The "Fab Four" of all Campaign Staffs in the world

[missanemone]

David Plouffe, David Axelrod, Annie Dunn, and Robert Gibbs were interviewed by "60 Minutes" about the campaign.


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I wonder if Plouffe and Dunn will end up working in the White House ... They all better be back together in four years!

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[cookie_nut]

Yeah I hope they all get jobs in the White House. They're too smart to let go.

I heart Gibbs so much after he pwned Hannity. He needs a job just for that.

[bord_du_rasoir]

Yeah, that was pretty good.

But, maybe I'm being anal about this, but I really wish Gibbs would have made the point that just as Hannity claims not to agree with Andy Martin, while providing him the same platform to speak as he has other controversial figures from the left and right, Obama does not agree with everything William Ayers has ever done, just as he does not agree with everything ever done by the board founder Walter Anneberg or any of the various Republicans who sat on the board.

That Hannity still has a show and that the Ayers smear got the play it did not only from Hannity, but Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the McCain-Palin campaign, and the Republican Party, is a testimony to the stupidity of the American people and their willingness to ingest utter crap. People really should be smart enough to think through and reject such tactics outright.

[potatoboat]

I'm watching this whole thing tonight

[arabian]

I've read in various articles that Plouffe is staying in Chicago and would no longer be working with Obama after the campaign. Has that been hinted at changing anywhere?

[sopardonme]

they seem like really nice people, and not...fake? so often when you listen to campaign spokesman's it's cringe worthy because of the talking points and how robotic them seem, i've never felt that way watching anyone from obamas team

[bord_du_rasoir]

It seems these people weren't hired for their media-manipulation, spin skills, but for their getting-things-done, crafting/organizing-a-worthy-campaign skills, which is reflected in the choice of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff. He really does attract the best and the brightest, who gets things done respectfully, not up-is-down, spinster types.

[natalie_faye]

I agree. I always felt like Tucker Bounds, Nancy Pfotenhauer and the whole bunch of them were just talking point regurgitation machines. Tucker, especially. He looked like he'd stayed up all night studying for his exam on Fox or CNN the next morning. Not to mention he'd deliver those talking points like a smug kid in a national spelling bee.

[bord_du_rasoir]

It makes me feel good that the decision to address the Rev. Wirght media bonanza the way Obama chose to was really all his decision. He not only wrote the entire "More Perfect Union" speech himself in order to address the emerging media narrative but the decision to do so was a top down executive decision