Top Obama adviser reveals what happens when the president loses his temper (David Axelrod)

[Machiavelli]

Colin Campbell
Business Insider
February 17, 2015

President Barack Obama stunned David Axelrod, one of Obama's top campaign advisers, during the 2012 election when the president allegedly cussed at him and walked out of their debate-prep session. Axelrod told the story in his new book, "Believer: My Forty Years in Politics."

Axelrod wrote that he attempted to offer some constructive criticism before Obama's first debate with Republican nominee Mitt Romney, but Obama wouldn't have it.

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Axelrod Reveals a Prickly, Emotional Obama: David Axelrod, the president's former chief strategist, offers details about the commander in chief.

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President Barack Obama stunned David Axelrod, one of Obama's top campaign advisers, during the 2012 election when the president allegedly cussed at him and walked out of their debate-prep session. Axelrod told the story in his new book, "Believer: My Forty Years in Politics."

And if Axelrod had any principles beyond his responsibilities as a handler, he would have walked out and never looked back...

[alicewonders]

Colin Campbell
Business Insider
February 17, 2015
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Axelrod Reveals a Prickly, Emotional Obama: David Axelrod, the president's former chief strategist, offers details about the commander in chief.

Wasn't this during the time they were trying to coach Obama at some resort - and Obama pouted because he really just wanted to get to golf, and coke, and some dirty stuff?  I remember it well, as well as Little Poopy's horrible performance at that debate.

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[Machiavelli]

Wasn't this during the time they were trying to coach Obama at some resort - and Obama pouted because he really just wanted to get to golf, and coke, and some dirty stuff?  I remember it well, as well as Little Poopy's horrible performance at that debate.

 :Odance:

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Obama can have a short fuse, though he hides it from the public: The president called Axelrod a "mother-----r" and stalked out of a meeting after his strategist criticized the president's debating techniques as Obama prepared for his 2012 debate with Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the book says. "Axe" turned out to be right: Obama did poorly in the encounter with Romney. Obama recovered with a solid performance the next time.

[alicewonders]

From the second link:

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"Obama can have a short fuse, though he hides it from the public: The president called Axelrod a "mother-----r" and stalked out of a meeting after his strategist criticized the president's debating techniques as Obama prepared for his 2012 debate with Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the book says. "Axe" turned out to be right: Obama did poorly in the encounter with Romney. Obama recovered with a solid performance the next time."

Yeah.  I remember that.  I think they had to keep him prisoner before the second debate - to keep him sober and straight.