David Mulberry-Schwartz

David Mulberry-Schwartz is a political strategist, spokesman, and blogger.

Born in 1977 in Great Neck, Long Island, he was a debate champion in high school, and studied political science at Hunter College in New York City. Throughout the 1990s, he worked as a lackey and then an aide to a succession of Long Island politicians.

In 2004, he volunteered for Howard Dean's campaign, initially going door to door in Great Neck, gathering signatures. He was eventually one of the first people ever to be officially hired as a blogger by a presidential campaign. After Dean conceded, Mulberry-Schwartz assumed similar responsibilities as a "cyber-surrogate" for Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign.

At the 2004 Democratic Convention, Mulberry-Schwartz was inspired by Barack Obama's keynote speech. "I could sense the greatness of the American people, reflected in the greatness of this unassuming but brilliant young politician," he wrote on his personal blog, Mulberry-Schwartztown. "I wanted to be a part of whatever he was doing. I consider him the key figure of the twenty-first century." He relocated to Washington to work in Obama's Senate office, eventually joining the Obama presidential campaign as a strategist, web adviser, and media spokesman.

During the 2008 election, he has appeared as an Obama surrogate on such programs as Suckerpunch with Dick Memmons, Fuck You with Archie McPatton, and Hardline. On one memorable episode of Suckerpunch, in May of 2008, former President Bill Clinton physically attacked Mulberry-Schwartz for what Peggy Patty Prentiss (Hillary Clinton's Assistant Vice Deputy for Strategic Communications Strategy) perceived as sexism.

Mulberry-Schwartz was also lucky to survive an August 2008 appearance on Archie McPatton's show, during which conservative pundit/provocateur Amy Keeler actually bit him.

See also

Suckerpunch with Dick Memmons

Life After Bush

Photograph: Avi Phillips as David Mulberry-Schwartz