David Axelrod

Coffee Talk With David Axelrod

Time (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

The Obama strategist weighs in on the debate, the role of racism and Obama’s stem cell radio ad. Click here.

David Axelrod is something of a rock star too...

The Shad Plank (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

If it's true that Republican John McCain is planning a serious negative turn in the campaign - they it might be appropriate that Democratic chief strategist David Axelrod was something of a celebrity when Democrat Barack Obama came to Newport News on Saturday. Axelrod was queitly walking around in the press section of the park on Saturday, but as locals started pouring out of the...

Axelrod Makes An Offering

<B>Power and Control</B> (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

David Axelrod is having a hard time explaining when Mr. Obama first found out William "Bomber Bill" Ayers was a domestic terrorist. So when did Obama find out that Ayers had been a member of an organization the FBI called a "domestic terrorist" group, and had been for years a fugitive from the law? “I don’t know," Axelrod said. "I mean it was sometime after their first meetings....

• Axelrod Makes An Offering - Classical Values
• Obama Camp Rebuffs Ayers Connection - Washington Wire

History Repeats: David Axelrod Lying About Obama And Ayers

JustOneMinute (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

The Captain has the latest implausible spin from Obama's campaign manager David Axelrod on the Obama-Ayers connection: JIM ACOSTA: Now a college professor in Chicago, Ayers and Obama served together several years on a nonprofit board. And in 1995 Ayers...

David Axelrod Has No Fear

The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

Before the vice-presidential debate in St. Louis on October 2, I asked David Axelrod what he expected Republicans to produce as an October surprise this year, and whether his campaign was prepared to defend against them. Now, just a few days later, with Sarah Palin referencing Bill Ayers on the stump and talking about Jeremiah Wright to The New York Times , it seems clear that the McCain...

Axelrod Makes An Offering

Classical Values (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

David Axelrod is having a hard time explaining when Mr. Obama first found out William "Bomber Bill" Ayers was a domestic terrorist. So when did Obama find out that Ayers had been a member of an organization the FBI called...

Axelrod on Ayers, Keating, and John McCain: ‘The Bigger the Challenges We Face, the Smaller Their Campaign Gets’

Political Punch (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

David Axelrod, the senior adviser to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, came back on the campaign plane this morning -- O Force One -- to chat about the debate and to set expectations (low for his boss, high for Sen. John...

• The Palins' Un-American Activities - Salon

Axelrod claims Obama had never heard of Ayers

Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog) (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

From CNN’s morning show this AM: CNN’s John Roberts: “I just want to try to get to the heart of it so that people at home can understand. Our Jim Acosta talked with your senior strategist David Axelrod about this. In 1995, William Ayers held kind of a get-to-know you event at his place where he [...]

Amanda Carpenter: Axelrod: Obama Didn't Know About Ayers Bombed Capitol

Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

Barack Obama's campaign guru David Axelrod admitted Obama had no idea about William Ayers violent history when Ayers raised money for Obama and they served together on the board of a Chicago-based foundation.CNN's Jim...

Axelrod Says Obama Will Counterpunch if McCain Raises Ayres

The Caucus (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

October 7, 2008, 2:25 pm Axelrod Says Obama Will Counterpunch if McCain Raises AyresBy NASHVILLE — Senator Barack Obama is prepared to hit back, including with if necessary, if Senator John McCain uses tonight’s presidential debate to attack him over his associations with controversial figures like former William C. Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader, Mr. Obama’s chief strategist said...

Obama Strategist: Final Weeks Will Be Negative as McCain Slips in Polls

U.S. News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

David Axelrod says history is on Obama's side.

Behind the scenes at the Nashville Debate

Richard's Notes (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

David Katz of the Obama Campaign got access behind the scenes at the Nashville, TN debate and captured many candid moments of the Obama group getting ready: Barack at the 2nd Debate in Nashville, TN 10-7-08. The photograph above is in the “green” (blue) room with David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist and another person I don’t [...]

Obama and His ACORNs - What Tangled Webs Are Woven

Miss Beth's Victory Dance (Free subscription) | yesterday

[...] If everything rumored here is true, it looks like David Axelrod, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, SoetorObama himself, and possibly even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were all involved, together, in massive RICO violations, and thus federal fraud, if the DNC and party leadership knew what the SoetorObama campaign and ACORN were up to and allowed it to proceed. Knowledge of federal crimes...

• PUMA Rumor: Obama, Top Democrats Under Cloud of RICO Investigation - Confederate Yankee

'no idea'

Right From Left (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

According to Barack Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod, Obama didn't know about the past of Bill Ayers.

TV Lookout: highlights for Oct 12-18

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

... politics. "All around were people with tears in their eyes," Obama's chief political adviser David Axelrod recalls, "and I realized at that moment that his life would never be the same." Then, at the Republican Convention, self-described maverick McCain defends the national security policy of the Bush administration, with which he had sometimes clashed in the Senate. For McCain, the...