1.0 link 104064 <![CDATA[Axelrod Exclusive: Obama Strategist Rips McCain, Defends Himself Against Lobbying Charges]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/29/axelrod-exclusive-obama-s_n_104064.html Barack Obama's chief strategist leveled the campaign's harshest counterattack yet over John McCain's recent rhetoric on national security issues, and defended himself against charges that threaten to make him a focus of the campaign tit-for-tat in the coming months.

In a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday with The Huffington Post, David Axelrod began with a bit of political thunder, accusing McCain of failing to question the White House as it used "deception and propaganda to essentially lead America to war."

"What does...

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