Who are the brilliant people working for Obama?

[ginnyinWI]

I know Obama can take credit for a lot of the success he's had so far, but he seems to be getting some very good advice and direction too.

I know David Axelrod, but who are the others? And how many of them worked for Kerry? Because I see Obama repeatedly dodging bullets that more often damaged Kerry's campaign. Somebody's learned some lessons and is applying them to Obama's campaign.

[marlakay]

1. I read that Richard Clarke is one of his advisors

and it was reading his book after 9-11 that first got me from being a middle age, just vote person to being an activist and really caring about what is going on.

He opened my eyes about Bush and Cheney and the Iraq war. When I read how he was leading the country while Bush was in Florida and cheney in the cellar just watching cnn on tv, and after constant work for 48 hours he goes home to sleep but can't so comes back and they had secret meeting behind his back to talk about Iraq! and that was 48 hrs after 9-11...

When I read that I had to be involved in my country and I couldn't close my eyes any more.

Those are the kind of military advisors Obama has...

[ginnyinWI]

2. Good. Although my question was more about campaign advisers,

it's good to know he's on board. Another great policy adviser is Susan Rice--foreign policy. She also worked for Kerry.

[ralbertson]

3. David Plouffe is his chief campaign manager / strategist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Plouffe