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Obama Campaign Strategist Axelrod Charges Republicans With 'Screwing Up' Economy to Hurt President
FOXNEWS ^ | December 19, 2011 | Ed Henry

Posted on 12/19/2011 5:38:11 PM PST by Son House

"If I have the choice between extending the tax cut for a year and energizing our economy and having an issue to run on, I'd rather energize the economy," Axelrod said in an exclusive interview with Fox News. "I think that it's better for the country, it's better for the president. Frankly it's better for the Congress even if they don't see it."

In the next breath, however, Axelrod flatly charged the latest move by House Republicans to block a Senate compromise extending the tax cut for two months is an effort by the GOP to choke off any economic recovery and damage Obama's already difficult re-election prospects.

"You have to wonder whether some folks over there think somehow -- think screwing up the economy, throwing a wrench in the works is a good political strategy for them," Axelrod told Fox News. "Somehow if they can slow the recovery down, if they can cost a half million or delay a half million jobs, that that will hurt the president."

Back in Washington, the president and his aides say they're not watching the GOP nomination fight closely as they deal with the Congressional endgame. Here in the president's hometown, however, Fox News was given a tour today of the Obama team's 50,000-square-foot re-election headquarters where dozens of paid staffers are working around the clock to be ready for the eventual Republican standard bearer.

Axelrod noted there were more than two dozen debates in the 2008 Democratic primary and he suggested the current GOP field is nowhere near as strong as the group that included Obama, Clinton and other Democrats like then-Sens. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd.

"There were a lot of plausible presidents on that platform," said Axelrod.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: axelrod; campaign; charges; strategist
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To: mylife

Axe looks just like Hitler.


41 posted on 12/19/2011 8:01:57 PM PST by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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To: Son House

Too late for that Axelfraud.


42 posted on 12/19/2011 8:10:26 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Son House
Does the Zero (and his Hitler looking Axelrod) honestly believe the American people do not see how Zero is wrecking our economy by the torrent of horrendous regulations coming out on almost a daily basis, PLUS the Bernack’s outrageous fiscal policies?
43 posted on 12/19/2011 8:29:34 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

Axlerod is speaking to obama’s base. And no, they do not believe that itis obama thhat has wrecked the economy. They believe thatBush is doing it.


44 posted on 12/19/2011 8:38:23 PM PST by sport
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To: Son House
an effort by the GOP to choke off any economic recovery and damage Obama's already difficult re-election prospects.

Uh, no Axel, you would be wrong. The highest monkey on the pole has done an outstanding job all on his own of choking off any economic recovery. Difficult re-election prospects are self-inflicted.

45 posted on 12/19/2011 9:25:25 PM PST by MissMagnolia (You can't fix stupid but you can vote it out.)
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To: All
All you need to know about Axelrod Here. Mentored by communists is good enough for me. . . He is a domestic enemy. .
46 posted on 12/19/2011 9:41:28 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: mylife

What evil, rotten, sorry bastards.


47 posted on 12/19/2011 9:45:18 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: NCC-1701

Axe looks just like Hitler.


Inside and out.


48 posted on 12/19/2011 9:46:33 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: NCC-1701

49 posted on 12/19/2011 10:10:52 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: unkus

I was just thinking the very same thing! If Axelrod would dye his mustache black and shave off the corners, he’d look just like Hitler.


50 posted on 12/19/2011 10:16:31 PM PST by DestroyLiberalism
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To: DestroyLiberalism

They’re all ugly, vile people.


51 posted on 12/19/2011 10:20:07 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Son House

It appears Monkey Butt Axelrod fell out of his tree and got his brains scrambled. What’s his Hitler look supposed to be leading up to?


52 posted on 12/19/2011 10:48:56 PM PST by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Four years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: Son House
The headline should read “Obama charged with screwing up the economy to hurt America...mission accomplished!”
53 posted on 12/19/2011 11:18:56 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

I’ve been saying for some time that the Left has abandoned all pretense of loving this nation’s founding principles. Of course I’m not the only one. It only makes sense who and what their leaders would be. I share our opinion regarding those two.

Our enemies are definitely within the hats.


54 posted on 12/20/2011 1:21:41 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)
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To: ProudFossil
The question is NOT whether Obama and his radicals screwed up everything they touched, the question is HOW DID IT HAPPEN?

Is Obama the biggest dummy since Jimmy Carter

OR

Did Obama do it on purpose?

The question is COULD Obama be so stupid that he'd spend $Trillions on nothing

OR

Is Obama a bought reality show type host who is working for those who hate the US?

