David Axelrod: Hillary Clinton is 'not a healing figure'

Political adviser David Axelrod said that Hillary "making herself the candidate of the future" would be "a challenge." That was ten years ago.

Axelrod's memoir, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, which hits stores today, includes a 12-page memo that was written for then-Senator Barack Obama in 2006. The Washington Times reports that Axelrod's strategic advice to Obama at the time declared, "for all of [Hillary's] advantages, she is not a healing figure. [...] The more she tries to moderate her image, the more she [...] compounds her exposure as an opportunist."

Axelrod has since said that the former first lady "can't rely on the Clinton name," and that she must "approach this campaign like a challenger, not like a frontrunner — like an insurgent."

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