Kass: As Obama stumbles on Syria, his allies doggedly spin

Chicago Tribune ^ | 9/8/2013 | John Kass

[mojito]

...[W]atching President Barack Obama stumble through his news conference from the G-20 summit last week and trying to talk us into war with Syria, I couldn't help thinking about dogs.

It was a stupid thought, yes, but I didn't put it there. One of the president's men put it there. A guy named David Axelrod, who brought it up on Twitter.

Axelrod, the Democratic mouthpiece of Chicago mayors, is the guy who aligned himself with an inexperienced Illinois legislative back-bencher and ended up installing him in the White House.

And after the president announced he would seek congressional approval for military strikes against Syria, Axelrod signaled his journalists by spinning them a tweet.

"Big move by POTUS," read Axelrod's tweet. "Consistent with his principles. Congress is now the dog that caught the car. Should be a fascinating week!"

Consistent with his principles? Like the drone strikes? Like the NSA surveillance? Like the IRS investigations of conservative groups? Like no answers about the dead from Benghazi? All those principles?

[Steven Tyler]

....Val J and Sam Powers are the dogs that caught the 18 wheeler

[Steven Tyler]

So we lob tomahawks and degrade Assad’s conventional forces.
To the extent Assad is left to fight with only CW!!

And this is smart power?????

[KAESNO2]

>>”Big move by POTUS,” read Axelrod’s tweet. “Consistent with his principles. Congress is now the dog that caught the car. Should be a fascinating week!”<<

More like Obama dumped the car on a dog that was minding its own business.

[Liz]

Axelrod sucks-up: "Big move by POTUS," read Axelrod's tweet to media. "Consistent with his principles. Congress is now the dog that caught the car. Should be a fascinating week!"

Mmmmmmm........Axelrod is always good for a belly laugh. Always made my day when he appeared before the WH cameras trying to look "harmless." Insofar as going to war being "consistent w/ Ohaha's (cough) principles"......this was the 2008 virulent anti-war candidate PR man Axelrod created.

Axelrod is now a CBS "consultant" and has a political (gag) institute at the U of Chicago (a monument to his ego paid for by taxpayers).

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Let's take a stroll down memory lane and review the typical Axelrod/Obama campaign strategy. Obama became a U.S. senator only by virtue of David Axelrod's former employer, the Chicago Tribune, ripping open the sealed divorce records of Obama's two principal opponents.

One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader. But then the Chicago Tribune leaked the claim that Hull's second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.

Those records were under seal, but as The New York Times noted: "The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had 'worked aggressively behind the scenes' to push the story." Many people said Axelrod had "an even more significant role -- that he leaked the initial story."

Both Hull and his ex-wife opposed releasing their sealed divorce records, but they finally relented in response to the media's hysteria -- 18 days before the primary. Hull was forced to spend four minutes of a debate detailing the abuse allegation in his divorce papers, explaining that his ex-wife "kicked me in the leg and I hit her shin to try to get her to not continue to kick me."

After having held a substantial lead just a month before the primary, Hull's campaign collapsed with the chatter about his divorce. Obama sailed to the front of the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the vote.

[bert]

So, what we have is a jewish attempt to run the world, the anti Hitlers

[Paladin2]

0bama drove the car into a ditch and now issue a dog whistle to get the dog to jump in behind the steering wheel to be able to blame the dog for the ditching.

[Liz]

"Hey, Axelrod. Just calling to remind you to give Valerie
your offshore account number so she can wire-transfer your war profits."

"What's that? It's the same account where Val wired the federal bucks we siphoned off? Gotcha."

"How much you gettin'? Well, we budgeted $50 billion a
day for the bombing, I figure we can siphon of couple
billion for ourselves."

"Frankly, I wasnt gonna bomb the Syrians. Kerry's full
of it. We dont have proof of poison gas."

"But when I heard Neocon Richard Perle got enough
Iraq war profits to start his own oil company, I figured
why the hell not."