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Monday, August 25, 2008

Dog and Pony

Andersen Cooper, covering the DNC, said something.  In essence, he said: the convention is supposed to be a dog and pony show, but for some reason they are passing these resolutions and signing stuff.  Where are the dogs and ponies? 

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Tactics Vs. Strategy

The HRC campaign memos do not point to a failure in strategy as much as a catastrophe of execution. The defining battle with Obama, we don't think, was "change" versus "experience", but strategy versus tactics. HRC's strategy was just fine, but the campaign's tactical team was broken.

It is instructive that the critique on Obama was/is "all sizzle and no steak", but in the meat and potatoes of campaign execution he took the cake. (Is it lunch time here at the DSBPI?)