David Axelrod défend son "patron" (ABC)

Axelrod est un des principaux stratèges derrière la formidable campagne d'Obama en 2012.

"David Axelrod, interviewed Sunday morning on ABC's "This Week," hammered home Obama's recent points about the motives of the president's opposition among Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates.
"When people don't support plans that have in the past garnered bipartisan support, when people are willing to walk the country to the brink of default, when people, instead of saying where there's a will, there's a way, say it's my way or the highway, you have to assume that politics is at play," he said.
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Axelrod, the president's chief campaign adviser, said the middle class is being held hostage.

"It is unthinkable to me that the Republican Party would say we can't touch -- we can't touch tax cuts for the wealthy, we can't touch special interest corporate tax loopholes because that will hinder -- hinder the economy, but we'll allow a $1,000 tax increase on the average American come January. How could that be? The only explanation for it is politics," he said.

Axelrod also answered a question read by Tapper that was from filmmaker Michael Moore about disappointment among liberals about the president's policies.

"First of all, no one is cynically moving one way or the other. The president is not moving left or right; he's interested in moving the country forward," Axelrod said.

Axelrod added that he would expect liberals to ultimately decide for Obama in November 2012: "I think that this is such a profound choice that the president's supporters and independent voters and people across this country will rally, because the future will be determined by this debate and the path we take.""