Obama's standing army

摘要

In 1980 Sidney Blumenthal published a book entitled "The Permanent Campaign". One of the main reasons that Barack Obama beat Mr Blumenthal's favoured candidate, Hillary Clinton, was because he promised a new kind of post-partisan politics, supposedly above all that continual warfare. Now that the election is over, however, he is proving to be just as keen on the "permanent campaign" as anybody else in politics.rnMr Obama is currently deploying the formidable resources he built up during his campaign-including contact details for 10m donors, supporters and volun-teers-to sell his policies. David Plouffe, the man who managed Mr Obama's presidential campaign, has sent millions of e-mails to encourage them to support the White House's agenda.