Rove: Obama’s the Guy at the Country Club Holding a Martini Making Snide Comments About Everyone Else

Clearly he is the car salesman that planned the party

Obama is using racist remarks about people who do not vote for him, he needs to apologize NOW.
When has racism been funny, this guy is a lousy speaker!!

This story doesn’t seem to be very important.

Rove is the Guy at the Country Club Holding a Martini Making Snide Comments About Everyone Else. Does anyone really listen to him anymore anyway? His power days are over, and we’re all better off for that. Maybe he can take that other rocking chair at Crawford now that McClellan won’t be using it.

Rove is the guy making sure women still can’t play at Augusta National and cursing the day they let a black man play in the Masters.

Can you stop taking out tangential racial meaning of every statement.
I am an Obama supporter, but this is getting annoying and frustrating. Everything is not about race.
Having said that, Rove is an idiot and I appreciate you beating him around.

Oh please Rove. Not going to work this time.

Only a Republican strategist would use a country club allusion to describe Obama. Given that he was raised by a single mother and Michelle is the daughter of a municipal work, it hardly seems like an apt description.
I wonder if the unemployed steelworker or public school teacher struggling to pay for health insurance and fill up their car appreciates Rove’s humor? I have no doubt that one was a real knee slapper around Kennebunkport.

Rove is the has been, over the hill, ex-high school quarterback that can’t get over the old days.

Mr. Rove, you’re describing yourself. Get a real job.

Obama is so arrogant and really thinks he’s god. That’s really sick—
—and whoever doesn’t support and idolize him is either a racist or “bitter. Sad that the dems put up this loser.

A lot of people are blaming Carl Rove for the Bush’s Administration’s bad ratings and he is partially responsible. But just wait two years after Obama is in office (if elected) and he will have a 10% ratings. After all, all those socialists, racists, Marxists and communist are making the rules and policies.
Obama is unelectable.

you just disqualified your comment trettione
anyone living anywhere on the south side of Chicago for 20 years knows gangbangers. even if you are in your 20′s when u move there,even if you work in corporate america (experience)

Also, it’s funny that Rove accuses Obama of making snide comments…right as he makes a snide comment himself. What a piece of work.

Hmm. Rove’s descriptions of Obama at the country club sounds like George W to me. The only thing lacking is something about assigning nicknames.

No fan of Rove, but I can’t argue with him on this one.
The more I see Obama and hear his comments, the more I am convinced he is a super arrogant and both Obama and his wife, Michelle, ooze a sense of entitlement.

rouftop: close very close, only he reminds me of the dirty old man who looks through you and not at you, so you can’t wait to run out of the room.

The obama hate machine. never seen anything like it. The hate spewed by them is beyond belief.

LOL! Newsweek polls are a JOKE! There’s absolutely NO WAY BO is 15 points ahead of McCain. It’s just not true. That’s HILARIOUS!
As for Rove’s analogy? He’s probably right. That sounds like BO. I wouldn’t be too concerned about poor BO not being able to get a membership to a Country Club, Jake. AAs have their own country clubs. Black Liberation Theology wants the races separate and in their own spaces.
What makes you think someone who attended a Black Liberation Hate church for 20 years would WANT to be a member of a country club where mean white people are members?

Mary
got issues?…..get therapy sweetie

–Becky–Be careful what you say about Rove
Obama reminds me of the dirty and sneering man who——–. He comes across as sleaze.

Go back to your full-time job screwing America, Rove. Nobody cares what your lying pie-hole thinks anymore. You’re extinct.

There’s a psychological term called “projection” – a defense mechanism in which one attributes one’s own unacceptable thoughts and emotions onto others. Classic case – Rove is the martini holding guy making snide remarks.

Maggie: I was not talking about Rove, I was referring to McCain.

rove is the devil behind the demon republican party. he and bush and cheney should be tryed and convicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity

Obama is the pig!!!!
I hope McCain puts this arrogant narcisstic maniac out of the race early.

Generally when someone is pointing a finger there are 3 fingers pointing back at their self – Karl Rove is a fat pasty balding man who WISHES he had one tenth the charm, poise, brains, and success that Barack Obama has. Karl Rove is a green eyed jealous monster … sinister, evil, and responsible for 3/4 the CRAP this country has endured since Georgie boy got elected.

What rove doesn’t realize is that everyone at the club is making snide remarks about him as he passes by, the suave guy with the martini, his caddy, the busboy, the guy who parks his car, the club pres, everyone thinks rove is an ass, except the 20% of the country that think bush is doing a great job.
And for all you mccain supporters out there, if mccain wouldn’t stand up for his family when bush and rove was trashing them in 00 and then helped bush get reelected in 04 then he won’t stand up for your family if he’s elected in 08. Hell he cheated on his first wife with Cindy (she puts the sin in Cindy) and then dumped her for the trollop. Where’s your family values now?

Trinity United Church of Christ is building a million-dollar home along a Tinley Park golf course on land that was owned by its longtime pastor, Rev. A. Jeremiah Wright Jr., records show.
The 10,340-square-foot home, apparently planned for Wright’s retirement, sits on land purchased by the pastor in 2004 for $345,000. In September 2006, the church applied for a building permit, and in December 2006 he sold the land to his church, which took out a $1.6 million mortgage on the property.
The church received a permit in April 2007 for the brick-and-stone structure, set on Odyssey Country Club.
Trinity officials declined to comment. The church’s national office said it is “customary and appropriate in many Christian denominations, including the United Church of Christ . . . to offer housing provisions for retiring clergy” after years of service.
What are these racist Country Clubs Jakes refers to? You mean like the ODYSSEY COUNTRY CLUB?

Rove initially was trying to paint Obama as a stupid black guy who just loves to play basketball. This didn’t fly because it was borderline racist and Obama does NOT appear to be dumb.
Since Obama rarely drinks and doesn’t make fun of anyone I don’t think that this portrayal is going to fly.
Obama is more of a nerd than anything.

Rove -2
Liberals -0
The man is a lot sharper than Obama.

