The Obama team's image of steely resolve gets a bit tarnished
Date: 2010-07-22T06:06:19.937
Author: AAA Staff
Editor note: At the height of the 2008 presidential campaign, as Barack Obama started the search for a running mate, the media seized onto a story about Jim Johnson, the man Obama had chosen to lead the search.
Reports started emerging that Johnson had received a sweetheart mortgage from Countrywide, a firm he had once regulated, and as the media frenzy began, Obama and his top aides huddled to discuss it.
David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, later called it a "Grade-A s---storm."
"The day the
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