With a presumptive Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign waiting in the wings, a new memoir penned by President Obama’s former “body man” doused cold water on the efforts that saw Clinton’s front-running 2008 campaign fall flat.
In his autobiography “Power Forward: My Presidential Education,” former Obama aide Reggie Love remarked that Clinton’s 2008 campaign effort paled in comparison to Obama, saying that the former secretary of state’s 2-3 campaign stops per day barely halved those of Obama.
While Obama logged 4-7 campaign stops per day prior to the Iowa caucuses, according to Love, Clinton only did two or three “at most,” adding that the Obama’s 2008 bid was “not a typical campaign.”
“When I reflect on that time in my life, the word that most often pops into my head is ‘crazy,'” Love said.
“Obama was logging four, five, six, seven campaign stops a day. Hillary? Maybe she was doing two or three. At most,” Love wrote. “Ours was not a typical campaign. We fought hard.”
Love, a former team captain of the Duke Basketball team and 2001 national championship team member, served as Obama’s personal aide and special assistant from 2007-2011.