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PATRICK CADDELL: I just want to say because this man is a raving narcissist. He has absolutely...
SEAN HANNITY: This is your president, Pat. You're saying he's a raging narcissist?
CADDELL: He's a raging narcissist who has no grip on reality. What he's been doing -- he has been doing which is that I'm king and I can rule like king and the Republicans, I have to say, before lay down for him.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/11/10/pat_caddell_obama_a_raging_narcissist_who_has_no_grip_on_reality.html

Такими словами легендарный политтехнолог Патрик Кадделл, подсказавший Трампу фразу "враги народа" в адрес прессы, описывал президента Барака Обаму.

Кадделл умер в этом году. Его судьба в политике удивительна как на фоне гениальных республиканских политтехнологов вроде Ли Этуотера и Артура Финкельштейна, так и на фоне перебежчиков в правый лагерь вроде Дэвида Горовица.



Молодым студентом Кадделл работал в провальной избирательной кампании демократичекого кандидата в президенты Джорджa Макговернa, проигравшего Никсону в 1972. Его следующая кампания привела к оглушительному успеху - 25-летний Кадделл стал творцом победы Джимми Картера на президентских выборах 1976.

He established his own firm, Cambridge Survey Research, to conduct political campaigns. Although he spun off another company, Cambridge Reports, to advise corporate clients, he was criticized for capitalizing on his Washington connections — representing, among other clients, nuclear energy companies and the Saudi Arabian government — especially when, during the Carter administration, he became known as the president’s pollster.
Campaign staffs are not known for sharing credit, but in June 1976, when Mr. Carter had secured the Democratic nomination, his campaign manager, Hamilton Jordan, confidently told a reporter: “You know why Jimmy Carter is going to be president? Because of Pat Caddell — it’s all because of Pat Caddell.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/obituaries/patrick-caddell-dead.html

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