Epstein Secrets

fear of losing it," Obama declared in his Iowa speech, echoing the advice of his pollsters and strategists. "This party—the party of Jefferson and Jackson; of Roosevelt and Kennedy—has always made the biggest difference in the lives of the American people EFTA00712759 when we led, not by polls, but

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

supporters discouraged us from organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, a mass crisis of confidence." USA Today (8/16, Groppe, Jackson, 12.7M) reports the President "interrupted a working vacation at Camp David to make his first public comments about the Taliban's takeover of the co

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

ed by Woodrow Wilson, who explicitly wanted the American government to be like the more responsive parliamentary system of the United Kingdom. Like Jackson, he argued that the President was the "one national voice in the country." Every President since Wilson has at least implicitly adopted this theor

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