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White House getting advice on Syria from former Obama campaign advisers (Dunn-Cutter-Axelrod-Gibbs..
FOXNews ^ | September 3, 2013 | Ed Henry

Posted on 09/03/2013 4:14:23 PM PDT by maggief

The White House is getting advice from some former campaign advisers on how to win congressional support for a strike on Syria, Fox News has learned, with top White House aides soliciting their input during a long strategy session Tuesday afternoon.

The aides met with former top Obama campaign hands like strategist Anita Dunn, former deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter and long-time adviser David Axelrod.

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Other attendees included two people who have been critical in helping plot media strategy for the president over the years -- former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and former senior White House adviser David Plouffe, who also ran the president’s first White House campaign in 2008.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2014election; allabouto; anitadunn; axelrod; cutter; davidaxelrod; davidplouffe; dunn; gibbs; iran; israel; lebanon; maheralassad; plouffe; politicalwar; robertgibbs; russia; stephaniecutter; syria; thebrotherdidit; unethicalwars; unitedkingdom; waronterror

1 posted on 09/03/2013 4:14:23 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Hide the kids!


2 posted on 09/03/2013 4:16:04 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: maggief

More campaigning - it’s all this clown knows how to do.....why lead when you can campaign?


3 posted on 09/03/2013 4:17:13 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: capydick

GIRD YOUR LOINS


4 posted on 09/03/2013 4:18:13 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: maggief

political campaign managers and hacks to lead our invasion of syria!

i feel SO much better now


5 posted on 09/03/2013 4:19:23 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (E)
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To: maggief

Anybody notice these hacks are political advisors not foreign policy or military advisors? It confirms what I posted several days ago. This diaster
has changed from punishing Assad to political gain. NOT a reason to go to war!


6 posted on 09/03/2013 4:19:55 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Stop Worrying And Just Learn To Love The Bomb!)
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To: maggief

Well, I know I will sleep better tonight just knowing
that Obama has his crack team helping him put his finger
on the trigger of WWIII.


7 posted on 09/03/2013 4:20:52 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tennmountainman

Looks like he getting advice on how to lie instead of prosecuting a war. This is all political.


8 posted on 09/03/2013 4:22:45 PM PDT by virgil
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To: maggief

A Maoist, a CPUSA marxist, a DooDoo bird and s shister advisor.

No wonder America is in the crapper.


9 posted on 09/03/2013 4:26:16 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: maggief

10 posted on 09/03/2013 4:33:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: tennmountainman

They are there to help BO’s image and decide what lies to tell to the American people to cover his A@$. That’s what they did during the campaign.


11 posted on 09/03/2013 4:35:43 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: dandiegirl

Just how much $$$ is this all costing the taxpayer?


12 posted on 09/03/2013 4:37:50 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: maggief

What was it that Axelrod said in December ‘08? something like “Osama Obama will never fail to take advantage of a crisis”.


13 posted on 09/03/2013 4:38:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

It’s way too obvious — and at this point counterproductive — to just have all the media buttboys up for a seminar on how to spin it. These five will handle that. Thanks maggief.


14 posted on 09/03/2013 4:40:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” - Rahm Emanuel

/samething


15 posted on 09/03/2013 4:40:12 PM PDT by maggief
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To: dandiegirl

Exactly.


16 posted on 09/03/2013 4:43:17 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Stop Worrying And Just Learn To Love The Bomb!)
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To: tennmountainman
Anybody notice these hacks are political advisors not foreign policy or military advisors?

It would be amusingly absurd if the matter was not so serious. If I have a dental problem, I talk to my dentist, not the guys I trust to work on my car.
17 posted on 09/03/2013 4:54:00 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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Who else would you get advice from? Certainly not Generals or diplomats.

18 posted on 09/04/2013 7:30:50 AM PDT by SJackson ( The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. BF)
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To: maggief

Thank God for Thomas E Dewey.


19 posted on 09/05/2013 8:00:11 AM PDT by huldah1776
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