Posted on 01/23/2010 12:50:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON — President Obama is reconstituting the team that helped him win the White House to counter Republican challenges in the midterm elections and recalibrate after political setbacks that have narrowed his legislative ambitions.
Mr. Obama has asked his former campaign manager, David Plouffe, to oversee House, Senate and governor’s races to stave off a hemorrhage of seats in the fall. The president ordered a review of the Democratic political operation — from the White House to party committees — after last week’s Republican victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, aides said.
In addition to Mr. Plouffe, who will primarily work from the Democratic National Committee in consultation with the White House, several top operatives from the Obama campaign will be dispatched across the country to advise major races as part of the president’s attempt to take greater control over the midterm elections, aides said.
“We are turning the corner to a much more political season,” said David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president, who confirmed Mr. Plouffe’s role. “We are going to evaluate what we need to do to get timely intelligence and early warnings so we don’t face situations like we did in Massachusetts.”
As Mr. Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union address on Wednesday and lay out his initiatives for the second year of his presidency, his decision to take greater control of the party’s politics signals a new approach. The White House is searching for ways to respond to panic among Democrats over the possible demise of his health care bill and a political landscape being reshaped by a wave of populism.
Yet improving the tactical operations addresses only one part of his challenge. A more complicated discussion under way, advisers said, is how to sharpen the president’s message and leadership style.
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It is still the economy stupid and everything your regime is doing is making a bad situation worse.
Expect a big run on Che Guevara posters and T-Shirts again! Marxism in America might be on life support but it still isn’t dead yet.
Running Congressional campaigns out of the people’s White House against the people. How unseemly can a so-called president get.
I knew he was going to try this crap ... Waterloo.
Leadership style? BWAHAAAAAAHAAAAAA!
As for the message, sharpening it won't help. Gutting it would, but that won't be on the table.
A more complicated discussion under way, advisers said, is how to sharpen the president’s message and leadership style.
What a pile of crap.
Pithy and to the point.
It was the economy that un-elected the Republicans, and it is the economy that will un-elect the Democrats this fall. The only question is, how big a fall will they take?
Maybe Obie is wee-weed up.....
What leadership style and message from the Potus Obama??? He has none, other to destroy the economy of the United States and establish death panels to rid the country of us old folks. Seniors, have you checked the prices of your drug prescriptions lately. The increase is due to the under-the-table deal “Populist” POTUS Obama made with the large drug companies Pharma, Searle, Pfizer, etc., in return for their supporting “Obamacare”!!! This POTUS Obama is no more a “Populist” then me eating swiss cheese on the moon!!!! Flim/Flam man is more suitable to this empty suit, anti-American!!!!
Real "change we can believe in!"
EVERYONE is on to them now...This is a horrible idea, I’m so glad they thought of it!
He’s trying to figure out how to more eloquently tell the same damn lies. Such incredible arrogance I have never witnessed in my lifetime. To him we are all so stupid that this (refining the msg) is suppose to work? Uh-hmmm, right.
New York Slimes
nuff said
“A more complicated discussion under way, advisers said, is how to sharpen the president’s message and leadership style.”
Hire Leni Riefenstahl. She did a great job with Hitler.
Oh wait, she’s dead. And so are the RATS!
No, it’s not, but Plouffe and the douche-baggers have a serious headache to deal with. You can’t put the tootpaste back into the tube, and you can’t re-create the Obama mystique that hornswoggled so many naifs in 2008. It only works once, guys, and when it’s dead it’s dead. Obama’s magic coach has turned into a pumpkin. Obama has changed from Cinderella to an ugly stepsister. And there ain’t no handsome prince or glass slipper in sight.
This time it won’t help him....
You got that right.
Wonder if Sugar Daddy Soros has his check book out to buy the fall elections, as he did for BO? And then the Kenyan has the gall to whine about corporations “flooding the electoral process” with cash, when he made sure he didn’t have to abide by the campaign finance limits by taking in tons of foreign money.
Remember something....
You are dealing with crazies here, who think they can convince the sheeple of ANYTHING, as long as they frame the talking points correctly.
It’s why Obama will blatantly LIE to the cameras, then immediately do exactly the opposite.
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