by Mark Silva
Change has been good for David Plouffe, the hard-working, low-profile manager of President Barack Obama's audacious and winning campaign.
He stands to collect a lot of change from the book deal that he reportedly has signed with Viking, a subsidiary of Penguin books, for between $1.5 million and $2-million" to tell the story of the little engine who could and his long-shot campaign to move from Chicago's South Side to the White House,'' our colleague, Andrew Malcolm, writes at The Ticket.
Robert Barnett, agent extraordinaire, has told the Associated Press that 17 publishers vied for the rights to - what else? -- "The Audacity to Win."
"It will cover pretty much every single thing from the decision to run (which Obama appears to have made during high school) through the epic,'' Malcolm writes.
"The book by Plouffe will also reportedly contain descriptions of what the Obama campaign did not do as well as offer business lessons, in case any of you ever decide to organize a $750 million presidential campaign on the checkbooks of maybe 13 million close friends, who are still getting e-mails from Plouffe.''
(AP photo of David Plouffe by Rex Arbogast)
Comments
Isn't that more than $500,000? Cap this greedy person's salary.
Posted by: Jeff | February 5, 2009 8:48 AM
Yes and cap those evil auto workers.....the American dream is only for the rich!
Posted by: bill r. | February 5, 2009 8:54 AM
Job loss anounced at 660,000
gone in a puff of smoke and the rights' concern is capping CEOs of failed businesses who make more per year than some third world countries. Beware the selfproclaimed "great" Americans.
Posted by: bill r. | February 5, 2009 8:57 AM
Will Plouffe pay his income taxes on the million dollar windfall? It would be refreshing to know that at least one Democrat pays his taxes.
Posted by: "Dissent is Patriotic" | February 5, 2009 9:06 AM
He should run for office.
He's not your usual campaign manager.
There's a reason most campaign managers stay behind the curtain, out of sight:
they look like Carville and Michael Deaver or--fill out the list.
Posted by: ornery | February 5, 2009 10:32 AM
Wonder if he will mention TAX CHEATS in his book?
Posted by: Inky | February 5, 2009 11:33 AM
Jeff,
Did he get TARP money? No. Then guess what, he can make whatever he can make. Try to keep up.
Posted by: FrankK | February 5, 2009 1:11 PM
Ha. The righties say they love captitalism........ except when it's a Democrat making a little well-deserved money; then they whine about it.
Posted by: mort | February 5, 2009 2:39 PM
Well, maybe they can charge the TARP deal ex-post-facto so it applies to him. They did it to the banks, after all.
"I'm altering the deal, pray I don't alter it more."
Darth Vader or Barack Obama? You make the call.
Posted by: Jeff | February 5, 2009 4:34 PM