<p>Joe Trippi, chief strategist for the John Edwards presidential campaign, is tanned and rested after some time <a id="r-o0" href="http://www.keywest.com/" title="on the beach">on the beach</a> — and ready to talk about the 2008 presidential campaign.<br />

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Trippi credited the Obama campaign with using the Internet — social networking sites, blogs, YouTube, fundraising and more — to build the best &quot;bottom-up&quot; campaign in history. And while he called the Clintons the best at doing things the old way — &quot;top down&quot; — he said the decision to run Hillary Clinton’s campaign almost entirely that way was &quot;the biggest blunder I’ve ever seen.&quot;<br />

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He also warned that a reported 150,000 Obama volunteers in Texas could spell &quot;deep trouble&quot; for Clinton in the state.<br />

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Trippi made his national name in the 2004 presidential campaign, using the Internet to build Howard Dean’s volunteer army and bring in millions. &quot;We were like the Wright&nbsp; Brothers …a flimsy little thing with propellers,&quot; Trippi said at a panel discussion organized by the New Democrat Network. &quot;Just four years later, [the Obama campaign is] landing on the moon.&quot;<br />

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But none of that means he thinks that Obama has clinched the nomination. &quot;I would still not today write the Clintons out of this.&quot;</p>