Posted on 03/09/2009 8:58:17 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — The pepperoni and cheese pizzas had been delivered, and a meeting about how to sell President Obama’s economic plan was set to begin — not at the White House, but a few blocks away in the seventh-floor apartment of David Axelrod.
Mr. Axelrod took a seat in his living room, with the Washington Monument visible in the distance, and asked how the president’s proposals were being received in the country. He went around the room, calling on a cluster of strategists who were on hand to discuss the latest batch of polls and focus groups conducted for the White House.
It is known as the Wednesday Night Meeting, an invitation-only session for a handful of advisers, nearly all of whom played a key role in paving Mr. Obama’s path to the Oval Office. The location varies, but on a recent evening Mr. Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president, was feeling under the weather, so a group that he says is “like family to me” met at his place.
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Mr. Axelrod’s background has been rooted almost entirely in politics. Strong similarities exist between his trajectory and that of Karl Rove, a friend and longtime counselor to former President George W. Bush. Both Mr. Rove and Mr. Axelrod forged partnerships with their clients long before they began campaigning for the presidency, guided them through elective office and, ultimately, to the White House.
Mr. Axelrod rejects the comparison, saying that he is more of a protector of Mr. Obama’s image and message than a policy maker or strategist intent on remaking the country’s political DNA, as Mr. Rove often talked about. The two men have never met, but in his new role as commentator, Mr. Rove has criticized Mr. Axelrod as politicizing the White House.
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Now that the election is over, I think the Times is doing some good reporting about Zero. They can get closer to the administration that any conservative outlet can, and in their stories they will take the party line, but they provide raw material for Obama's opponents.
David Axelrod the poster child for low wattage, hypocrite liberal mindset.
So where the heck was he when it came time to pick out gifts for the British PM?
Got that right!
Whoever that person may be really running the country.
Rush just covered this in his opening segment.
Rush basically implied that Axelrod is the puppet-master and Obama is the puppet. Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his teleprompter and doesn’t say anything unless it has been approved by Axelrod.
You are assuming that the goal isn't to alienate all of our allies.
Probably seeing which DVDs he had on the shelf at his 7th floor apartment.
From the article:
“Strong similarities exist between his trajectory and that of Karl Rove, a friend and longtime counselor to former President George W. Bush.”
Isn’t that a clever comparison!
Give us a break!
Axelrod’s client history is replete with socialists.
Axelrod’s career background with communism, commences with his mother, Myril; and later the likes of Don Rose and David Canter, both with solid communist credentials. (www.newzeal.blogspot.com).
And, slightly off topic, does anyone doubt Bill Ayers has O’s Blackberry number?
Bomb-thrower Ayers came out decades ago, has fought the long war and is not about to see it slip away: “Our enemy is U.S. imperialism, the enemy of all humankind,” Bill Ayers, Educational Secretary, SDS, 1969.
It’s clear Obama doesn’t have an American brain so he needs someone American to load the teleprompter with American sounding speeches.
So will PRAVDA follow up like they did with Rove ...
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