Obama aide Axelrod acknowledges hurdles to president’s reelection

[ProSense]

Source: Boston Globe

GOFFSTOWN , N.H.- With a still-foundering economy and Americans increasingly fed up with the government, President Obama’s top campaign strategist today acknowledged the difficulties the incumbent president will face.

“We don’t have the wind at our backs this election,” said David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Obama and a strategist for his 2008 and 2012 campaigns, speaking to around 200 people at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. “We have the wind in our face because the American people have the wind in their faces. This is going to be a titanic struggle.”

Talking separately to reporters, Axelrod sought to downplay expectations for Obama’s quarterly fund-raising report, which is due out next month. While Axelrod said Obama would have a “healthy” quarter, he noted that fund-raising is difficult in the current economy and Obama canceled several events during this summer’s debt-ceiling debate.

Axelrod, who was also media adviser to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s campaign, said Obama will take responsibility for everything he has done – and he believes the president will win the election.


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[dennis4868]

1. But he should not...

take responsibility for repub obstruction like Michael Moore and many DUers are blaming him for....

[young but wise]

2. +1

[Bandit]

3. What does appeasement get you anyway?

IMO the more you give in to them the more they want...Give them an inch and they take a mile..Obama has shown no sign of standing up to them.... Until he does he has lost my vote...

[dennis4868]

4. Appeasement?

Every president in the history of the country worked with the opposing party (especially when that opposing party had power) and compromised...hell, even Lincoln comprmised in freeing the slaves as did Johnson, FDR, and Reagan...but Obama does it (because he has no other choice in order for some good to come out of it) and all hell breaks out by the PL and irrational Obama haters.

[Bandit]

5. No you are confusing compromise with appeasement.

Those other Presidents compromised with their opposition.. There is no compromise among Republicans.. Obama can not compromise so he has to try and appease his opposition but They are known LIARS and appeasement with them is just surrender. That is what has happened over the last three years and many Democrats and Liberals are just plain sick of it...I for one did not vote to have purely Republican Policies enacted... I voted for the Democrats and expected some Democratic policies to emerge...I am quite disappointed and will think long and hard about my next vote..

[dennis4868]

10. did not understand one word in your last post..

[Bandit]

11. fingers in the ear going la la la la la la

Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you fail to understand what is going on..

[David Sky]

6. As always, we should be focusing upon the House and Senate races

as we need to regain the House.

The likelihood that Romney or some other ass will beat Obama gets less and less as they make all these stupid public appearances.

Oh yes, Obama is challenged, and they don't have the wind at their backs, but let's not forget, it's the Republican House that is now screwing Obama more than ever.

[zipplewrath]

7. GOP has played their hand badly

For all the criticism I can generate about Obama, the GOP has played their opposition almost perfectly WRONG. I work around ALOT of right wingers. Not really tea baggers, but conservative, right leaning, Reagen-esque types. They don't like alot of things Obama has done, and it isn't the same thing as the progressives, but it isn't this insanity that we're getting out of Perry/Bachmann et al. Truth is, Romney is much closer to their thinking, even if they don't like him. Well, the OLD Romney of the business world. This Harold Cain speaks of much more of what they do than anyone.

They don't nearly object to the stimulus in the same way the GOP leadership/baggers do. They don't like what alot of the money was spent on, but mostly in the sense of "they are building a stupid train in my district", or worse "they AREN'T fixing a bridge in my district". They like the talk of "fixing schools", even while they complain about NCLB and Race to the Top. They like the tax cuts, even when they forget that Obama proposed them. They don't really care about taxes on the rich, they don't want taxes on THEMSELVES. The LIKE FEMA coming in when there have been hurricanes. And they HATE the whole debt crisis thing. "Whole lotta do about nuttin'" is what I hear. As far as they are concerned, screwing around with the value of the dollar is just stupid.

And this is the moderate right wingers. Imagine what the moderate republicans/centrists are thinking.

Obama's campaign could probably just run around the country doing public appearances on bridges, dams, roads, levies, and schools declaring "we need to create jobs FIXING/building these things" and the GOP would be lost.

[tcaudilllg]

8. The best thing Axelrod can do for the president is step down.

He sees the American people as naive tools for... what?

[russspeakeasy]

9. "our fund raising will be difficult, due to the many self inflicted wounds".

I made that up....I just put quote marks on it for the hell of it.:evilgrin: