Axelrod: 'I don't know why there is confusion' on Obama's beliefs

David Axelrod, a former senior advisor to President Obama, said Sunday that he does not know why there are doubts about what President Obama believes.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) has sparked days of controversy by saying that Obama does not love America. Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," Axelrod was not asked specifically about Giuliani, but about "why there is so much confusion now about what this president believes."

"You know it is interesting, I always believe that the last president kind of sets the terms of the next election and the last president was a very Manichean kind of guy, black and white, saw the world in those terms," Axelrod replied. "America wanted someone who saw the gray, who saw the nuances, who understood the complexities of the world and who made decisions, and think about the long-term, and not just the next step and that is what they got in Barack Obama."

"So I don’t know, you know I don’t know why there is confusion," he added. "I think that there is nuance and there is an ability to see gray, which is really important in the world in which we live, that is true on foreign policy and national security it is also true on domestic policy. He thinks several steps ahead."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/axelrod-i-dont-know-why-there-is-confusion-on-obamas-beliefs/ar-BBhQRSp