# 10) Election Night 2008 = Miller time

[kpete]

The Bottom Line has obtained a copy of the new book by Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. It won’t hit book stores until November 3rd, but here are ten revealing nuggets from “The Audacity to Win”:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/10/read-it-here-first.html

4) Obama hated campaigning:

By April 2007, Plouffe writes, Obama had become, “increasingly sullen” and on a flight, Robert Gibbs had a heart-to-heart with Obama:

“Are you having any fun at all?,” he asked him.

“None, “ Obama flatly replied.

“Do you see any way we can make it more fun?” Gibbs replied.

“No.”

7) Post Rev. Wright:

A bitter Obama was worried that he had taken on too much water to win the general election. Plouffe writes, “He had told me in the middle of the Wright episode during the Pennsylvania primary that he would end his candidacy if he honestly thought Hillary had a better chance of winning and that he really was damaged electoral goods.”

8) A glimpse of the future:

Obama didn’t find his own campaign’s attacks on the McCain health care plan credible.

Plouffe writes, “We were ferociously attacking McCain’s health care plan, which had at its centerpiece a proposal to begin taxing workers’ health care benefits as income to generate money to cover the uninsured.”

Obama was unhappy with strategy and told Plouffe, “I don’t think people will find the charge credible…and while I can make the case that it’s true, I think it puts too much spin on the ball. Let’s just lay out his position without feeling the need to scare people with some grandiose political scorecard terminology.”

Obama is now, of course, facing critics who say his health care plan contains a similar tax.

10) Election Night 60 Minutes Interview = Miller time

Plouffe reveals that during their 1:00 am 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft, he and Axelrod had filled their coffee cups with beer. “It could not have tasted better,” Plouffe writes.


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I think we should thank John McCain for picking her, in terms of how it helped us win in 2008."

-- Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, in an interview on Meet the Press, on Sarah Palin.

Plouffe was discussing his new book, The Audacity to Win, which is out this week.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/11/01/quote_of_the_day.html

[toocoolforschool]

1. interesting stuff.