{"id":941,"date":"2008-02-18T06:26:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T11:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=941"},"modified":"2008-02-18T06:26:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T11:26:57","slug":"smells-just-as-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Smells Just as Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering what media manipulator is behind the Obama campaign, and it turns out to be the same one that orchestrated another campaign pitting a youngish African-American man against a wonkish white female candidate: Chicago consultant David Axelrod.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s right, Axelrod was Deval Patrick&#8217;s media consultant.<br \/>\nAxelrod shares what is becoming one of the distinguishing characteristics of the senator from Illinois&#8217; campaign:  memory lapses on the part of high-visibility supporters concerning kindnesses and favors which the Clintons have done for them in the past.<br \/>\nAs recalled last year in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/01\/magazine\/01axelrod.t.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>, Hillary Clinton spoke at a fundraiser for the Axelrod family&#8217;s favorite charity, the CURE foundation, in January 1999.  The date is significant because it was the start of Bill Clinton&#8217;s impeachment trial.<br \/>\nNot only did Hillary Clinton speak on behalf of the foundation, she was instrumental in persuading the NIH to convene a conference on finding a cure for epilepsy.  In the words of David Axelrod&#8217;s wife, Susan, it was &#8220;one of the most important things anyone has done for epilepsy.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd now, as succinctly noted in the Times article, &#8220;David Axelrod is &#8230; dedicated to derailing this woman&#8217;s career.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat kind of back-stabbing disloyalty may be the foundation of Obama&#8217;s hope, change and unity message, but it sure smells like old-time politics to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering what media manipulator is behind the Obama campaign, and it turns out to be the same one that orchestrated another campaign pitting a youngish African-American man against a wonkish white female candidate: Chicago consultant David Axelrod. That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=941\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}