Obama’s always talking tough…he’s from Chicago, he brings guns to knife fights, he was editor of the Harvard Law Review, etc. But it seems not everyone inside his campaign was terribly convinced that Obama had what it takes to survive the rough and tumble of a national political campaign. From Dan Balz’s new book, a memo from Axelrod to Obama before he announced in 2006:
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