MANCHESTER, NH -- President Obama's former senior adviser and campaign strategist David Axelrod acknowledged this morning that the 2012 presidential election will be an uphill battle for the incumbent president facing a struggling economy and high unemployment.
"This is going to be a titanic struggle," Axelrod told about 200 people at a Politics & Eggs breakfast at New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College. "But I firmly believe we are on the right side of the struggle."
"In 2008, we had the wind at our backs," Axelrod admitted. "Now, we don't have the wind at our back. We have the wind in our faces, because the American people have the wind in their faces."
Axelrod blamed Republicans lawmakers in Washington for taking partisan lines and preventing Obama from accomplishing major initiatives.
"We honestly thought when we got to Washington, we'd get some cooperation from folks across the aisle," he said.
He then called the current field of GOP presidential candidates “the most ideological, partisan group of Republicans in my lifetime."
Axelrod specifically highlighted the Republican presidential debate last week, when a handful of audience members booed a gay soldier from Iraq after he posed a question about the repeal of the military’s "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy.
“Not one person on that platform, not one candidate was willing to say, ‘Don’t do that. It’s inappropriate to boo someone who’s risking his life for our country, who’s serving our country honorably.'"
As for Obama's chances against current Republican front-runners Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, Axelrod forecasted a "contest between economic visions and values."


NEWS FLASH OBAMA PLANS TO KILL MORE AMERICAN BORDER GUARDS WITH US GUNS TO INCREASE 2012 ELECTION CHANCES WITH MUSEUM VOTES.
In
1952
President Truman
established one day a year as a
"National Day of Prayer."
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In
1988
President Reagan
designated the
First Thursday in May of each year as
the National Day of Prayer.
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In June
2007
(then)
Presidential
Candidate Barack Obama
declared that the USA
"Was no longer a
Christian nation."
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This year
President Obama
canceled the
21st annual National Day
of Prayer ceremony
at the White
House under the ruse
Of "not wanting to offend anyone"
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BUT... on September 25, 2009
from 4 AM until 7 PM,
a National Day of Prayer
FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION
was Held on Capitol Hill,
Beside the White House.
There were over 50,000 Muslims
in D.C. that day.
Oh please.
Couldn't help but notice Obama's billlion dollar fundraising - If you are going to "buy a politician", most think you might as well start at the top. You might get dinner for $38,000 or even an invitation to the White House. A little more buys more. And Obama is not above using the Attorney General to make "doner's" concerns actionable - I even heard our government was suing Boeing for trying to open a plant in SC against union wishes. Now, that's access for bucks!
Obama is just another charlatan politician.
Well, if Democrats and Obama had been more concerned about the economy and job creation than they were passing "social justice" programs, new regulations, new taxes, paying off unions, handing out bribes, borrowing and spending spending spending trillions of dollars, maybe just maybe, it wouldn't be a "titanic struggle", would it?
Let us not forget about buying guns for the mexican drug cartels.
Approving large loans to political donors using the lie of GREEN ENERGY
Doesn't everyone know what happened to the Titanic? It sunk.... Duh...
paxil wants to know when? He was planning a family cruise on it.
I wouldn't vote for Perry but I will say Axlerod is right about the facts in Texas....high unempolyment....Crime....etc etc...take into account that Teaxas has had one of the biggest illegals invading the state compared to California....there is your answer to these problems in Texas. And those problems lay at the feet of the Federal Government who has for the past 40+ years have sold out America and Americans. I lived in Houston,Texas during th boom in the mid 70's to the 80's....I saw the state being over run with illegals then. Now in the 21st. century I am sure I wouldn't believe what has happen to Texas. Americans have got to take back our country from the socialist politically correct idiots in Washington.
John, while I do agree with your post, I will not vote for Perry my self unless Obama and Perry is all there is. Then my vote for Perry would just be a vote against Obama and not for Perry.
This from a guy who's Republican Governor wants to give instate tuition to illegal immigrants children.
