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from Mike Allen at Politico: http://www.politico.com/playbook/0612/playbook1820.html
SNEAK PEEK -- E.J. DIONNE JR., in tomorrows 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.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I like him.
pinto
(106,886 posts)And he knows when to move on from minutiae to the larger focus.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)How are you, pinto? Rhiannon12866 and I have been wondering....
pinto
(106,886 posts)Recovering from surgery, at home with a surgical drain tube in (which is kind of bizarre), daily RN visit for dressing change, etc. Otherwise things are quiet - which works fine for me...out and about a bit and doing quite a lot of cooking.
Thanks for asking.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)H2O Man
(73,536 posts)David Axelrod is a close second to Michelle Obama in "reasons I will vote for Barack in 2012."
bigtree
(85,987 posts)I've had the pleasure of discovering his qualities in a more realistic and consequential role, and I'm impressed and grateful for his honest and sound guidance and management of Barack Obama's political rise and presidency.
elleng
(130,865 posts)and as I recall, he left the White House to some extent to be more available to his family; his daughter has a seriously difficult type of epilepsy.