During the campaign, Michelle Obama made much of her regular-person credentials, but they may now be expiring.
"How weird do you think it must be to be a rock star?" Mr. Ritchie asked, as if to establish his regular-guy credentials.
As far back as the earliest primaries, the campaign went back and forth between embracing the crowds to show off Obama's mass appeal and shunning them to emphasize his regular-guy credentials.
Users could also employ 1Password and other password management services, which make it easier to use complex passwords not tied to biographical info, and which encourage regular cycling of login credentials.
Also, Mitt Romney's attempt to beef up his credentials as a "regular guy".
Everyone has smart phones and other gadgets to transmit and receive information on, and because of this, the amount of content being produced by reporters as well as regular people with no media credentials is in constant demand.
In one case, a participant asked her regular family physician about the credentials of her prospective physicians in India and was told that they would have been educated in the United Kingdom and so their training would be similar to that of Canadian doctors.
The certificate will not be a regular M.I.T. degree, but rather a credential bearing the name of a new not-for-profit body to be created within M.I.T; revenues from the credentialing, officials said, would go to support the M.I.T.x platform and to further M.I.T's mission.
"Was he an aristocrat, or was he as good a guy as George Georgege W. Bush may be the candidate of the Republican regulars, but he, too, disclaims dynastic credentials.
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