Do you see a conflict of opinion here. Is it the socialist Democrats in Washington,or the progressive Republican Governor that are at issue here?
Ask for it...you got it. Many of you on this site don't like it when we progressives remind people that the problems we are having now can be traced back to the Bush Administration. Lets do a little history lesson..I know it won't change the minds of the zelots but here goes.
The European powers; England, France and others redrew all the maps of the Middle East after the fall of the Ottoman (Turkish) empire after the 1st World War....so what you ask? We continue to pay a price today for the mistakes of people like Winton Churchill and other leader. The boarders we drew don't reflect the will of the indiginous people and so we have terrorists who look to the history of us meddling in their affairs..
Bush took us to a TRILLION DOLLAR WAR against a country that could not have threatened us on it's best day and Sadam...evil tyrant that he was, at least kept the country stable(our old benchmark for doing business with them)
The Republicans today would vote against a bill even if it contained everything they wanted. Their only goal is to defeat President Obama...they would rather the country go down in flames than give the elected President of the United States and the Commander of the Armed Forces a victory. That more than anything else makes me vow to NEVER, EVER VOTE REPUBLICAN AGAIN....
Just remember righties...you will suffer for the tactics of the Republicans...but McConnell and Boehner and Cantor and Ryan will be just fine....They're Federal Employees..
You need to go back futher than Bush if you are truly looking for where and when this started. The housing bubble started with Carter, Clinton just made it worse. Bush tryed 17 times in 8 years to get it fixed but was stopped by the dems.
Oh, you mean Bush's 17 DEBT CEILING HIKES?
I have read almost every post here and I find that the majority are blind, deaf and ignorant some on the left but the most outragious on the right. Many have said there has been a dumbing down of Americans and you can read it all here. You are sheep being lead to slaughter by the right dogma, they have no other agenda than to destroy the freedoms you all enjoy in this country by turning it over to Corporation who do not give a hoot about personal rights or freedoms just profit. The left has continued to hide in the shadows not willing to get their hands bloody in a good fight. The left is guilty of being spinless for decades. But left or right makes no difference we are all going to lose if anyone on the right wins elections, personal freedoms and rights of choice will be determinded by religious faiths and corporate policies. We are becoming a nation of poor and you can blame both sides until the cows come home but that does not solve the problem. Bellyache all you want, sit in your offices, homes and cars and complain that life is not fair and everyone else is to blame but it does not fix anything. Listen to Rush and Fox, all the talk radio you want and all you hear is bullsh*t. Listen to CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and you get edited short news stories colored to their own agenda. If anyone here wants to fix the problems then do not listen to politicians or business people as they all work for their own benefit be it being elected or gaining more profit. We need to stop listening to others giving their public opinions such as mentioned above and start working one on one with each other. WE need to fix the problems ourselves in our own communities to start and work out from there. They need to listen to our points and not theirs so stop just repeating the same talking points you hear on TV or the Radio its just propaganda so you do not have to think for yourself. Let someone else tell you how to think or what the issue is. The comments on this list are beyond belief and comprehension. Argue about the work Titanic or titanic horse @!$%# simple minded bull. Obama killing boarder guards how utterly stupid but someone said it on the radio so it must be true. Sheep all of you, dumb sticking sheep with not a brain among you, you just repeat the same crap everyday and do nothing to change or fix the problems. Complain about anyone trying to fix it because someone else said it was a stupid idea. How do you know if something will work unless you have tried it. Better to try and fail than not to have tried at all. Then there is no doubt it will fail. We tried tax breaks it did not work so why continue to try that idea, TRY something new and stop repeating what you hear on Fox or Talk radio they are all full of @!$%# trying to control your thought and actions and you just follow like sheep. I feel sorry for most of the people posting on this list, they do not have a clue, just fat dumb and happy so they think until someone comes along and gives them a reason not to be. Sheep following the herd right over the cliff. To blind and ignorant to see for themselves.
That has to be the dumbest post I have ever wasted my time reading.
