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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama remains opposed to prohibiting abortion coverage in plans offered through a new health insurance exchange, an adviser says.

The amendment, authored by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., went beyond preventing the proposed government-run plan from covering abortion to restrict federal subsidies from going toward private plans that offer abortion coverage. David Axelrod says the amendment changes the 'status quo...

What's Your Reaction? On CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, White House senior adviser David Axelrod responded to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's criticism of the president. Romney expressed incredulity that President Obama had not made up his mind on Afghanistan.

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) Without blowing the dramatic ending, Nidal Hasan was and is a product not so much of Islam, but of American NeoProg liberals who created the mania, thus the maniacs, who were brainwashed by being told George W. Bush Christian Patriotic America was "evil" and should be assassinated as the L...

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Senate Democrats are girding themselves for a month of vigorous debate over healthcare reform, armed with a new set of talking...

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.

  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, ...

Barack Obama's senior adviser said on Sunday that if Senate Republicans were to attempt a filibuster on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, it would be a shameful attempt at political retribution.

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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.

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...

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...

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) First point, Barack Obama just sent George Mitchell to the Middle East, much to the delight of Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton should stop sniping at Bush 43 as her problem is Mitchell, because Axelrod has no faith in him and at one point in stating that, "Mitchell was the best negotiator in Nor...

By Christopher Weber Filed under: Barack Obama, Economy, 2008 President, Taxes, Obama AdministrationRemember all those crazy promises made by Barack Obama and John McCain out on the campaign trail? Well since Obama won, now he's gonna actually be called on them. Back then he swore up and down that he could: 1....

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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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?

By Arianna Huffington Michelle Obama: smarts, grace, style, charm, and a serious "good mommy" vibe -- she's got the whole package. John McCain: see Bill Clinton. Liddy Dole: see Clinton and McCain. Her "Godless" ad will be taught in What Not To Do poli sci classes for a century.

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.

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...

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.

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...

By Aron Goldman Bill McGurn: How Sarah Got McCain’s Groove Back McCain vs. Obama offers contrast in style McCain says Obama missing in time of crisis Palin Media Blackout Continues Sarah Palin Meets World Leaders — Reporters Kept Away? Shielding Palin from the Press Sarah Palin’s media-free zone The me...

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...

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.

By eriposte We've all heard endless negative stories about Sen. Clinton's pollster Mark Penn. Howard Wolinsky of Business Week looks at Sen. Obama's chief strategist (and former Exelon consultant) David Axelrod - "the master of astroturfing" - and his public relations and astroturfing firm (ASK Pu...

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.

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...

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?

By Sydney Dear John, One Republican colleague has already called this “not Senatorial”. But this isn’t about Washington etiquette, it’s about bringing our troops home… One Republican colleague has already called this “not Senatorial”. But this isn’t about Washington etiquette

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...