{"id":1629,"date":"2008-11-10T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T11:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2008-11-10T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T11:06:47","slug":"how-obama-won-interesting-new-yorker-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/how-obama-won-interesting-new-yorker-article\/","title":{"rendered":"How Obama Won – Interesting New Yorker Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loving this look back on the Obama campaign by the New Yorker<\/a>. Definitely worth a read over a nice hot cup of tea:<\/p>\n

During the debate, Obama was asked, \u201cWould you be willing to meet separately, without preconditions, during the first year of your Administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?\u201d Obama answered simply, \u201cI would.\u201d Hillary Clinton pounced on the remark as hopelessly na\u00efve, and her aides prepared to emphasize what appeared to be a winning argument.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s aides had much the same reaction. \u201cWe know this is going to be the issue of the day,\u201d Dan Pfeiffer, recalling a conference call the following morning, said. \u201cWe have the sense they\u2019re going to come after us on it. And we\u2019re all on the bus trying to figure out how to get out of it, how not to talk about it.\u201d Obama, who was listening to part of the conversation, took the telephone from an aide and instructed his staff not to back down. According to an aide, Obama said something to the effect of \u201cThis is ridiculous. We met with Stalin. We met with Mao. The idea that we can\u2019t meet with Ahmadinejad is ridiculous. This is a bunch of Washington-insider conventional wisdom that makes no sense. We should not run from this debate. We should have it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The episode gave Obama\u2019s communications aides a boost of confidence. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect his campaign is going to be analysed for years, both for political acumen but also in terms of leadership and inspirational skills. To be honest if there was a warts and all definitve book avaialble, I;d be first in line to buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Loving this look back on the Obama campaign by the New Yorker. Definitely worth a read over a nice hot cup of tea: During the debate, Obama was asked, \u201cWould you be willing to meet separately, without preconditions, during the first year of your Administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?\u201d Obama answered simply, \u201cI would.\u201d Hillary Clinton pounced on the remark as hopelessly na\u00efve, and her aides prepared to emphasize what appeared to be a winning argument. Obama\u2019s aides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,54],"tags":[519,520,510,463],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-politics","tag-campaign","tag-new-yorker","tag-obama","tag-report","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-qh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}