Cecilia,
the funny part is he was trying to say he was elitist and in turn really said he looks down on the rich snotty people..lol

Obama in San Fraincisco talking to his elitist Millionaire friends in a private meeting called Americans not voting for him Bitter and racist gun touting bible huggers!!
Is that exactly what Rove is saying.
WE the American People can not afford Obama and the marxists in power, we will have no money left and people will die – This is factual.

Becky- have you heard the audio of McCain or just that someone said he said it? I heard Obama’s sweetie….it pissed me off! McCain doesn’t have my vote, and it’s Obama’s to win, but he’s not doing a very good job so far. I won’t pull the lever for a repulican, EVER, but it’s not my obligation to vote for BO either. He’s going to have to win me over, and the way to do that is to show some common sense! He keeps stepping in it, and that shows someone with a total lack of control, and someone who is out of touch, but has a great speech writer.
You are being too easy on this clown!

Cecilia Do you work for Obama- Obama insulted ALL Hardworking Americans and you are trying to flip it!!
Obama has shown he is a racist by bringing up Racism first, and his mentor who he is beholden to!!

Obama does not even belong to a country club — never has. I guess a rich elitist racist country clubbing neo-con scum like Rove could not even imagine that.

Rove is a biased Republican. You’d think Fox News would have made a different choice if they REALLY want to be seen as the “fair and balanced” news organization that they tout themselves as. Quit hiring political extremists. It was bad enough that Bush hired a former Fox newsman (Tony Snow). Distancing themselves from Republicans might make them a bit more credible. Thus, I have no respect for what Karl Rove would say.

Be careful when you insult Obama, Rove.
When he becomes president…he’ll add an extra thirty years to your prison sentence next year.

rove is evil just like bush and cheney and like mccain is becoming

“Interesting that Mr. Rove would use a country club metaphor to describe the first major party African-American presidential candidate, whom I’m sure wouldn’t be admitted into many country clubs that members of the Capitol Hill Club frequent.”
Stupid of the day. Clue – what year is this? Which club do you refer to, please?

Since cynics don’t know the true definition of what a Racist is, ALLOW ME; PAY ATTENTION SPOCKY!
A racist is someone who has a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others. Does that sound familiar with WHITE AMERICA?
Racism is reinforced with a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine and discrimination. Does that sound familiar with policies WITHIN WHITE AMERICA?
Finally, a racist has hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. That has WHITE AMERICA written all over it.
So, the next time you freely use the word, think before you speak.
Obama hasn’t fostered any beliefs or doctrines that would prevent the typical WP from doing anything.
BTW, his mother is a white woman. If your mother was white and your father was African, what would that make you?
White Woman + African American Man = AA
African American Woman+White Man=AA
Those white genetics must be quite weak, huh?
HMMMMMMMMM
OBAMA 08

funny, the liberals always say republicans are prejudice, yet its always the libs pullin out the racecard. I think liberal lies about republican prejudice have gone too far for too long. is it not the democratic party who has the longest running senator, an ex-klansmen, Senator Byrd? And I quote from the first line, second paragraph from wikipedia on the republican party:
Founded in 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party rose to prominence with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president.

How is it that Obama only leads by 2% in the latest Oregon poll? Oh yeah, the colleges have let out for the summer.

And McCain is the creepy old fart wearing old man wraparound sunglasses mumbling lewd remarks to himself as women golfers walk by.

“I’m sure wouldn’t be admitted into many country clubs that members of the Capitol Hill Club frequent”
You’re sure huh? Then let’s hear it. or is this unsubstantiated racist rumor mongering? Jeremiah Wright lives in the swanky Oydessy Country Club.

After George W McCain loses in November, maybe he and Rove can go on the road as a comedy act. Maybe call it “The Old Man and His Pig”.

“Republicans this is just only a warning! Start packing. The heavy storm is on the way coming. 2008 is not your year!”
“Barack, sit down. I’ll tell you a thing, or two, about inevitability” ~ ~ Hillary

Obama is the nicest, kindest man. I have never heard him insult anyone. He said people kling to their religion when going through hard times. I do, and so should everyone else. What’s wrong with that. Kling to God, your Faith, and hope when going through hard times. Lean on your family also. Occupy yourself with hobbies. If it’s hunting, then go for it.

I have no idea how he did it, but Rove
is mixing himself up with Obama.

The Prince of Darkness (Rove) knows his audience.
Therefore, take it to the bank that there is a reservoir or GOP hostility out there for arrogant guy’s with beautiful dates who smoke and judge others at the CC.
Note also the reference to cigarette smoking. [Obama quit before the campaign, but started up again 3 months ago.]
Rove never says anything without a calculated purpose.
And before you disregard The Prince, never forget that The Prince serially succeeded in electing W to various public offices. (I rest my case.)
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith

I wouldn’t know. I’ve never been to a cocktail party at any country club.

Rove must be thinking of his drinking buddy George Bush, the alcoholic intstalled by the Supreme Court as our president. And for those boneheads who say the Democratic party was founded by rascists, that is true. But what these idiot, non-readers forget is that all the Democrat rascists left the Dems and joined the Republicans after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by President Johnson.

Thanks MaBell. I made the same observation. Who is the racist, Rove, the author or both??? Just different forms.

given the fact we have had a president for the last seven years with an IQ of less than 90, and his advisor Rove, probably a little over 99, it is refreshing to have Obama with an IQ above 130 – of course Rove would see him as a arrogant – the dumbing down of Amerika brought about by the ‘no child left behind’ policy has secured that any intelligent person is looked at with suspicion…

This comment is absolutely hilarious! Yes, I’m thinking there are lots of country clubs that still wouldn’t even let Obama in.
Frankly, the comment says more about Rove than it does Obama. I think he’s jealous—I think he wishes he were that cool.
I think Rove is the nerdy fat boy that never could get a date and who was a bully.
Poor poor widdle Kawl….wah.

Well, if Karl Rove says it, I believe it, and that settles it!
Wow, and here I was going to study the issues and all that nonsense before I chose my candidate.
Thanks Karl!
You’ve saved me a lot of wasted time!

