You could ask about obama as an author. I think one of them is sort of is this obama guy for real, right . I mean, you know, we see him, hes this kind of no drama obama, the cerebral, low blood pressure, comfortable in his skin sort of aloof, kind of comically reasonable alpha male, right . But then theres this other literature out there where hes this, you know, kind of insane rightwing socialist leftwing socialist. [laughter] that in the rightwing literature. And then even in the mainstream hes often kind of this feckless, bumbling, cant do anything right guy whenever the economy is bad and his Approval Ratings are bad. My sort of spoiler alert is that in my book the obamas kind of that same guy you read about. The sort of leftofcenter technocrat, pragmatic, dataoriented, kind of this biracial nate silver with some swag, i guess. [laughter] you know, hes you know, i dont want to undersell. I do tell some fun obama stories, right in and in october 2008 after Lehman Brothers collapsed
Rose welcome to the program. Tonight a conversation about campaigns, politics and the future of the Obama Administration with David Axelrod, the man most responsible for the election of the president in two successive political campaigns. In fact, when we were going over the jokes there was one joke about tim pawlenty, it was poor tim pawlenty, he has such promise except for that unfortunate middle dame bin laden. He said that is so hackneyed, he said in retrospect that is so yesterday. Lets take that out. And then the next night when i heard about the raid, i thought my god, he knew when he was sitting there that he had made this decision. He went and performed a brilliantly that night at the White House Correspondent dinner, not a trace of anxiety, though he must have felt it. And you know that is an important quality in a prident of the united states, to be able to make decisions on the basis of the best information you have and live with those decisions. Rose David Axelrod for the
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Four hours. Remind me never to go drinking with this australian veterinarian. Believe it or not, little cleo is not the only vodka guzzling party animal to cross my path recently. Lisa vanderpump of the real housewives of Beverly Hills talked about staking her dog jiggy the pentagon makes a bombshell announcement about women fighters. And apple shares plummet after hours. And, wow, its cold out there. So lets talk about Global Warming. And Hillary Clinton gets heated. The man on the other end is our guest. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, showdown over benghazi. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton was on capitol hill today. She faced really tough questions from the senate and the house about the september 11th terror attack in libya that killed the United States ambassador and three other americans. We were misled that there were supposedly protests and something sprang out of that and that was easily ascertained that was not the fact and the
Rose welcome to the program. Tonight a conversation about campaigns, politics and the future of the Obama Administration with David Axelrod, the man most responsible for the election of the president in two successive political campaigns. In fact, when we were going over the jokes there was one joke about tim pawlenty, it was poor tim pawlenty, he has such promise except for that unfortunate middle dame bin laden. He said that is so hackneyed, he said in retrospect that is so yesterday. Lets take that out. And then the next night when i heard about the raid, i thought my god, he knew when he was sitting there that he had made this decision. He went and performed a brilliantly that night at the White House Correspondent dinner, not a trace of anxiety, though he must have felt it. And you know that is an important quality in a president of the united states, to be able to make decisions on the basis of the best information you have and live with those decisions. Rose David Axelrod for th