--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Limits of Obama's Advisor's Class-warfare Strategy by Medusa's Brain > > "Mark Cunningham's article Why Bam's Flailing, in the September > 10 New York Post, makes clear why Obama's numbers are slipping > and his solid ground has turned to shifting sands. Simply put, > Axelrod's main tactic of stirring up class warfare and playing > the race-card in a divide-and-conquer strategy doesn't work on > the national stage. Cunningham writes: > > IF it suddenly seems like the Obama campaign doesn't have > any idea what it's doing, maybe that's because it doesn't. > > Barack Obama has never run a campaign against a real Republican. > And his main strategist, David Axelrod, is way out of his areas of > expertise. > > Axelrod specializes in urban politics. He's run a bunch of > mayoral races (usually in cities with lots of blacks), plus > contests in true-blue states like Massachusetts and New York." > Read more
> http://tinyurl.com/5tufuk Good article. Don't miss reading in full the two pieces he quotes, one from the NY Post-- http://www.nypost.com/seven/09102008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/why_ba ms_flailing_128293.htm http://tinyurl.com/56y8yc --and the other from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7600000/7600592.stm http://tinyurl.com/6gkmbm
