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To: Ruffian who wrote (281984)	11/24/2008 11:49:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Obama's campaign was a master class on mobilizing support in an election without locking oneself into specific policies. ... What is fascinating to see is how the policies Obama advocated during the campaign have become relatively unimportant, while the issues he will have to deal with as president really were not discussed in the campaign until September, and then without any clear insight as to his intentions. One point we have made repeatedly is that a presidential candidate's positions during a campaign matter relatively little, because there is only a minimal connection between the issues a president thinks he will face in office and the ones that he actually has to deal with. Obama's campaign was a master class on running a presidential campaign as a cult of personality. The upside is that you have a free hand in your policies. The downside is that you have no mandate for any of them. So now we have a president-elect whose clear intentions as to policy we do not know, and whose entire track record, both pre- and during the campaign, is apparently irrelevant now. So it comes down to a question of character and worldview...about which, we know very little either. Swell. Just swell.