{"id":15369,"date":"2009-10-31T12:09:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15369"},"modified":"2009-10-31T12:09:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:09:37","slug":"shocka-obama-campaign-didnt-vet-their-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15369","title":{"rendered":"Shocka! Obama campaign didn&#8217;t vet their candidate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager has a book coming out early next month and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/george\/2009\/10\/read-it-here-first.html\">George Stephanopolis<\/a> released some of the more glaring admissions Plouffe makes. Probably the biggest Doh! moment is his admission that they didn&#8217;t bother to do any research on the candidate himself;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plouffe writes, \u201c \u2026we had done zero research on our own candidate beyond a small and incomplete package from the 2004 Senate race.  With this lapse, we were violating a central rule of politics \u2013 know more about yourself than your opponents and the media do.  Since we had not scrubbed every quote, vote, speech, and donor of Obama\u2019s, we knew we\u2019d be getting questions we couldn\u2019t foresee, unless he remembered each incident and vote precisely, we\u2019d be scrambling to mount a defense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That explains why so many people ended up under the proverbial bus and why the campaign refused to grant much access to the candidate beyond carefully scripted events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager has a book coming out early next month and George &hellip; <a title=\"Shocka! Obama campaign didn&#8217;t vet their candidate.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15369\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shocka! Obama campaign didn&#8217;t vet their candidate.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}