my name is joe epstein. i am a past chair on the board of governors, and i will be moderating tonight's audience question period. we have a lot of questions here for you, and we are about to begin. many of the questions addressed your new book's central theme, that being the process of ideas through implementation. let me begin with this question. how would you rate the obama campaign for its design and implementation strategies during the election process of 2008? >> that is a great question. i actually wrote the whole thing that did not make it into the book about how the campaign actually performed from the standpoint of execution.

my name is joe epstein. we have a lot of questions.ess your book's central theme, the process of idea through implementation. let me begin with this question. how would you rate the obama campaign for its design and implementation strategies during the election process in 2008. >> that is a great question. i actually wrote a whole thing that did not make it into the book about how the campaign actually performed from the standpoint of execution. i think almost all political professionals say it was one of the most flawlessly executed campaigns. they had their idea. they stuck to that idea. they designed it. they basically did a lot of things in terms of bringing in a lot of people to help them execute that. in the face of hard things, they stuck with it. and from an execution? stempler, it was a model -- from an execution standpoint, it was a model. in a campaign, you do not have to go through congress, right? that end up being a big barrier to doing things that smoothly. >> let's talk about the marshall plan. you write a lot about it.

my name is joe epstein.ir on the board of governors, and i will be moderating tonight's audience question period. we have a lot of questions here for you, and we are about to begin. many of the questions addressed your new book's central theme, that being the process of ideas through implementation. let me begin with this question. how would you rate the obama campaign for its design and implementation strategies during the election process of 2008? >> that is a great question. i actually wrote the whole thing that did not make it into the book about how the campaign actually performed from the standpoint of execution. it was one of the most flawlessly executed campaigns. the head their idea and they stuck to that idea. in terms of bringing in a lot of people, to help them execute that, and in the face of some hard things, they stuck with it. the campaign really kept their eye on the goals in the end. from an execution standpoint, it was really a model. nor government initiatives -- if war government initiat

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my name is joe epstein.'m a past chair of the commonwealth club's board of governors, and i will be moderating tonight's audience question period. we have a lot of questions here for you, and we're about to begin. many of the questions i realize address your new book's central theme, that being the process of idea through implementation. so let me begin, if i may, with this question -- how would you rate the obama campaign towards design and implementation strategies during the election process of 2008? >> you know, that's a great question, because we actually -- i actually wrote a whole thing that didn't make it into the book about how the campaign actually performed from the standpoint of execution. it was, i think, almost all political professors would say it was one of the most flawlessly executed campaigns. and they had their idea and they stuck to that idea. they designed it. they basically did a lot of things with crowd source, in terms of bringing in a lot of people to help them to kind of execute th