I didn’t know a thing about David Axelrod, but saw him interviewed on a news channel last week. I had the volume off, but his name flashed on the screen as I quickly clicked from station to station.
Then this morning, I saw his name again in an article by Alex Pappas of The Daily Caller on-line headlined “Flashback: Axelrod called Bush ‘out of touch’ for playing golf in a bad economy."
As it turns out, Axelrod’s the incumbent’s chief campaign strategist, and in a video that surfaced from 1994 he called President George H.W. Bush “out of touch” for “tastelessly” playing golf while trying to convince voters that the economy is improving. His exact words were, “Bush tastelessly did it, often from the ninth hole, and from the cigar boat and other places.”
Then Axelrod added: “The impression you got was that he was out of touch,” and went on “you cite these statistics that say the economy is improving, you almost do political damage to yourself. If you stand up and claim great progress, you are only frustrating this alienated middle class more.”
As I digested the words of one of the president’s top advisors and considered that the incumbent himself hits the links nearly every week, I supposed that perhaps just like every other aspect of this administration, the guy at the top simply didn’t get the message. Which means that maybe when Axelrod was trying to tell his boss to stay off the course, his boss was out playing golf.
That’s it for today folks.
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