Axelrod remains mindful of daughter with epilepsy

White House presidential adviser David Axelrod says the demands of his job can sometimes be hard since he can't spend quality time with his daughter, who suffers from epilepsy.

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Obama urges Democrats to unite around health care

President Barack Obama is telling Democrats to stay focused on the reason the health care system needs an overhaul, which he says is extending insurance to millions of people who don't have any.

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White House open to new tax on health benefits

The Obama White House left open the possibility Sunday that the president would break a campaign promise and raise taxes on people earning less than $250,000 to support his health care overhaul agenda.

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WH adviser Axelrod says neckties a big change

David Axelrod says his hardest adjustment has been the neckties.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the administration has 'no illusions' about the Afghanistan war. Officials say the administration wants to make sure the U.S. commitment in the country is not 'open-ended' as the president drafts a new strategy.

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Deval Patrick's fizzle bodes ill for the White House Or as the Boston Herald, the scrappy conservative tabloid put it, "Maybe We Can't."

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In support of his dubious argument that the press is treating President Obama more favorably than President Bush, Politico's Josh Gerstein falsely suggested that unlike David Axelrod, Karl Rove was never involved in national security meetings.

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Banana Repbulic - Disturbing Tendencies

The Obama Administration through Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Axelrod, is telling us they believe most of their positions will not stand up to critical review and serious debate.

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Here is some light-hearted political satire...lets not make anything else out of it. Hope you all enjoy!

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President Obama will be speaking on health care reform the day after legislatures return from the August Recess. Listeners will have "a clear sense of what he proposes and what health care reform is not," David Axelrod told reporters.

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The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned.

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Critics of President Obama's health-care overhaul are zeroing in on his senior adviser David Axelrod, whose former partners at a Chicago-based firm are the beneficiaries of huge ad buys—now at $24 million and counting—by White House allies in the reform fight.

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excerpt: ""Michelle Malkin has a new book out.

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David Axelrod has said in an interview Iran has nuclear weapons.

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The White House press corps is challenging the Obama administration's reliance on background briefings by unnamed officials --noting that the same officials tend to turn up soon after, delivering the same message on television.

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The arrest of Governor Rod Blagojevich in December cast a shadowy light on the relationships among four leading players in the Illinois Democratic Party—Blagojevich, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod.

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Finally, there was the conversation weaving between, of all things, Miss California U.S.A. Carrie Prejean, the same-sex marriage opponent who the panel had already mocked at length, and Bo, the Obama family's Portuguese water dog.

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Porter Goss, former CIA Director and past chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the Obama administration for releasing Justice Department memos on harsh interrogation techniques.

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Today on CNN's State of the Union, Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod noted that Dick Cheney's insistence that he kept America safe flies in the face of reality.

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Arriana Huffington in Need of Further Sedation

Once the Obama campaign against Senator McCain began to get underway, President Obama shifted his campaign to a more centrist focus. Arriana Huffington, the Liberal Democrat doyenne, wrote an all-knowing column advising then Senator Obama to get back to his liberal left roots.

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To be sure, New Deal Democrats deliberately parlayed economic crisis into political opportunities.

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Yesterday I noted that Rahm Emanuel had said that Obama saw the AIG fiasco as a "big distraction" from efforts to fix the economy.

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Last week Jon Martin of Politico reported that Democrats had launched a concerted effort to paint Rush Limbaugh as the face and leader of the Republican Party.

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By KARL ROVE Presidents throughout history have kept lists of political foes. But the Obama White House is the first I am aware of to pick targets based on polls. Even Richard Nixon didn't focus-group his enemies list.

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President Barack Obama's aides warned Americans on Sunday not to expect instant miracles from the $787 billion economic stimulus bill he will sign this week, but said it would help eventually.

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David Axelrod, one of President Obama's senior adviser, had some choice -- and very appropriate -- words for the idiocy of late offered by three people who have no business ever offering criticism of another American administration given the disaster of their reign: Dick Cheney,  …

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David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, had harsh words for some of former President Bush's closest advisers during an interview with the Post's Lois Romano yesterday, dismissing as "intramural stuff" the critiques offered by the former Administration.

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Wasn't this supposed to be the administration that left the policymaking to the pros? Wasn't this supposed to be a set of issues that was too important to sacrifice it to the compromises and distortions of politics? Oh, I get it; I know you need political support to get things do …

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Obama spent his first few days in office rolling out an orchestrated series of executive orders intended to signal that he would take the nation in a very different direction from his predecessor, George W. Bush.

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