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Says Axelrod: 'If I could help to get Obama to Washington, then I would have accomplished something great in my life' David Axelrod talks to reporters earlier today. Obama and Axelrod in 2004 during Obama's run for the U.S. Senate. Axelrod had turned down the chance to work for a wealthy, free-spending candidate in the race. Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist, told the candidate's biographer: David Axelrod chief political strategist for Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama of Illinois

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Rate Barack Obama meant to

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Fri, Nov 6

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) Yet did Mr. Obama, Valdasherie Jarrett or David Axelrod take one step to deal with this post 9 11 horror event? Not in the least. Mr. Obama instead went ahead with an Indian pow wow celebration, including 2 minutes of fun remarks and a "Shout Out" to Medicine Joe. agtG Obama the al Qaeda spokesman

Rate Republican Purists Scare Democrats, GOP Too: Margaret Carlson

Original at Bloomberg external link    Thu, Nov 5

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- There are many ways to think about Tuesday’s election, some of which are completely wrong. “The real story here is, I think, this thing is ambiguous,” White House adviser David Axelrod said. That’s true only if ambiguous is a synonym for frightening.

Rate Axelrod: Obamas Regret Not Visiting Chicago More

Original at CBS2 Chicago external link    Wed, Nov 4

It was exactly one year ago tonight that a smiling Obama family took the stage in Grant Park and declared victory in the 2008 presidential election. Since winning the White House, President Barack Obama has returned just three times to his old hometown; only once with his wife and children....

Rate Transcript: Fox News' Interview With David Axelrod

Original at FOX News external link    Wed, Nov 4

Major Garrett interviews White House adviser David Axelrod on a range of issues from to GOP election victories Tuesday to the war in Afghanistan to health care reform.

Rate David Axelrod Gives Interview To Fox News' Major Garrett

Original at Huffington Post external link    Wed, Nov 4

What's Your Reaction? The Huffington Post has learned that White House senior adviser David Axelrod has given an interview to Fox News' Major Garrett, the latest sign that the administration is ramping down its feud with the cable news outlet.

Rate Obama votes in Terrorism

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Mon, Nov 2

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) All of this though highlights what America has to look forward to in 2012 elections as Joseph Farah will not have to publish None of the Above par dux to help elect Obama, as Mr. Obama will now implement the Afnamistan strategy in the Presidential elections in America just as he did in Illinoi...

Rate Phubat Obama

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Mon, Nov 2

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) With ex President Clinton appearing in Virginia for Obama candidates and drawing only enough people to stand in an office, and Aaron Burr Biden in upstate New York for an Obama Congressional candidate and drawing only 200 people to a free event, where most of those are press.......and where Sara...

Rate Rush Limbaugh, Obama aide David Axelrod trade jabs over president

Original at Denver Post external link    Mon, Nov 2

Rush Limbaugh took shots across the airwaves Sunday at President Barack Obama, and theWhite House's chief political strategist dismissed the conservative commentator with the reported $400 million contract as no more than an entertainer.

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Axelrod: Swine flu vaccine production finally catching up

Original at The Hill external link    Sun, Nov 1

The Obama administration has acknowledged that trying to get shots has been frustrating. Read more...

Rate Guests for the Sunday TV news shows

Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune external link    Fri, Oct 30

ABC's "This Week" — White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. CBS' "Face the Nation" — White House senior adviser David Axelrod; Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.

Rate The Thirdworldness of Obama

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Thu, Oct 29

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) America has ceased to exist as a Republican form of Government. It is not some socialist orb or even a communist clique anymore, all it is in the tarnished souls groping about at Obama midnight is a 3rd world despotry where kangaroo courts, deputy despots and Obamalings now rule not by law, b...

Rate Mark Axelrod: Sarah, Plain and Simple; or, Drilling for the Superficial

Original at Huffington Post external link    Tue, Oct 27

I'm not going to argue with Sarah Palin about the need for US energy independence, but clearly one doesn't have to sing a James Taylor song to know that we can't continue burning fossil fuels forever.

Rate The Obama Connor Chronicles

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Mon, Oct 26

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) I really do not buy into the Bearick Obama drama involving FOX News, because right before the big Obama blow up came about, there was Roger Ahles of FOX meeting with the ever lovely David Axelrod, who was then appearing on 60 Minutes with the weeper of featuring his sick child.