WOULD IT BE CHEAPER to do a Pearl Harbor style attack

OR

Spend a few $Hundred Million on making Obama POTUS?

Obviously Obama is a plant, a Trojan horse plant who is here to destroy America. If you ask who he is working for and what is his religion, stupid is too weak of a word to describe Americans.

Conspiracies such as this are fantasies, they couldn't happen here or so Americans apparently think.

Americans really are stupid enough to let him continue the destruction of their country.

55 posted on 12/20/2011 3:23:54 AM PST by politicianslie (plug in RADICAL MUSLIM into Obama's idiotic actions and you can figure out his next moves)
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To: mylife

Meathead’s evil twin

Did he get that biker jacket from Gary Condit?


56 posted on 12/20/2011 3:24:50 AM PST by silverleaf (common sense is not so common- voltaire)
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To: DoughtyOne
Goebbels and his monster... redistributed more wealth than Stalin, and eliminated more jobs than Fidel, Hugo and Jimmy.

Spread the pain Hussein.

57 posted on 12/20/2011 3:43:50 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: DoughtyOne
I am with you 100%. It is not that they do not like America... they openly hate America... a deep seething evil hatred born of satan. GODless creatures that despise our Founding Fathers and their direct connection to GOD through HIS gift to us of America and our Constitution. GOD is woven throughout our being... they are ordained to fight all that is good... including GOD. Spend any length of time with a rabid academian or a rat Senator... they cannot help themselves... they are filled with hate... scorn wealth... although most of them are far wealthier than any of us. Their “reward” awaits them... as I pray does ours. I think that we will have different destinations however.

Merry Christmas FRiend and GOD bless.

LLS

58 posted on 12/20/2011 4:22:46 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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To: justlurking

...” If the Republicans were still in control in 2007, there might have been a possibility for a soft landing, rather than an uncontrolled crash.”

I am convinced, based on the timeline, that the DNC and other top-level democrats, with Wall Street types and others in the banking industry, Fannie and Freddie, and the so-called MSM, conspired to tank the US economy in fall 2008. The huge “emergency” became “evident” according to the MSM at the time John McCain had a 5% lead over Obama. His ill-conceived decision to halt campaigning and return to DC to work on the issue was the death knell of the USA. This was a well-planned and conceived theft of the office of POTUS, to intall an anti-American, wholly unqualifed buffoon.


59 posted on 12/20/2011 6:51:44 AM PST by astounded (RIP USA - Born July 4, 1776 - Death by Suicide November 4, 2008)
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To: Son House
WHO screwed it up?
 
 
 
 
" Uhhhh, that's not ours either! "
---Weiner, Obama, Perry, Pelosi, Frank, Pritzker and Associates, LLLP.
 
 

Follow the....

http://www.campaignmoney.com/finance.asp?type=in&cycle=08&criteria=pritzker&fname=penny

 

Billionaire business mogul Penny Pritzker is a member of one of America’s richest families and was the Finance Chair for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama.  It was Pritzker that led the prolific, and illegal, fundraising that helped power Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.  She was the chair of Chicago-based Superior Bank’s board for five years. 

Pritzker was into subprime lending before it became all the rage starting in around 2000.  Prtizker's chairmanship was to concentrate on sub prime lending, principally on home mortgages, but for a while in subprime auto lending, too, after the Pritzkers' bank acquired its wholesale mortgage organization division, Alliance Funding, in December 1992.

Back then they called it "predatory lending."

Superior Bank went belly up in 2001 with over $1 billion in insured and uninsured deposits; 1,406 depositors lost much of their life savings.  This collapse came amid harsh criticism of how Superior’s owners promoted sub-prime home mortgages.

On Nov. 1 [2002] the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. pointed the finger at Ernst & Young, Superior’s auditor, in a fraud suit filed in federal court here.  But that action came two months after a group of Superior depositors accused the bank’s owners and directors, including two members of the Pritzker family, of racketeering....

[snip]

...Pritzker is chairman of Classic Residence by Hyatt, luxury senior living communities in 11 states; chairman of The Parking Spot, which owns and operates off-airport parking facilities in nine cities; chairman of the credit data company TransUnion and chairman of Pritzker Realty.  She also sits on the board of Global Hyatt and plays a role in numerous non-profit groups, including serving as chairman of the Olympic village portion of Chicago’s bid to win the 2016 Summer Games. 
 
http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/PennyPritzker.htm
 
 
 
Nudge nudge nudge...
 

60 posted on 12/20/2011 7:33:44 AM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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