Great Newsweek article abt Obama

[my3boyz]

I had no idea their internal polling showed them down 12 pts in Indiana the night before the vote! Wow! :wow:

How do you know if Barack Obama is unhappy with what you're saying— or not saying? At meetings of his closest advisers, he likes to lean back, put his feet on the table and close his eyes. If he doesn't like how the conversation is going, he will lean forward, put his feet on the floor and "adjust his socks, kind of start tugging at them," says Michael Strautmanis, a counselor to the campaign. Obama wants people to talk, but he doesn't want to intimidate them. "If you haven't said anything, he'll call on you," says Strautmanis. "He's never said it, but he usually thinks if somebody is very quiet it's because they disagree with what everybody is saying … so Barack will call on you and say, 'You've been awfully quiet'." There are no screamers on Team Obama; one senior Obama aide says he's heard him yell only twice in four years. Obama was explicit from the beginning: there was to be "no drama," he told his aides. "I don't want elbowing or finger-pointing. We're going to rise or fall together." Obama wanted steady, calm, focused leadership; he wanted to keep out the grandstanders and make sure the quiet dissenters spoke up. A good formula for running a campaign—or a

http://www.newsweek.com/id/136440/page/1

[my3boyz]

1. kick. nt

[DerekJ]

2. kick

[rainbow4321]

3. K&R!

[AznLittleBile]

4. Newsweek is part of MSNBC

no wonder.

[DerekJ]

6. Yep , that network that played Rev. Wright clips 24/7 for 4 weeks straight.

:wtf:

[Forkboy]

7. Welcome back!

:rofl:

[TexasObserver]

10. General Electric favors the War Candidate, Hillary Clinton

GE, a major defense contractor, owns MSNBC and Newsweek, and both organizations favor Hillary for president.

Chris Matthews recently acknowledged that his bosses favor Hillary.

[Colobo]

5. 12 pts down? Wow!

[slinkerwink]

11. Gary, Indiana, really helped Obama

[TragedyandHope]

8. Kick - Thanks for the article!

[DerekJ]

9. Recommended article to read in full.