Tis the season,
You should be on some watch list or charging the up hill with your miltia.
Good Grief Tis... what is all that?
Any info on why Harry Reid is sitting on Obama's Jobs Bill or why/how anyone can defend Tim G saying that each job on Stimulus 2 will cost around $200,000?
Ever hear of paragraphs?
Tistheseason
Wow, one of the most ignorant posts ever- kind of like a summary of every leftist rant.
Tis the Season: Consider this--most of the people posting here don't reflect what average people on the street think. This is like the bathroom wall of public opinion. And very few are interested in dialogue or examining beliefs. But if you find a livelier website, let me know.
Windy I agree they do not reflect the average or above average american and have trouble with more than three sylibles in two words. Sometimes it is just fun to ramble and screw with their minds and as for a more lively website, this one is to good for easy pickin, have a great day.
We all know what happend to the Titanic.
I can't understand why the President of the United States would go to such length to divide a country. This is not America anymore. When a child is suspend for telling a friend his belief, when we demonize what made this country great. It's a sad state of affairs. Obama whats to raise a billion dollars for re-election. He has to get that money from the rich, but wait rich people are bad. Does that make Obama bad? We are the country we are because of the freedom to succeed. But now if you are successful your the evil in society. This President is so wrong. This is the guy who said he was going to bring America together.
My god man- you tell em. A raise of 3% on the top tier of the income tax rate- my god when america was still great in the 50's we had a 91% rate on the top earners.
Oh, wait a minute that goes against my argument.
Obama the hate-filled Divider.
Please all you Karl Rove wannabes please exit this site and return to a Fox post somewhere, anywhere, go listen to Rush or contact Glen but please leave this site, we try to keep it free and open to the intelligent centrist minded.
Thank you for your cooperation and have a nice day.
The whole outcome is up in the air...What is funny about this debate is it wouldnt matter if JESUS was the POTUS and he had the 12 Apostles as his Cabinet and God ran the FED...we would still be in this same economic situation. And this situation was caused by 2 to 300 people (The Masters of the Universe on Wall Street).
BIG FYI PEEPLES - Did you know that only 14% of the general Population is in the the Stock Market thats 401K's, stocks Bonds Derivatives etc. WE THE PEOPLE have been batted around like a leaf in a hurricane for the last 4 years by the 300 Masters of the Universe and a 14% segment of the population that decree we keep this situation where Joe Public is at the mercy of the few.
AND WE ENDURE THIS ?
When will we wake up ?
Most of this situation is the result of nearly 100 years of incremental marxism.
The first step was the traitorous surrender of our monetary system to the Federal Reserve; next was the destructive 16th amendment and the income tax which gave politicians the power over the people
Then Wilson, FDR, LBJ, and Nixon began the implementation of marxist socialism over liberty and constitutionally required limited government.
Now we are bankrupt with no ability to recover unless we drastically reverse back to Constitutional governance
my god man, next you will tell me we have pinko's in the state dept.Where the hell is McCarthy and his two henchmen when we need them
I need a paxil-
we don't need a McCarthy now- it's beyond that-
It should be the priority of good govt to repeal the 16th amendment and end corporate and individual income taxes. They violate the principles of liberty our nation was founded upon
We need to abolish the depts of Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Labor, OSHA, EPA, Transportation, phase out SS & Medicare, abolish the Federal Minimum Wage, abolish the FCC, return student loan programs back to private lenders, end all Food Stamp programs, Federal welfare, Federal unemployment insurance payments, and a host of other unconstitutional programs. These are all unconstitutional programs that promote a socialist totalitarian state
fashinrashin
The percentage of WORKING Americans saying they hold individual stocks, stock mutual funds, or stocks in their 401(k) or IRA fell to 54% in April
http://www.gallup.com/poll/147206/Stock-Market-Investments-Lowest-1999.aspx
So which one of you Republicans is telling a lie? Is it 54% or 14%?
Larry, you forgot the department of defense, congress, the senate, department of homeland security, department of state, the federal reserve, who needs government anyway, trust corporations to know best for us right.
tis the season, typical leftist red herring.
