Book: Obama 'irritated' by Romney concession

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Campaign adviser David Axelrod says President Obama did not appreciate Mitt Romney's concession call after the 2012 election because the Republican opponent seemed to attribute the result only to black voters.

Obama was "unsmiling during the call, and slightly irritated when it was over," Axelrod writes in his new book, according to The New York Daily News.

In describing the call, Obama paraphrased Romney by saying, "'you really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee.'

"In other words, black people," Obama said, according to Axelrod. "That's what he thinks this was all about."

The Daily News obtained an early copy of Axelrod's Believer: My 40 Years in Politics, which is due out next week.

Garrett Jackson, who was Romney's "body man" in the 2012 campaign, disputed the book's account in a tweet.

Other nuggets from the Axelrod book, according to the Daily News:

• "Shortly after winning the Democratic primary in 2008, Obama briefly considered appointing Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court.

• "Former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was uncomfortable with senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, because of her close personal relationship with the Obamas. 'I don't want to manage the president's best friend,' Emanuel said. To get rid of her, he campaigned for Jarrett to run for Obama's Senate seat. But Obama wanted her in the White House and convinced her to abandon the idea."