Rate White House adviser and his wife push for better treatment of epilepsy for daughter and others

Original at The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada external link    Sun, Oct 25

WASHINGTON - White House presidential adviser David Axelrod says the demands of his job can sometimes be hard since he can't spend quality time with his daughter, who suffers from epilepsy.

Past Month

 

Rate Will the real Barack Obama stand up.......to be impeached

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Thu, Oct 22

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) The Axelrod Inc. group is even more adept at not being caught on electronics than Sheik bin Laden. Look at how Rahm Emanuel was warned off immediately in the Blagojevich affair. Mr. Obama ran that, Axelrod was in on it as was Valerie Jarrett, and yet no tracks were left.

Rate Obama Advisor Speaks at IOP

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Thu, Oct 22

David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to President Obama and chief strategist of his 2008 presidential campaign, spoke last night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, reflecting on his experiences in the Obama administration during its first ten months in office.

Rate Blacklash Trash Mash Stash Hash

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Tue, Oct 20

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) Heck no, you grab whatever rope is thrown. Just like that bastard David Letterman if his kid was sick and needed bone marrow, and Sarah Palin was the only match, you know Sarah would be the first to donate in that painful procedure and pedophile laugher Letterman would accept it without any w...

Rate Fox 'not really news,' says Axelrod

Original at Politico external link    Sun, Oct 18

W.H. senior adviser says Sunday that the Fox News Channel is "not really a news station."

Rate Guests for the Sunday TV news shows

Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune external link    Sat, Oct 17

ABC's "This Week" — David Axelrod, White House senior adviser. CBS' "Face the Nation" — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel; Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.

Rate Impeach Obama or.......

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Sun, Oct 11

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) The American Patriot who saved America from Michael Dukakis in the infamous Willey Horton ad and blessed America with the support for that wonderful legal leader, Justice Clarence Thomas is coordinating an effort again equal to the effort he instigated concerning Bill Clinton.

Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Axelrod: 'Nothing the president sought'

Original at MSNBC external link    Fri, Oct 9

Oct. 9: Obama chief strategist David Axelrod reacts to the president being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "Presidents work hard to bring some issues to the fore internationally and point the world in the direction of solving some very big problems. I think this is a recognition of that," sai...

Rate Bill Kristol to Taliban: Keep an Eye Out for Barack Obama at About 6:30 PM on Friday [Intelligence]

Original at Gawker external link    Tue, Sep 29

Bill Kristol thinks Barack Obama will swing by Afghanistan for a surprise visit on his way back from Copenhagen. Sounds reasonable. But Bill: Why all the detail? Kristol writes: David Axelrod and...

Rate Sandy Goodman: An Open Letter On The Public Option To David Axelrod

Original at Huffington Post external link    Thu, Sep 3

As a lifelong FDR Democrat, I won't support any health care bill that doesn't have a robust public option. I'd much rather see a bill without one go down to defeat, than have a bill pass without one.

Rate Everything You Need to Know About Obama's Spam-Gate [Scandals]

Original at Gawker external link    Fri, Aug 14

Yesterday, David Axelrod sent out a long and boring "viral" email about health care to the White House's email list. Or did he? We're getting a lot of tipsters saying they got it but never signed up...

Rate Axelrod, Grassley Spar Over Bipartisan Health Care

Original at Huffington Post external link    Sun, Jun 28

One of Barack Obama's chief advisers and one of the key Republicans in the Senate jousted on Sunday over what constitutes bipartisanship when it comes to health care legislation.

Rate Obama policy guru should be replaced

Original at Toronto Star external link    Fri, Jun 12

  Canada Meanwhile, "no-drama Obama" has to count on Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, his chief of staff and senior political strategist, respectively, to smooth the waters after each Summers blow-up with teammates his job description requires him to coordinate, ...

Rate The best jokes and biggest bombs from the 2009 White House ...Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at North by Northwestern external link    Mon, May 11

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CBC.ca  IL The joke was in reference to David Axelrod, who was a chief strategist in Obama's presidential campaign, and one of the key factors that led to Obama's win of the Iowa caucus in 2008. Axelrod is currently a senior adviser to the president, ...

