He also asked Axelrod what he'll do next, and he said he wants to help "inspire some young people to get into this arena as candidates, as strategists, as journalists." Or to follow today's media model, become a Democratic strategist, and then become a network TV journalist. But Axelrod brushed away tears alongside the president at the idealism of the Obama Youth:
DAVID AXELROD: Oh, my. I was standing ten feet away and I was brushing
tears away myself as were many of those young people. And so when he
looked at those young kids and their sense of idealism and all the
sacrifices they had made, not just for him but for the kind of country
that they believe in, he really was overcome. And the President went
around after that speech and he-- and he met with every single kid in
the headquarters, gave them a hug and a handshake and a thanks and I
think that hug and handshake and thanks has sent them off in a direction
where they're going to make great contributions in the future, and it
really was a wonderful coda on a-- on a great campaign.
BOB SCHIEFFER: And what about you? What do you do next?
AXELROD: Well, I'm going down-- in keeping with that-- I'm going to spend part of my time starting an institute of politics at the University of Chicago. My feeling is if I can help inspire some young people to get into this arena as candidates, as strategists, as journalists, then that would be a great contribution to make.
BOB SCHIEFFER: And what about you? What do you do next?
AXELROD: Well, I'm going down-- in keeping with that-- I'm going to spend part of my time starting an institute of politics at the University of Chicago. My feeling is if I can help inspire some young people to get into this arena as candidates, as strategists, as journalists, then that would be a great contribution to make.
The biggest things I noticed on the Sunday shows (I watched Meet the Press and FOX "News" Sunday), was that the election could've been weeks ago by all the attention it got. We got Petreaus with both barrels, and some off-hand, very slight future talk about Obama's 2nd term. No deconstruction of what happened, no talk of what went right on one side, wrong on the other. No talk of the utter failure of Karl Rove, and all the right-wing pundits. I was very disappointed!
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