David Axelrod

"One Web site not only thought we were Ms. Palin's publishers but called the book 'Going Rough.' "We've noticed that someone, presumably HarperCollins, has been buying ads on Google redirecting people looking for 'Going Rouge' to 'Going Rogue,' which seems very unsporting of them." Victims of the "Rogue"/"Rouge" saga include CNN's Political Ticker, which quoted Obama adviser David Axelrod saying he'd be borrowing Obama campaign manager David Plouffe's copy of "Going Rouge." USA Today's section The Oval wrongly posted the cover of "Going Rouge"

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"He likes the job," Axelrod says in a recent interview. "It's a relentless and difficult job, but it's the work he signed up for." Axelrod, who shares Obama's Chicago background and his steady, unemotional approach, adds: "Look, when he was thinking about running for president, I told him, 'I'm not sure you're pathologically driven enough to run for president,' and he said, 'Well, that may be.'

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"We're laying the foundation for progress and, whether it's climate change ... some of the security issues, economic issues, the discussions that he had on this trip advanced our goals," said the president's senior adviser, David Axelrod.

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"We're laying the foundation for progress and, whether it's climate change ... some of the security issues, economic issues, the discussions that he had on this trip advanced our goals," said the president's senior adviser, David Axelrod. "This is not an immediate gratification business."

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"What surprised me at [our first meeting to discuss the vice presidency] was that Obama was clearly thinking more seriously about picking Hillary Clinton than Ax (David Axelrod) and I had realized," Plouffe writes in the new book, "The Audacity to Win," according to excerpts obtained by Time magazine.

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"Obviously I thought Lisa would give us the best shot because she's the most popular politician in the state," Axelrod said.

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"Obviously I thought Lisa would give us the best shot because she's the most popular politician in the state," Axelrod said. "People are really fed up. They've had enough,"

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"I think the history of these things is that Washington becomes absorbed with them," said David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama. "But not every day is Election Day. There's not all that much relationship about what these things mean and what's going to happen in an election a year -- or three years -- in advance."

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"He's always been a strong proponent of the public option," Manley said. Axelrod, the president's top political strategist, said he does not think Reid or Dodd "made any political calculations on these issues. That said, they have a lot to gain by being successful."

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"She would have walked into the seat," Mr. Axelrod says. White House qualms about the Democratic frontrunner, Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois treasurer, are self-evident, with worry that the Republican challenger, Representative Mark Kirk, will be needlessly formidable. "The Blago saga will hang heavy over our politics, and that's what Kirk's banking on,"

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