Rate Another Banner Obama Weak

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Sun, Apr 19

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) Then Hugo Chavez whipped out the chili peter and pissed on Obama and America by giving Obama a book he apparently coveted which was a Mein Kampf of South America in blaming America for all the world woes just like Hitler did the Jews. Obama accepted it and it is probably his new bible to read his...

Rate The Obama without a ..........

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Mon, Apr 13

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) I was doing a little research on Obama's Columbia days as that is the time Obama transformed from dope head to community organizer, and came across professor Michael Baron who apparently taught Birdie in a class of 8 students on American Foreign Policy.

Rate Axelrod Inc.

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Tue, Mar 10

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) Barack Obama intends to scrape, salt, vacuum and poison the womb of America just the way he dreams of his mother's womb should have been. This is the transference, Stanley Ann abandons him, he abandons her in death, she makes him Pip's Great Expectations Obama of the White House, and Obama t...

Rate Someone is sending a message

Original at Lame Cherry external link    Mon, Mar 9

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) I found this picture on the International Herald Tribune. It is about pissing in what animals do to mark territory. In short, David Axelrod was pissing on the White House and pissing on Barack Obama as his personal breeder. Barack Obama being humped by David Axelrod in the International Hera...

Rate Opinion: Tax Cuts Still on Track

Original at NewsTrust external link    Sun, Dec 28

3BlueDudes.com - By - Dec. 28 (News Report) - David Axelrod, Senior adviser and campaign manager to President-elect Barack Obama, said today that the ailing economy will not halt the effort by Obama to reduce taxes from the middle class, a key and critical campaign theme. According to Axelr...

Rate Political Wisdom: Did Obama End the Blagojevich Story?

Original at WSJ.com external link    Wed, Dec 24

Ross Douthat of The Atlantic wonders why Democrats would want to give another Senate prize, the seat opened up by Hillary Clinton in New York state, to Caroline Kennedy. “It’s not the safest seat in the country, but it’s safe enough that almost any Democrat, once appointed, could expect to...

Rate Podcast: CLIPS: In latest Obama smear, KOA's Newman suggested Obama is lying about birthplace and was "really born in Iraq"

Original at Colorado Media Matters external link    Thu, Dec 11

While arguing with a caller regarding the scandal involving Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, "Gunny" Bob Newman stated on his December 10 Newsradio 850 KOA program that president-elect Barack Obama "was really born in Iraq." Now, [caller], doesn't it -- does it bother you at all that David...

Rate Podcast: Colorado radio hosts use Blagojevich scandal to engage in guilt-by-association against Obama

Original at Colorado Media Matters external link    Thu, Dec 11

That's what David Axelrod said. But Barack Obama said, "I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening." Blagojevich trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. David Axelrod on November 23rd says to Fox News in Chi...

Rate What Did Obama Know and When Did He Know It?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at POLITICO MAFIOSO external link    Wed, Dec 10

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By noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) Tuesday, December 9, 2008 7:04 PM By: David A. Patten Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested Tuesday on charges that they tried to “sell” the U.S. Senate seat that Obama recently vacated. Under Illinois law, naming a replacement falls to Blagojevich.

Rate Weekend in Review: Appointee Fever, the Doomsday Budgets

Original at New York Observer external link    Sun, Nov 23

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By Katharine Jose The Washington Post imagines what Hillary Clinton will do as secretary of state David Saltonstall marvels at how the G.O.P. has suddenly embraced Clinton. David Axelrod told auto-makers they better have a plan. Michelle Obama's mom might move to the White House.

Rate Axelrod named senior advisor

Original at Daily Kos external link    Wed, Nov 19

By SusanG David Axelrod served as President-elect Obama’s Chief Strategist during the presidential campaign, and led Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign. A native of New York City, Axelrod graduated from the University of Chicago and spent eight years as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he co...

Rate Michael L. Millenson: David Axelrod: Modern-Day Walter Mitty

Original at Huffington Post external link    Thu, Nov 13

By Michael L. Millenson The Washington Post's David Broder, the dean of the political press corps, has been covering politics since LBJ was president. Do you think he could do that? How about Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity? Anderson Cooper? Your favorite bloggers? You?

