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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (438107)	7/31/2011 4:00:41 AM
From: KLP	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Peggy Noonan talked of something else really bothersome in her column.... in addition to what Obama has become.....BUT WHAT would this Department be looking for this type of person to do....data mine every thing negative to Obama they can find....in other words, spy on every day Joe Blow people? Will the US Government pay for this person? OR will the campaign pay for this? OR will Obama and cronies figure out a way to taylor-make ads for very individual parts of the country, and lie to them differently than they lie to other parts of the country???? The secret of Mr. Obama is that he isn't really very good at politics, and he isn't good at politics because he doesn't really get people. The other day a Republican political veteran forwarded me a hiring notice from the Obama 2012 campaign. It read like politics as done by Martians. The "Analytics Department" is looking for "predictive Modeling/Data Mining" specialists to join the campaign's "multi-disciplinary team of statisticians," which will use "predictive modeling" to anticipate the behavior of the electorate. "We will analyze millions of interactions a day, learning from terabytes of historical data, running thousands of experiments, to inform campaign strategy and critical decisions." This wasn't the passionate, take-no-prisoners Clinton War Room of '92, it was high-tech and bloodless. Is that what politics is now? Or does the Obama re-election effort reflect the candidate and his flaws? online.wsj.com