"Barack Obama's On-Point Message Man," David Axelrod, to be on today's HARDBALL [View All]

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Barack Obama's On-Point Message Man
By David Montgomery

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 15, 2007; Page C01

On Saturday in the Lincolnesque setting of Springfield, Ill., when Barack Obama delivered his full-throated appeal to the ideals of a new generation, a lot of sharp players of the political game thought they detected something Axelrodesque.

All those "Let us" sentences in the middle, as in, "Let us be the generation . . . " -- "That's Axelrod," thought political strategist Donna Brazile.



Consultant David Axelrod with his latest candidate: "I believe there is nobility in politics. I believe there is great good that can be done." (By Nancy Stone -- Chicago Tribune)

The clever rhetorical judo of Obama's oft-quoted line, "I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change!" -- "That seemed very classic Axelrod," said David Wilhelm, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Nineteen months to the presidential election, and already the campaign has an A-Rod!

He is David Axelrod, a former newspaper reporter who has worked on past campaigns for no fewer than five of the Democrats racing to the White House, a form of political ubiquity that only enhances his reputation. This time, he's with Obama.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401812.html

The above from a lengthy profile on David Axelrod recently published in the Washington Post