Thanks, Karl, I couldn’t think for myself. The worst thing McCain can have are any Bush/Cheney lackies talking about anything.

This is the code Obama was talking about. They are trying to paint Obama as an “uppity negro.”

Could someone post a list of the DC country clubs who would not admit Obama and a list of those who would. Someone’s brain seems to have frozen up decades ago and hasn’t taken new info in. Poor guy!

Wrong…He’s the jealous guy at the club that WISHES his wife would let him smoke, drink martinis and spread the dirt about other members.

not only is Rove’s comment ridiculous, it isn’t even worth mentioning, so why is it getting covered in this column?

Obama is definitely cooly arrogant. Obnoxious too. Rove is off the mark here.
Obama is the guy at the dinner who’s always talking about who doesn’t like him, distracting you from looking into who he really is.
He doesn’t want you to know who he really is.

Obama is a fraud… and he knows it just ask his wife or Rev. Wright… he says what he has to to win… looks like the hope and change… done gone and went…

John McCain is still advertising for submissive personalities to make comments on as many blogging sites as possible. They get ‘McCain points’ for each time they post a comment. They get extra points for each time they use the word arrogant, marxist, socialist, or racist when referring to Obama. That is why you will often see the words but with no coherent context.
Posted by: Eileen From Maine | Jun 23, 2008 2:39:17 PM
***********************************
I almost forgot, these submissive followers are also encouraged to get the word, ‘elitist’ in as often as possible too. Doesn’t matter if it has nothing to do with the topic, they get an extra ‘McCain point’ for each time they use it.
I think they get a McCain cap if they can use elitist, arrogant, marxist, socialist and racist all in one post. Doesn’t matter if they can’t even define the words or put them in context. Submissive personalities will pick up the words and don’t really think about if they apply or not.

Obama’s admitted heavy marijuana and cocaine use in high school and college may well have played a decisive role in the development of Obama’s inflated sense of his own importance; and, his pretentious demeanor. Heavy drug use can lead to hallucinations concerning ones status of grandiosity. Another clue is Obama’s frequent confused and unintelligible babblings whenever he is subjected to a public forum where he is devoid of a prepared text by his handlers to read from; which is the reason that Obama’s controllers will resist any attempt to have their candidate exposed to town-hall style forums.
Unequivocally, this man, who has exhibited a profound lack of common-sense, should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office. Greg Neubeck

Carl Rove is a great American

I think most of you have forgotten that the Democrats have been in charge of this Country through the House and Senate for the last two years….where has that gotten us??

Rowe has completely lost his small mind

Obama is the guy saying American is the greatness nation in the world and elect me so I can “Change It”.

I agree with Rove. Obama acts like he is so much smarter than everyone else. The loser Obama is just another communist dressed like a progressive. Rove’s comment is so biting because it is true…

Wake up everyone. Obama is a closet Marxist! Just look at his friends. They tell a lot about who he is.

I think Rove is trying to say that Obama is “uppity”. This campaign is all going to be about code words for “black”.
I hope we are all better than that.
Rove is a “dangerous misanthrope”. Which, by the way, is code for fat, ugly bastard.

Why isn’t Rove in jail?

I can’t wait for Obama to become president. Then, anytime someones says something about him, we can argue about race and racism and racistness and we can blame people for being racist racists.
Race, race, race, race.
OBAMA ’08, YES WE CAN! (talk about race)

It’s interesting how the Right will apply these same labels to anyone regardless of their background.
Didn’t Obama grow up in Kansas with out a father? That just screams “elitist” doesn’t it. Meanwhile the millionaires hob nobbing with Rove at the Capital Hill Club are not elistist somehow.
It’s said that rank-and-file conservatives have fallen for this one for so long.

You have to give it to Mr Obama he is great at playing the racial card he will spin this into a frenzy he did learn a lot from his preacher friend.
As to Rove hey you are what you are if you recognize the crowd point it out.

Carl rove is right. the dem’s wish they had some one like him.

Classic Republican attack – it’s as outdated and desperate as it is predictable and boring – anyone small minded to fall for this is as pathetic as this lazy attack. Come on Republicans use your think-box! Is this the best you can come up with? Sheesh!

I agree. Mr. Obama is an arrogant elitist who does not care for this country at all. God help the US if he is elected.
El che

“Even if you never met him, you know this guy. Rove is the guy at the homeless shelter pouring rat poison in baby formula and throwing acid on faces of black people”

Obama’s the only one I see and read making RACISTS COMMENTS day-after-day and for the past four days now. He’s got a problem. After all, he’s afraid if WHITES vote as BLACKS have who 95 % voted for Obama because of his SKIN COLOR, if WHITES do the same thing and cast their votes like Blacks, based on the skin color of a man, then Obama does not have a chance. Is that what Obama is REALLY afraid of? I’d say he has a lot to be afraid about if whites do vote based on skin color as blacks are doing. And that my friends is a fact. Like it or not.

by the way karl rove lovers, this is actually what obama said instead of just pounding on the one line over and over, you realize it was completely taken out of context by the clinton camp, and now being hounded and will be hounded by the repubs…
obama himself has said perhaps he shouldnt have said cling or bitter as maybe those were harsh words, but i just dont see it, it looks to me like its all on the up and up
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.”
“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

I started out with a positive impression of Obama, but it has become clear that he is an elitist who espouses his political views showing compassion for the working class to avoid belonging to it.
Rove is right on the mark. The contempt he holds the American intelligence reeks in almost every pronouncement he makes. What REALLY frightens me is that he MAY be correct in his estimation.

shame on rove. maybe that’s a reflection of himself.

Rove has proven himself to be an ass in the past…..just another example…not surprising….BTW, we also know his pal George by his alter ego Alfred E. Newman.

Yes, Sue Curtis, let’s all be on the watch-out for our SOVERIGNTY.

