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babylonsister

(171,075 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2012, 08:29 AM Jun 2012

Top Obama Advisor Takes On Romney

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Top Obama Advisor Takes On Romney
June 4th, 2012 3:36 am Avi Zenilman

Appearing on “Face The Nation” this past Sunday, Obama Senior Strategist David Axelrod laid out an important element of the president’s re-election campaign — forcing Republicans to pay for obstruction by pointing out that bad economic news is not something good, and that Republicans should watch before crowing about the political opportunities offered by slow growth:

We’ve had five hundred thousand manufacturing jobs created over this recovery. The best record in two decades, largely because of what the President did relative to the auto industry which the Congress and Governor Romney opposed. What was down was construction. What was down was education. The very things that the President has been trying to get the Congress to act on were the things that were down. … What we have learned is they will only act when the country demands action. Otherwise they’re going to sit on their hands and instead of high-fiving each other on days when there are bad news they should stop sitting on their hands and work on some of these answers.

Here’s a link to the video of Axelrod’s CBS appearance. Here’s a link to the transcript.

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Top Obama Advisor Takes On Romney (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2012 OP

Thanks... kristopher Jun 2012 #1

For some reason, I'm not finding Axelrod a very effective surrogate. He's too softspoken. Liberal_Stalwart71 Jun 2012 #2

kristopher

(29,798 posts)

1. Thanks...

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2012, 10:51 AM

Jun 2012

It's good to see they're finding a way to approach this.

Possible rewrite:
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What we have learned is they will only act when the country demands action. Otherwise they’re going to sit on their hands and instead of high-fiving each other on days when there are bad news they should stop sitting on their hands and work on some of these answers.

To
What we have learned is they will only act when the country demands action, otherwise they’re going to sit on their hands. And, instead of high-fiving each other on days when there are bad news, they should stop sitting on their hands and work on some of these answers.

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)

2. For some reason, I'm not finding Axelrod a very effective surrogate. He's too softspoken.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2012, 10:55 AM

Jun 2012

The response should have been that the Republicans have been DELIBERATELY sabotaging the economy in the hopes that people will blame Obama and the Democrats.

His response SHOULD HAVE been that the Republicans have blocked 17 different small business proposals, blocked a number of jobs bills to protect their sacred tax cuts, and are DELIBERATELY jeopardizing this nation's economic standing bythreatening to not raise the debt ceiling.

I need Axelrod to be much more forceful than he is being. He needs to be as forceful as Cory Booker was in his damnation of the president's political ad.

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