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Originally Posted by njbchbum
ed - how about this scenario:
axelrod speaking to the president:
if you shape the policy this way your image will be that of a fool; but if you shape the policy this way your image will be that of a hero.
thus, policy is influenced and an image is saved. maybe simplistic - and maybe not.
axelrod is a brilliant strategist, he has access to everyone in the administration from the ground up, he provides policy guidance from the outset all through the process to the final policy presentation to and by obama. to admit that axelrod has that kind of power and influence would be to diminish the perception of the power and wisdom of the president - therefore, admission of anything close to that will never be spoken.
an opinion like yours is just what david axelrod wants promoted...hold fast to it...and i will hold fast to mine.
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He is a brilliant POLITICAL strategist. I don't know where you got the statement that I bolded about policy guidance. Look, I have no interest in trying to defend or promote Obama or Axelrod. My original point was that Axelrod is a political advisor to Obama and not a policy advisor and I made it simply to clarify his role. It may be a matter of semantics we are arguing here - he is a major player in what is COMMUNICATED to the public, I see no evidence he gets involved in the actual crafting of policy. I honestly don't have any personal interest in this debate other than to defend my original comment.