I just crossed paths on the street with David Axelrod, the architect of Obama's campaign. As I was walking past him my mind switched into 'Memento' gear and started reconstructing (or making wild guesses about) his day so far. He had no spring in his step and that made me think that perhaps he had started his Sunday with a jog that had taken its tall on him. Perhaps after the jog he had seen the latest polling data, which had been so disastrous for the Democrats that that he had decided to drop his plans for a quiet Sunday at home and go to work instead. On his way to work it is possible that he had what he thought was a 'game-changing' strategy trick and that had gotten him so excited so as to take this straight to the President and Rahm E. The strategy would turn out to be an easy sell. And maybe as we crossed paths he was all too aware that the new strategy would need a lot of work and that he would have no quiet Sundays for God knows how long.

Or perhaps I am just being completely presumptuous and he is simply a slow walker.