Axelrod: I Only Went To D.C. After Obama Said I Could Still Tell Him To Go Fuck Himself

BuzzFeed - Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images David Axelrod, the former top adviser and chief campaign strategist to President Barack Obama, said he only went to Washington, D.C. in 2008 after he was promised that he would still be able to tell Obama to go fuck himself as president. "It was a total adjustment, and I was frightened about it. I honestly – I had spent a career staying out of Washington," Axelrod told the Kick Ass Politics podcast in an interview on his career. "You know, I have a lot of great friends in Washington, I revere the institutions, I'm proud – particularly as the son of an immigrant – I'm proud of America's institutions, and I think sometimes we take them for granted too much. But there's a pathology to Washington that I – you know, it's who's up and who's down, and very bright, insecure people trying to kneecap each other, keeping the other guy out of the meeting to elevate their own importance. "And so, I knew a