It occurs to me that…
…nowadays, campaign staffs are increasingly composed of moles. Each time an aide quits, doesn’t he/she seem inordinately quick on the draw with the critical interview and/or the tell-all book?
Now staffers don’t even wait for the campaign to be over to start the trash talk. Case in point: Cain’s ex-staffers give the NY Times enough ammunition to create the catchy headline, “As Cain Promotes His Management Skills, Ex-Aides Tell of Campaign in Chaos.”
Has the term “disgruntled former staffer” become a redundancy?
C’mon, neo, it’s the NYT. They don’t need to actually find a disgruntled former staffer. They can just churn out the copy based on what they’d like to be true. Prepending “sources say” to your opinion saves a lot of reporting legwork.
“Yes, President Obama routinely smokes crack several times a day,” said a former staff member, on condition of anonymity. “It’s pretty much a given that he’ll hit the pipe after Mr. Soros chews his ass again on the telephone. We all knew we were in for a bad day then, because President Obama would spend the remainder of the day in a corner, in the fetal position, wimpering,” said another source. “Ramadan was tough, too. Obama gets cranky when he’s hungry.”
Still another source said he could tell when the President was in a good mood because he walked through the White House humming “The Internationale.”
Hey, this stuff is easy!
After you betray your country and 300 million people who trust you, betraying others is a snap!
I don’t want war.
All I want is peace. Peace.
Peace!
[did i mention i got the Peace Prize?]
A little piece of the auto industry
A little piece of educational parlance
A little piece of of every park
And Israel perchance
A little slice of Turkey
And all that that entails
Und then a piece of England Scotland
lreland and Wales
A little nip of Norway
A little spot of Greece
A little hunk of Hungary
Oh what a lovely feast
A little bite of Belgium
And now for some dessert
Armenia Albania
And Russia wouldn ‘t hurt
-Why did it come down?
-I’ve never been so outraged.
-Don’t look at us!
-Sondheim!
-Who brought the curtain down?
-I was ordered to.
-Ordered to! By whom?
the One…
What I want to know is how come we never hear about any gruntled staffers, former or otherwise?
What I want to know is how come we never hear about any gruntled staffers, former or otherwise?
Sounds like we need a gruntling bailout.
I have a friend who works fairly high up for the Cain campaign. Yeah, they had to pretty quickly ramp up. There is chaos in any new and creative endeavor. The staffers probably were used to the stasis of school or Starbucks.
Moral: when you fire a campaign worker make sure he is thoroughly gruntled even you must resort to your own stash.
People who voluntarily left a campaign didn’t do so because they were happy.
It may be mildly interesting to find out why they left, but it’s a non-issue to me. Hardly worth notice.
The Cain campaign has decided it wants to ramp up extremely quickly. That is a difficult thing for any organization of any type to do. I’ve seen it in software organizations (my profession) and it’s always painful. And risky. The worst of them I voluntarily left because I was uncomfortable with what seemed chaotic, with a loss of control and direction of their software efforts as the number of personnel just exploded upward. I have no idea if they regained control… that was the worst one.
Anyone who voluntarily leaves an organization due to unhappiness will be very negative towards the experience. It takes time to look back on it and develop equanimity and a fair outlook – and that will occur only if “the disgruntled” have maturity and wisdom.
The NY Times, of course, *loooooves* the opportunity to dish em some dirt. Perfectly fits in with their overarching goal of re-electing Obama. TheGOP establishment also loves it, because that establishment loathes the idea of actually nominating a true conservative. They’ve settled on Romney and will undercut any other candidate. (Let me say that, as a conservative, Romney’s not my pick, but if he wins, I’ll certainly vote for him against Obama.)