Burying the Lede

Dissension and disillusionment. [Link]

So, let me sum this up. Time, while doing an article on the Obama administration/campaign’s plan to start up again its grassroots organization from 2008, completely forgets to mention that the man who designed and troubleshooted their grassroots training program is not only not involved in the 2012 efforts: he is on the record as openly saying that the Obama campaign has abandoned the core principles that supposedly informed and energized those 2008 efforts, and that he is pessimistic that the Obama campaign can restart the mechanism again. Nowhere is it examinedwhy Obama’s people no longer work with Marshall Ganz, either. And last, but not least: here’s David Axelrod’s fairly snotty response to Ganz’s observation that Time quoted.

“Those are the types of things that people with lifetime tenure like to say,” remarks Axelrod. “What we have tried to do is effect change in the real world, in a difficult environment.”

You’d never, ever know from that quote that in 2008 Ganz was one of those guys in the real world. Or that Axelrod and Ganz worked together for two years.