With Obama’s San Fransisco’s remarks about middle Americans, he sounds very much like a arrogant liberal who surrounds himself with black David Dukes, 10 most wanted types and pro Islamic guys he hides in Africa. Now I’ll probably be told I’m anti black when mentioning facts.

Barack Obama is the kind of guy that goes to meet with a bunch of San Francisco elitists and says that Midwesterners are a bunch of clueless hay seeds that cling to guns, religion, and xenophobia because they don’t have a job!
Sounds like Rove’s description fits, just insert country club instead of San Francisco millionaire’s home!

I think Obama does think he is better than the rest of us. As for intelligence, I don’t care if he is a genuis. What good is intelligence if the person with it is doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. Obama can snear, Rove can rage, none of them are thinking about us. Wake up, it is just the way it is. Be realists not bots, and vote who will be best. I am old enough to remember Jimmy Carter, he was/is a very smart man. It gave us 20 percent interest rates, gas lines when there was gas, and unemplyment of over 10%. Ah, the good old days of having the worlds smartest man at the helm.

Mr. Rove,
Methinkst THOU dost protesteth too much. Who is snide and critical?

I think Obama does think he is better than the rest of us. As for intelligence, I don’t care if he is a genuis. What good is intelligence if the person with it is doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. Obama can snear, Rove can rage, none of them are thinking about us. Wake up, it is just the way it is. Be realists not bots, and vote who will be best. I am old enough to remember Jimmy Carter, he was/is a very smart man. It gave us 20 percent interest rates, gas lines when there was gas, and unemplyment of over 10%. Ah, the good old days of having the worlds smartest man at the helm.

———
There’s a psychological term called “projection” – a defense mechanism in which one attributes one’s own unacceptable thoughts and emotions onto others.
Posted by: LEPBTV | Jun 23, 2008 2:20:52 PM
———
That would certainly explain why Democrats run around calling everyone who disagrees with them “racists”.

Amen, brother Karl. You nailed it!

So Rove opines on Obama…and Jake Tapper slimes him for it. Great piece of journalism!
Good Lord, how in the sack are main stream journalists for the “prophet” Obama?

Why is it that everyone who knows better than Rove, or supports Obama and clearly has more more knowledge on running a country than anyone else in the Bush cabinet usually holds a job in the service industry, smells of bong water, covered in tats or still think we live in the 60′s?

I want to remind everyone that for the last 8 -10 years people like Gore and the liberals like Obama have been saying we NEED 4-5$ a galllon gasonline to encourage us to use less.
And OBAMA says drilling won’t decrease the price in 5 years? Why is this the only product in the history of the world that the law of supply and demand does not work?
We can’t get out of the mess by drilling? Huh? Drilling is HOW we got the production we have today.
What does he suggest – Getting out of this mess by HOPE?

Off topic, but I am wondering about who exactly comprises “Obama supporters”…many seem to be illiterate or do not know the English language very well (misspellings)
Since the internet is worldwide, perhaps there are those in foreign countries who would like to see Obama elected? Hummmmm…..
Just wondering.

I love watching libs go crazy over Carl Rove. What a bunch of losers…

Edwards was right, we do live in two America’s. One where people have a positive outlook and work to make our country and the earth a better place to live. The other half is amazingly ignorant, racist, war mongering, bullying,word twisting, my way or the highway, ah, you get my drift, theme there people be Republicans. Rememeber unless you are Republican, your not a true American. If your not a Republican, your not fighting the good fight of USA global domination. Forget other countries culturs. They’ll be OK once we put a McDonalds and a Starbucks in their country. Then they can also be wired out fatties with crappy health insurance. Rememeber Republican is the KKK without the sheets.

I believe that Karl Rove’s credibility was lost a long time ago. I don’t believe for a second that Obama is an elitist. Obama is what our country needs. Barak Obama WILL be the next president of the Unites States of America. Get used to it.
El Matador Mexicano

I am a conservative, but this reeks of the pot calling the kettle black. I realize Mr. Obama comes from a very high-class educational background which might be behind the comment. But Rove shouldn’t throw stones from glass houses either.

Obama’s the only one I see and read making RACISTS COMMENTS day-after-day and for the past four days now. He’s got a problem. After all, he’s afraid if WHITES vote as BLACKS have who 95 % voted for Obama because of his SKIN COLOR, if WHITES do the same thing and cast their votes like Blacks, based on the skin color of a man, then Obama does not have a chance. Is that what Obama is REALLY afraid of? I’d say he has a lot to be afraid about if whites do vote based on skin color as blacks are doing. And that my friends is a fact. Like it or not.

Obama is the man who makes a beautiful,
noble, uplifting speech about bowling, but who can’t do it himself. In fact, he doesn’t even know how to score.

—”But the picture Rove paints is interesting. Who, pray tell, is Rove at this country club?”—
I don’t mean to be mean, but I don’t think it makes anybody arrogant to be standing off to the side and snickering at Karl Rove. He’s really creepy. Eeew . . .

What’s stupid isn’t so much the opinion that Mr. Rove voiced, but that fact that Mr. Tapper considers this newsworthy.

I love these comments from the people who gave us two terms of George Bush and still believe anyone should pay attention to their opinion. McCain is unelectable, wrong on the two biggest issues, the war and the economy. He’s a too-old codger whose claim to fame is being shot down. He’s switched positions on just about every issue and hurt his back twisting to kiss Bush’s posterior.

It is a shame that Rove can still get in the news by opening his mouth. We all know what he is- and what he says about anyone should be considered slanderous lies.

Obama is such a LOSER!!! And he flip-flopped on the campaign finance pledge. He is such a liar!!! That dude is going to drop all you liberal lambs and go for the cash if he steals the white house. You libs are being taken for the ride of your lives!!!

Oh yeah Rove? And you are ‘not coolly – obnoxious’!

