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Title: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: Soul Crusher on February 24, 2010, 11:15:57 AM
www.politico.com

Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run
By: Mike Allen
February 24, 2010 04:33 AM EST


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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.

The planning for now consists entirely of private conversations, with Obama aides at all levels indulging occasionally in closed-door 2012 discussions while focusing ferociously on the midterm elections and health care reform, the Democratic sources said. “The gathering storm is the 2010 elections,” one top official said.

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 conversations are beginning, but decisions haven't been made," a top official said. "If you look at David Plouffe's stepped-up level of activity with the political organization [as an outside adviser on the 2010 races], that is obviously the beginning of the process."

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.

Other central figures are likely to be DNC Executive Director Jennifer O'Malley Dillon; her husband, Patrick Dillon, who is deputy White House political director and is likely to bring his extensive gubernatorial contacts to Chicago; Mitch Stewart, executive director of the DNC's Organizing for America; Jon Carson, national field director of Obama for America; and White House political director Patrick Gaspard.

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.

Even though the planning is still very preliminary, the campaign is likely to launch in just over a year. President Bill Clinton opened his second presidential campaign in the March after his first midterm congressional elections, and President George W. Bush opened Bush-Cheney '04 a month later in the political cycle.

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.

OFA is now a DNC project with staff in all 50 states and has worked to keep Obama's army active through engagement on health care and other issues.

Messina, the likely manager, largely ran the operations part of the 2008 campaign after joining in June, while Plouffe focused on the big picture. Advisers said Messina is valued for his relationships on Capitol Hill, where he was chief of staff to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), and advised others on their campaigns, including Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.).

“Jim can bring the bare knuckles, and he can make sure members are advocating for the president,” a colleague said.

The question of where to locate the campaign has not been decided by the president, and is the subject of much internal speculation.

Top sources say they will be surprised if the headquarters is not in Chicago, which will always hold a certain magic for the president and first lady Michelle Obama.

Obama for America senior staff felt there was a huge advantage in having distance from insiders in Washington who were constantly giving advice and asking for things. And Obama advisers see the advantages George W. Bush reaped by basing his original campaign in Austin, Texas, giving it a beyond-the-Beltway aura.

"We were able to focus on nothing but the campaign," said one Obama for America veteran who plans to saddle up again. "We didn't play the inside-Washington game, and that's a huge piece of who we are.''

However, some top advisers are skeptical that running the campaign from Chicago would have the same advantages that it did last time, since face-to-face contact will be necessary between top officials from the different arms of Obama’s operation.

''It was hard enough to get people to move there in 2007," said one Obama for America alumnus.

A compromise might be to follow the example of the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign and put the office in Virginia, a swing state.

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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Oh great, I cant wait. 
 
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: Kazan on February 24, 2010, 11:47:24 AM
This is a shining example of what is really important to politicians, and it sure as hell isn't America.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: Soul Crusher on February 24, 2010, 11:49:05 AM
This is a shining example of what is really important to politicians, and it sure as hell isn't America.

Notice not one word of jobs in that story? 
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: Kazan on February 24, 2010, 11:58:30 AM
Notice not one word of jobs in that story? 

Of course not Obama has one, why should he care.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: kcballer on February 24, 2010, 12:08:17 PM
 ::)

because no politician has ever thought about re-election give me a break.  we can't all be quitters like your favorite Palin. 
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: Kazan on February 24, 2010, 12:17:13 PM
::)

because no politician has ever thought about re-election give me a break.  we can't all be quitters like your favorite Palin. 

Maybe he should be thinking about what a mess the country is in, considering that 2012 is a ways off yet.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 240 is Back on February 24, 2010, 12:53:39 PM
Eh, everyone lives in a perpetual state of re-election.  Rove bragged on it.  Clinton did it too.  if mccain was in office right now, he'd be planning 2012 too.

there are much more relevant things to complain about.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: BM OUT on February 24, 2010, 02:23:23 PM
Annita Dunn will be part of it.Isnt she yet another leftist radical that said her political hero was Mao?Yes sir,yet one of the many communists Obama surrounds himself with.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: Soul Crusher on February 24, 2010, 02:33:36 PM
Annita Dunn will be part of it.Isnt she yet another leftist radical that said her political hero was Mao?Yes sir,yet one of the many communists Obama surrounds himself with.


Yup.  Billy - did you see my thread with the missle agency? 

Hope & Change baby!   
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: tonymctones on February 24, 2010, 07:42:33 PM
Eh, everyone lives in a perpetual state of re-election.  Rove bragged on it.  Clinton did it too.  if mccain was in office right now, he'd be planning 2012 too.

there are much more relevant things to complain about.
youre right like palins pregnancy and her kids...dont forget about her made up affair...

funny how the only time you ever say things like this is when its about obama  ::)
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 24KT on February 24, 2010, 07:50:45 PM
Notice not one word of jobs in that story? 

