{"id":105,"date":"2008-11-16T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/divide-and-conquer\/"},"modified":"2008-11-16T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T17:14:13","slug":"divide-and-conquer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/divide-and-conquer\/","title":{"rendered":"Divide and Conquer."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr. Obama has, for at least brief moments, been forced offline. As he sat down with a small circle of advisers to prepare for debates with Senator John McCain, one rule was quickly established: No BlackBerrys. Mr. Axelrod ordered everyone to put their devices in the center of a table during work sessions. Mr. Obama, who was known to sneak a peek at his, was no exception.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/16\/us\/politics\/16blackberry.html?src=linkedin\">Source<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s own employee gives Obama order. Obama follows order.<\/p>\n<p>I like this because it reminds me of an off-hand comment from the GTD thing. This comment has been making a lot of sense lately.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about who&#8217;s on top; it&#8217;s about division of responsibility.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mr. Obama has, for at least brief moments, been forced offline. As he sat down with a small circle of advisers to prepare for debates with Senator John McCain, one rule was quickly established: No BlackBerrys. Mr. Axelrod ordered everyone to put their devices in the center of a table during work sessions. Mr. Obama, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/divide-and-conquer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Divide and Conquer.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[333,331,332,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}