Obama Campaign 2.0

by digby

I’m doing a little filling in for Kevin Drum over at Mother Jones this week and have a post up right now about the Obama Campaign strategy:

I will never understand why political campaigns think it’s helpful to telegraph their plans in public, but here’s the obligatory “inside the Obama campaign strategy” piece by John Heileman in New York magazine. To the extent it isn’t spin, it’s quite interesting, and since so much of it is unflattering, I’d have to guess that’s most of it.

The campaign principals (much like the administration itself in the first two years) are as convinced as ever that when it comes to brilliant strategy, they are the toppermost of the poppermost and show a level of confidence that borders on hubris. What seems to have changed since the last time around is that they are very, very worried about money

Please read on… I think you’ll like it.

One of the things I couldn’t find a way to easily fit in the piece is the fact that they are basically planning to re-run the Bush 2004 campaign. I can’t help but wonder if they’ve got Marine One all gassed up and ready to land in the football stadiums to the martial strains of the Top Gun theme song “Danger Zone.”