He may have left the administration but he’s still a hack.

Update: He’s right about the government being “too big” (isn’t that what we’ve been saying all along?) but that doesn’t mean Obama didn’t know.

Via The Hill:

President Obama’s former campaign adviser David Axelrod on Wednesday said the president couldn’t have known about the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting conservative groups because the government is too big for the Commander in Chief to know about everything that goes on below him.

“If you look at the Inspector General’s report, apparently some folks down in the bureaucracy, and you know we have a large government, took it upon themselves to shorthand these applications for tax exempt status in a way that was, as I said, idiotic, and also dangerous because of the political implications,” Axelrod said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

“Part of being president is there’s so much underneath you because the government is so vast,” he added. “You go through these [controversies] all because of this stuff that is impossible to know if you’re the president or working in the White House, and yet you’re responsible for it and it’s a difficult situation.”