Of course not. I also noticed there was no mention of jelly beans or margheritas either.
But then again the article wasn't about those things, it was about Obama launching a re-election campaign.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: Soul Crusher on February 24, 2010, 08:01:18 PM
Of course not. I also noticed there was no mention of jelly beans or margheritas either.
But then again the article wasn't about those things, it was about Obama launching a re-election campaign.

Its going to be more lies, hoaxes, and nonsense from this POFS I hope gets in the way of Bidens' motorcade. 
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: tonymctones on February 24, 2010, 08:19:25 PM
Of course not. I also noticed there was no mention of jelly beans or margheritas either.
But then again the article wasn't about those things, it was about Obama launching a re-election campaign.
LOL is that how you guys spell margaritas up there? kinda weird eh
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: Soul Crusher on February 24, 2010, 08:20:54 PM
LOL is that how you guys spell margaritas up there? kinda weird eh

What is he going to run on? 

Vote for me again - you were stupid enough the first time? 
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: tonymctones on February 24, 2010, 08:25:04 PM
What is he going to run on? 

Vote for me again - you were stupid enough the first time? 
hahaha
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 24KT on February 24, 2010, 08:26:30 PM
youre right like palins pregnancy and her kids...dont forget about her made up affair...

funny how the only time you ever say things like this is when its about obama  ::)

The most successful North American politician in my estimation is Mayor Hazel McCallion of Mississauga, Ontario.
She has a 92% approval rating, and has publicly stated, she starts thinking about and campaigning for the next election, the day after she if elected. "I win the election, the day after the last one" - Hazel McCallion







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_mccallion
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: tonymctones on February 24, 2010, 08:30:33 PM
The most successful North American politician in my estimation is Mayor Hazel McCallion of Mississauga, Ontario.
She has a 92% approval rating, and has publicly stated, she starts thinking about and campaigning for the next election, the day after she if elected. "I win the election, the day after the last one" - Hazel McCallion







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_mccallion
I guess that makes it ok then  ::)

now answer the question damn it is that how you cannucks spell margaritas?  ;)
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 24KT on February 24, 2010, 08:32:23 PM
LOL is that how you guys spell margaritas up there? kinda weird eh

Actually no. lol it was a typo. I meant to type 'marguerita'.
I was spelling it the same way an Argentinian friend of my spells her name.
I assumed it is the same spelling for the drink, ...but who knows?
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 24KT on February 24, 2010, 08:42:27 PM
I guess that makes it ok then  ::)

now answer the question damn it is that how you cannucks spell margaritas?  ;)

Dude... chill out... patience please. I hadn't seen your comment yet. See above.
and btw - Canucks is spelled with only 1 'n'. That part I do know.

there are only a few differences between Canadian & US spelling.
We often include a 'u' in such words like colour, neighbour, harbour, etc.,
we often use the letter 'e' instead of 'a' as in the colour grey as opposed to gray.
And we use the french way of spelling centre instead of center. We have paycheques instead of paychecks.
We have a few French variations here and there, ...but for the most part, not that many differences.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: tonymctones on February 24, 2010, 08:48:11 PM
Dude... chill out... patience please. I hadn't seen your comment yet. See above.
and btw - Canucks is spelled with only 1 'n'. That part I do know.

there are only a few differences between Canadian & US spelling.
We often include a 'u' in such words like colour, neighbour, harbour, etc.,
we often use the letter 'e' instead of 'a' as in the colour grey as opposed to gray.
And we use the french way of spelling centre instead of center. We have paycheques instead of paychecks.
We have a few French variations here and there, ...but for the most part, not that many differences.
LOL cannucks didnt look right to me...I had a shop teacher back in Jr. high who came from canada and that duesche always finished his sentences with "eh"...you guys do that alot? was annoying as all get out
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 240 is Back on February 24, 2010, 08:50:19 PM
tony, after I said i was wrong, and agreed to stop bringing up that shit...

why do you continue to harp on it?  Do you WANT 10 threads a day on Palin?  Why intro that shit into an argument?  Why not debate the point I made, which actually happens to be related to the thread title?

Do you do this shit in real life?  When 2 friends are talking about the weather, you come up and remind the kid that he failed a test in 8th grade?  I mean, seriously?
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: tonymctones on February 24, 2010, 09:06:53 PM
tony, after I said i was wrong, and agreed to stop bringing up that shit...

why do you continue to harp on it?  Do you WANT 10 threads a day on Palin?  Why intro that shit into an argument?  Why not debate the point I made, which actually happens to be related to the thread title?

