So I'm sitting here watching David Axelrod on Meet the Press and I'm amazed. Is this the same great strategic mind that was one of the defining reasons that Mr. Obama won the Presidency?
The David Axelrod that is now speaking is speaking in political non speak. His answers are non substantive and evasive in almost all respects.
When asked about the controversy about the President's message to school children he expressed "bewilderment" about it. To me, there is no excuse for the SENIOR ADVISOR to the President of the United States to not know that the President is being pilloried. How could he not know what is going on here?
He is not serving the President well if he truly didn't know what to expect from the Glenn Becks and Sean Hannitys of the world. How could you now know that if people feel free to call him a fascist, to threaten his life from pulpits.
The President's credibility, and ability to govern is being destroyed by this cancerous and venomous atmosphere that is being created by the Right Wing. Ignoring it is not the answer. We've seen time and time again the paralysis of this White House in their non-responses to this campaign of deception by the Right Wing. The White House needs to be proactive in crafting messages that create the perceptions the White House wants in the public and must do everything it can to counter the war of words in the press. So far as I can see, they are doing nothing.