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By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIt is never too early. Quietly, separated from the public business, President Obama's political aides are gathering information and lining up team players for his probable re-election bid in 2012, which likely will again be run out of Chicago, Politico reports. The closed-door planning focuses first on the midterm elections this year, with talk of a presidential campaign sandwiched into the private conversations. Politico's Mike Allen says that White House senior adviser David Axelrod may leave his West Wing office to rejoin his family in Chicago and resume his role as the campaign guru, ...
Greg Craig Out as White House Counsel, Replaced by Bob Bauer
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyIn the first major shake-up in the Obama White House, counsel Greg Craig is out, the White House announced on Friday. His replacement as the president's top lawyer is Bob Bauer, the husband of departing White House communications chief Anita Dunn. Craig's departure has long been expected, in part because of the difficulty the Obama administration is having meeting its pledge to close the Guantanamo prison by next January, a project managed by Craig (pictured with the president). In a statement issued while President Obama is in Japan, Obama said he was "indebted" to Craig for his service and ...
Anita Dunn Departs, Obama Gets Third Communications Director
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWhen media consultant Anita Dunn became Barack Obama's second White House communications director in May, she insisted that the job had to be temporary, originally hoping that it would not extend beyond her 12-year-old son's summer vacation. It is unusual for someone coming in at a senior level in the White House to have this kind of bargaining leverage. But Dunn, a leading figure in the 2008 Obama campaign, was a special case: She had been the president's original choice for the job, and the White House was then dealing with the flameout of communications director Ellen Moran, who had been ...
Why the White House Shouldn't Play Chicken With Fox
By David Corn - Politics DailyIt's war! A rumble in Washington. Two titanic political forces locked in a bloody battle to the very end. A confrontation between good and evil. A clash of civilizations. Of course, I'm talking about the scuffle between the White House and Fox News. I'm watching this fight as no disinterested observer. For years I was a rare commodity: a liberal commentator on Fox News. I enjoyed working with the bookers and producers at Fox's Washington bureau. But the place often felt like a foreign territory. On air, I was always the visiting team. The routine usually went something like this: A right-wing ...
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