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David Axelrod, a top adviser to President Obama's reelection campaign, said Wednesday it is "silly" to bring something Obama did as a child into the current political debate.

"I thought it was a little absurd to talk about what the president had done as a 10-year-old boy," he told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. Axelrod was referring to recent criticism prompted by a description from Obama's 2007 memoir Dreams of My Father of the various foods â€" including dog meat, snake meat and roasted grasshopper â€" he ate as a child in Indonesia. 

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