Posted on 12/11/2008 9:29:43 PM PST by Enchante
Plouffe on the Rev. Wright controversy: "We failed as a campaign to do the proper research there. … We hadn't looked through every page of every sermon. … The ferocity of it took us by surprise, and I think the press could see we were taken by surprise." The initial round of videotape of Wright, he added was as bad as when Wright "went on his little media tour" thereafter. By the general election, however, "the public had digested Rev. Wright. I don't want to minimize it; it gave them some indigestion, but they'd digested it."
Axelrod, after receiving a draft of Obama's race speech at 2 a.m.: "I e-mailed him back and said, 'This is why you should be President."
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Davis impresses me less than ever but he did have a turkey of a candidate.
“This is why you should be President” (barf)
How about on him?
Gee, and here I thought the lesson was, "Don't let liberals and the MSM select the Republican nominee before red states even get a chance to vote in the primaries."
Yeah, well, as I said there was some real nonsense spouted in that forum.
I agree with your “lesson” and I don’t think much of what Rick Davis had to say.
Perhaps no one could have saved McCain from himself, but Davis certainly wasn’t the one to do so.
Poppycock, if Zero attended Wright's services just once a week for 20 years, he heard over 1,000 sermons from Jeremiah Bull$4it. If Zero was so dense that he didn't recognize the racism and hate, he is far too stupid to run the executive branch and foreign policy.
McCain never should have gotten past NH.
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