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A conversation with political consultant David Axelrod
03/30/2007
David Axelrod
A conversation with political consultant David Axelrod
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A conversation with political consultant David Axelrod, chief strategist for Barack Obama.
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Comment by Ariane on Sunday, Apr 6 at 04:13 AM

Todd what on EARTH are you talking about? Did you even watch this? WHAT attacks on Clinton? I'm having trouble even imagining how you could have heard it that way aside from extreme paranoia with hallucinations. He gave Sen. Clinton a great deal of praise that sounded quite genuine and talked about his enormous respect for her. Having seen your post before watching the video, I kept expecting attacks and when he followed compliments with "...but", I was sure that withering criticism, sniper fire, etc. was to follow - - but no, all he said was at this time he thought Obama was a candidate who could bring the country together. Nothing negative about Hillary at all, in fact he said if she is the nominee he'd be the first to sign up to support her. As far as advertisement one kind of expects a campaign manager to talk positively about their candidate but he seemed to make an attempt to answer Charlie's questions in a thoughtful way, not just doing a stock speech. btw like "My, My", I too wondered if several of these superficial comments were by the same person- I've heard speakers far more distracting than Mr. Axelrod and I seem to be able to pay attention to what a person is talking about rather than letting myself become so easily distracted by their style of speech.
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Comment by Ariane on Sunday, Apr 6 at 04:13 AM

Todd what on EARTH are you talking about? Did you even watch this? WHAT attacks on Clinton? I'm having trouble even imagining how you could have heard it that way aside from extreme paranoia with hallucinations. He gave Sen. Clinton a great deal of praise that sounded quite genuine and talked about his enormous respect for her. Having seen your post before watching the video, I kept expecting attacks and when he followed compliments with "...but", I was sure that withering criticism, sniper fire, etc. was to follow - - but no, all he said was at this time he thought Obama was a candidate who could bring the country together. Nothing negative about Hillary at all, in fact he said if she is the nominee he'd be the first to sign up to support her. As far as advertisement one kind of expects a campaign manager to talk positively about their candidate but he seemed to make an attempt to answer Charlie's questions in a thoughtful way, not just doing a stock speech. btw like "My, My", I too wondered if several of these superficial comments were by the same person- I've heard speakers far more distracting than Mr. Axelrod and I seem to be able to pay attention to what a person is talking about rather than letting myself become so easily distracted by their style of speech.
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Comment by Todd on Friday, Apr 4 at 09:11 AM

Here is a picture of David Axelrod - a Marketing Director - NOT a "campaign strategist". Here he is, a Marketing Man with the Capitol Dome in the background. How appropriate. And he used your show, Mr. Rose, as one big long advertisement and attack tool. You should have canned this episode. In contrast, your interview with Gov. Ed Rendell was never used by the Governor to trash Mr. Obama. It was used to inform and explain his support for Senator Clinton over Obama based on her competencies. And you really did needlessly give him a difficult time. It epitomized the media problems that are NOT in question - 89% of American's polled state it is obvious - NOT a question. Mr. Axelrod turns every interview he gives into a Senator Clinton bashing opportunity. That's the kind of people they are. You did not control his use of your show to do this. The difference between these interviews and their supporters is the difference between these candidates. Sorry about the pot hole.
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Comment by My, my on Friday, Apr 4 at 12:56 AM

Such superficial critics in this post, probably from the same Clinton supporter. You're right to be running frightened. You are backing a pathelogical lyer. Bosnia fire-fight single handedly carried the day. Whew! A la WMD's, yellow cake, mission accomplished, our economy is strong, yadda, yadda. Spare us!
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Comment by Ms. Manners on Friday, Apr 4 at 12:31 AM

David Axelrod: Please spare the PBS viewing audience your disjointed and uneloquent comments. Your delivery of the information you try to present is sullied by your poor public speaking skills. Suggestion: Hire someone more eloquent to speak for you. Ms. Manners
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Comment by Uh UHHHH on Friday, Apr 4 at 12:27 AM

Uh, uh, uh, uh.... didn't we uh flunk speech class uh in uh freshman year for too uh many UHs???? Damn, uh Mr. uh Axelrod, uh, PLEASE uh lose uh thuh UHs... I uh changed channels to uh Letterman uh because uh you uh were uh driving me uh nuts uh uh uh uh...... UH!!
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Comment by Uh UHHHH on Friday, Apr 4 at 12:26 AM

Uh, uh, uh, uh.... didn't we uh flunk speech class uh in uh freshman year for too uh many UHs???? Damn, uh Mr. uh Axelrod, uh, PLEASE uh lose uh thuh UHs... I uh changed channels to uh Letterman uh because uh you uh were uh driving me uh nuts uh uh uh uh...... UH!!
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Comment by Matt H. on Thursday, Apr 3 at 11:28 PM

I am watching Charlie interview David Axelrod, who is obviously a smart individual. But David should be trained or train himself not to say "uhhhh" hundreds of times during a single interview. I am driven to distraction by this oratorical crutch. If you don't have a word to fill every single second of your speech, please fill it with a dramatic pause, rather than this monosyllabic brain fart. Please...stop. Ok, I am changing the channel. Sorry, David, you lost me at "uhhhhh". Signed, -- A concerned viewer.
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