The NYU College Democrats

Edward Luce over at the Financial Times has written a great commentary about Obama’s tight inner circle of advisors: Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, and Valerie Jarrett. Steve Clemons at HuffPost has also written a commentary on Luce’s commentary. This whole issue of poor advice and dissent between the people closest to the President has been on my mind for a while now. Why is it that such a sucessful group of political campaign operatives, who we all know were lauded for their messaging, could not fix the messaging and the narrative of the President’s first year in office? Honestly, I’m bewildered. I don’t think campaign operatives naturally translate into good policy/governing operatives, which is one aspect of the problem. I also have grown to loathe Emanuel in recent months because of all the little comments leaked by his “fucking retarded” liberal underlings. My thinking is this: if you have little sucess to claim after such a phenomenal campaign and polling numbers in 2008 and early 2009, something has to be done. Someone (or some people) have to leave to make this White House work.

And on a related but funny note… here’s Rahm.

-Maddie