Rate ABC's Tapper quoted Boehner's criticism of Emanuel, ignored Graham's praise

Original at Media Matters for America external link    Thu, Nov 6    3 related articles

TAPPER: This morning, Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel told President-elect Obama he would leave his successful career in the House to be in Obama's White House. AXELROD: Having once sent a dead fish to a political consultant he was angry with, Emanuel is comfortable as an enforcer. He'...

Rate Opinion: Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 11-02-08: In Which the Guesswork Pageant Flutters to an End

Original at Huffington Post external link    Mon, Nov 3

By Todd Gitlin Sen. Obama claims that he want to give a tax break to the middle class, but not only did he vote for higher taxes for the middle class in the Senate, his plan gives away your tax dollars to those who don't pay taxes. That's not a tax cut; that's welfare," McCain said a couple of weeks ago.

Rate Ari Melber: Obama Launches Final Attack on McCain (Breaking in FL)

Original at Huffington Post external link    Mon, Nov 3

By Ari Melber Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, was recently asked by Time what the "defining moment" was on the campaign, "the moment when you thought Obama could win?" Axelrod's mind went to Jacksonville. Ari Melber is covering the Obama campaign for The Washington Independent, blogging f...

Rate The Last Spin Room: Davis Gets Angry, Axelrod Gets Sarcastic

Original at New York Observer external link    Thu, Oct 16

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By Jason Horowitz A few feet away, and surrounded by a much bigger circle of reporters, Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod responded to Davis’ assertion that it was a good idea for the McCain campaign to keep attacking Obama. “I have to agree with him,” he said.

Rate Brokaw allowed McCain adviser to falsely claim McCain "called for the firing of Don Rumsfeld"

Original at Media Matters for America external link    Sun, Sep 28

On the September 28 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, during his interview with McCain campaign senior adviser Steve Schmidt and Obama campaign chief strategist David Axelrod, host Tom Brokaw did not challenge Schmidt's false assertion that Sen. John McCain "called for the firing of Don...

Rate Morning Joe: Did Axelrod 'Lie' In Denying Michelle Makeover?

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Thu, Jun 19

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By Mark Finkelstein It's rare to hear an MSM figure flatly suggest that a presidential campaign lied, but Joe Scarborough broke out the the l-word today in wondering whether chief Obama strategist David Axelrod did just that when he emphatically denied, on yesterday's show, that there is a concerted "make...

Rate Weekend in Review: Trading Insults, Pope Mania

Original at Observer.com external link    Sun, Apr 20

By Katharine Jose A national Newsweek poll shows Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton, 54-35. The New York Times, with melancholy, chronicles the defection of leading Democrats from Clinton to Obama. In Philadelphia on Friday night, Obama drew his largest crowd ever.

Year 2007

 

Rate Leadership Defined - "Telling People What They Have To Hear."

Original at my.barackobama.com external link    Fri, Oct 12

By Dan Hannaher Obama Takes `Sister Souljah' Tack to Gain Ground on Clinton That's a chance Obama, who is trailing Clinton in national polls, may have to take, said Stephanie Cutter, a Democratic strategist and communications director for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.

Rate Aaaaugh-bama!

Original at Observer.com external link    Tue, Oct 2

By Lisa Medchill The coverage seemed to take a hard turn in the last week of September, when the front page of The New York Times asserted that “Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has consolidated her early lead in the Democratic presidential contest,” and one day later Dan Balz wrote on The Washington Post’s...

Rate Clinton-Obama Proxy Throwdown! Axelrod and Wolfson Play HardballVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Huffington Post external link    Fri, Jul 27

By The Huffington Post News Editors Axelrod vs. Wolfson [Politico] Dustup [Politico] Krauthammer: Strike Two [WaPo] Clinton-Obama Commander Duel [NYT Caucus Blog] Oh whatever. If this had occurred between Hillary and Elizabeth Edwards, what do YOU think it would have been called?

Rate On CBS Evening News, Axelrod uncritically repeated White House claim of executive privilege

Original at Media Matters for America external link    Fri, Mar 23

Second, it is crystal clear (just as it was when Bill Clinton sought to invoke "executive privilege" to resist Grand Jury subpoenas to his aides -- Sidney Blumenthal and Bruce Lindsey and Hillary -- in the Lewinsky investigation) that the narrowly construed doctrine of executive privi...

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