President Barack Obama’s campaign team, celebrated four years ago for its exceptional cohesion and eyes-on-the-prize strategic focus, has been shadowed this time by a succession of political disagreements and personal rivalries that haunted the effort at the outset.
Second-guessing about personnel, strategy and tactics has been a dominant theme of the reelection effort, according to numerous current and former Obama advisers who were interviewed for “Obama’s Last Stand,” an e-book out Monday published in a collaboration between POLITICO and Random House.
The discord, these sources said, has on occasion flowed from Obama himself, who at repeated turns has made vocal his dissatisfaction with decisions made by his campaign team, with its messaging, with Vice President Joe Biden and with what Obama feared was clumsy coordination between his West Wing and reelection headquarters in Chicago.
The effort in Chicago, meanwhile, has been bedeviled by some of the drama Obama so deftly dodged in 2008 — including, at a critical point earlier this year, a spat that left senior operatives David Axelrod and Stephanie Cutter barely on speaking terms — and growing doubts about the effectiveness of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
More at…..Politico, believe it or not
I was just reading a part of that book via Powerline Blog.
Seems even Nancy Pelosi realizes that Obama will subordinate our national defense to his own re-election efforts.
Read it and weep.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/americas-national-security-takes-a-back-seat-to-obamas-political-survival.php
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campaignis a mess. There – fixed it.Nan G.
If Obama looks like he’s going down…there will be war in the Middle East by mid October…count on it. This guy is SO full of self-regard that he will force a war on the world to save his election. That’s who we are dealing with.
Obama is dissatisfied with Biden? Too funny! He chose someone that was sure to not overshadow him (which in his case meant reaching pretty far down in the barrel) and *now* he’s not happy that the guy is a clown. Oops!
@Nan G: Do you take everything you read at face value?
They must mean the Romney/Ryan campaign is a mess. I have listed many links to Romney’s lies, but the righties still want to vote for him. All they can say, in unison, is, “…the proof is right in front of you in the form of failed unemployment figures, national debt, and no economic stimulus”. Well, you know, that’s not actually proof of anything—it’s just the right-wing Kool-Aid that they’re drinking.
Liberal1[objective]
why don’t you equate it with the mistakes of the OBAMA CANDIDATE?
THAT WOULD TELL ON YOU AND HIM