Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Reacting to Mass. Rebellion, White House Beefs Up Outside Political Arm
ABC News ^ | January 23, 2010 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 01/24/2010 6:50:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Still reeling from the upset victory of Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., earlier this week, President Obama is augmenting the political operation at the White House by bringing several key 2008 campaign aides back into the fold.

Senior White House officials tells ABC news that Obama for America campaign manager David Plouffe will soon set up shop at the Democratic National Committee to oversee House, Senate, and gubernatorial races this fall, in what is shaping up to be a difficult political environment for Democrats.

"Plouffe is one of the smartest guys in the business, he has the full trust of the President and his team, and we appreciate any and all help he can give us," White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said. "This is a very challenging political environment and you want all the best players on the field."

In the wake of the loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat -- the first time a Republican has been elected to represent the Bay State since 1972, when President Obama was 11 -- the president has ordered a review of the Democratic Party's entire political operation.

In addition to the return of top aides such as Plouffe, other mid-level operatives from the 2008 Obama campaign who helped bring candidate Obama victories in Iowa and in Feb. 5 "Super Tuesday" primary states, will be enlisted to work on campaigns to keep expected Democratic losses to a minimum, aides said.(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2010; congress; davidplouffe; democrats; ma2010; massachusetts; obama; scottbrown
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-30 last
To: 2ndDivisionVet

We hide behind stonewalls here in New England - till we see the whites of their eyes.


21 posted on 01/24/2010 7:27:32 PM PST by Sparky1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

22 posted on 01/24/2010 7:30:29 PM PST by Cobra64
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ZOOKER

Exactly.

He’s coming aboard to show them how to be better liars.


23 posted on 01/24/2010 7:36:41 PM PST by Bratch
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Plouffe is one of the smartest guys in the business, he has the full trust of the President and his team, and we appreciate any and all help he can give us," White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said. "

High praise indeed,

24 posted on 01/24/2010 8:04:54 PM PST by depressed in 06 (Tea parties today, Lexington tomorrow.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lmr
assembling the same team from 2008 isn’t going to make any difference, either. Obama isn’t the same candidate he was in 2008

Not true. The problem the Obamination has is that his "08 team" was working with a blank slate. Obama was a virtual unknown back then and his image could be molded in the press (and was.)

Now the majority of Americans see the Obamination for who he really is and they don't like him, his administration or the commiecrats as a whole.

They can try to reshape Obama's image but there just isn't enough polish to take off the tarnish on Obama.

25 posted on 01/24/2010 8:07:19 PM PST by bayliving (1 if by land, 2 if by sea and 3 if by our own government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, I am reminded of the old saw “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

The LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist Bastards fooled us in ‘08.

That is not likely to happen again!

The LSMFBs will not be able to lie to us again and get away with it. They will be called out, made to answer for their false pronouncements and held accountable for voting against America.

There will be a lot of ex-Representatives and ex-Senators looking for work in January, 2011!


26 posted on 01/24/2010 8:15:30 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ZOOKER
"Solution: Hire more PR people. "

Good one!

But, that's the mentality of this moronic bunch; their radical policies fail, and they think it's because they didn't lie enough.

Actually, hiring the same dude whom he credits with getting him elected is not too smart, when most people are starting to rue the day he got elected...that would make Ploffe and "accomplice in the crime".

But, whoever this "PR Consultant" is, he'd better be damn good...he's got his work cut out for him....

Run Aground

27 posted on 01/24/2010 8:32:36 PM PST by FrankR (There will be no jobs until it is profitable for employers to hire people....PERIOD.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

When Plouffe was selling a guy nobody ever heard of, wrapped in ribbons of "Hope" and "Change," he was a success.

This time he's selling a guy that people have been watching for a year, and he's wrapped in chains named "recession" and "unemployment" and "deficit".

Good luck with that.


28 posted on 01/24/2010 8:56:38 PM PST by Nick Danger (Free cheese is found only in mousetraps)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bayliving
Not true.

Perhaps you misunderstand, because I don't find anything in your post that I disagree with, so if you could please be more specific in the implied disagreement, I would be happy to address that.
29 posted on 01/25/2010 4:53:00 PM PST by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: lmr
You said that Obama isn't the same guy as he was during the 08 campaign.

My only argument (if you really want to call it that) is that Obama is the SAME person he was back in 08 only that the unwashed masses didn't know or want to know just what kind of person he really is.

That's all. He cannot be remade because he has been shown by his own actions as the person he really is. Any attempt to "change" him will fail. The only thing he could do to change the way a majority of people feel about him right now is to run as fast as he can to the center right.

That being said, I don't think Obama is capable of doing that. He will only get harsher and more egotistical as the rest of his term plays out. That's all.

Sorry if you thought I was trying to argue with you.

30 posted on 01/25/2010 6:20:19 PM PST by bayliving (1 if by land, 2 if by sea and 3 if by our own government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-30 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson