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David Axelrod, Lefty Lumberjack
Obama’s main man will do whatever it takes to fell Republicans and conservatives. Where does his ruthlessness and drive come from?
(Page 7 of 12)
Thus, like his mentors, David Canter and Don Rose, Axelrod went into political consulting.
His move from the Chicago Tribune to Axelrod & Associates meant a jump in salary from re-portedly $42,000 per year to “around six figures,” due primarily to commissions that ranged from $15,000 to $60,000 per campaign, plus a 15 percent commission on TV ads. Axelrod had considered going into business with Bob Shrum (then Ted Kennedy’s press secretary), consultant David Doak, and Pat Caddell, who had been a pollster for Jimmy Carter. Caddell, however, repulsed Axelrod. “Pat was narcissistic and consumed with himself,” he snarled.
Axelrod went in his own direction. He became known as a “five-tool consultant,” capable of writing speeches, press releases, and statements; crafting a campaign message; plotting strategy; producing TV and radio spots; and acting as a spokesman—all traits he would ultimately evidence in working for Obama.
Over time, Axelrod represented a variety of campaigns, primarily through two principal organizations: AKP&D Message and Media, and ASK Public Strategies. Among them, Axelrod & Associates morphed into AKP&D.
AKP&D is Axelrod’s Chicago-based political consulting firm that serves Democrat clients nationwide. The “A” is for Axelrod. The “K” is for John Kupper, a former Capitol Hill press secretary. The “P” is for David Plouffe, who would become campaign manager to Senator Barack Obama. The “D” is for John Del Cecato, described at the firm’s website as a “seasoned press secretary and veteran of battles in New York City and throughout the country,” who caught Axelrod’s eye through his talent for writing and producing ads. The firm’s client lists boasts four presidential campaigns and numerous senatorial, congressional, gubernatorial, and mayoral campaigns, with names ranging from Barack Obama to John Edwards, from Rod Blagojevich to Eliot Spitzer, from Patrick Kennedy to Rahm Emanuel.
Operating from the same address and same office as AKP&D is Axelrod’s ASK Strategies. Here, the “A” is for Axelrod, the “S” for Eric Sedler, and the “K” (again) is for John Kupper. Sedler came to ASK through AT&T and Edelman. The focus of ASK is not political candidates but organizations and corporate clients. Most interesting, ASK has mastered the use of front-groups—something intimately familiar to Axelrod’s radical mentors.
A well-known, somewhat notorious example of this front-group tactic is the company ComEd, which sought a palatable way to seek higher electricity prices in Illinois. ComEd sought ASK’s advice. ASK advised ComEd to form a group called Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity (CORE), which in turn described itself as a “coalition of individuals, businesses, and organizations.” The group then ran ads—written by ASK—direly warning of blackouts if electricity rates were not hiked. As noted by Bloomberg, ComEd later acknowledged that it had bankrolled the entire $15 million effort.
It was precisely the kind of thing that Chicago’s communists did in the 1940s, organizing groups with names like the American Peace Mobilization, which argued that America should stay out of World War II for purposes of peace when, in fact, the group’s goal was to assuage Hitler because Hitler had signed a pact with Stalin. This is a crass example, yes, but it is indicative of the way that communists in Chicago and New York operated unceasingly for decades through the finely honed tactic of the front-group. The likes of the Canters, Frank Marshall Davis, and others were involved in innumerable front-groups in Chicago and elsewhere.
But there was more to the ComEd example. As Bloomberg noted, “Illinois employees of the utility and its parent, Exelon, have contributed $181,711 to Obama’s presidential bid—more than workers at any other company in the state.” Bear in mind that David Axelrod not only runs ASK, which advised the ComEd campaign, but also advised Barack Obama’s campaigns. As the Bloomberg article pointed out, “Axelrod’s public and private efforts bump into each other at ComEd.”
ComEd is just one example of work done by ASK. Bloomberg also reported the remarkable case of New York’s Cablevision, which owns Madison Square Garden. Cablevision hired ASK to stop the New York Jets from building a new stadium in nearby Manhattan. Again, a front-group was formed, calling itself the New York Association for Better Choices, which, in turn, ran ads and materials opposing construction. According to records, Cablevision paid ASK $1.2 million in 2004-05.
Other clients followed. In 2006, none other than Michelle Obama, an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center—whose husband was advised by David Axelrod—recommended that the hospital hire Axelrod’s firm for a program intended to steer inner-city patients to neighborhood clinics. That effort eventually led to a program the hospital now calls its Urban Health Initiative. As the Washington Post reported, “The medical center’s initiative provides a window into the close relationship between the Obamas, their associates at the University of Chicago and Axelrod, the strategist most central to Barack Obama’s rise.”
In December 2006, the medical center hired Axelrod’s ASK Public Strategies to sell the Urban Health Initiative.
This came shortly after Obama joined the U.S. Senate in 2005. The medical center gave Michelle the plum position of vice president of community and external relations, with an annual salary of $317,000. The medical center’s chairwoman was Valerie Jarrett, an intimate of both Obamas then and (of course) still today.
As the Post noted, the “vast majority” of political contributions from University of Chicago employees have gone to Democrats, with $373,000 donated to Obama’s campaigns prior to 2008.
When Ax Met Barack
About the Author
Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is author of the new book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. His other books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
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Clint| 3.9.12 @ 6:32AM
The Axelrod/Obama Smear Bund.
" One of the main arrows in Axelrod’s quiver has always been the smear campaign. That tactic by itself may not distinguish him from the run-of-the-mill political operative. Instead, what separates the Axelrod-run campaign is the expert playing of the race card, to polarizing effect.
It was Mayor Street’s reelection campaign in 2003 against Republican challenger Sam Katz where Philadelphia voters were exposed to one of the most blatant examples of Axelrod’s race-baiting campaign tactics."
JAWilson| 3.9.12 @ 10:16AM
If Romney runs as a family and not just Mitt, the smears will fail, IMHO. His wife is great. She's got a real story to tell of perseverance and strong family values. She will add dimension to Mitt that the moustache cannot defeat.
The Late George Appley| 3.10.12 @ 1:06AM
This article exposes the Communist background of Axelrod. The birth certifcate that Trump was able to obtain shows that Obama is a bastard because his father was married to a woman in
Kenya. Also, his mother was a Red who renounced her US citizenship, so Obama was not eligible to be President, since he was not "subject
to the Jurisdiction" of the US at birth. His father was a Marxist from Africa and his mother was a white Commie who would only have sex with black men in order to show her hatred of her own race and of the USA.
Georgia P.| 3.11.12 @ 7:00AM
This is the kind of racist rant that makes you wonder why magazine sites allow lunatics to post comments. It says "comments are monitored and will be deleted if ... bigoted... ", but either the monitors are asleep or this is not considered bigoted. (The latter is more worrisome.)
janet| 3.11.12 @ 6:43PM
What is racist about his comment? The only thing he said that someone like you would interpret as being racist was that Obama's mother had sex with black men because she hated her own race. She was on record for stating that she did not like the white race and had an affinity for minorities as such. I'd like to know if you think SHE was a racist for making those comments.
Missouri David| 3.12.12 @ 9:49AM
I didn't read the article, but wonder how to keep the IslamoFascist liar from being re-elected?
As union man I shall never vote Demo again until the revolution and we get our gov't back.
Thanks and Merry CHRISTmass
ENOUGH ROPE| 3.12.12 @ 11:13AM
Make David Axelrod a permanent campaign issue by exposing his mentoring by Communists in his rise as a journalist and campaign strategist and manager. Make him The Evil Power Behind The Throne who manipulates the public like a puppet master. Persuade the public that they are being fooled by Axelrod. Make Axelrod and Obama defend Axelrod's and Obama's mentoring by Communists. It truly is guilt by association.
ENOUGH ROPE| 3.12.12 @ 11:56AM
Allowing Axelrod immunity from attack is similar to allowing the Communists sanctuary in Manchuria, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
As General Patton said, "Attack, attack, attack; always attack!"
ENOUGH ROPE| 3.12.12 @ 11:56AM
Allowing Axelrod immunity from attack is similar to allowing the Communists sanctuary in Manchuria, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
As General Patton said, "Attack, attack, attack; always attack!"
ENOUGH ROPE| 3.12.12 @ 11:57AM
Allowing Axelrod immunity from attack is similar to allowing the Communists sanctuary in Manchuria, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
As General Patton said, "Attack, attack, attack; always attack!"
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 11:27AM
Hey, Clint, where's the "explosive" Breitbart tape that was supposed to bring down the Obama administration?
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.9.12 @ 3:52PM
Hey, RCV, where's all the SHOVAL READY JOBS? Where's all the New Roads and Bridges and Infrastructure and Electrical Grids? Where's all of the Green Energy Jobs?
Where's all the Transparency? Where's his Passport, his Social Security Number, his Medical Records, his College Scholarship Papers, his College Entrance Exams, Grades, and Thesis?
Where's the TAPE of Obama at Khalid Rashidi's going away party, that the L.A. Times REFUSES to release?
Where's all the LOVE that the rest of the World was supposed to lavish on us?
Where's all of the World Peace, that the Peace Prize President, was gonna bring to the World?
Where's all of the Bi-Partisan compromise?
Where are the Lower Gas Prices?
Where's the Energy Independence?
Where's the Unspent Tarp Money? Where's the Unspent Stimulus Money? Where's the $20 Billion BP Money?
And, where is your head?
Oh, yeah.
It's up your ass.
spy| 3.9.12 @ 5:44PM
Great one!
KICKHISAZZOUT| 3.13.12 @ 10:21AM
Bravo! Well done.
Real Crusty Visitor| 3.9.12 @ 4:09PM
Obama's too busy having others fake his Birth certificate these days. People like RCV don't mind, though, even if the truth comes out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....e=youtu.be
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 4:21PM
Right. And he was born in Kenya. And he's the antiChrist. And he's a secret Muslim. Right....
Real Crusty Visitor| 3.9.12 @ 4:39PM
Right. And RCV cares about the truth. And he cares about the laws of our country. And he cares if we have a President who got to where he is fraudulently. Right....
Clint| 3.9.12 @ 4:16PM
It's Coming, Colliefornia Fruits & Nuts Obama LawBoy Flunkie Stooge, RCV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unC48A00WHU
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 4:21PM
I'm waiting.
DRed| 3.9.12 @ 5:36PM
The secret video unearthed by Breitbart was in fact released by the communists at PBS in 2008 and has been hiding, freely available for download by anyone, on the frontline website for the last 4 years. If you want to know why the mainstream media buried the story that the president of the harvard law review once introduced a harvard professor, you should ask Sean Hannity. Dick Morris mentioned Obama's sinister ties to Professor Bell on Hannity & Colmes in 2007, but obviously lamestream media hack Hannity buried the story to protect his boy Obama.
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 8:35PM
"Sinister ties" to .....Derrick Bell! What an explosive expose! No wonder it's had the impact it has! This is what Breitbart was going to "blow open" the election with? You guys are a constant source of bemusement.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.9.12 @ 6:29PM
I don't resemble a sentient human being as readers wait for me to respond to shovel ready jobs and road shovel ready jobs and bridge shovel ready jobs and other infrastructure shovel ready jobs and electric grid shovel ready jobs and other green energy shovel ready jobs and passport transparency and social security number transparency and medical record transparency and college entrance exam transparency and school transcript transparency and school grade point average transparency and college thesis transparency and khalidi rashidi bashi transparenci and other personal transparency and bi-partisan transparency and other political transparency matters . . .
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 8:35PM
Zzzzzzzz....
Clint| 3.9.12 @ 9:17PM
For Your Mancrush, Obama.
We Already Knew That Colliefornia Fruits & Nuts Obama LawBoy Flunkie Stooge, RCV.
Jack in Wi.| 3.9.12 @ 2:47PM
Axelrod is one of a tough group of leftwing Chicagoans who have been running Obama his whole career. Most of them are very liberal Jews who have long wanted power and got it with Obama. Obama is only doing what they want. I have never seen much independence put forth by him. He is a disaster. But we can thank Bush, McCain and Romney for his election and coming re-election. They have ruined the Republican party and the conservative movement. Axelrod will have no trouble in beating them this time either.
spy| 3.9.12 @ 5:46PM
We Repubs can still win!
Alan Brooks| 3.9.12 @ 8:41PM
Doesn't matter what AS writes, I wont vote for your crummy candidate next November.
Brad| 3.11.12 @ 1:32PM
And I wont vote for your moron Obama next November.
Alan Brooks| 3.10.12 @ 5:57PM
It is interesting about Miller and Stone being commie/Commie; but remember though Stalin was a monster, not one of his troops invaded France, not one of his bombs were dropped on England. True, the 1939 economic pact enabled Hitler to invade France, bomb England-- but the Russians were trapped between Germany and Japan and wriggled out of it by the "nonaggression" Pact. It wasn't ethical, but what about Europe in the interwar years was ethical? it was a hiatus between the bloodletting.
Mike Hawk| 3.9.12 @ 6:42AM
Geez, Clint. I have to agree. When you are right, you get it said succinctly. Axelrod is a man of no scruples or consience. Street probably would have won anyway, but to slander and trash Sam Katz the way they did was unprincipled in the worst fashion. It was Street who proclaimed afterward that the brothers and sisters now run the city. Into the gutter as it is. BTW, John Street's father was a white guy. What is it with these mixed race candidates that they hate themselves so.
Teaghan| 3.9.12 @ 7:19AM
Notice how obama's mother is very rarely mentioned, only his marxist father who happened to be a black Kenyan. His mamma was white as the driven snow, but he's referred to as "african american" WTH~ was she just a broodmare?
loulou| 3.9.12 @ 12:39PM
She was simply an incubator.
Alan Brooks| 3.10.12 @ 5:49PM
"She was simply an incubator."
So you're pro-choice after all? a womb is merely an incubator for a fetus?
Paul Kotik| 3.9.12 @ 6:48AM
"Like Obama, who was impacted by Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and others, these figures unquestionably had an impact..."
I'm sorry, but this use of "impact" makes the writer look stupid. Could we please avoid that word? Especially its misuse as a verb? It's normally and properly the province of cub reporters for third-rate local TV stations, and of dentists decribing a specific oral pathology.
Up to that point, the Kengor article was great.
Bob Tyrell, are you listening? Is my observation going to impact your impact on the editorial impacting process at the mag? Please?
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.9.12 @ 7:35AM
And here I thought the "Grammar" guy was a pain in the *ss.
Paul Kotik| 3.9.12 @ 10:58AM
And here I thought we should give a crap about not having our sound arguments sound STUPID becuse we word them as if we were junior J-school students. This is social worker lingo. I thought I'd SHARE that with you, because it's a CONCERN of mine. An ISSUE, you know? Nome sane? Like, whatever.
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.9.12 @ 4:06PM
You're obviously way too smart for us mere Mortals.
Perhaps a PBS web site, would be more to your liking?
weaverofdreams_2000| 3.9.12 @ 10:31AM
Impact is a transitive verb. Check your dictionary.
Paul Kotik| 3.9.12 @ 10:56AM
It's usage as a transitive verb is STUPID.
loulou| 3.9.12 @ 12:41PM
The media started the incorrect usage of the word "impact" about 25 years ago. Now it's mainstream.
English is a living language, we're told. Just like our living Constitution.
weaverofdreams_2000| 3.9.12 @ 3:53PM
It is not some modern corruption of the language.
You couldn't be more wrong. How symptomatic of the fact challenged echo chamber that is TAS. If you (or those in your narrow universe) don't believe it then it can't be true.
As I said, check a dictionary. Better yet, check THE dictionary -- The Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It cites usage of "impact" as a verb going back to the 1600's. The fact that you may not like it makes absolutely no impact on me :-)
Cheers!
Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 5:43PM
Too good to pass up: It's like Duh, you know?
Dave Williams| 3.9.12 @ 2:00PM
So is the use of "it's" when "its" is correct. Anyone for a fast game of beams and motes?
spy| 3.9.12 @ 5:48PM
Drama Queen.
albert constantine jr.| 3.10.12 @ 1:15PM
Please allow me to suggest that you broaden your pet peeve vocabulary to include those who use the word "utilize" when "use" is adequate.
Alan Brooks| 3.10.12 @ 5:47PM
"Bob Tyrell, are you listening?"
Tyrrell and Regnery don't give diddly what you think- people at that level think you and I are pissants..
J.C.Eaton| 3.11.12 @ 7:37PM
And in your case...they'd be right. Cheers.
W| 3.9.12 @ 7:15AM
The bottom line is Axelrod is a far lefty/commie/socialist like Obama. This seemed obvious to everyone except the MSM and the McCain campaign. Obama said he wanted to radically trasnform the USA and "spread the wealth around."
Joe the Plumber was the only one that drew this admission from Obama. MSM and McCain were oblivious to Obama's connections to Wright, Ayers, Dohrn, and Axelrod's background.
Last night on Hannity, Palin said that Steven Schmidt, their campaign manager, prohibited or prevented McCain and her from discussing Obama's radical associations. Why would McCain and Palin listen to this dim bulb? McCain would have won if he listened to Joe the Plumber instead of the professionals.
Teaghan| 3.9.12 @ 7:23AM
Maybe W, the tapes of obama with yet another radical, this time at Harvard and they say one of him with Ayers and his mamma, introducing obama as an exchange student, will bring out some things about this man that the MSM can't ignore.
W| 3.9.12 @ 7:56AM
Hope you are right, Teaghan.
Our candidate cannot ignore Obama's radical background as did McCain/Palin. He must point out repeatedly that Obama's radicalism is the foundation of Obama's policies such as destroying our energy supply by no drilling, class warfare, increased regulations, attacks on religion, Obamacare, all policies designed to increase the power of the government.
The focus must be on Obama's economic policies and his policies to enlarge the nanny state.
Obama has sent troops to Uganda, bombed Libya, and is threatening war in Syria, all without Congressional authorization. While everyone focused on Fluke, yesterday Panetta said that we will ask the UN or NATO for permission to bomb Syria, and then MAYBE inform or ask Congress. It is clear Obama thinks of himself as the sole power. His language is always "I" will do this/that.
weaverofdreams_2000| 3.9.12 @ 10:33AM
Hope you enjoy life in your fact free world. Last I looked, it was McCain and Graham who were calling for bombing Syria.
W| 3.9.12 @ 10:48AM
Did you miss Panetta's testimony? Forget about McCain/Graham. They do not speak for conservatives, and McCain wants to bomb every country.
Didn't Obama bomb Libya, double the war in Afghan, and send military to Uganda/Central Africa? The only country Obama does not want to help militarily is Israel.
Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 10:58AM
And his own W:
Never forget that to the Left, the only issue is power and control. They are so convinced of their own intellectual and moral superiority that they will stop at nothing to remain in power. If that is simply another way of saying the ends justify the means, it is indeed their watchword.
W| 3.9.12 @ 11:17AM
Al,
I agree, should have said the USA and Israel. Power and Control by whatever means, the means in the USA are government regulation.
At least Bush 1 and Bush 2 obtained Congressional approval for the Iraq wars. Obama did not for Libya or Uganda.
Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 12:39PM
...and the Secdef just said he will seek "permission" his word, from the international community for any action in Syria. Not ask Congress note, just permission from other nations. Syria should be left to stew in its own juices.
Trish| 3.9.12 @ 4:22PM
W-I am convinced the MSM was perfectly aware of the neo Marxist Obama and wanted to promote the agenda. McCain is an a*s. Is Steven Schmidt working for Romney now? Another a*s.
POST American| 3.9.12 @ 7:21AM
----MEANWHILE,
LEON 'PAN--NET--AH's' public unfold
of Globalist TROJAN HORSE TREASON
before the Congress just 2 days ago
doesn't even rate a single article
in our capstone CON-op 'media.
Hence, a week after the 'uncanny'
--'natural' death of Andrew Breitbart
----and the dubious witholding of
his bombshell videos ---UH---- could
we get beyond the '90's Show'
rectum worshipping CON-cerns
---and find the issues,
or at least BUY A CLUE.
-----They're selling them---EVERWHERE!
----Globalism's Nuremberg 1934 ----IS HERE.
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.9.12 @ 7:27AM
I see nothing special about David Axelrod. He's no different than any Leftist who's come before. He's a LIAR and a THEIF. He's a little man, with a big dream. A dream of Amerika, where America now stands. A dream of Total Government Control over a Divided Country of "Friends" and "Enemies". Party Members, and Enemies. Those who kneel before Obama, and Enemies.
Our Country is more Divided then it has been since the Civil War. His Boy pits the Poor against the Rich. Black against White. Legal against Illegal. He sends his Civilians Armies: Teachers Unions/ACORN/SEIU/and Dick Trumpkas THUGS, out in to the streets ala Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin. He seeks a Great Awakening in this Country ala Mao. One that will take us BACK. Back to a simpler time of Wind and Sun. Of Algae and Switch Grass. A time when the World still had only Rich and Poor. The Middle Class was a uniquely American phenomena. One that does not exist in Obama/Axelrod's Amerika.
Everything will come to a head, this Summer. All pretenses will have been dropped. His Boy has already declared himself a SOCIALIST. "Free Market Capitalism doesn't work. In fact, it's never worked." He's stopped pretending that he's a CHRISTIAN, as he goes at the Catholic Church with Both Barrels. Like every other Cancer, he seeks to DESTROY THE CHURCH, one piece at a time. The battle between Good and Evil is taking shape.
David Axelrod. The Son of Leftists Communist Sympathizers. The Son of America Haters. The Son of Evil. He has been brought together, by FATE, with the Son of an Atheist Communist, and a Muslim Marxist. They have Lied their way to Power, as do all of their kind. They are both Godless Creatures who take their inspiration from a Book, dedicated to LUCIFER, instead of the BIBLE, and they will use every means at their disposal, to keep their hold on Power. The IRS. The FBI. The JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. Their U.S. Attorneys.
"We REWARD our Friends, and PUNISH our Enemies."
I believe that this is all a part of a greater plan. I BELIEVE what the Bible tells me. I've been in the Gutter. I have been to a point where my Mother and Brother wanted nothing to do with me. I had nothing, and God gave me another chance.
I BELIEVE IT.
And I believe that the World is about to change, big time.
Israel WILL attack Iran. The Entire Middle East will go up in flames. Oil will STOP. Commerce will STOP. Marshal Law will come to pass. AMERIKA will have arrived.
I believe that the DELIVERER of the Muslims, in in the Oval Office. I believe that HAMAS has gotten it right. I believe that Egypt and Libya were handed to the Islamists, for a Reason, and that Iran and Syria go untouched, for the same reason. The destruction of Israel. The beginning of the End.
There's no arguing this. It is a Fate accompli. Even a blind man could see all of the pieces, as they fall in to place. Armageddon will happen, and David Axelrod will have played a large part. That will be his legacy.
He's the man who put the BEAST on the Throne.
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 7:57AM
Ah, yes, President Obama is God and resisting him is futile. May as well stay home and save your money, he's already won.
Mike Hawk | 3.9.12 @ 8:34AM
Yes, Purp, it is the Oborg collective in charge. " Resistence is futile, you will be absorbed. " Personally, I prefer Liberty and a free society to the Oborg hell you want.
Oldefarte| 3.9.12 @ 10:08AM
To STUPIDS like yourself '...Ah, yes, President Obama is God......' To the rest of us he's simply a socialistic incompetent and inept teleprompter-user disguised as POTUS!!!!!
Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 11:04AM
Pay attention onetheless to what the stock market is telling us. It has already accomodated to an Obama re-election. It has discounted ay major reinvigoration of the national economy over the next several years. This situation, this economy, is to be considered the new norm. High prices, high unemployment, a European style welfare state.
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 3:13PM
Like I said, give up, it's over .. even Rush Loudmouth can't stop the Obamanator ... start looking at 2016, 2012, it's over now.
Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 5:44PM
There will be no election in 2016.
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 8:39PM
There will be an election in 2016, and life will go on, and the Republic will endure, no matter who wins in 2012.
Bobloblaw| 3.9.12 @ 8:04AM
""Where does his ruthlessness and drive come from?""
This is why we conservatives continue to lose. We refuse to believe that the left is anything but well meaning, its just that they have differing methods. Fact is what drives Axelrod is what drives all leftist. Deep rooted hatred for the American Experience and the unending desire to replace it with a socialist utopia. Anyone opposing them is evil.
Louis Jenkins| 3.9.12 @ 9:38AM
Dear Mr. Bobloblaw:
You speak of we conservatives. Yes, I know it is only a term. Indeed, we conservatives know that the left has already gone over to the dark side, and that their differing methods are nothing more than dog puke. What is bad is our Republican leaders. They gobble up the dog puke, and smilingly say "That wasn't so bad." To speak well of these leaders is worse than having bilateral hernias repaired without pain relief. Differing methods alright. Axelrod is dog vomit as well. His man is in power for now, and may well serve a second term, but the true Conservatives will not serve the second term with 'his' man. This summer, as Pennell has stated, may the end of America as we know it. Be rest assured, it will not be Amerika either.
Mimi| 3.9.12 @ 10:03AM
Maybe Paul Kengers and Brietbarts work WILL educate some of the REPUBLICANS who do not see the danger we are in. It is their job to honor and protect the Constitution. Never before in history did this Nation need protection like NOW! They must defend this country!
SUBVET| 3.11.12 @ 12:23PM
The only thing they care about is their butts.
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 3:33PM
the Left is driven by being walked on, spit on, and ridiculed by you righties long enough. They employ your own tactics and NOW you don't like it. Tough. Lighten up and they will too. Newt Gingrich and the right made it a war, rather than a cooperation, so change it or live with it.
Trish| 3.9.12 @ 4:36PM
'Lighten up' said the spider to the fly.
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 4:45PM
Now you've got it, you're done, you're over, and America is wise to you and your kind. the President beats all Republicant contenders by a wide margin, and it can only get wider with the increasingly better economic news.
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.9.12 @ 6:55PM
Pierre Putz "Purp" Pelosi,
You've got to be kidding us.
Sandra "Slut" Fluke is on MSNBC referring viewers to Media Matters.
The Daily Caller is exposing us mercilously.
All while you are offering this imbecilic infantile inane idiocy.
For Statist's Sake give us a fluking break here.
Stop embarrassing us.
And before your next visit to the offices try a hygienic cleanser - last visit you smelled like dead rodent ass.
- MM staff
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 7:21PM
Yep, you should know what "dead rodent ass" smells like.
spike59| 7.6.12 @ 6:24AM
the Left has always been about power, violence, and intimidation-that's why they've always been so fond of the Soviets, and why they are in bed with the Mafia, which controls Big Labor
Anthony| 3.9.12 @ 8:15AM
Everytime I see David Axelrod, I am reminded of the movie "The Boys from Brasil".
This is the movie in which Hitler's secreted scientists produce a number of Hitler clones and seed them amoung famlies throughout the world.
Axelrod may be proof positive the movie may not be fiction. They certainly got the looks and the political philosophy down pat.
As the late Johnney Cochrane said during the O.J. trial, " if the jackboots fit, you must acquit".
Ed| 3.9.12 @ 10:07AM
I think he looks like Roger, the Hitler impersonator, in "The Producers".
spike59| 7.6.12 @ 6:26AM
a decade or so back, a magazine did an interview with one of the leaders of NAMBLA; dude could've been Adolphrod's twin
weaverofdreams_2000| 3.9.12 @ 10:36AM
And Axelrod is different from, say, Karl Rove, how, exactly? It's the profession itself, and those they serve, that is corrupted. The evil is not owned by one man.
Anthony| 3.9.12 @ 3:06PM
Perhaps you might want to re-read the article and see the political progression of Axelrod before you ask this inane question.
Rove indeed has a political perspective, however, Axelrod is a true hardcore leftist. His agenda is guided by the bedrock axiom of the left, the end justifies the means.
The only thing Rove and Axelrod have in common is the title political consultant. After that, all similarity ends.
weaverofdreams_2000| 3.9.12 @ 3:39PM
You must be joking! If anyone embodies a philosophy of the end justifies the means it would be the George Bush II Presidency! And who was GWB II's chief political advisor? Bingo! You need to get out more and do some reading (other than in fact challenged echo chambers like this place).
Cheers!
Granny Jan | 3.9.12 @ 8:34AM
Do you think Axelrod and Co really care that you know their commie roots? Doubtful. They do care whether Obama's homosexual roots are ever exposed. No one ever asked of the young, handsome charasmatic Obama where are the grilfriends?
The fictional girldfriend that Ayers invented in Dreams doesn't count. Michele is the first woman he dated? Enough said. Since everyone is too politically correct to expose this, myself excluded..but who am I...it will remain hidden.
Louis Jenkins| 3.9.12 @ 9:41AM
That is true Granny Jan. Where are Obama's previous flames? Crickets chrip.
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 11:30AM
It would be nice, Granny, if you had some actual facts to back up your fantasies about Obama. Just a little upset because in contrast to the philandering heros of the right like Gingrich and Cain, Obama is an admirable husband and father. Tough.
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 4:32PM
Why, how wonderful - the first Gay President - makes your head explode that a gay boy could rule over you, huh?
albert constantine jr.| 3.10.12 @ 1:18PM
As a duly appointed member of the language police, I must charge with a hate crime based on your racist use of the word "boy" to describe an adult male of color. You have the right to remain silent...
spike59| 7.6.12 @ 6:28AM
no, NOT the first GAY president; the first GIRL president-have you seen him try to throw a baseball, or ride a bike in his 'mom jeans?'
Fiscal| 3.9.12 @ 8:58AM
Man, some of you are going to get heart attacks. There is NO difference between Rove and Axelrod except you guys agree with the former and disagree with the latter. Remember what Rove did to McCain? That even more despicable than what Axelrod did.
This is politics, guys. People will do and say anything to get elected on both sides. We get truthers, birthers, people believing Obama is a marxist, fascist, and socialist. This is all rubbish. We have lost the meaning of words and completely lost the meaning of intellect. This is an example of why Republicans will lose the next election -- the psychos have taken over the asylum.
The fact is that Obama -- a capitalist/pragmatist who wins by a winning smile and carefully targeting the political middle -- makes decisions rationally.
Now I don't happen to agree with a lot of those decisions -- ones that decrease personal liberty and give our children debt specifically -- but you've got to admire the rationality behind the political targeting done by Axelrod just as you've got to admire how Rove understood you had to turn George Bush into a "compassionate conservative" in order to get votes from the same group. It's a simple reality -- the candidate who appeals to the political middle best is the one who will win. That was the lesson of Bush -- and that is the lesson of Obama. And by the way, that was also the lessen of Reagan who dramatically grew the debt and raised taxes 11 times. Even he understood that you had to please the middle.
Those of you who believe that a "real conservative" can win simply don't understand consumer marketing. Rove understood consumer marketing just as Axelrod does. It's all about positioning to subgroups to appeal to swing voters. Swing voters will not be convinced by ideology just as most of you would not be convinced by the ideology of the left.
Winning is all about the numbers and micro-targeting. Ideology is only a way target specific groups. I doubt whether anyone who wins national elections in politics is really an ideologue.
So my message to you guys is to stop hating and get a grip on reality -- it's all about targeting and marketing to the middle whether you are on the right or left.
W| 3.9.12 @ 9:28AM
One big difference is that Axelrod is a commie/socialist so a candidate like Obama would pick an advisor that shares his beliefs. Rove is definetely not a commie/socialist. Bush would not have used Axelrod.
Rove's tactics to appeal the conservatives and moderates was consistent with his beliefs and Bush's beliefs. Axelrod's tactics to have Obama appeal to the moderates and independents was based on a lie. The lie is is Obama is a moderate so Axelrod had to disguise and downplay Obama radical past, beliefs, and associations. Ax had a willing accomplices in the MSM and the incopetence of the McCain/Palin campaign.
You are correct that both Rove and Ax targeted the middle but for different reasons. Obama's reason was to lie and hide his past and beliefs. Bush's was to highlight his past and beliefs.
Of course the manager that wins is always a genius. Rember Cadell with Carter, Rollins with Reagan in 84, Carville/Begala with Clinton 92, and Morris with Clinton 96. We make too much of the manager. It is still the candidate that must have a message and say that message.
Fiscal| 3.9.12 @ 10:16AM
While I agree with most of your post, we seem to have lost the meaning of "commie/socialist" and it is really overused by most of you. Obama is a capitalist! He just wants big government because he can't come to grips with the fact that you have to pay for it. This is really no different than Bush who thought you could get votes by going to war and giving seniors a benefit.
And you are absolutely correct about making too much of the manager. Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama make you feel good on a personal level. You may not like their policies, but they all were well liked by voters. Remember, Obama's personal approval rating is still very high -- he is just not a great President.
W| 3.9.12 @ 10:44AM
Well, Obama is not a commie like Lenin and Stalin and Castro and HoChiMinh. Obama is not trying to physically eliminate all his opponents. He is regulating them out business.
Obama is the lefty/progressive/ commie/socialist that want to control the economy and our lives through government regulation. He loves a powerful federal government that can order us any way it chooses.
You can achieve the result of controlling the economy and our lives by government regulation to the point that the functional result is the same as an old fashioned commie/socialist state like Cuba. The only difference is in the tactics used. Obama and his ilk use the soft approach of incrementalism, one regulation, one agency, one law after another.
Focus on the results and not the labels. You are right that the word commie brings up the memories of Lenin, Stalin, etc. So we need a new word for today's friendly, smiling commie/socialist.
scotchieguy| 3.9.12 @ 12:03PM
Jonah Goldberg called it "liberal fascism," tyranny and big govt with a smilie face. No thugs needed, just regulate and tax and nanny them to death.
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 4:43PM
It's funny how you all on the right enjoy the power and majesty of America, but then denigrate how America got in it's position. America was not a world power, not even the largest economy - not until the Federal government, or Central Government to use your words, became stronger, more powerful and taxed the population to pay for the larger, more powerful government. Then is when the government had the means to offer a secure retirement, aid to the needy, and now healthcare for all.
What do you want? To go back to the 1850's, no women or blacks voting, moonshinin' and go barefoot along the Mississippi River singin' Ol Man River? You can have that world, I'll take this one.
W| 3.9.12 @ 7:22PM
Purp
That was the world when the Dems controlled the USA. The first Republican president, Lincoln, ended slavery. The Dems then reasserted their power in the South after the Civil War to fight reconstruction and establish segregation.
RCV| 3.10.12 @ 4:58PM
And in 1876, in order to ascend to the Presidency over the popular vote winner, Tilden, the party of Lincoln sold it soul to the Confederacy with a promise to end Reconstruction and allow the imposition of Jim Crow laws in the Southern states. It completed it's betrayal of Lincoln's legacy when the national Democratic party ended it's alliance with Southern state Democratic parties starting with Hubert Humphrey's dramatic fight for inclusion of a civil rights platform in 1948, Harry Truman's ending of segregation in the armed forces, and the Kennedy alliance withe Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Thereafter, the segregationists -- from Strom Thurmond to Trent Lott, fled en masse to the Republican Party, where they live happily ever after to this day. Party of Lincoln, my ass.
W| 3.10.12 @ 6:14PM
Selective history.
Woodrow Wilson was all for segregation and imposed the segregation that Truman first started to end..
The first Civil Rights Act was in 1957 by Ike
. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the Republicans and Northern Democrats.
The segragated south was called the Democratic South, as you know, because it was the "solid Dem South" for the Dem party.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had as its opponents Al Gore Sr., William Fullbright, and the rest of the southern Democrats. George Wallace, Oval Faubus, Lester Maddox, and all the segragation governors were Dems.
Which party is now fighting school vouchers for poor blacks?
So it is the fault of Tilden because he allowed the Democrats to acts as segragtionists, and did not stop them?
Disappointed in your selective rendition of history.
RCV| 3.10.12 @ 10:21PM
Simply correcting your selective version.
W| 3.11.12 @ 10:23AM
In responding to the Purp's comment about the 1850's I pointed out that the Dems controlled the country and allowed slavery until Lincoln ended it. The Rep party was formed in 1856. We had Dem presidents, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, and Van Buren, none of whom did anything to end slavery and allowed it to be institutionalized. That history is not disputed by anyone.
There was a bargain in 187 to end Reconstruction to settle the disputed election, not to allow segragtion. Your point seems that the Reps allowed the Dems to act as segregationists and impose Jim Crow laws, so the Reps are bad because they allowed the Dems to act as Dems.
While neither party did much to end segregation it was the Dems who maintained it. Wilson segregated much federal employment and was a racist. Truman was the first Dem president to do anything. It was Ike who sent the Army to Little Rock to enforce the Brown case. This is not disputed.
Your argument that all the bad Dems became Repus and all the good Dems remained Dems after Truman is a fantasy enjoyed by the Dems to justify the party's history. You are saying that every Republican politician in the South, and presumably elsewhere, is a racist and segregationist at heart, otherwise they would be Dems. That must be news to Jeb Bush, George Bush, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, Bob MacDonald, Howard Baker, Jime Demint, Niki Haley, Marco Rubio, and many others.
There is no question that since 1964 both parties have moved to end racism, with some exceptions, but the facts are the facts.
The Dems are now acting to preserve abortion as they once did to preserve slavery and segragation, and one day will realize this error also.
Always enjoy talking with you, you are one of the few intelligent liberals posting here.
RCV| 3.12.12 @ 11:24AM
Thanks, W. Enjoy your posts as well!
Walter White| 3.9.12 @ 10:19AM
Karl Capote is not well liked nor respected by movement conservatives. Capote's brand of masquerading has not fooled me. Capote is a big government poser who is marginally right of center regardless of your respect for his grasp of election nuance. He's a marshmallow whom I generally detest.
vtwin| 3.9.12 @ 10:51AM
Presidential election are about the present occupant.
2012 Obama vs. Obama
2008 Obama vs. Bush II
2004 Bush II vs. Bush II
2000 Bush II vs. Clinton
1996 Clinton vs Clinton
1992 Clinton vs. Bush I
1988 Reagan vs. Reagan
1984 Reagan vs. Reagan
1980 Reagan vs. Carter
1976 Carter vs Nixon... and the middle decides.
Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 11:00AM
76 was Carter Ford. But I understand that the reference was intentional.
Roylyn| 3.9.12 @ 9:22AM
Devil's advocate supports the anit-Christ !!!! Deadly combination.
Bill| 3.9.12 @ 9:33AM
David Axelrod is the "liberal" Joseph Goebbels.
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 4:47PM
Yep, and your side is Neville Chamberlain... buh, bye.
spike59| 7.6.12 @ 6:31AM
no, McCain was neville chamberlain...'our side' is George Patton
time for Barry the Bungler to head for the bunker
Mike Rogers | 3.9.12 @ 9:46AM
We should be scared, but in the way that Andy Grove of Intel ran scared - a healthy respect for what your competition can do will make you stronger.
DRed| 3.9.12 @ 9:54AM
Go Peglegs!
Oldefarte| 3.9.12 @ 10:03AM
If everyone here would either force whomever they know personally to read this editorial or instead to interpret/explain its contents to them, the eventual Republican would easily defeat Obama in November!!!!!!!
Mimi| 3.9.12 @ 10:16AM
So Axelrod wanted to OVERCOME..." The Smallness of our Politics"....And "Failure of leadership" with Obama......JUST WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?
Early after Nov. 2008 some of us ...SMELLED COMMIE....Boy this article and Breitbarts Vidio will wake up the NATION...Whew! Just in the nick of time!
flipside| 3.9.12 @ 10:34AM
Let's hope that Mitt has an attack dog to go after the slimeball Axelrod
Dick Nome| 3.9.12 @ 11:05AM
He'll use the same attack sheep the McCain campaign used. BAA-AAA-AAA.
flipside| 3.9.12 @ 10:34AM
Let's hope that Mitt has an attack dog to go after the slimeball Axelrod
SUBVET| 3.11.12 @ 12:31PM
It would be like taking a knife to a gun fight...the mormon has no clue.
gearjammer| 3.9.12 @ 11:04AM
Do we have anybody tough enough to take these monsters on ? That is the question. Well the Koch brothers are standing up. And, being attacked. How do I help them ? What do they sell I can buy to help them finance their efforts ? And, finally when are we gonna have an economic boycott that'll destroy this media ?
Bill| 3.9.12 @ 11:11AM
David Axelrod is the "Chicago-Goebbels."
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 11:31AM
Bill is an unrepentent racist.
Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 12:42PM
As is Obama.
Real Crusty Visitor| 3.9.12 @ 4:13PM
Zing!
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 4:23PM
The comment is beneath you, Al Adab.
Real Crusty Visitor| 3.9.12 @ 4:33PM
Truth escapes you.
Bill| 3.9.12 @ 4:24PM
RCV is a convicted child molester.
Nick| 3.9.12 @ 6:17PM
"That nigger lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
- Written by Bill, in the Time for Newt to Do the Honorable Thing thread:
http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403
You're a moron and a racist, Bill.
GO AWAY!
erika| 3.16.12 @ 3:26PM
A jewish Chicago-Goebbels.
Doctor Right| 3.9.12 @ 11:41AM
Portraying Axelrod as a political Svengali is absurd.
Sorry, but in retrospect, getting Obama elected in 2008 wasn't really all that hard.
1. The Democrats had spent 8 years relentlessly trashing George W. Bush and the GOP, to which Bush and the GOP responded with...crickets.
2. The entire media establishment was already in-the-tank for the Democrats.
3. The Dems had already seized control of Congress in 2006 (thanks to the GOP's timidity); 2008 was destined to be the Dem's year UNLESS we nominated a solid, articulate Conservative...we didn't.
4. The Clintons and their baggage were a major concern for the Dems. They didn't want the Clinton machine pulling the strings anymore, and they didn't want residual negativity left-over from '92-'00 to damage them, either.
5. To point #4 above, it should not be surprising that the Dems would toss Hillary overboard as soon as another candidate came along who seemed viable. One did, and they did.
6. And he's black, too?!?!? ALLLLLL-RIGHT!!!!! That TOTALLY locks-up and the black vote AND secures millions of guilty white votes from people who want to feel really good about their votes...regardless of the consequences!
7. And did I mention...Now we can REALLY play the race card!!!!!!
8. Vetting..? Vetting, anyone..? Somebody, please...vet this Marxist college Professor..? No..? OK, then!!!
9. "Mr. Obama, we need you to campaign like a Conservative...a 'new Democrat', like Clinton. Got it?" In other words, lie!
10. One more thing...see if you can give Hillary 'the finger' in a debate...the idiot college kids will think that's, like sooooooooooo cool!
Gee...What a genius that Axelrod is. I've just described his entire playbook.
PolishKnight| 3.9.12 @ 11:50AM
If you google "graph approval rating GW Bush", you'll see him sliding down consistently from a high of 90% after 2001 down to just under 30%. Much of that was deserved because, like John McCain, he didn't do much for his electorate proposing amnesty for illegals, setting a precedent with a massive stimulus and wallstreet bailout, and not doing much for his own electorate (the gun grab in New Orleans and doing nothing about reverse discrimination.)
On the other hand, Obama still has a 50% or so approval rating. That's pretty amazing and means that he could still win this fall guys. To his credit, he's a strong leftist and leftists will feel good voting for him but in addition, he enjoys automatic votes from his non-white racist voting groups. The economy could go off a cliff but provided they get their special privileges, they see no reason not to move forward.
In the meantime, the right obsesses over gay marriage, abortion, tax breaks for millionaires, and a foreign policy that doesn't really do much for the average conservative voter.
It doesn't look good even if Romney wins and turns out to be better than expected. This is 4th down, 1 minute remaining, and we're behind.
Doctor Right| 3.9.12 @ 1:36PM
Bush's low approval-rating was driven by the media's incessant bashing and distorting of the facts.
Likewise, Obama's higher numbers are due to the SAME thing. And they're NOT as high as 50%; that's misinformation.
And the Right does not "obsess" over "tax-breaks for millionaires". Cutting taxes is not an obsession; it's an objective.
PolishKnight| 3.9.12 @ 2:23PM
Doctor Right, let's start with the media: Certainly democrats enjoy a massive advantage due to that but based upon the teeth gnashing I hear from leftists when the word "foxnews" is mentioned, it's not as great as it was a mere 30 years ago. There's Rush, Foxnews, and blogs. 30 years ago, all we had were a bunch of bird cage rags with real estate ads and content trickled down from the NYT and Dan Rather reading summations of the stories on the air with a single picture in the background. Times have changed. It's just a fraction of the advantage Democrats have.
And most of what dragged GW down wasn't misinformation at all. With his wall street bailouts, amnesty for illegals, and lack of support for his own electorate, it didn't really take much for even the crudest Daily Show hack to make him look bad.
That leads us to the lowering taxes. Even if it's done across the board, it looks bad when private enterprise is offshoring high paying jobs and making a fortune (Steve Jobs, the hypocrite, being one of them!) and talking about lowering taxes including for the wealthy when we have a massive deficit. Yes, the Dems are insane but the right doesn't look much better thinking that just lowering taxes will fix anything.
I included all those issues together for a reason. They're not helping the Republicans win elections especially in the long term. During an economic recession refusing to raise taxes, at least a bit, on the rich is political suicide. Yes, I know that it's theft by government. Then again, the draft during WWII and the civil war was slavery by government too. Get over it. In poker, there's a term called the "control the size of the pot" bet. If you don't raise by a certain amount, your opponent most likely will and it will be for a greater amount than you can reasonably accept. If GW had lowered taxes on the middle class (set it for 200K or so) while slightly raising taxes on the wealthy, even by a token amount, it would have killed the popular FDR chant: "Republicans are for the rich!" Keep in mind that most of the rich in that bracket are not in red state flyover country but rather in Boston, DC, LA, and NYC.
Both the left and right seem addicted to their respective dogmas but you have to hand it to the left: worshiping government power, cronyism and hypocrisy has the merits that your side will probably win as compared to another side fighting with one hand tied behind their back waiting for the rest of the world that hates them to come around. I'm already thinking in terms of a post Republican political landscape.
DRed| 3.9.12 @ 3:06PM
Bush's low approval rating was due entirely to his terrible performance. He bungled two wars, a hurricane, and the economy suffered it's worst collapse in 80 years on his watch. And you seriously think it was the media that made people dislike him?
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 4:55PM
Ha! Take a look, some are over 50%, some not from today's RCP ... but Obama beats all your boys in a head to head contest : http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....-1044.html
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 4:58PM
Really? Why did we have more Republican Presidents in office over the last 40 years, if that was true?
Wings| 3.9.12 @ 11:51AM
Coctor R. you are right again. Axelrod is no mastermind. It came down to Hillary with a lot of baggage (named Bill) and Obama. Hillary almost beat the kid with charisma who seemed to have an okay (but just on the surface) background. In fact, he seemed to have the Hollyw00d perfect life narrative. Broken family, to Harvard, to professor, to Chicago advocate for the people, to state senator, to U.S. Senator, to the leader of the free world.
The international media was on board with that fully, too.
As you say, throw in aged, enfeebled, drooling, wheezing McCain as an opponent, and well, that's like Manny Pacquiao taking on a 14 year old.
Axelrod is a dweeb who's lucked onto something that lifted his otherwise useless life. He probably does not realize that he is an expendable stooge too -- when the time is right.
Sad to say that he is of Jewish heritage. Is that true?
Wings| 3.9.12 @ 11:54AM
My mistype. I am sorry. I meant to type, "Doctor R." as in Doctor Right. (I am agreeing with his enumerated points above).
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 5:33PM
It's insulting that a white person would vote for a black person not because they are the best candidate but because of guilt. Maybe you have deep-seated guilt or a mommy complex, but I sure don't.
Either Clinton or Obama was fine with me, but the Obamanator has turned out to be one fine President.
Marc Jeric| 3.10.12 @ 7:04PM
Fine President? That commie Muslim from Kenya? That Pinochio whose nose grows longer with every lie he pronounces? That marionette jumping up the steps to read on the teleprompter his White House komissars-prepared teleprompter ukazes?
spike59| 7.6.12 @ 6:33AM
It's insulting that a white person would vote for a black person not because they are the best candidate but because of guilt.
============================
insulting, yes. true? also, yes...but that's just like the Left; look at color first
PolishKnight| 3.9.12 @ 11:41AM
The average leftist is not driven by dreams of future utopian paradise but rather when they're in government getting to be members of a crony group _OR_ being a cheerleader or even direct participant in using the fearsome power of the state and political process to destroy their enemies, innocent bystanders, or even allies that they have determined to be expendable (after all, white working class males used to be the foundation of the Democrat party and European socialism.)
In other words, they're monsters but it's useful to understand what monster means in this context: A fearsome, powerful beast driven by the pleasure of exercising and gaining power and the terror and self projection they have of the world they helped to create.
Perhaps what makes them different than the crony capitalists we're stuck with in the Republican elites is that the Republican elites are driven by simple greed. It's not really personal with them. They don't even want power but rather more goodies and personal security. A leftist isn't merely happy with looting the village to make their castle more comfortable. They want to chase after the villagers who ran off and torture them and mow them down.
Trish| 3.9.12 @ 4:50PM
P.K., your definition of monster aligns quite snugly with fascism. Great points.
Unger| 3.9.12 @ 11:43AM
Somebody needs to capture sound bite material from Alexrod when he is on the Bill Maher show. No, I cannot to it; I cannot bring myself to watch Maher nor would I ever give a dime to HBO.
Also -- just start calling Alexrod the Al Bundy Chicago brother. Two real dufuses.
Also get the tape where Michelle Obama curses a blue streak at Axelrod in D.C., shortly thereafter Axelrod is setting up the Chicago HQ.
cowgirl| 3.9.12 @ 12:08PM
Hmmm, I.F. Stone the commie journalist who was the a brother-in-law to Leonard Boudin. Leonard Boudin was a commie lawyer who represented Daniel Ellsberg, Dr. Spock, Judith Coplon, and Paul Robeson. All commies. Leonard Boudin is also the father of Kathy Boudin. Famous member of the the Weatherman Underground along with none other than that famous Bomb Team of Ayers and Drohn. There is no way that Barack was not hanging with these commies...
Gonna try| 3.9.12 @ 1:09PM
By-the-way, the PM is an abbreviation for "Picture Magazine" and should be noted in this piece, it would be helpful, while it did test my meager research skills!!!
wolflen| 3.9.12 @ 1:51PM
its professional wrestling...where the "manager" of the "bad guy" is more of a villain than the bad guy..
this campaign is much like watching black & white TV vs color ...of course the repubs just want to keep watching "leave it to bever"...while the dems are doing HEAT on steroids...
Leslie Johnson | 3.9.12 @ 2:01PM
It's time for IMPEACHMENT! There's no evidence that this man exists!
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/arp.....g=politics
Stan Redmond| 3.9.12 @ 3:05PM
Liberals are misanthropes. It is no suprise Axelrod enjoys destroying people. Liberals fight for abortion, infantacide, euthenasia, and tyranny.
flipside| 3.9.12 @ 3:11PM
I would love to see a commercial...picture it, in the theme of what UPS can do for you you know the guy who draws those pictures and diagrams to paint a story....draw up all of obama's, socialist, Marxist associates...mommy, Grannie, gran pap, axelrodplus his parents, davis, ayers, his bomb maker wife olgtree, bell, alinsky, chow, dunn, van jones...his policies, from shutting down energy plans, failed green companies, gov. take overs, cash for clunkers, student loan take over, strong arming banks, shutting Chrysler dealerships in GOP voting districts on and on....draw the diagram, connect the dots....he's MARXIST
Jabber3| 3.9.12 @ 4:38PM
In case you were not aware there is an application (fee based) that can connect all these dots and relies on a data base of publically available information that will show all the connections complete with photos. It is widely used by Federal Law enforcement when investigating criminal organizations of which it seems to me this could be one.
Oldefarte| 3.9.12 @ 3:37PM
'......Purp| 3.9.12 @ 3:13PM...Like I said, give up, it's over .. even Rush Loudmouth can't stop the Obamanator ... start looking at 2016, 2012, it's over now....'-----try reading [if possible] the featured editorial by Paul Kangor above and then see if your ignorant prediction hold true in November!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 3.9.12 @ 3:46PM
'....Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 11:04AMPay attention onetheless to what the stock market is telling us. It has already accomodated to an Obama re-election. It has discounted ay major reinvigoration of the national economy over the next several years. This situation, this economy, is to be considered the new norm. High prices, high unemployment, a European style welfare state....'------I respectfully disagree. The economy is [and has been for the last three years] in the financial toilet due to Obama's/Democrats' socialistic policies. Businesses and the markets are severely restrained due to these TAX THE RICH/MILLIONAIRES & BILLIONAIRES dictates. Once a clear indication of a Obama defeat becomes obvious, I think you'll see an explosion or a sustained expansion of our economy in anticipation of same, with the now sidelined corporate money being put into financial play!!!!!!!
Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 5:52PM
O/F:
This economy is in the toilet and this administration wants this to be the norm. The stock market has accomodated his re-election by its stagnation at current levels. More declines may be likely as the election approaches although the market prefers stability. Should, by some miracle, his defeat loom we would see market reaction then. Hope that makes it a little more clear.
Oldefarte| 3.9.12 @ 3:49PM
To those above that said that finely this information was coming out on these socialists, I say that it's always been there [and was so prior to Obama's election]. People simply did not seek it out or refused to believe it. TAS, Newmax, Fox etc exposed it but people/voters ignored it and wanted to believe the H&C etc of the Democrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RCV| 3.9.12 @ 4:24PM
You're right. It's not important to people.
Real Crusty Visitor| 3.9.12 @ 4:41PM
You're right. It isn't important to soul-less people.
PattyMor| 3.9.12 @ 4:38PM
I agree. Sean Hannity tried to ring the alarm bells, but no one paid any attention. Joe the Plumber got Obama to admit that he wanted to redistribute wealth, but no one paid attention. Obama said he was going to raise energy costs, but one one paid attention. So all you Obama voters, are you enjoying your Obama economy?
