By Robert Schlesinger
I loved this bit from today’s NYT Bill Richardson story:
“Barack is very precise,” the governor observed, sitting in his office at the New Mexico Capitol. The Obama campaign rarely pesters him with surrogates. Mr. Obama’s approach is like “a surgical bomb,” he said, while “the Clintons are more like a carpet bomb.”
It strikes me as a great analogy for the campaign because carpet bombing is so 20th century, whereas surgical strikes and precision-guided weaponry are the way of 21st century warfare. And one line of criticism against Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is that it is stuck in late 20th century-style politics, whereas Obama is the face (and voice) of the new.
