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Revealed: New book lifts lid on how top Obama adviser David Axelrod was pushed out by civil war....
Daily Mail UK ^ | September 13, 2013 | DAVID MARTOSKO

Posted on 09/14/2013 12:55:13 PM PDT by opentalk

•Axelrod wanted campaign manager Jim Messina fired, but he wound up the odd man out himself

• Palace intrigue led 'Axe' to refer to Messina and White House messaging chief David Plouffe as 'two strongmen running the Kremlin'

• The two men resented Axelrod for getting rich by taking a percentage of the hundreds of millions spent on campaign ads

•An aloof Obama stayed out of the way as his inner circle fought a political gladiator game that pushed out Axelrod and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

The man most responsible for getting Barack Obama to the White House – the man who had 'crafted his ads since 2004' and 'had cowritten his narrative' – was forced out of the president's inner circle during the 2012 re-election campaign, a new book reveals.

Obama's two main campaign generals marginalized David Axelrod, the campaign strategist behind Obama's 1990s rise to power from local organizer to president. White House communications director David Plouffe and re-election campaign manager Jim Messina were in open conflict with 'Axe' throughout much of the re-election push.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Bogus.....all of it. Don’t believe any of this——it’s a setup for the schemers to cut lucrative book deals.

Axelrod is a master conman —— as are all the Chi/criminal pols surrounding Obama——they will do anything for a buck.

Where is this bald-faced egotist getting the money to run his own political institute in the U of Chicago?


21 posted on 09/14/2013 2:07:57 PM PDT by Liz
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To: opentalk

bwahahahaha!

“Obama kept a close team of younger male staffers to manage his immediate needs,’ Wolff writes, ‘and that was all he needed. “He needs the guys to play cards and golf, and tell him where he’s going next and why,” said a former aide.’”


22 posted on 09/14/2013 2:21:32 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: opentalk

Impossible. It’s a well-oiled Muslim/socialist juggernaut. Money? They don’t care about money. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!


23 posted on 09/14/2013 2:35:11 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: opentalk; Chigirl 26; flaglady47; Matchett-PI; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; ken5050; ...
"An aloof Obama stayed above the fray...."

The Limbaugh Theorum at work.

Obama makes sure he's never identified in any way with anything distasteful, illegal, ill-fated, immoral, unconstitutional or fattening.

Leni

24 posted on 09/14/2013 2:52:18 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

Many are waking up and, I pray, payback will start in 2014. Every RAT traitor, who voted for the next Holocaust designed by, IMO, Pelosi and Reid, must be voted out in 2014 and 2016.


25 posted on 09/14/2013 3:37:01 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: freekitty

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/09/13/top-white-house-aide-hospitalized-twice-last-week/

Top White House aide hospitalized twice last week


26 posted on 09/14/2013 6:10:25 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: Signalman
"The two men resented Axelrod for getting rich by taking a percentage of the hundreds of millions spent on campaign ads"
Don't know if it's legal, but it certainly helps explain why the current occupant of the oval office continues to spend so much time at campaign fundraising events.
27 posted on 09/14/2013 7:39:55 PM PDT by wtd
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To: opentalk

Ahh, he does look ill.


28 posted on 09/14/2013 10:36:59 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: doorgunner69

He may. He looks like he has something like that.


29 posted on 09/14/2013 10:37:37 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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bttt


30 posted on 09/15/2013 9:08:43 AM PDT by Pagey (HELL is The 2nd Term of a POTUS who uses the terms “social justice” and “fair distribution".)
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To: MinuteGal
Obama makes sure he's never identified in any way with anything distasteful, illegal, ill-fated, immoral, unconstitutional or fattening.

Fortunately, we on FR and Rush, identify Bowbama with all of his (major) foibles! Someday (holding breath) the media will too!

31 posted on 09/15/2013 9:23:15 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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***"An aloof Obama stayed above the fray...."***

Stalin got rid of Sergei Kirov in 1934, but it took to 1940 to get Leon Trotsky. Of course Stalin was not connected to Kirov's murder [by anyone who remained alive...] Trotsky was a must have...

Just saying...

32 posted on 09/15/2013 10:26:06 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: opentalk

Russian lingo seems rather commn in Obama circles


33 posted on 10/31/2016 9:52:50 PM PDT by piasa
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