(2010-09-23) Obama Advisers Leaving

Barack Obama will be losing a number of top advisers soon. Rahm Emanuel is widely expected to run for mayor of Chicago, and David Axelrod is likely to leave this spring to prepare for Obama's 2012 reelection effort. Obama will soon lose other top advisers. His chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, announced that he will return to Harvard, where he is a professor; Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina is expected to join Axelrod in Chicago; and national security adviser JamesJones is said to want out by the end of the year. (Plus Christina Romer already left.)