I finally got a hold of the Newsweek post-eleciton opus and read it; it's not a disappointment (more on that in next week's column.) Meanwhile, a highlight:
Joe Trippi, the unorthodox political genius who created the Dean Internet juggernaut, often said that if the Dean campaign was like the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, then Obama was the Apollo program—in other words, in one cycle skipping over commercial aviation, jet travel and supersonic transport to go straight to the moon. (Asked about this analogy, [Dean and Obama staffer Joe] Rospars replied evenly, "Not really, if you consider that Kitty Hawk was a successful flight, as compared to something that blew up on the f–––ing launchpad.")Posted by Stephen Silver at November 15, 2008 03:47 PM