blogs.abcnews.com - 10/15/2008
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The top adviser to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today contemplated whether Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would introduce a new strategy at tonight's debate -- "McCain 7.0," he sneered -- and said the debates had clearly helped Obama rise in the...
Will Obama vs. McCain include Ayers?
swamppolitics.com 10/14/2008 — by John McCormick
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - As they are seated in close proximity to each other in what is their final debate, will John McCain bring up Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers at tonight's debate?
A top Obama adviser said the ...
Axelrod to go to White House
poligazette.com 11/7/2008 — David Axelrod, president-elect Barack Obama’s chief strategist, has agreed to go with his client to the White House, George Stephanopoulos reports .
Axelrod is what you could describe as Obama’s Karl Rove. He is a master campaigner and ...
Axelrod: Geithner eyeing Wall St. bonuses
swamppolitics.com 1/31/2009 — by Mark Silva
The White House - and that means the president - clearly is angered by news that Wall Street has paid out billions of dollars in bonuses while collecting billions of dollars of federal money in a bailout of failing financial ...
Larry O'Donnell: Obama Question-Quashing "Impressive"
newsbusters.org 12/17/2008 — What a difference an administration makes. During the Bush years, if a spokesman or the president himself attempted to dodge a tough question, the media would go into their Sam Donaldson impressions and pundits would see a conspiracy of silence. But ...
Obama's David Axelrod exposed! Strategist's Mommy tells all
latimesblogs.latimes.com 2/18/2009 — Now, the whole word knows.
As a little boy, President Barack Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod , the ex-newspaper political reporter who got tired of riding in the back of campaign buses and decided to sit up front where the ...
Race Over? - The Atlantic
(January/February 2009)
theatlantic.com 1/6/2009 — Image credit: Davis Turner/EPA/Corbis A few days after the presidential election, as Barack Obama’s senior staff went into post-campaign hibernation, I logged onto my AOL Instant Messenger account at about 7:30 a.m. to find that David Axelrod, ...
Axelrod, Obama: Close, not that close
swamppolitics.com 5/15/2009 — by Mark Silva
David Axelrod and President Barack Obama are close, but not so close, Axelrod said tonight, that he can tell whether his boss has started smoking again.
"The president and I are close, but we don't get that close,'' the ...
Straw Men
politics.theatlantic.com 2/17/2009 — You can forgive President Obama, struggling with Congress
for the first time as the Oval Office occupant, for resorting to a debating tactic
that would make my high school forensics teacher, Dean Rhoads, scowl. Of a large basket of his ...
Obama to Order Iraq Withdrawal on Day One, Axelrod Says
abcnews.go.com 1/19/2009 — Incoming White House senior adviser David Axelrod said this morning that President-elect Barack Obama will fulfill his campaign promise and begin on Wednesday the process of withdrawing America forces from Iraq within 16 months. "He believes that ...
Source: Axelrod to be named presidential adviser
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 11/6/2008 — CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) – A source with the Obama Transition team tells CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley that a plan to name David Axelrod a Senior Adviser to the incoming President is "in the works."
Axelrod was the Obama ...
Biden: McCain is 'drowning' —
CNN Political Ticker 10/15/2008
LANCASTER, Ohio (CNN) – Joe Biden told supporters that John McCain has heightened attacks on Barack Obama because the Arizona senator is ‘drowning.’
Watch: Biden on McCain's attacks
“When you're drowning, you've got to try a new method to stay above ...