year on repeat the same criticism of President Obama as lacking in substance. In the second Talkabout for 2010, Helen Pringle assesses the record of Obama's first year as president, and provides an overview of his specific successes and failures. However, she also focuses on the question of presidential style: her argument being that the Obama style of leadership is distinctive but because unprecedented, is often misrepresented.

Dr Helen Pringle is the Presiding Member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW. Her research has been widely recognised by awards from Princeton University, the Fulbright Foundation, the Australian Federation of University Women, and the Universities of Adelaide, Wollongong and NSW. Her main fields of expertise are human rights, ethics in public life, and political theory.