1. The Federal Reserve needs to be abolished, but it's not a Govt agency. It's a private corporation
2. Defense, Congress, Senate, homeland Security, Dept of State are all Constitutional and should be kept.
3. I didn't say NO govt. I want the govt that the Constitution calls for
Listen to the jealous Libtards stoke the Class warfare hatred.
It is so obviously that the Obama Administration has concluded that playing "class warfare" is a campaign strategy.
They certainly cannot run on their horrible record, so they intend to create hatred of the minority by the majority.
The U.S. Constitution protects the minority from tryanny of the majority , no matter if they be rich or poor.
willing.Sniper- what a name- just what does it imply.
Who is yelling class warfare for saying we have always had a progressive tax structure which says the lucky rich pay more then the rest of us. Since 1907 or whenever the tax code was put in. But lets re litigate everything the Republicans have been bitching about for 100+ years. That damm Teddy Roosevelt
Obama and the "Dums" use class warfare as a campaign strategy. The U.S. Constitution protects the minority from tyranny of the majority , no matter if they be rich or poor.
It is obvious this class warfare strategy is designed to distract from Obama's many failures by stoking the hate, and promoting jealously.
says you and the rest of the tP but how the heck do you come up with this drivel- we have had a progressive tax system from the beginning. We have the lowest tax rates in decades if not ever and a 3% rate increase is "class warfare?"
This at a time when the top 10% own 75% of ALL THE WEALTH in America. If there is class warfare it is from the top down
I need a paxil
Obama has done nothing but play one race against another, one income level against another and one class against another. All for the benefit of no one but Obama and his power brokers.
Also, I need a paxil - what a stupid name- just what does it imply.
it implies having to deal with bozo's like you lead one to medication. We have had the progressive tax system in place for about 100 years- who is leading the charge- the rich who own 75% of all the weaLTH. tHERE IS A CLASS WARFARE GOING ON- TOP DOWN
Know what Woody Guthrie said about class warfare? "Some will rob you with a six-gun/
And some with a fountain pen." After decades of deregulation, disinvestment in American industry, and allowing banking/finance to game the system, it's very funny to accuse the left of class warfare. We've lived through class warfare and the rich have won. Now they're fighting for maintaining the status quo. Willing Sniper for whom?
I need a paxil
Time to take your meds. And repeat after me: I will follow a healthy plan to manage my emotional and psychiatric illness
My healthy plan would be to divide the country North to South @ the Mississippi river, give the Republicans everything West and the Democrats East(sorry California) You guys go back to your no taxes, no welfare no food regulation, no banking regulation, no healthcare and the rest of us will take the status quo and try and fix the mess you left.
i do i vote democratic.
Obama the divider. The creator of hatred.
Jan 09 Demint "we will break him. "What a limited memory you guys have- how convenient.
The TP and Republicans: ideologically driven and fact deprived
How did that Walter Mondale campaign work out after he ran on raising taxes? Hmm?
I'd say Obama is "broken" now.....all the polls show it. :)
Only 42% approval with Gallup.
Even less on other polls.
didnt win but the next President(Bush) had to do what Mondale said had to be done.
part of the TP and Repug policy was to do all you could to prevent him from implementing what he wanted. The economy is still bad- so congrats your policies worked for the party but who cares about the Country. Its all about ME
The only thing you've said that makes any sense is your name.
Too bad there are dwarves, rather than titans, on both sides of the race to do the struggling.
"In 2008, we had the wind at our backs," Axelrod admitted. "Now, we don't have the wind at our back. We have the wind in our faces, because the American people have the wind in their faces."
No...the American people are standing way behind Obama ; the Administration has broken wind and we are smelling the stench of failure.
yeah and once Perry gets elected we can all work at 7 come 11
Paxil,
Sorry that there are jobs that are beneth you, would not want you to have to work to hard.
mrwsr- why are you TP and repugs so judgemental. Me work hard? I have worked 80+ hours week in week out building my company.
The fact is the majority of "new" jobs created in the Great state of Texas are minimum wage like 7/11 jobs. That is the point that was being made.
Do all you Repugs andf TP really believe you are John Galt?
They are jobs, sir.
Jobs.
don't ever stand behind Barney Frank! Unless you have a gas mask and are tied down.
we as a country should have a "plan" to help create well paying jobs not just jobs. The lower the wage gets the lower the standard of living becomes.
Paxil,
Move your A$$ to a country where your dreams will come true and everyone gets paid the same, has gov. health insurance and gov. care and housing. I am going to stay. You can not madate salaries or who gets paid what. That happens with minimum wage and you would like to have that taken to the next level. You do not deserve to benefit off the shoulders of some one else's hard work or tell then how to spend or take money from them. That is not a Free Market System.
Obama is just one giant distater. Every move by Obama wastes money.
SUIT: Obama visit caused $676K in airport damage...
Lawsuit Massachusetts caused $676,048 in damage to Marlborough Airport
where do you get this stuff- the Dodge report
Willing.Sniper:
I know I give you shxx on your name but with the vitriolic statements it just makes me wonder. You guys with the TP and Repugs quote stuff without any source. Who is suing Obama for damage of half a million done to an airport? Honestly who is suing?
And now, as Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story:
"Obama landed at the field on April 1, 2010, so Obama could visit an emergency bunker in the state.
Marlborough Airport Properties Inc. states in its complaint that prior to the visit, the squadron that runs the Marine One helicopter — the designation given to any helicopter carrying the president —established that the aircraft would not damage the tarmac. Indeed, the suit states, the helicopter "did not cause any property damage to the runway."
"However," the suit continues, "ground vehicles brought onto the airport by or under the Secret Service, such as, but not limited to, a 'foam truck,' which weighs approximately 44,000 pounds, (were) negligently driven onto the airport and proximately caused property damage in an amount of $676,048.13."
"Turf or grassed-in areas" also were "significantly damaged," the suit states."
If you ask me, there's a remote possibility of someone looking to nanny state government of Uncle Sugar for a big cash payment to resod the lawn.
This story about the Obama Administration using up local taxpayer funds in cites, and towns, is not the only one. They are repeated over & over & over.
The "feds" cannot use-up local tax-payer funds legitimately without paying them back. Cities have duty to recover the costs.
thanks for the information- an obvious case of Obama as commander in chief overruling the advise of trained military.
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
-Milton Friedman
I hope Axelrod is right. We can't take another four years of this narcissistic, incompetent clown.
And when half of the American public believes that government cannot solve our problems and poses a threat to our rights, the public will look for the authentic believers in limited government to put our out-of-control federal government back in its cage.
your right- we need a real clown like the GOP front runner Perry
But the GOP clown has had a real job, run a big state and not just a community organizer/college instructor. Come on Paxil, you know Oblahba is in over his head.
Mr. President, answer for Solyndra please.
Mr. President,answer for Fast and Furious please.
the silence is deafening
How about tapping the strategic oil reserves? What did that do for us? He's never held accountable.
Good golly gosh. It seems that Mr. Obama is the most incompetent and evil President in history, judging from the posts here. He has not accomplished anything. It's almost as if you've only been paying attention to one side of the story. But you're too intelligent for that. Aren't you? I mean, perhaps these criticisms are a just a teensy little bit over the top, considering that he isn't responsible for everything that has gone wrong. Or is it easier to make everybody into Heroes and Villains. Or maybe just have one good Villain to blame for everything. Then again, I think only Willing Sniper is left talking to himself here, and I don't want to spoil the party so I'll go.
It takes a special kind of gullibility to believe that Obama has, or even could have, a plan that works to help grow the economy.
It takes a special kind of gullibility to believe that Fox News is not an oxymoron.
The political mood of the nation is for real restraint of government, its cost and intrusiveness.
