Source: Politico
Article: "Relentless: How Barack Obama Outsmarted Hilary Clinton"
Author: Roger Simon
Politico's Roger Simon just published an (as always) great piece on what will go down in the books as the campaign that changed the direction of 21st-Century America...
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"In the summer of 2006, Patti Solis Doyle offered David Axelrod a job. Hillary Clinton was running for reelection to the Senate and Solis Doyle was her campaign manager, but everybody knew Clinton was soon going to run for president. And Clinton wanted Axelrod onboard.
Axelrod was a highly experienced and successful political consultant and just what Clinton needed. But he declined. Presidential campaigns were mentally taxing, physically exhausting and emotionally draining. There were easier ways to make a buck.
Unless. “I wasn’t planning to work in a presidential race,” Axelrod told me, “but if Barack might run, well, he would be the only guy to cause me to get in..." (full piece)
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Stagekid
Article: "Relentless: How Barack Obama Outsmarted Hilary Clinton"
Author: Roger Simon
Politico's Roger Simon just published an (as always) great piece on what will go down in the books as the campaign that changed the direction of 21st-Century America...
--
"In the summer of 2006, Patti Solis Doyle offered David Axelrod a job. Hillary Clinton was running for reelection to the Senate and Solis Doyle was her campaign manager, but everybody knew Clinton was soon going to run for president. And Clinton wanted Axelrod onboard.
Axelrod was a highly experienced and successful political consultant and just what Clinton needed. But he declined. Presidential campaigns were mentally taxing, physically exhausting and emotionally draining. There were easier ways to make a buck.
Unless. “I wasn’t planning to work in a presidential race,” Axelrod told me, “but if Barack might run, well, he would be the only guy to cause me to get in..." (full piece)
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
Stagekid
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