Barack Obama is the kind of guy that goes to meet with a bunch of San Francisco elitists and says that Midwesterners are a bunch of clueless hay seeds that cling to guns, religion, and xenophobia because they don’t have a job and he expects the idiot voters to think that’s perfectly fine!
Sounds like Rove’s description fits, just insert country club instead of San Francisco millionaire’s home!
Barack Obama is the kind of guy that goes to a racist bigoted hatin whitey church for 22 years and then expects the idiot voters to think that’s perfectly fine!
Barack Obama is the kind of guy funded by a out and out America hater like George Soros. That hangs around with corrupt Chicago politicians and indicted businessmen like Tony Rezko. That has good friends that are domestic terrorists that bomb police stations and the Pentagon and former members of the PLO and then expects the idiot voters to think that’s just perfectly fine!
And tens of millions of the useful idiots on the Left cheer the Marxist America hater on! Truly amazing. Breaks my heart.

This article would have been an unbiased report if it wasn’t for the very end. Reporters are supposed to report the news, not create it. The news is what Rove said, not what say about Rove. I know who Rove is, I don’t even know who you are.

Well he’s certainly arrogant. He’s more like an ineffective city mayor that thinks because he went to ivy league he’s the smartest guy in the room.

It’s people like Rove who drive people away from the Republican Party. No wonder Obama’s ahead in the polls by 15%.

People who live in glass houses . . . . . .
This coming from a guy who dimes out a CIA operative, who is in a foreign country, because her husband hates G.W. Bush!
Sounds like treason to me, but you just keep on chatting with him, Jake.

No surprise here, Republicans always seem to be against intelligent people.
They can’t compete on an intellectual level so they go into their typical name calling routine. Elitist, arrogant, socialist, marixist, etc. etc.
Republicans seem to be stuck in some weird elementary school mentality and freak out when they come up against an adult who thinks for themselves.
I feel bad that they live with so much internal fear.

Why don’t they just call him “uppity” and get it over with?

I think this is a “Fresh Prince of Bell Air” reference.
I just happened to catch a Nick-At-Nite episode on last night and there was a scene with “Uncle Phil” and some other guy sitting at the country club making snide comments about what other people were wearing.
It was an early episode so I believe the intention was to illustrate the new economic circumstances that Will found himself in this “fish-out-of-water” comedy.
That Karl Rove would create a political analogy inspired from a television sit-com is kinda funny. Kinda makes you want to go back and look at his strategies over the years.

He is an elitist snob who gets away with it because people and the press are so afraid of being called racist. The Press and others better expose him before he brain washes people like Jim Jones or other charismatic people.

Karl Rove doesn’t seem to comprehend that his time of relevance is over.

Where are all the smart conservative people? Do they even exist?

Obama from a working class background? His grandmother, who raised him, was a bank VP in Hawaii and before that they lived on Mercer Island, the most expensive area in Seattle. He went to a private school and Ivy League colleges. This isn’t my definition of working class.

Carl Rove defeated you Dems twice already, maby you had better wake up and listen to him. McCain needs to hire him, of course he is already probly working for a GOP 527. To bad Obama, your arrogance is catching up with you.

No, I’m the guy at the club with the martini making the snide comments. Karl confuses us a lot.

Why is elitism a bad trait for a president? I don’t want my next door neighbor as president, he’s an idiot. I want someone so smart, that my eyes glaze over when they speak to me. I want a president that is on such a higher level, so “elite”, that I totally cannot relate to him. Otherwise, I might as well do the job myself…

“There are no two more arrogant people than George Bush and Karl Rove”.
With the exception of Gore, Clinton’s [all 3 of them],Kerry, Dean, etc.

If Al Gore had been President, 4,150 young Americans would still be alive. All of these children would still have their fathers, mothers, their sons. If Gore had been President, 45,000 young Americans would not have had their arms, faces, legs, and genitals blown off.Hundred committed suicide a week. If Demos not spending trillions of dollars a day on a lost war. If Democrats were in the Whitehouse, we would still be respected in the World. If Democrats were in the White House, there would be no foreclosures and high gas prices. Please elect Obama!!!

FACT: There are far more millionaire Democrats in Congress than Republicans, B.O. included.

LOL!
Bush is the biggest elitist of all time and McCain’s been in Washington most of his life.
This is psychological projection.
The elitist attack isn’t going to stick this time. Sorry Rove. By the way, a majority of Americans don’t like you, or Bush. You’ve made politics terrible in America.
Who does Rove think Obama is, James Bond?! LOL

Obama, is the professor that puts in the least amount of time and effort leaving everything to the T.A.s Then grading scathingly to make himself feel brilliant.

The country club that Obama belongs to is the Ivy League alumni that think they can rule this country as an entitlement. The fact the Michelle Obama complained about her college loans means nothing since her children won’t have to sweat getting accepted to whatever Ivy League school they want. As far as the Obams having to woory about paying for college, Harvard and others are wainving tuition for everybody. Middle class white America need not apply.

Rove is correct. Everything Obama does is arrogant. He prays on people who are uninformed and promises them everything. And for the rest of us, his says we have to sell our SUV’s and can’t keep our homes cooler then 71 degree’s. Maybe he should go over to Gore’s house. Although that would be one too many hypocrites in a room.

TOM, a real poll has him up 6% (gallop) which is the same Kerry had on GW at the same time. Looks bad for your boy.

Good god there are some tiny-minded bigots on this post. You guys need to get some friends. All this rage is not healthy.

All this rhetoric is garbage. Bottom-line: Obama will raise taxes, double the Capital Gains tax, try to federalize the oil industry and kill what is left of “Land of the Free”.
Carter did what Obama wants to do and we had NO OIL. How will it be when we have NO OIL that we can’t afford?
Windfall profits? That’s business success. Now success is a bad thing? Kill the oil companies and half this country will be out of work in 6 months and gas will cost $10 a gallon. No business has EVER PAID TAXES. Consumers pay the difference. Anyone that can’t see that is a total MORON!
Vote Obama…then hang on for a nightmare ride.

Just a reminder to conservatives.
Obama is up by 15 PERCENT.
America is sick of George W. McSame and his failed policies in Iraq and on the economy.
——-
Yea, we will just put in a Carter’s second term and hope for the best

Rove is the kind of guy at the country club who everyone knows he cheats at golf, tells everyone how great his game is and wonders why people have stopped playing with him.

