let's have a cheer for David Axelrod!

Gotta admit, he's running Obama's campaign in a masterful way. They anticipated everything McNasty has pulled in the last few weeks and were ready. Yesterday someone ran the video of Obama telling us about it in July!

You have to have a good candidate, but you also have to have an excellent campaign manager who can show the public who that candidate is and not flub it up.

Newsweek piece "Shivs You Can Believe In" about Axelrod here: http://www.newsweek.com/id/163623


If only Kerry had had a manager like this guy instead of Schrum. It was Obama's first big decision--who to choose to run his campaign--and he made the right choice.

We're in the home stretch now, and nothing has come up that Axelrod didn't anticipate and doesn't know how to neutralize. This, plus the state of the economy which has suffered at the hands of the conservatives for eight long years, will bring Obama home.

Did you know he was also political advisor to Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor? (There's a great "This American Life" episode about Washington here: http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=84)

And it was very disheartening to see Chris Wallace allow Rick Davis to filibuster him on Fox News this morning. Chris warned Axelrod not to talk over Davis, but said no such thing to Davis and happily allowed him to talk over Axelrod.

Talk over the top of whomever the other guest pundit is, no matter what?

He hasn't been seen too much on TV lately--probably preferring to work hard behind the scenes.

He just happens to be our scum.

She says everyone there is very calm, very hard working, very dedicated. They really are no drama, but doing an amazing job. It's a top down thing.

They say a campaign takes on the tone or character of the candidate. Obama's camp is cool, together, smart, effective, while McNasty--I can imagine stress, disarray, temper tantrums, brain-dead ideas, wasted time and energy.

That's one of the things I love about him - no drama

And God bless David Axelrod's heart, but please, please, please could SOMEONE get Axelrod an Extreme Makeover? I'm not talking about plastic surgery, but just shave the 'stache and lose the combover. Please please please. Make him look as competent as he is.

But I don't think either of them are managing Obama so much as helping him manage himself. And since neither are as famous as Obama is, they have GOT to be doing SOMETHING right.

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rocknation

To me they're all a blur--I have no idea. Their roles probably overlap and mix together a lot depending on need.
Strategy has to be an important part of the campaign's success.