Axe: 'I've Experienced the G's Before'

from Mike Allen at Politico: http://www.politico.com/playbook/0612/playbook1820.html


SNEAK PEEK -- E.J. DIONNE JR., in tomorrow’s column, which will sport a Chicago dateline: “He had just been through the roughest patch of President Obama's re-election struggle and yet senior adviser David Axelrod seemed … amiably stoic. … Axelrod reflected on a pep talk he had delivered the previous day to the operation's vast and impressively young staff, urging them to ignore all the intimations that a gaffe, some bad economic numbers and a bit of downward movement in some polls spelled doom for their cause. ‘There is some virtue in being old in this business,’ Axelrod, 57, said … ‘It's like being an old astronaut. I've been up to the space shuttle before. I've experienced the G's before. It doesn't make them less comfortable. But you've experienced them before.’ …