Ever notice that the liberals here have very little to say by way of any actual facts? But, they can always be counted on to make a personal attack, call people names, spout the Koolaid, regurgitate the blogpoop, etc. They seldom add anything to a discussion.
The only people I see playing the RACE CARD right now are Obama and the Dems. Obama already has most of the black vote tied up because they are going to vote by skin color. The race issues Obama keeps bringing up are an attempt to innoculate his campaign from using racism as a defensive tool against who knows who. The “I see white people!” syndrome.
Pathetic

Lots of Obama hatred on this blog.
It’s too bad for you that he’s going to win and have a Democratic majority in Congress.
Flash forward to four years from now: Who’s Karl Rove, and who cares what he said?

That is a lie and Rove knows it. They’re getting panic attacks when they look at the poll numbers. Barack Obama is a good and honest man who would be comfortable talking to anyone; as far as elite snob, Rove, if the shoe fits…

You people are backing Obama just like you used to back Hillary. Remember those days…you knew deep down she was useless but you couldn’t bring yourself to admit it out loud. Now, same is true with Barry. You know deep down he worthless, but you can’t admit it out loud.

Yeah….and “W” got into Yale how????? Nothing to do with being a sub-par legacy??? Please, have the decency to apply your condecending garbage equally!

I am constantly amazed by people who seem to know what people they refuse to associate with are thinking. Must be wireless brains that work the magic.
How about we can the Liberal and Conservative label crap and look to whether people have ideas that work or fail.
Humility equals Honesty and Honesty leads you to Reality which the last time I checked is where you want to be if you expect to be of service

Re. The comment by Jefferson to have the IRS go after Rove with a microscope after he’s elected is very interesting. That’s the same thing Bill Clinton did to the women who accused him of sexual assaults. Liberals are only for free speech if it allows them to speak. Anyone who wants to voice a concern about someone on the left is not allowed to do so because what they say is hate speech. One of the first things that will happen if Obama wins and the Democrats control Congress is the the Fairness Doctrin will be put in place and government control of what you see on the Internet. Nevermind that Network TV and most magazines and newspapers are far left in their views. Obama is very dangerous and sadly McCain is not a good choice either he’s just liberal light. Our country is in grave danger.

“You know him, the guy at the country club” – Rove
No we don’t know the guy at the country club because most Americans aren’t as filthy rich as you and Bush and McCain. Most Americans aren’t elitists like the Republican elite.
Obama may not even be allowed into those country clubs run by Rove/Bush/McCain
Who does Karl think Obama is, James Bond!?

Obama = Steal Clinton part two! I’d take another term of Bush over a rehashed whats in it for me Steal Clinton term. 4 years of talking down to the american people and in the mean time stealing from them…NO THANKS.

The World hates America right now. Get it. We are all alone. Now, is the time Americans need to be UNITED. Do you understand. A house divided cannot stand. Obama is trying to UNITE the country at this crucial time in our history.

So Karl Rove is basically describing the people he has supported for years, right?
It is ridiculous the arguments he is throwing out and pathetic that some people choose to take his ramblings as fact

The arrogant Obama plans to buy the the office of the president! He will be a worse blight on the country than Carter ever was.

Rove is the smartest political operative in the U.S.A..He is hated because he eliminated Gore and Kerry. Obama is a typical smart ass liberal, having spent two years at Columbia, and three years at Harvard listening to smart ass liberal, progressive (Marxist leaning profesors) who see America as a glass half empty..or part of the hate America crowd. After that paltry education he spent twenty years listening to a Black Liberation theology Pastor Wright spew hate America speech.

what does race have to do with it? anyone can see that obama is arrogant.
why is the press so into “race?”
rove may be many things, but he is not stupid. he gets it about obama.

The usual chicken hawks found the link…
yawn.

First off; I can’t stand Karl Rove. I like “Bushkins” even less, but having worked the door at the Illinois Senate on the democrat side of the aisle, I can tell you that Barrack Obama is very arrogant and elitist. He treated us doorkeepers as though we were the “hired help”..Like so much dirt under his feet. He actually was quite condescending to us. His personality was like a wet rag. Zip, Nada, non-existant.

Judging by the comments of Democrats on this page its seem Rove hit the nail on the head.

Why is this on ABC News’ front page?

Why in the world does a traitor like Karl Rove get any press at all? Anyone who puts one iota of credence into what he says is a moron.

I thought Obama was smug the first time I ever heard him. He’s arrogant and eloquent when tied to a printed speech. Outside of that – he’s an empty suit.

Obama’s father went to Harvard, and his mother had a Doctorate degree. He comes from a high IQ, and educated background. Maybe that’s why he isn’t mean and insulting people.

Is’nt it funny how the Dem’s a;ways bring up the economy?
The Dem’s. and the Lib. press have been talking it down for 7.5 years.
When the Dow hit 1400 you didn’t hear a peep out of them.
Oil prices are because of the Dem’s. No drilling no windfarms in my back yard. No nuculear energy. And now they have driven up food costs also.
When Billy the Perv. stopped the drilling in Alaska it would have been on the market by now.
OPEC and Speculators made Billions because of the Dem’s. Now they scratch their a– and cant figure why crude is so high.
It’s all Bushes fault. Monkeys have more brains than the Lib’s.
Every year millions of acres of forrest burn because of the Lib’s. But Al baby will plant three trees to offset his carbon usage.
In Oregon you can not have a barn fire at the beach cause of Global Warming. LOL

I would like someone to try and find a Democratic president that has put more African Americans and other minorities in cabinet positions with legitimate power than President Bush.
Democrats talk the talk, but Republicans walk the walk.
And please, show me a quote from Sen. McCain that has been in any way suggestive that he will be using race as a campaign strategy against Sen. Obama.
Charge oil companies a “windfall tax” in order to lower gas prices? C’mon, Sen. Obama, why don’t you just cut out the middle man and throw another tax directly on the American people?
When I here folly like this, it makes claims by some Democrats that they are supposedly the more intelligent party specious at best.

