07/31/2008
David Mixner on Obama HQ: 'Clearly a New Age Has Arrived'
Clearly impressed, Democratic strategist David Mixner reports on a visit to the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago:
"The usual headquarters is clutter, organized chaos, self important people screaming, "Where is the fuck are the latest stats from the Gallup Poll?", people gathered in meetings that they are afraid to be left out of and managers closed-off from the rest of the campaign...That is not what I found yesterday at the Obama Headquarters. Upon entering, you are greeted by the usual friendly and kind receptionist but as you pass beyond into 'Obama Land' you enter a massive space with every inch taken up with worker bees and computers. The high tech component of this campaign can not be stressed enough - volunteers staffing a room full of computers for their highly sophisticated call center. As far as I can tell, there are no large individual manager offices with quite efficient secretaries outside screening people from getting in. No gathering in the narrow aisles of the office attempting to see if some body got something better. People seem to get what they need on their very own. Everyone knows his or her assignments and they were just getting the job done. I was awestruck."
Obama: Substance and Organization [david mixner]
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Posted 1:30 PM EST by Andy Towle in Barack Obama, David Mixner, Election 2008, News | Permalink
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Posted by: Shelly Winters | Jul 31, 2008 2:11:35 PM
computers? call center? people working?
"clearly a new age has arrived?"
umm okay
Posted by: daveynyc | Jul 31, 2008 2:48:06 PM
Sounds like a Borg ship. I guess that would make Obama the Borg queen.
Posted by: Tom K. | Jul 31, 2008 3:03:07 PM
Sounds like a Borg ship. I guess that would make Obama the Borg queen.
Posted by: Tom K. | Jul 31, 2008 3:04:19 PM
Sounds like Scientology headquarters.
Posted by: JeffNYC | Jul 31, 2008 3:22:35 PM
DaveyNYC: You'd be surprised by how unprofessional and thrown together most campaign offices are. This actually is an exciting new age (esp. for those of us who volunteer in those call centers).
Tom K.: Yes, because Obama's both a queen and bent on assimilating everyone. Seriously, get fucking real. He's an effective manager who is managing his campaign very well. He isn't time-traveling to stop the first human warp flight and destroy Earth. And he's hotter.
Posted by: Skullduggery | Jul 31, 2008 4:36:25 PM
Get ready for higher taxes.
Posted by: Justin | Jul 31, 2008 6:40:41 PM
Since when does efficiency lead to higher taxes?
Posted by: 24play | Jul 31, 2008 7:17:31 PM
With a 480 billion dollar deficit? Damn right, get ready for higher taxes--and not because of Obama.
Posted by: David D. | Jul 31, 2008 7:36:19 PM
Mixner never learns. He sang the same idiotic praises about Clinton. Obama is a Clinton clone, as in more crap like DOMA, DADT and NAFTA. Plus a long war.
Posted by: Bill Perdue | Aug 1, 2008 1:15:06 PM