Robert Gibbs

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Robert L. Gibbs is the communications director for U.S. Senator Barack Obama and Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Gibbs, who has worked with Obama since 2004, was press secretary of John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and has previously specialized in Senate campaigns, having served as communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and for four individual Senate campaigns, including those of Obama in 2004 and Fritz Hollings in 1998. Gibbs was also the press secretary of Representative Bob Etheridge.[1] Gibbs received criticism in 2007 for his connection with a 527 political group which launched attack ads against presidential candidate Howard Dean during the 2004 presidential election. [2]

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[edit] U.S. presidential election, 2004

Early in the 2004 presidential campaign, Gibbs was the press secretary of Democratic candidate John Kerry. On November 11, 2003, Gibbs resigned "in reaction to the firing of Jim Jordan, abruptly let go by Kerry Sunday night." Gibbs was replaced by Stephanie Cutter, a former spokeswoman for Edward M. Kennedy. After leaving the Kerry campaign, Gibbs became spokesman for Americans for Jobs, Health Care and Progressive Values, a Democratic group formed to stop the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean.[3]

[edit] Personal

Gibbs attended Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama and North Carolina State University.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jim Morrill and Tim Funk, "Carolinas ties key in national campaigns", Charlotte Observer, October 9, 2003; Chris Cillizza, "Barack Obama's Impressive Team" The Fix/Washington Post, January 16, 2007.
  2. ^ Mary Ann Akers, "Bloggers Blast Obama Spokesman", The Sleuth Blog/Washington Post, February 23, 2007.
  3. ^ Jim Rutenberg, "New Democratic Group Finances a Republican-like Attack on Dean," New York Times (Common Dreams), December 16, 2003; Jerome Armstrong, "Robert Gibbs, the drag on Obama", February 22, 2007.
  4. ^ Auburn High School, The Tiger, vol. 42, (1986); Morrill and Funk, "Carolinas ties key in national campaigns".

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