How do you KNOW that David Axelrod didn’t rip me off?
Point.
Bernie’s huge crowds recall Howard Dean’s in ’04 when he rallied “Democratic wing of Democratic Party.” Dean was impactful, but Kerry won.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 2, 2015
Counterpoint.
@davidaxelrod I thought it was George W. Bush who won.
— MartinEdwinAndersen (@InsightCaptain) July 2, 2015
Me, two weeks ago. Continue reading Tweet of The Day, Did @DavidAxelrod Rip Me Off? edition.
Heh.
Song Of Innocence, David Axelrod
A double whammy: that’s not the Songs of Innocence that you’re looking for, and that’s not the same David Axelrod. It is an interesting piece, though. Very Sixties.
Axelrod said presidents always talk after an election about a mandate, but he called such talk “foolish.” President Obama and congressional Republicans are bracing for talks on tax hikes and spending cuts that are now set to be implemented in January.
“Everyone’s going to have to come to the table in the spirit of getting things done, but on this issue of particularly the fiscal cliff — presidents always say, ‘I have a mandate’; that’s a foolish word and generally untrue,” Axelrod told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday.
Continue reading Well, looky, looky here: Axelrod avoids the M-word.
Oh, this is entertaining:
On FNS, David Axelrod Has No Response To OH Early Vote Numbers youtube.com/watch?v=Hrsbm-…
— Kirsten Kukowski (@kakukowski) November 4, 2012
For those without video: Chris Wallace points out that early voting in Ohio kind of, well, sucks for the Democrats – as in, ACCORDING TO THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN (this is important), it’s at the point where the net gain for the Republicans will wipe out Obama’s 2008 margin of victory in Ohio. This is important because Republicans traditionally do better on Election Day voters than Democrats; if that holds true (which is quietly conceded by pretty much everyone), then Ohio is going to go for Romney. Continue reading Tweet/YouTube of the Day, Chris Wallace Makes Axelrod Squirm edition.
For the record: we all say goofy things. So I’m not going to mock Axelrod for this unfortunate statement:
“You know, you can see in the speech that [Obama’s] delivering that he, you know, that he, this is coming from his loins,” Axelrod said.
But the response is still funny:
The reporters gathered around Axelrod tittered, and he was visibly thrown off balance for a moment. He tried to recover quickly by joking about the comment.
“And uh — I just wanted to say loins. I wanted to see if I could get loins in the story,” he said.
Mission accomplished.
Poor David. This has not been a good election for the man; reporters never dared laugh at him before. Such a shame…
What? I may despise the man, but Barack Obama’s not worth any person’s life.
And Axelrod’s looking awful, there. Must not be having a good week.
…I’m a little annoyed right now that the Democrats apparently think that “toning down the politics for 9/11” is something that everybody should endorse, but only Republicans should do. Rather than stew on it further, I’m just going to call the President – and David Axelrod – classless jerks and move on with my life.
On the marginally bright side, if you were worried about doing politics today, don’t be. The Other Side deliberately and knowingly demonstrated that they don’t give a sh*t; game, as they say, on.
David Axelrod to Chris Wallace: …SQUIRREL!
My wife calls this “political porn,” and it is, kind of… but it’s still pretty funny to watch. And I have to admit, I like Chris Wallace. At least when he’s not asking anyone on my side a question that nobody on my side wants to actually answer. And then breaks out a chart that demonstrates that Chris Wallace was perfectly aware how the original question was going to be, for lack of a better term, ‘answered.’ It’s always a pleasure to see a professional at work, really.
Moe Lane
PS: The answer, Davey, is “No.”
[UPDATE: Yup, that was a blink-and-you-missed-it correction, there. I plead not enough coffee.]
Asked a simple question – yes or no about whether he agreed with the White House that the private sector is doing fine, David Axelrod produces… this.
No transcript: there was no semantic content in that response whatsoever.
Via @rbpundit on Twitter: I have yet to figure out how to get the link on the iPad. Heck, I’m pleased that I figured out how to post the video. It’s like they don’t WANT me to use this thing like a computer.
In today’s (06/05/2012) Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty concludes with this:
. . . Examining the stumbles, gaffes, mistakes, high costs, and lousy performance of the president’s reelection campaign, Jen Rubin contemplated the unthinkable: “Why hasn’t President Obama fired David Axelrod?”
Probably because Axelrod has been there since the beginning — Obama consulted Axelrod on his anti-war speech in 2002 — and he’s has been Obama’s right-hand man/sounding board/fixer from his first ambitious thoughts of running for Senate. What would Obama do without the guy who he’s been able to turn to from Day One? If anyone has job security around here, it’s David Axelrod.
Continue reading #rsrh David Axelrod has been promoted to his level of incompetence.
