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That could be. I have another theory. Axelrod used to manage the late senator Paul Simon’s campaigns. I think Axelrod has sent Obama Simon’s Christmas card list. I used to get a card every year from the Simons, whom I didn’t know. This year for the first time I got a card — a “Happy Holidays” card — from the Obamas, whom I don’t know.
It’s one thing to get called out for a tricky little real estate deal with Tony Rezko–at some point Obama was obliged to show he’s a true man of his state and knows his shenanigans as well as the next pol. But a Christmas card by Annie Leibovitz? I wondered if I wasn’t actually looking at a rather crafty dirty trick perpetrated by political enemies conniving to paint him as something of a snob. Surely Obama himself would never announce to every constituent he sends a holiday card to that he’s too good for the hard-working yeoman photographers of Illinois.
