White House privately plots 2012 campaign run(plans to paint unflattering picture of candidates)

Politico ^ | Wednesday February 24, 2010 | Mike Allen

[Bigtigermike]

President Barack Obama’s top advisers are quietly laying the groundwork for the 2012 reelection campaign, which is likely to be run out of Chicago and managed by White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, according to Democrats familiar with the discussions.But the sources said Obama has given every sign of planning to run again, and wants the next campaign to resemble the highly successful 2008 effort.

David Axelrod, White House senior adviser, may leave the West Wing to rejoin his family in Chicago and reprise his role as Obama’s muse, overseeing the campaign’s tone, themes, messages and advertising, the sources said.

David Plouffe, the Obama for America campaign manager, described by one friend as "the father of all this," will be a central player in the reelect, perhaps as an outside adviser. The DNC sees Republican challengers ramping up earlier than ever and has decided to begin defining potential opponents early. Operatives are already assembling research and drafting unflattering narratives to push about the leading possible 2012 candidates.

Anita Dunn, former White House communications director, will be intimately involved, too. Brad Woodhouse, the Democratic National Committee’s communications director, has rising stock and is a logical choice to be communications director for the reelection campaign, the sources said.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett are likely to remain at the president’s side in Washington, while exercising major influence over the campaign. Pfeiffer, communications director of the last campaign and always a trusted insider, has a higher public profile every day.

Aides expect Obama to hew to a similar schedule. A president’s reelection campaign — “the reelect,” as Obama intimates are already calling it — is a massive, lavishly funded machine that hires hundreds of people and spends hundreds of millions of dollars to carry out the mechanics of a national campaign, while the candidate and many of his top aides continue their day jobs of running the free world.

Obama's campaign will get a head start from the large machine he has built at the DNC, including Organizing for America, the successor to his campaign grassroots operation.

[Bigtigermike]

"....The themes for Obama’s campaign are not yet chosen, but a top adviser said not to expect a radical surprise: “He knows who he is."

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[gov_bean_ counter]

“He knows who he is."

... and now, so do we.

[jersey117]

Now that the hope and change is all but gone and he has no accomplishments to speak of..... the empty suit has no alternative but to demonize his opponents.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Great to know Zero is hard at work trying to save our country. /s

[Bigtigermike]

HA! That’s why I pointed out that line, how stupid can He be to say something like that?

[ScottinVA]

They can “theme and message” all they want, but they’re not going to fool nearly as many voters in 2012.

[alicewonders]

Now that the hope and change is all but gone and he has no accomplishments to speak of..... the empty suit has no alternative but to demonize his opponents.

Yes, and the big problem is going to be that he has unlimited funds and an adoring media to do so. How much stimulus money has been cubby-holed just for this purpose? Any candidate of ours is going to have to have some pretty massive resources to counter this.

[Diogenesis]

IMPEACH the Marxist Kenyan undocumented liar.

Proof of DNC Corruption ignored by DOJ and SCOTUS
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Altered voting certificates by Pelosi for election fraud for the DNC

Exhibit 1: (the original, but discarded) states:
”THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the
United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the
following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice
President of the United States respectively and that the following candidates for President
and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions
of the United States Constitution:”

Exhibit 2: specifically leaves out the qualifying requirement:
”THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the
United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the
following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice
President of the United States respectively:”

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Exhibit 3: More altered documents where the natural born requirement
Check off box … was removed.

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“D.C. Tech Official Is Accused of Bribery(Birth Certificate Forgery)
A D.C. government official and a business executive were arrested yesterday on bribery
charges involving city technology contracts that included "ghost" workers and
kickbacks, federal authorities said. Until recently, the technology office was headed
by Vivek Kundra, who has taken a job as President Obama's chief information officer.
A White House official confirmed last night that Kundra has taken a leave of absence.
“Yusuf Acar, 40, who has worked in the technology office since 2004, was charged with
bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and conflict of interest.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Hibarger told a federal judge that Acar is a flight risk because agents
seized $70,000 in cash in his house and because in recorded conversations, he boasted that he could easily flee to his native Turkey.
Acar also told the informant that he could use
computers to create fake D.C. birth certificates, Hibarger said. “

[OpusatFR]

““He knows who he is.”

Yes. He’s the Brittany Spears of politics, inventing himself over and over again.

Those video tapes and web bites of his constant backtracking on issues is there and is not going away.

Campaign, again? He never stopped.

He’s not governing. That’s the point.

[Bigtigermike]

“Operatives are already assembling research and drafting unflattering narratives to push about the leading possible 2012 candidates.”

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So it must be Mitt or Huckabee, since they already sent researchers out a long time ago looking up dirt about Sarah

[cripplecreek]

America has a lot clearer idea who he and his syncophants are now too.

It might just be why there are so many democrats on the endangered list.

[Carley]

LOL.......he knows who he is and everyone else is Bush.

[NCC-1701]

Don’t be so sure about that.

[Bringbackthedraft]

since they already sent researchers out a long time ago looking up dirt about Sarah .................................... They’ll dig even deeper into the dirt, if they can’t find anything more on SP, they’ll just make it up. Who ever gets the most mud slung at them, is the candidate they fear the most.

[moose2004]

“....and wants the next campaign to resemble the highly successful 2008 effort.”

Not gonna work, lofty rhetoric and blatant lies only work once. He’s a well defined extreme left wing liberal, conservatives know it, moderates know it and most importantly Independents know it.

[jersey117]

Wish there was a top notch election attorney willing to take this on. The in-your-face corruption really ticks me off.

[Stosh]

I thought he was going to concentrate on being a really bad one-term president instead of being a pretty mediocre two-term president.

Or did I get that wrong somehow?

[Theodore R.]

No, they don’t know who he is. The American people are so gullible that they will fritter away their freedom falling for one charlatan after another.

[Bigtigermike]

Glad that you brought that up...because I’m thinking that the “Clinton fatigue” could be in play concerning Sarah, Remember that there were so much “scandal and controversy” around the Clinton’s from the beginning that people were sick and tired of the attacks and nothing was as effectively shocking even from of “Monicagate”....Rush was one of the one’s predicting “Clinton fatigue” back then.

[Lazamataz]

I see bad news and good news in this:

1. BAD NEWS: He is gearing up for elections awfully early.

2. GOOD NEWS: He intends to have more elections.