Axelrod: ‘Patronizing and Disrespectful’ Obama Chewed Out Maureen Dowd

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7. Money.

Penn “saw his mission as quashing any liberal impulses of the candidate or the campaign, and he justified himself with fuzzy polling numbers and smug self-assurance that made every conversation grating,” he writes. “I felt he spent as much time manipulating his clients as providing constructive counsel.”