Word comes from Madison, Wis., that a telemarketer named Ted Zoromski quit his job this week over John McCain’s message. Skip to next paragraphTony Cenicola/The New York Times Gail Collins Go to Columnist Page The Conversation Times columnists David Brooks and Gail Collins discuss the 2008 presidential race.All Conversations Zoromski was prepared to interrupt people during their dinner hours to encourage them to vote Republican. But when he got the script saying “you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home and killed Americans,” he packed it in. “Even though I was paid to do it, I didn’t feel comfortable,” Zoromski told WKOW-TV

A book I read some years ago called, “No Lie, Truth Is the Ultimate Sales Tool”, by Barry Maher (not to be confused with Bill) teaches a technique called “making skeletons dance.” In essence, you learn to re-evaluate and re-frame perceived negatives by expanding your awareness of the issues. This sounds like typical salesperson double-talk, I know, but I highly recommend this book. It has aided me a lot when…