Obama's political advisers making the rounds

By GottaLaff

Paddy will post the morning shows, but suffice it to say, Obama's team will be on a slew of them. Meantime, watch for them to pop up on 60 Minutes tomorrow night. Tick, tick, tick, tick...

CBS’s “60 Minutes” has interviews at 9 p.m. with several of Mr. Obama’s top political advisers: David Axelrod, Anita Dunn, David Plouffe and Robert Gibbs.

The aides said in the interviews that the campaign did not spend much time fretting about race. “Honestly, you had to take a leap of faith in the beginning that the people will get by race,” said Mr. Plouffe, the campaign manager, according to excerpts provided by CBS. “And I think the number of meetings we had about race was zero.”

“If there had been a discussion” about whether Mr. Obama should deliver his race speech in the wake of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright’s comments, Ms. Dunn said, “we’ve often joked, probably most of the people in the campaign would have advised against it.”

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