George Stephanopoulos has obtained a copy of Plouffe's new book and has posted 10 excerpts. I found these 4 interesting. You can read the rest of them here George's Bottom Line
Edwards Deal or no Deal
Sometime after the South Carolina debate Plouffe got a call from a senior Edwards Advisor who said Edwards was willing to announce the end of his campaign and join forces with Obama to defeat Clinton. When Plouffe asked if he could raise this with Obama the Edwards advisor said, "Yes....Just to be clear we’re going to talk to the Clinton people too. That’s not where John’s heart is, but he is at the point of maximum leverage now." "Obama’s answer," Plouffe writes, "was quick and firm: he would cut no deals."
Post Rev. Wright:
A bitter Obama was worried that he had taken on too much water to win the general election. Plouffe writes, "He had told me in the middle of the Wright episode during the Pennsylvania primary that he would end his candidacy if he honestly thought Hillary had a better chance of winning and that he really was damaged electoral goods."
Miller time
Plouffe reveals that during their 1:00 am 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft, he and Axelrod had filled their coffee cups with beer. "It could not have tasted better," Plouffe writes.
McCain strategy
Obama didn’t find his own campaign’s attacks on the McCain health care plan credible.
Plouffe writes, "We were ferociously attacking McCain’s health care plan, which had at its centerpiece a proposal to begin taxing workers’ health care benefits as income to generate money to cover the uninsured."
Obama was unhappy with strategy and told Plouffe, "I don’t think people will find the charge credible...and while I can make the case that it’s true, I think it puts too much spin on the ball. Let’s just lay out his position without feeling the need to scare people with some grandiose political scorecard terminology."
UPDATE 1: justmy2 reminded me of the Time magazine article of a few days ago. It has more incredible excerpts from Plouffe's book
UPDATE 2 Thanks to jj32 Plouffe will be on the Daily Show this Tuesday.