{"id":2395,"date":"2008-02-24T05:10:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/now-hes-got-to-produce-the-loaves-and-fishes\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:58:18","slug":"now-hes-got-to-produce-the-loaves-and-fishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/now-hes-got-to-produce-the-loaves-and-fishes\/","title":{"rendered":"“Now he’s got to produce the loaves and fishes.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Barack Blowout – TIME<\/a> <\/p>\n

By JOE KLEIN<\/p>\n

If nothing else, a presidential campaign tests a candidate’s ability
\nto think strategically and tactically and to manage a very complex
\norganization. We have three plausible candidates remaining–Obama,
\nClinton and John McCain–and Obama has proved himself the best
\nexecutive by far. Both the Clinton and the McCain campaigns have gone
\nbroke at crucial moments. So much for fiscal responsibility. McCain has
\nbeen effective only when he runs as a guerrilla; in both 2000 and ’08,
\nhe was hapless at building a coherent campaign apparatus. Clinton’s
\nsins are different: arrogance and the inability to see past loyalty to
\nhire the best people for the job and to fire those who prove
\ninadequate. “If nothing else, we’ve learned that Obama probably has the
\nability to put together a smooth-running Administration,” said a
\nClinton super-delegate. “That’s pretty important.”<\/p>\n

Obama still
\nhas a tricky path to the nomination. “We know he can walk on water,”
\nDemocratic stalwart Donna Brazile told me, presciently, a year ago.
\n“Now he’s got to produce the loaves and fishes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Barack Blowout – TIME By JOE KLEIN If nothing else, a presidential campaign tests a candidate’s ability to think strategically and tactically and to manage a very complex organization. We have three plausible candidates remaining–Obama, Clinton and John McCain–and Obama has proved himself the best executive by far. Both the Clinton and the McCain … Continue reading “Now he’s got to produce the loaves and fishes.”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}