Obama's near-flawless run from start to finish

[kayakjohnny]

It was the third week of September, and Senator John McCain was speaking to a nearly empty convention center in Jacksonville, Fla. Lehman Brothers had collapsed that day, a harrowing indicator of the coming financial crisis and a reminder that the presidential campaign was turning into a referendum on which candidate could best address the nation’s economic challenges.

On stage, Mr. McCain, of Arizona, was trying to show concern for the prospect of hardship but also optimism about the country’s resilience. “The fundamentals of the economy are strong,” he said.

A thousand miles away, at Senator Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago, the aides who monitored Mr. McCain’s every utterance knew immediately that they had just heard a potential turning point in a race that seemed to be tightening. They rushed out to tell Dan Pfeiffer, Mr. Obama’s communications director, what Mr. McCain, the Republican candidate, had just said, knowing that his words could be used to portray him as out of touch.


“Shut up!” Mr. Pfeiffer said incredulously. “He said what?” Mr. Obama, who had just arrived at a rally in Colorado, hastily inserted the comments into his speech. And by nightfall, the Obama campaign had produced an advertisement that included video of Mr. McCain making the statement that would shadow him for the rest of the campaign.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27549215/?GT1=43001



It's 5 pages worth, linked from the msn homepage.

[amdezurik]

1. and seeing how many of his supporters tried to stop him

without even (hopefully anyway) realizing it, then as usual a black person had to work twice as hard....

[kimmerspixelated]

2. I think that if Obama runs his presidency like he ran his campaign

this country will really begin to turn around.

[kayakjohnny]

3. Yep, although he's just upset the apple cart here on DU, by his selection of

chief of staff. Not sure what to think of that yet. Seems like a glitch to me.