By Steve Huff 4/17/12 11:51pm

Crategate

President Obama, working up an appetite.

Revelation Made by President 17 Years Ago Shakes Campaign: Obama Ate Dog!

The Dog Days have come early to this year’s presidential race with the revelation by the Daily Caller that our  president was fed dog meat by his stepfather as a boy living in Indonesia. President Obama disclosed this information in his little-known TIME Magazine top 100 non-fiction bestseller, Dreams from My Father, a 1995 memoir of his well-traveled youth.

If the Obama White House feels moved to complain about the hay their opponents are making (the Twitter hash tag #ObamaDogRecipes trended across party lines Tuesday night) out of this unfortunate nugget from his book they may have only themselves to blame. As ABC newsman Jake Tapper pointed out, Democrats have been relentless in promoting the tale of Mitt Romney’s unfortunate dog Seamus, who reportedly rode on the roof of the Romney family vehicle from Boston to Canada in 1983: Read More

By Azi Paybarah 4/12/11 11:18pm

Features

Rev. Al’s Redemption: The President and the Preacher Man

Hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, dressed in a bow tie, reflected upon President Obama’s speech at the 20th-anniversary conference of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network on the second-floor ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in midtown, his highest-profile speech since kicking off his 2012 reelection campaign. “[It] was O.K.,” he told The Observer. “But listen, Read More

By Azi Paybarah 4/06/11 7:30pm

2012

Axelrod Sees JFK's Footprints in Obama's Path

As David Axelrod puts it, he got his start in politics when a family friend took him to see John F. Kennedy speak near his home at Stuy Town in Manhattan.

“I can’t remember what he said that day. I was five years old,” Axelrod said. “But through the wonders of Google, someone sent me Read More

By Azi Paybarah 4/06/11 4:53pm

2012

Ax Says Obama Had To Do What He Did

David Axelrod said while he was in the White House, dealing with an imploding economy, international crises and countless other problems, he turned to President Obama and said, “I wonder what it would be like to be here when things good.”

Axelrod, speaking at the National Action Network in midtown this morning, said the president Read More

By Mike Taylor 10/11/10 11:35am

Morning Roundup: Not Sweating Over Bonuses

  • A new survey shows that even though the government is sticking its nose into Wall Streeters’ pay packages, bankers are not terribly concerned about the size of this years’ bonus checks. [WSJ]
  • Central bankers from the world’s economic powers got together Friday for a delicious dinner of beef tenderloin and seared scallops. Also Read More

By Steve Kornacki 6/28/09 10:20pm

Obama Stays With Engagement, at a Cost To Be Determined

The White House made clear on Sunday that Barack Obama will proceed with his push for diplomatic engagement with Iran, no matter the outcome of the current upheaval in the Islamic Republic.

Appearing on several Sunday morning talk shows, Susan Rice, Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, and David Axelrod, one of the Read More