Transcript: David Axelrod on ‘Meet the Press’ | December 28, 2008
Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Foreign Policy, Economic Stimuls, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Transition, Recession, U.S. Economy, U.S. Financial Crisis
(Source: NBC’s Meet the Press)
MR. GREGORY: And turning back home, we are now joined from Chicago by senior adviser to President-elect Obama, David Axelrod. Welcome back to MEET THE PRESS.
MR. DAVID AXELROD: Thanks, David. Good to be here.
MR. GREGORY: What is the president-elect’s position on this offensive against Gaza by Israel?
MR. AXELROD: Well, obviously, it’s a very serious situation. He spent some time on the phone with Secretary Rice yesterday, and he is monitoring the situation. But we’ve said repeatedly through this transition period that we–there’s only one president at a time, and President Bush speaks for the United States of America until January 20th, and we’re going to honor that moving forward.
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- One of these Paul Mitchell hairbrushes is a favorite of Blago
Blago Calls His Hairbrush “The Football” – Aides Know It Should Always Be Close
This paragraph from a New York Times story this afternoon is priceless:
And yet, Mr. Blagojevich, 52, rarely turns up for work at his official state office in Chicago, former employees say, is unapologetically late to almost everything, and can treat employees with disdain, cursing and erupting in fury for failings as mundane as neglecting to have at hand at all times his preferred black Paul Mitchell hairbrush. He calls the brush “the football,” an allusion to the “nuclear football,” or the bomb codes never to be out of reach of a president.
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