In an off-the-record meeting Wednesday, President Obama sought messaging advice on foreign policy from a crowd of writers and editors ahead of the 2012 elections.
Politico reports:
Shortly after announcing his newfound support for the legalization of gay marriage yesterday, President Barack Obama walked into an off-the-record foreign policy meeting with nine editors and columnists to discuss Afghanistan, Israel, NATO and the forthcoming G8 Summit at Camp David, sources present at the meeting tell me.
The nine: The New Yorker’s David Remnick and Jane Mayer, Time Magazine’s Joe Klein, Newsweek’s Peter Beinart, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, The New York Times’s Carla Robbins, The Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib, The Los Angeles Times’s Doyle McManus, and David Ignatius of the Washington Post.
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Sources would not discuss the specific details of the conversation, as it was off the record, but did indicate that Obama looked to the group for messaging advice on the aforementioned foreign policy matters in the run-up to the 2012 election.