And say what you will, but Axlerod's marketing of Obama was about the best piece of work that I have ever seen. For to take a out and out radical and remake him into a moderate, was nothing but
miraculous (from the dark side). Satan would be so proud.
Trish| 3.9.12 @ 4:57PM
Patty, my lefty sister and red diaper doper baby brother in law love the destruction of the middle class brought to us by this marxist. They live in their Chicago brownstone, drive their Prius to her teaching postition at a lefty Catholic university, and summer in France. They LOVE the destruction of the hated United States.
Al Adab| 3.9.12 @ 5:53PM
At least ladies, we have learned what "fundamentally transform America" means.
Trish| 3.9.12 @ 6:53PM
Destruction-thy name is Obama. That's transformation for ya, eh Al?
W| 3.9.12 @ 7:23PM
Al
Have a pleasant weekend
vicki| 3.9.12 @ 5:54PM
SO the fact is that the President Obama and his crew could not pass the FBI test to be a dog catcher if they were not elected. That is so scary and it makes me so angry that we are being destroyed from the White House by communists we fought for a century.
Trish| 3.9.12 @ 6:53PM
It is tragic.
AQttila The Hun| 3.9.12 @ 7:18PM
Hey Axelrod,
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. This time around yours and your parents communist tactics wont work. Now we know who Hussein Obama is, he can't hide behind his skin color any longer. Besides hope and change now is despair and fear.
Bob Grant| 3.9.12 @ 8:09PM
Unfortunately,
94% of this country is set in their ideological ways and there's no changing their minds at this point.
A video could surface of obama snorting cocaine off the back of a dead hooker and those 94 percenters wouldn't change their mind one bit: 47% would be in denial; 47% would say "I told you so". I'm proudly part of the latter group.
We are down to 6% of the voting populace who will determine whether our country goes over the cliff or not. BILLIONS will be spent going after their precious vote. Countless hours of punditry will be spent on news outlets manipulating the truth in order to sway these Mush Heads. Movies, documentaries, pop culture media, etc. David Axelrod will be leading the charge.
I'm hoping for the best and pray that these morons will forget what day to vote but have a churning in my gut that tells me Mush Head Nation will fall for this bill of goods yet one more time.
Romney better bring his full-bore nastiness - what he gave the primary contenders in '08 and '12, and then some - and hit Axelrod right between the eyes with it.
Anything less and I'll be one pissed off MOFO!!
POST American| 3.9.12 @ 10:35PM
----------------------FINAL WORD--------------------------
"It's comfort, NOT conscience,
that makes cowards of us all."
G B SHaw
(1933)
------It's 1934
-----------Globalism's NUREMBERG IS HERE...
albert constantine jr.| 3.10.12 @ 1:40PM
Obama associates with radicals with questionable pasts. Who knew?
Actually, I think just about everyone here did. as has been pointed out elsewhere on the thread. Unfortunately, too many people don't care.
Marc Jeric| 3.10.12 @ 6:53PM
Thank you Mr. Kengor! In my long life I have had many Jewish friends; why? Well - they were the most intelligent, that's why. My explanation was that 2,000 years of pogroms killed off all the stupid ones. Another strange thing with my friends Jews - most of them have been of the left, sometimes extreme left like communists; a terrible abberation that I cannot explain. After this article there can be no doubt that Mullah Obama is a dedicated communist bent on transforming the USA into the USSSA.
POST American| 3.10.12 @ 10:25PM
-----------------BOTTOMLESS LINE-------------------
CFR front man Bush Sr. --followed by the
3 Caligulas --Clinton --Bush Jr. and now
the probable Averell Harriman stealth
clone ------'BAR--Rockefeller' Obama.
It doesn't get any clearer --or any worse.
------------OUR REPUBLIC HAS FALLEN-----------
martin j smith| 3.11.12 @ 8:21AM
So to summarize this article: David Axelrod is a Communist and his life was influenced by hard core Communists with loyalties to the USSR.
1) The American People thanks to the Media and the Establishments of both political parties and very big business hoodwinked the American people --till now. Now there is a vast number who see the light in varying degreess and want to end the bleeding.
I will caution these Communists who pose as trolls that one day we are going back to examining the loyalities of the those who seem to support policies detrimental to this country. And those who do not like it here can choose: Be a loyal citizen or leave and find a "better place". Wherever that might not be for you. Just not here.
PJ| 3.11.12 @ 10:34AM
I finally read all 12 webpages of this enlightening article. Excellent!
It seems to me that everyone in the American Communist Party knows about or has had some sort of relationship w/1 another. It seems to have its members properly placed in society to cause havoc.
I certainly would like to see published a book that connects all these relationships. This article is a very good beginning.
I have 1 question has always interested me: Why is it that the Communist Party or very similar organizations seems to attract in particular, secular-Jews? It is of course a generalization but it is also the case in Europe.
Ed Naile| 3.11.12 @ 1:11PM
Lumberjack?
Being a lumberjack who associates with other real lumberjacks I take some offence at the poorly chosen title.
Axelrod is a typical sissified American-style commie, who if he messed with lumberjacks as he does with political opponents, would have his mouth punched off.
spike59| 7.6.12 @ 6:34AM
A-MEN!!!!!! limberjacks work; Axelsnark hasn't done a day's actual work in his life
Robert| 3.12.12 @ 5:21PM
For those of you despairing about the pre-nominee numbers...sure, the Usurper in Chief now beats a non-candidate. In March of '79, Reagan had a favorable rating of only 38%. Didn't help Carter much by November, now did it? In March of 1991, Bill Clinton had a favorable rating of 15 percent! By November, he ended up beating Bush with what...a 47% plurality? He was lucky. There were but two guys from Texas vying for the opposition vote - Bush and Perot. Now there are four guys vying: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, and Paul...and they aren't even candidates yet! Sure obummer beats these guys now. It's early March! The that this impostor president will win in November is laughable! After the Republican Party selects its candidate, do you really think this Marxist-Alinskyite fraud tag team of Axelrod and obama has a snowflake's chance in Hell to win anything but a stolen election (not that anyone puts that stunt past them)?
As all but the lib trolls seem to know, the real unemployment rate is double the party line figure. I fully expect the president of 57 states to massage the number down to 5% by November. When the truth finally sinks into the mind-numbed moderates that the Emperor(s) has no clothes and gas is $5.00 a gallon, Carter's '79 landslide loss will look like a triumphal victory!
Jeff| 3.12.12 @ 10:59PM
Let us not turn Mr Axelrod into an "evil genius" like the Left did Karl Rove. He just happened to be standing in the way of destiny.
America wanted a black and president and now that we have had one I will NEVER again listen to the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Never again will I cringe when someone I respect is accused of that most hollow of epithats; "a racist".
Having elected and tolerated this incompetent person in the highest office in the free world we are now absolved of the festering legacy of slavery. He has had every opportunity to show what liberalism can accomplish and he has done so. It is likely that another generation that "knows not Obama" will have rise up before liberalism can bamboozle the electorate as completely as this current president has done.
Constitutional conservatism has never been better served than by this president who expects to be taken seriously when he says that we cannot drill our way out of this oil shortage.
POST American| 3.13.12 @ 4:57AM
---Putting aside the 'assigned' topics
in our Rockefeller capstone 'press' for a moment.
RE: the Gates Africa EUGENICS program
funded 'KONY 2012' propaganda op
CHECK OUT!
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erika| 3.16.12 @ 3:24PM
Axelrod is jewish, but like most American jews, their religion is socialism or communism. They may even attend synagoge on "High Holidays" but it means nothing. Believe me I know of what I speak.
And why does he make himself look like Hitler, if he would shave off the mustache and different hair, maybe not, but geez, maybe like to look like that.
Americanpatriot| 7.7.12 @ 6:07PM
Axelrod, Obama, Reid, Pelosi need to be tried for treason in my mind. When I grew up communists went to prison. They were considered enemies of the country. More people need to realize the agenda of these people.