Mr Obama's visit, however, promised to deliver difficult messages, and he brazenly stood up for gay rights, dismissed by his Kenyan counterpart as a "non-issue".
After their commercial peak, all three bands went on to deliver "difficult" albums that alienated large chunks of their mainstream audience.
With a combination of bonhomie and persistence, he has delivered difficult messages to African presidents very persuasively in his three years in office: Convince your men to get circumcised.
Work experience will also allow you to develop your communication skills – an essential skill, as you will often be called on to deliver difficult news or clearly explain complex legal processes and entitlements.
He is also the one whom many in the campaign turn to when they need to deliver difficult advice to the elder Mr. Romney, nudge him on a strategic decision or even to tell him not to use the phrase "null set," as he did twice during the Republican debate in New Hampshire.
Levine is a pleasant, unmannered woman in her late thirties, with dark, wavy hair, wearing a denim shirt and a gathered skirt, who delivers difficult explanations of her work with such an air of directness and naturalness as to almost cause one to feel that what she is saying is self-evident.
Clinicians often feel challenged by the need to deliver difficult prognostic information to patients with a life-limiting illness while, at the same time, support their hopes.
Once upon a time, the royal courts of Europe had a court jester whose role was -- when no one else dared -- to deliver difficult truth into the face of his majesty.
Gain inspiration by learning about leaders who delivered difficult news, chose honesty over financial gain or refused to take credit for other people's work.
Both there and in Greece, jumbled parliaments came together with urgency to install more technocratic governments that are committed to delivering the difficult reforms and austerity measures demanded by the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
