- David Axelrod, adviser to Sen. Barack ObamaI totally agree with this statement. A unifying candidate would definately be very welcome. The question, though, is if Sen. Obama is the candidate to do this. Remember, this is the guy who would pull troops from Iraq even if he knew it could cause genocide, threatened to invade an ally in the war against al Qaeda, and would meet with leaders of Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba within his first year in office without precondition.
I'm not sure, but these might be diverse positions.
Obama camp: Clinton obsessed with GOP "attack machine"
The HillA top adviser for Sen. Barack Obama Obama (D-Ill.) said Friday that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the front-runner for her party's presidential nomination, is obsessed "with what she calls the Republican attack machine."
"I think we need a candidate who is obsessed with unifying this country again," said Obama adviser David Axelrod. He added that Obama could break "the sort of decades-long battle we've had over this jagged divide - red state, blue state, American against American - and try to bring people together and attack disaffected Republicans and attract independent voters so that we could built not just a victory, but a governing coalition in this country."
Axelrod also too a swipe at former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), who is third among Democratic presidential candidates in national polls. Edwards, the party's vice presidential nominee in 2004, said this week that the country needs more than rhetoric about change in what was viewed as a jab at Obama.
Axelrod, prompted by a question during an MSNBC interview, said that Edwards's attack on Obama and Clinton could be a sign of desperation.
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