This video is so sweet and delicious Bloomberg's trying to ban it from New York City...
Irony Alert: 1994 Vid Shows Axelrod Saying It’s Bad to Say the Economy Is Improving (Particularly From the ‘Ninth Hole’ of a Golf Course)
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Barack Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod is in the news today after a newly-discovered C-SPAN clip from 1994 shows him saying it’s bad to do the exact thing President Obama has recently engaged in.
Among his suggestions, Axelrod said that it is a bad idea to say the economy is improving– particularly from the 9th hole of a golf course.
“…as you cite these statistics that say the economy is improving, you almost do political damage to yourself,” he explains. “If you stand up and claim great progress you’re only frustrating this alienated middle class more.”
From there, Axelrod continues to say that, though the strategy may have worked for Ronald Reagan, it didn’t for George H. W. Bush because, “Bush tastelessly did it often from the ninth hole, and from the cigar boat, and other places. And the impression you got was that he was out of touch.”
Awkward.
As those who follow politics know, one of the president’s top campaign strategies is to say that the economy is making progress nearly weekly, and he has already played more rounds of golf than his predecessor did in 8 years.
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So he says what Bush41's problems were and why he didn't get re-elected and then has Obama do the very same things...
Let's hope the results are the same, too...
06-13-2012, 07:03 PM
Irony Alert: 1994 Vid Shows Axelrod Saying It’s Bad to Say the Economy Is Improving
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