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n gain ground in Afghanistan for years now. It is rich and powerful enough to have been able to mask th

tory is around the corner." Overall, Rubin writes, Biden "gave the best speech under the circumstances." However, some had a more nuanced reaction. David Axelrod said on CNN (8/16, 559K), "I thought that his case for why we had to get out was strong, it was compelling, and I think he did to do that as well. B

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for example going toe-to-toe with Romney advisor Rich Williamson in a July debate at the Brookings Inst

vention, in remarks prepared without participation from the Obama campaign. "Barack Obama is ready to be President of the United States," he said. David Axelrod describes the Presidents' relationship as improved. "Would I be truthful if I said to you that we went through a long and difficult campaign in 200

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s, and we let them cut the capital-gains tax for rich people." Obama's 2010 fiscal deal with the G.O.P

fter. But the ostensible purpose of a political campaign is to articulate for the public what a candidate will do if he prevails. "It's a tension," David Axelrod, Obama's longtime political adviser, said. "On the one hand, you don't want to be presumptuous in assuming a second term. But campaigns are about