This is the best the genius Rove could come up with???You Repubs are SO owned this yr OMG. Youll be lucky to get 20 states

I know you Dems hate Bush. But if you think Obama is some kind of savior, you really are delusional. He has no experience and you might say that’s good and refreshing, etc., but you will be getting a rerun of the Carter years. Just look at who he used to say were his mentors. Scary. The guy’s a Marxist. Gotta give him props for taking on Hillary. He was smart enough to realize that her unfavorables gave him a shot. And the media wet their pants over him and here we are. But he sure as heck isn’t ready for prime time.

Obama = Steal Clinton part two!
I’d take another term of Bush over a rehashed whats in it for me Steal Clinton term.
4 years of talking down to the american people and in the mean time stealing from them…NO THANKS.

I never hang at country clubs so i have not idea what rove is talking about.
my grandparents are republican. and im glad that they are truly concerned about government corruption. they seem entirely focused on democrat corruption. It would be nice if they had the same passion about Republican corruption. Didnt some one rob the RNC?
Seeing the shady dealings of the past 8 years (too numerous to count) make it hard to imagine voting republican until they clean house.
But I hate to see corruption on both sides. “Bone headed” land deals in Chicago (Obama) and Defense Contractor kickbacks (McCain) have turned me off to both candidates. I will have to hold my nose to vote.

To Dude and the others who say that Obama acts like he is smarter than most everyone else, HE IS. Especially illiterate hate-filled inbreds who can’t form a thought of their own. Every time one of you dolts posts here it just reinforces the fact. When you vote for a moron like George Bush because he is “like you” you reap what you sow.

Carter’s second term, will wind up
second worst President behind Jimmy.

Rove is the guy standing in the corner with an ugly date…no, wait… alone..with a beer in his hand pointing out the cool Bondesque, intelligent, suave, charismatic, well spoken, black man and outing him as a CIA agent. Rove is a loser and we can all see that.

Country club? If i’m not mistaken, anyone who looks like Obama would be serving food and parking cars at any Country club Rove belongs to. Next time Rove should remember to bring his burning cross and his pointy hat.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s new house is actually on the golf course of the Odyssey Country Club. Residents are required to be members of the country club, so get off the weak “no blacks in the country club” responses. I’m sure that “Barry” (that’s what Barack likes the white folks to call him) will be meeting with the Rev. win or lose.

why does politics have to be so snarky???

I am a military wife of a active duty member. First off I will NEVER EVER vote for McCain because he thinks it is not necessary inportant when the troops come home from Iraq, IT IS EXTEREMELY IMPORTANT when they come home. I don’t get why certain people think that Sen Obama is an elitist. He did not have a rich upbringing. He came from the not so nice part of Chicago. Mccain’s wife on the other hand did come from an elitist background. Don’t even get me started on Bush Jr’s background. He had to lean on daddy at every turn.Daddy bush got him in to the reserves so he did not have to go to Vietnam when his country called on him. And Cheney I believe he used every excuse not to go also when his country called on him. I respect Sen Mccain for what happened to him when he was held a POW but that is where is ends. Bush does not care about the military and their families. Just so every base is covered here. The only reason it looks as though the military backs bush is because the members of the military have to or they can get into some real trouble.

The panic is beginning to set in. Obama is not only ahead, but he will continue to move farther ahead.
Let’s face it. The republicans have had it their way for 8 years and what is the result?: 2 wars, economy in the trash, housing crash, record high gas prices,… The truth hurts.
It is an utter embarassment to have the country (the world?) run by a guy with the IQ of a bowl of warm acorn squash, and his cronies. He’s managed to make his fortune (along with Cheney, Rummy and the other nuts). Enough is enough.

I think Rove ought to audition to be a Teletubby….just think they don’t talk either. Imagine

Speaking for the young people who cares about Jimmy Carter he is someone in a text book and the world is not the same. Doesn’t August National still not allow blacks in their club or is it just women. Speaking as a Republican John McCain is the biggest joke of a candidate there could be, who needs another 4 years of Bush. Shocking that Rove is still spitting out hate because again as a Republican I can tell you they have nothing no ideas nothing but fear that is all they have had for the last 7 YEARS!!!!!!

Did it ever occur to anyone that Obama would have to be a political insider willing to make deals lie and work within the present corrupt system in order to get as far as he has, or did anyone make the connection that he used rev wright to get street cred to get elected when starting out and now he doesnt need that kind of help so he tossed him aside like he was garbage and thats why rev wright was mad? he is john kerry in a different package – he is same as mccain

It will be a cold day in hell when I value Karl Rove’s opinion on ANYTHING.

Peter,
Don’t talk to us, talk to the CIA who have been saying there was a crime. THEY are the ones that disagree with you. You have your computer in your mom’s basement, and they have a huge network of intelligence gathering. Whom should I believe? LOL!
No wonder there are no longer republicans in the CIA. They know how the republicans treat those who are in charge of protecting America.
They are toys of politics to Republicans.

Uh, I think they call this “projection.”

So what I hear is: it doesn’t matter if Obama thinks like you do, he’s not ready to be president, vote for the crazy guy that is offering four more years of the same. It might be a $#!+ sandwich but at least you know what you’re getting.
And Obama’s a Marxist? Then I guess that makes McCain a Stalinist. You thugs make no sense…

For those who believes anyone who does not vote for Obama simply because he is black is a racist, realize that if your prmary reason for voting for Obama is because he is black, you are a racist, too.

Is this the same guy who has single-handedly ruined the Republican brand for a generation?
Republicans should be hammering away at Rove. He’s done more damage to their Party than Obama, Pelosi or Reid could ever hope to do.
What a scum-bucket.
Keep him talking and in the spotlight…he’s Obama’s best surrogate.

