Posted on 09/04/2010 10:57:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
David Plouffe's days of spending time with his family may be nearing an end again. His president may need him in his 2012 re-election campaign.
Plouffe, who was the manager of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, says Obama hasn't yet given a thought to winning a second term, and that the president hasn't started to build the massive campaign machinery he'll need to compete against whoever the Republicans nominate.
"I can tell you that the president is not concerned with his reelection," Plouffe writes in the new paperback version of his book on the 2008 election, The Audacity to Win. "We have no reelection campaign in the wings. We'll build it when the time is appropriate."
That time likely is coming soon. Plouffe will speak in Sacramento on Sept. 13, kicking off a seven-state tour promoting the new edition of his book. Through the fall, he'll try to help Democrats in the fall elections for control of Congress. And then, assuming Obama calls, he'll presumably play a major, albeit still undefined, role in his second presidential campaign.
"If the president wants me back at some point later this year or next year, we're ready for that," he said in an interview.
Plouffe was one top member of the campaign who didn't take a job in the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Well, Duh. His approval ratings have dropped faster than any president in history in just 20 months. He crossed over into negative territory a full 15 months ago, and will never see positive territory again.
Whaddya think, David? Has he got a chance at a second term?
The American people have seen Obama for the fraud that he is. He doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being re-elected.
So Soros employs all of them.
Hussein, McCain, Steve piece of S*it Schmidt and Plouffe. Nice job Arizona in voting McCain back in.
He was a fall guy - set up to lose in 2008.
“He was a fall guy - set up to lose in 2008.....”
Of course he was. Obama’s been the best thing for the Rinocratic Oligarchy to hit DC since the New Deal. “Bammycare was the prize.
How can he win a second term w/out his papers???
I’m trying to figure out how to make an income making forum comments.
My wife sure wishes that were possible!
I was just trying to be funny, I figure any of my constructable logical comments will become an inspiration to someone else, they could be anyone anywhere, and I would never know if I had made any changes at all.
Best to consider my act of being sociable, in real life I don’t mix very well and basically I am a loner. matter of fact after I’m thru watching a recorded Nationwide race I am spending the night at work cleaning up my heavy equipment repair shop.
can’t afford no stinkin vacation this year, its Obamas fault.
Thats because he aint running in 2012, it will be Hillary.
“After dropping out of the University of Delaware in 1989 to jump on the campaign trail, Plouffe, 43, went back this year and got his bachelor’s degree in political science. At the same time, he’s joined fellow Delaware dropout Steve Schmidt, who was a top adviser to Republican John McCain in the 2008 campaign, in helping launch a new center for politics at the university.”
It just underscores that the alleged two party system is a mere rivalry to cover the entrenchment of a mandarin elite. Nothing new here.
The media picked our candidate and the Dems planted Schmidt to seal the deal.
“David Plouffe’s days of spending time with his family may be nearing an end again. His president may need him in his 2012 re-election campaign.
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Through the fall, he’ll try to help Democrats in the fall elections for control of Congress. And then, assuming Obama calls, he’ll presumably play a major, albeit still undefined, role in his second presidential campaign.
If the president wants me back at some point later this year or next year, we’re ready for that,” he said in an interview.
Plouffe was one top member of the campaign who didn’t take a job in the White House.”
Either I’m being a bit picky and/or the paper and/or Plouffe aren’t telling the whole story and/or are parsing words. Perhaps the President hasn’t called for him to work on the 2012 campaign and he hasn’t been at the WH, but it appears that Obama has previously engaged Plouffe as an outside adviser to the President (for more examples of similar stores, just do a search under Titles for Plouffe:
Plouffe to play expanded advisory role for Obama
01/23/2010 10:37:31 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 31 replies · 987+ views
AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/23/10 | Ben Feller - ap
WASHINGTON – The White House is turning for some political help to the man who led Barack Obama’s winning presidential campaign. .. Plouffe (pluhf) will have an expanded role as an outside adviser to the president. Plouffe’s main job will be to help coordinate strategy .. for this year’s House, Senate and gubernatorial elections. ..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435636/posts
Plouffe returns (Thug machine returning for the coming storm)
01/23/2010 1:20:28 PM PST · by STARWISE · 71 replies · 1,871+ views
Politico ^ | 1-23-10
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe will take on an expanded outside role as an adviser to the president, an administration official tells AP.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435731/posts
From the article: “At the same time, he’s joined fellow Delaware dropout Steve Schmidt, who was a top adviser to Republican John McCain in the 2008 campaign, in helping launch a new center for politics at the university.”
Psalm 144: “It just underscores that the alleged two party system is a mere rivalry to cover the entrenchment of a mandarin elite. Nothing new here.”
Bingo! These political hacks play both sides of the game and laugh at ALL of us for falling for it EVERY time.
Has anyone heard of McCain distancing himself from Schmidt???
Plouffe: Palin would be ‘catastrophic’ as 2012 GOP nominee
Posted: November 16th, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Barack Obama’s former campaign manager and John McCain’s former campaign manager agree: Sarah Palin would be “catastrophic” for Republicans if she is the party’s presidential nominee in 2012.
Steve Schmidt, McCain’s former campaign head, first made the assertion in October, telling a Washington audience that the GOP “could have a catastrophic election result” if Palin wins the Republican nomination.
David Plouffe, Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, echoed Schmidt’s remark in a newly published interview with The New Yorker.November 16th, 2009
October 21, 2009
Former rivals Plouffe, Schmidt team up
Nearly a year after Election Day 2008, the campaign managers for John McCain and Barack Obama, who spent last year at war, have joined forces.
McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt and David Plouffe, his counterpart on the Obama campaign, are teaming up to develop a political communications center at the University of Delaware. Both men attended the university, though they did not graduate.
The two political operatives are working together to develop a curriculum combining political science, communication, marketing, sociology, and other subjects.
The effort comes as both Schmidt and Plouffe are in the process of obtaining their full bachelor’s degrees from the university.
“It’s a privilege to get a chance to work with David and the talented women and men at the University of Delaware to help create a center that will help students study our political system and maybe inspire a few of them to participate in our nations political life,” Schmidt said in an e-mail to CNN.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/steve-schmidt/
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