Real budget cutters, people who have actually read (and hopefully carry) a copy of the U.S. Constitution. In 2012, and despite all their past and future failings, this means Republicans.
You're wrong, Sniper. That's the political mood of Republicans. I venture to say that the political mood of most Americans is for both sides to work together to get the economy moving, which requires both short-term spending on stimulus programs and long-term budget reductions. Sitting down on the floor in the middle of Congress and crying "I want all spending to stop now" is not economic policy, it's political posturing that plays to people who believe in such simple solutions.
Oh I am correct alright. Just look at the most recent elections held.
I think your falling victim to poll-tested buzz words. ( poll-tested "balance") The American people have been electing those who campaign against the Obama vision and agenda. Not commit to work together to achieve those perverted visions.
Sniper: We'll see. By the way, we should get together sometime and share perverted visions.
Hey Skip Nickelson: Here's two for you...LOL
"It is well for the heart to be NAIVE and the mind not to be."
Anatole France
Love's Labor's Lost: Dumaine
...young and a bit reckless with words because he is naive to the consequences.....
What clear, adult thinkers they be...
President Obama; please keep up the good work.
The Republican GOP has shown their true colors one too many times and can be considered arrogant, not to be trusted and unfit to govern.
Jump on the fact that bullet point number 4 of their "Plan for Job Creators" as listed on their website makes it easier for foreign workers to be employed here.
Did every one get that?
The GOP is advertising on their website that they want to make it easier for foreigners to come to America and take American Jobs!
They are proud of this statement and that in itself is a slap in the face of each and every citizen that's unemployed here.
This is nothing but another fact that the Republicans hate America.
Defend that!
No it is liberals that hate America. They hate the constitution, they hate liberty. Today's marxist Liberalism wants everyone enslaved to a totalitarian marxist state in the name of collectivism.
this is a fact and cannot be disputed.
For the Democrats the situation is normal.
Once again this party has allowed the destructive forces from the right to get away with all sorts of obstructions and policy blockages. No jobs program. No increase in federal revenues. No support for education, research, clean air, clean water or affordable health care. In fact the rabid right has introduced legilation - again on every one of these topics - designed the make matters worse. They even proposed complete deregulation of business and industry to see if they can blow up the economy even faster, higher and more permanently. In some cases the ineffective lefties have - especially the disappointment known as Obama - has bent over backwards to aid the swift destruction of our country.
Now certain Democrats think there might be a struggle at the polls? I wonder why that might be, since the Liberals and Progressives have been sold down the river by all the administration's appeasements.
Look back at the last 50 years of US history. The only time things were going in the right direction the Liberals and Progressives ran things. With the rabid right in the driver's seat this country isn't even a second-tier society when compared to eastern European countries.
For example, we have a GOP-engineered education system ranked second from dead last when compared to the Soviet bloc nations.
If no one will fight for the American people - and no one has since Tip O'Neill retired - why should the American people vote for them? Besides, the right-wing propaganda machine has poisoned this society so badly I doubt if it is salvageable.
After every election since 1968 the American people have simply been forced to bend over, grab our ankles and get ready for the next "conservative" forking to come.
careful, your prediction's getting Barney Frank all excited.
Tax Richard: You've got to give the left credit, though, for continuing to eat their own. The right gets much of its power from having a consistent message and sticking to it, even when it defies reality. But here you are, a progressive, painting Obama with the broadest brush in your kit as a disappointment. We can debate from here to Sunday about what Obama did and did not have to sacrifice in terms of progressive reform for the sake of compromise. But you're ignoring the full record, including being the first President ever to enact some sort of comprehensive health care policy. Criticize all you like--it's a healthy thing to do--but you're playing right into the hands of a camp that poses an incredible threat to progress, if any of the likely candidates can be taken at their word. What I miss about Tip O'Neill is that he and Reagan were able to recognize each other as people who both wanted the best for America. What's wrong now is that ideology has taken precedence over common sense.
The TITANIC sunk and was not heard from again for decades.......fitting prediction for odumbo!