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Behind the scenes at the White House:

Barry batty campaign strategy

Excerpt:

Scene: Obama in meeting with his campaign staff. Cabinet members, Czars, and anybody with a role in actual governance notably absent, though they can be seen through the windows playing beer-croquet on the lawn.

[Obama] “I don’t see what’s so bad about what I said the other day. It’s the truth.”

[Axelrod, vexed] “Dammit! That’s exactly what’s so bad! Truth undermines everything we’re trying to do. Truth is toxic. This is another Joe the Plumber moment and it could cripple us. Remember: Never Tell the Truth. K?”

[Obama] “But they really didn’t build those things! They didn’t build the roads. They didn’t build the schools. They didn’t build the teachers. They didn’t build the fiber-optic networks that carry the cold air to their air conditioning. They didn’t do anything except win life’s lottery.”

[Plouffe] “We know all that. But you can’t say all that. We, unlike most, are smart enough to know it takes a village to run a taco wagon, but we have to let the people think they’re important and that they’re accomplishing something.”

[Obama] “But I’m just reiterating what Elizabeth Warren has been saying.”

[Axelrod] “She can say stuff like that. She’s running for state-wide office in a very blue state. She doesn’t have to worry about cheesing off the independents. You do. You just don’t have enough Cherokee blood in you to make a line like that work.”

[Obama] “Neither does Elizabeth Warren!”

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