Do you do this shit in real life?  When 2 friends are talking about the weather, you come up and remind the kid that he failed a test in 8th grade?  I mean, seriously?
LOL sorry hoss simply saying your wrong doesnt atone for your idiocy  ::)

you knew at the time what you were doing was wrong and that the stories had no credibility that my friend is what makes you a duesche bag...but when obama has some idiotic shit said about him its "theres more important stuff"  ::) lol

youve earned your rep 240 deal with it bro, you are your actions and your actions are pretty shitty and inconsistent
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 240 is Back on February 24, 2010, 09:13:35 PM
no credibility?  holy shit dude... in order to defend myself I would have to trudge up the details of the palin shit...

oh fucckit.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 24KT on February 24, 2010, 09:15:01 PM
LOL sorry hoss simply saying your wrong doesnt atone for your idiocy  ::)

you knew at the time what you were doing was wrong and that the stories had no credibility that my friend is what makes you a duesche bag...but when obama has some idiotic shit said about him its "theres more important stuff"  ::) lol

youve earned your rep 240 deal with it bro, you are your actions and your actions are pretty shitty and inconsistent

Since we've all become spelling NAZI's today. I'd like to point out there is no such insult as a deusche bag.
I believe the correct spelling you're struggling for is 'douche'. French for shower. ok carry on.  :)

ps: For a hetero guy, being a douchebag may not be all that bad a thing...considering where douches get to go. :P
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: tonymctones on February 24, 2010, 09:15:28 PM
no credibility?  holy shit dude... in order to defend myself I would have to trudge up the details of the palin shit...

oh fucckit.
about as much credibility as obamas BC CT...but hey those ppl are idiots right? hmmm my point is proven again  ;)

again youve earned your rep so please dont bitch when ppl call you on it  8)
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: tonymctones on February 24, 2010, 09:17:01 PM
Since we've all become spelling NAZI's today. I'd like to point out there is no such insult as a deusche bag.
I believe the correct spelling you're struggling for is 'douche'. French for shower. ok carry on.  :)

ps: For a hetero guy, being a douchebag may not be all that bad a thing...considering where douches get to go. :P
hahah I wasnt being a spelling nazi my love i was just actually curious if your guys up north spelled margaritas like that  :-*

and ya douche bag is still a bad if your straight even considering... :-X
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 240 is Back on February 24, 2010, 09:17:33 PM
yes, the birth cert CT has some serious questions - again, when did I call them idiots?  I'm probably one of the only ppl here who says the birthers have valid points, but they have idiots running their operations and they focus on the wrong points.

ask 33 or billy... I think there is starting to pile up some Qs about it, some coincidences, etc.  plus the M$M smeared it BEFORE people heard of it - much like 911- which tells me they were seriously worried about it.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: tonymctones on February 24, 2010, 09:20:28 PM
yes, the birth cert CT has some serious questions - again, when did I call them idiots?  I'm probably one of the only ppl here who says the birthers have valid points, but they have idiots running their operations and they focus on the wrong points.

ask 33 or billy... I think there is starting to pile up some Qs about it, some coincidences, etc.  plus the M$M smeared it BEFORE people heard of it - much like 911- which tells me they were seriously worried about it.

LOL youve made fun of ppl for being birthers many times
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 240 is Back on February 25, 2010, 04:19:57 AM
Orally Tate and others are nutjobs.

But there are some real questions being asked by constitutional attorneys that deserve a second look.

Orally and friends go on MSNBC with fake documents (easily provable) to taint the entire movement.  Just like the 911 wackjobs talking about aliens got all the airplay while the scientists, NYPD, FDNY, and military personnel that came fwd were ignored ;)
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: Soul Crusher on February 25, 2010, 06:28:15 AM
Obama 2012 - "Hey, I already fucked you once - get over it."

"Vote for me, you are screwed already"

"You were stupid enough the first time to vote for me."

"Were you that dumb to take my promises seriously the first time?"

   
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: BM OUT on February 25, 2010, 06:46:19 AM
yes, the birth cert CT has some serious questions - again, when did I call them idiots?  I'm probably one of the only ppl here who says the birthers have valid points, but they have idiots running their operations and they focus on the wrong points.

ask 33 or billy... I think there is starting to pile up some Qs about it, some coincidences, etc.  plus the M$M smeared it BEFORE people heard of it - much like 911- which tells me they were seriously worried about it.


Sorry,Im not a birther.I dont care about it.I dont think it should be a law to be born here to run for president.If your an American citczen you should be able to run.Many immigrants love this country more then those born here.I dont need the birth issue to despise Obama.
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: 240 is Back on February 25, 2010, 06:47:49 AM
"Sorry,Im not a birther.I dont care about it.I dont think it should be a law to be born here to run for president.If your an American citczen you should be able to run.Many immigrants love this country more then those born here.I dont need the birth issue to despise Obama."


hi, kneepadder






 ;D
Title: Re: Exclusive: W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run.
Post by: BM OUT on February 25, 2010, 06:50:03 AM
"Sorry,Im not a birther.I dont care about it.I dont think it should be a law to be born here to run for president.If your an American citczen you should be able to run.Many immigrants love this country more then those born here.I dont need the birth issue to despise Obama."


hi, kneepadder






 ;D

Ha,ha,yeah.Im the one person on here who admits I dont like him because he is a black man who hates whites.All I had to see was his connections to Wright and Father Flager.I dont care if he was born on Mars,anyone who hates my people I hate them.