Linda Douglass joins Obama campaign

[godai]

Linda Douglass, an award-winning television and print journalist who currently serves as a contributing editor to National Journal, will join Barack Obama's presidential campaign as a senior strategist and as a senior campaign spokesperson on the roadshow, a newly created position.

Douglass confirmed her new position when I walked up to the ninth floor, knocked on her door, and asked her about it. She informed National Journal President Suzanne Clark this morning of her impending departure.

"I see this as a moment of transformational change in the country and I have spent my lifetime sitting on the sidelines watching people attempt to make change. I just decided that I can't sit on the sidelines anymore."

Over 34 years in journalism, Douglass said, she grew disillusioned with the partisanship she saw first-hand. She came to specialize in campaign finance investigations, including a segment for CBS entitled "Follow The Dollar." When she interviewed donors, she would always ask them, "Why should your vote matter any more than my mother's?"


http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/linda_douglass_joins_the_obama.php

[liberaldem4ever]

1. I like her

I've seen her on a lot of Sunday political shows and she is smart and well spoken. She will be a good person to send to speak for Obama's campaign, IMO.

[LSparkle]

2. Good move! She's been on Tweety a lot lately ... hopefully she still will be

only as a surrogate!

[southern_belle]

3. Cool!

:)

[K Gardner]

4. Wonder when Tweety will join? !! (seriously, good news ! )

[MadBadger]

5. Me Too! Just keep him away from the cameras

[Undercurrent]

6. Great!

[MadBadger]

7. I could see her as being a possible WH communications director

Or as I like to call it...Toby.

[Cha]

8. She must be good...interesting

that she worked as a contributor to national journal.