It looks like everyone is turning on Barack Obama. The beleaguered commander in chief, who would rather talk about anything but terrorism drew the ire of a man whose entire job used to be explaining away Obama’s failures: David Axelrod:
David Axelrod said Friday that his former boss, Barack Obama, was “tone-deaf” in his remarks in the aftermath of last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris.“I thought that he reacted…after the Paris events, when he was over in Europe,a little bit, he was a little tone-deaf there,” Axelrod told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “He responded to the fear-mongering without really addressing the fear.”
“I think since that time he’s been trying to catch up on that.”
In a speech at the G20 summit held in Turkey just days after the Nov. 13 attack, which was carried out by ISIS terrorists and left 130 dead, Obama lamented that it would be “counterproductive” to “equate the terrible actions that took place in Paris with the views of Islam.”
Axelrod’s comments are another blow to an Obama administration that seems more concerned with protecting the President’s image than it does with keeping Americans safe.