Former Top Obama Advisor David Axelrod: Biden Is ‘Not the President’

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Former Obama advisor warns that Biden is not the real president of the United States

Former President Barack Obama’s strategist, David Axelrod, claimed Joe Biden isn’t the real President of the United States during an interview with CNN on Thursday.

“There is this sense that things are kind of out of control and he’s not in command.” Axelrod said in an interview with Jake Tapper.

“So, you know, this is a very, very fraught environment for him right now.”

Redstate.com reports: The first question that pops into my mind is, does this have Obama’s blessing? It’s hard to imagine that Axelrod, now a CNN commentator, would criticize the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer without running it first by his former boss. My second question is, how long does this guy want to work at CNN? Because if he keeps spouting off like this, he’s bound to upset some folks at the left-leaning network who have been covering for Biden since day one of his presidency. Paging Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy…

Axelrod didn’t stop there though, continuing to rip the president:

Inflation, no one president can control inflation, but it is a gale force wind right now. It’s affecting politics.

You heard him on gas prices today. He talks about the gas tax holiday, but he is not going to get the gas tax holiday and there are a lot of Americans who are skeptical about whether that would help.

It’s true that no one president can control inflation, but one can certainly exacerbate the problem with profligate spending. Biden’s out-of-control layouts include mega-bills like the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan providing for COVID relief. Throw in tens of billions more sent to Ukraine. Think all this might have something to do with inflation?

Don’t forget that Biden wanted to spend more—up to $5 trillion more on the Build Back Better bill, but was only stopped because he couldn’t get the votes. Imagine how much worse inflation would be had that behemoth made it through Congress.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in November of 2021 that Biden’s monstrous agenda was even bigger than the New Deal and that “Never in American history has so much been spent at one time.”

The resulting inflation has come at a cost:

Tapper asked Axelrod about an AP-NORC poll which shows that 85 percent of respondents think the country is headed in the wrong direction. “That frankly points to disaster for Democrats in November,” Tapper argued. Axelrod agreed:

If you were looking at the chart, you’d say the vitals are not good. The President’s approval rating’s at 38%. His economic ratings are low. Consumer confidence is down. The number that you mentioned.

The two also discussed the filibuster, with both acknowledging that although Biden has recently suggested pausing it for an abortion vote, he can’t actually make that happen. Tapper flatly declared, “Well he’s not going to be able to get it done,” because he simply doesn’t have the votes. Axelrod once again concurred.

Being a loyal Dem and also a CNN contributor, Axelrod at least had to make a (weak) attempt at optimism, claiming that the recent overturn of Roe v Wade might galvanize the progressive base. “You know, If I were a Republican strategist, I’d be a little bit worried about that right now,” he said.

No David, Republican strategists are not worried about that right now. They can read polls too.

Axelrod has been critical in the past of the Biden Administration, but he seems to have really taken off the gloves in this interview. Does he have the Big O’s blessing, as I asked earlier? Is this a sign that a wave of Dems will soon jump the Biden ship and try to force out of the race in 2024?

Or are they clearing the decks for Michelle Obama?

5 Comments

  1. Order out of chaos “They’re all in it together” Princess Diana. “the people are TOTALLY fooled” Marilyn Monroe.

    • It goes higher that Obama. Obama is just another loser blackmailed, controlled soul that is trapped in his mess he made for himself. Like all the players in this destruction game, they can’t quit. Many of them want to quit, but they are not allowed to. This is why Pelosi drinks constantly. McConnel hides in the shadows and talks will low confidence when he is forced to talk.
      The Central bankers have so much dirt on these people, so much control, they live in terror. If they do not obey or step out of line, their video will be leaked, they will be arrested for some sort of bribe they did, what ever it is, the central bank will make it known, and they will go to prison, or they will be killed, and they know it. Obama is not a master mind, he is a muppet.

  2. Rod needs to go to the gallows along with the Bidens, Obamas and the Federal Reserve bankers. You can drag McConnel and friends up there as well. Thousands need to be done away with.

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