Obama was using the Presidential Seal as his logo minus the “E Pluribus Unum”
Is that arrogant? Perhaps he should adopt the Roman Imperial Seal with the inscription:
Imperator ∙ Caesar ∙ Obama ∙ Divus ∙ Filius ∙ Augustus
Emperor Caesar Obama Divine Son of the Most High

Steve: GWB had no accomplishments or experience before being selected president.”
While you may not have thought much of Bush’s two terms as Texas governor, GWB’s level of experience dwarfs that of B.Husseing Obama. Granted, GWB never kept social acquaintances with obvious America haters like William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. I guess being a one-term mostly absent senator is the new fast track to the oval office.

Yes, Bush Republicans are such friendly, unassuming gents, always ready with gentle humor and helpful suggestions.

rove is a major reason why bush is where he is right now. why are you still listening to him. he is sick and lusts again for power.

I don’t care if Obama is a arrogant fool. Both candidates are arrogant fools. What concerns me is that we have to elect someone as socialist as Obama so that the Conservatives can remember what being conservative means. If anyone thinks that Obama is the cure for the economy than you need your head examined. I guarantee the moment Obama becomes president gas will jump a dollar a gallon and a gallon a milk will require your home be refinanced, if you can afford to keep your home. If there is one thing that Dems know how to do it is certainly tax and spend, but thats okay for the socialist (aka Greenfreaks) movement.

Isn’t it strange that whenever something is described by Rove, you can more easily picture him (or any of his power hungry cronies) doing exactly what they attribute to their supposed target?
Obama wouldn’t even be accepted into their country clubs!
America has an illness, and it is the status quo.

How ironic- I have seen Karl Rove at republican functions doing the same thing he fantasizes Barack doing.

Is this the same Rove who said the republicans would hold onto congress this past election? The same guy who said all the polls were wrong except his? I think he may be out of touch with the reality of the situation.

The fact that Karl Rove is at once the source of the “Country Club” regarding Obama and the subject is telling.

the usa is bancrupt..loosing the war and your constitution…and your houses..and your cars..lol ..carry right on!

Thinking that Obama will make a poor president is not a racist statement. For those of you who must find racisim, especillay if Obama loses, look into your self. I will never vote for Obama but I am not and never will be a racist. I simply think he will make a lousy president. I would love to see J.C. Watts run for president or Condi Rice , or Colin Powell. Any of those three I would be honored to vote for but I will never vot for Obama. That does not make me a racist. The more people insist that you are a racist if you don’t vote for Obama the more I wonder what they are hiding.

“LET THE SHOW BEGIN!!”
Bring on the 527′s!

Wow, I just love to watch everybody support their views by conducting personal attacks on the opponent. Way to go America! If someone disagrees with you they have to be either an idiot, a racist, a paranoid, or a communist. Here are the facts, one candidate is an untested, over-educated politician with questionable connections and a colorful past, and the other candidate is an experienced, over-educated politician with questionable connections and a colorful past. No matter who lives at 1600 Penn Ave this time next year, our country will not be better off until we allow actual discourse instead of name calling in the name of politics.

Can you say “smear” campaign. I thought country clubs were for fascist. Of course I will say anything to get my candidate elected.NOT.

I suppose this type of supposition extends to every facet of his social/professional life when he encounters new people. What an admirable quality for a Presidential advisor to have!

I read what Mr. Rove has to say about Obama and think “Is this the best you can come up with, mister so-called genius?”. Rove has been lying, cheating, stealing and smearing for so long that he doesn’t know how to stop.

You mean there are still people out there willing to vote Republican…..Wow Americans have a high tolerance for pain.

First off: this is a political ploy by Rove. He is trying to make it stick that Obama is an out of touch elitist. That is b.s.
Second of all, it does bring to light an unfortunate theme that has been occurring in this election: many Americans still think that a smart, self-confident black man is a threat to them and so they try and diminish it by calling him uppity, or in this case “elitist”.

Spot on Rove. Spot On. I could not have put it better myself.

Tina,
for the record, Mcain can’t speak even with the teleprompter…..

I could care less he’s 50% black.
He’s 100% unqualified, based on his resume.
That’s all you need to know about Barrack.
Obama will be linked more to Bush than McCain.
Why?
Because he’s more like Bush, than McCain is, in that he will need on the job training.
The Republicans will hammer that point home.
Say goodnight, Barrack.

The Rove playbook is a little outdated and will not work against a candidate that just finished paying off his school loans.
Rove and his cronies are the one’s who belong to country clubs.

after GWB put the ship on the rocks the master at divisive politics speaks.
Lincoln had no experience when he was elected and said “a house divided will not stand”….Rock on

The fact that so many neo-cons listen and believe what this criminal is selling is proof enough that this country is going down the wrong road. 30 years ago, this clown would be in jail and no one except his roommate, Bubba would be listening to him.

Rove is just mouthing the same old Republican saws that were so successful at turning working class Americans against the Democratic party–portraying Democratic candidates as elitist and out of touch with the common man. Unfortunately, it probably won’t work this time. The American public has been awakened from its long slumber by the sound of exploding IEDs, the crash of the economy, and the hum of the shredder as it rips up the Constitution. Nice try Mr. Rove, but your tactics are old hat now!

FYI Rove is a felon…
I don’t listen to criminals in any facet. Sorry all your supposed democrats and republicans listen to convicts as well. By your policy, this country is going to hell in a handbasket. Say goodnight america!
Republicans/Democrats have gotten too petty and both parties unfit to host either of their candidates in MY countries white house.

Why I don’t like Obama (and it has nothing to do with race):
-He’s a racist himself (ironic, eh)
-He has Marxist ideas (Big business is evil, yadda yadda, depend on the government for everything because you can’t do it yourself)
-He wants to meet with terrorists w/out precondition
No thanks!

I just can’t wait to see all these “immense” changes that are going to take place the second Obama takes office. Other than electing an African American ,which is a big step that I’m not denying, there is no difference between Barack and any other politician who decides to show up to 1 out of every 10 votes while he is in the senate. He presents himself as a smart guy but he is not the “fix all” solution that he (and the media) are selling himself as. Good luck to him if he wins.

Doesn’t Bush and Rove’s ‘BASE’ consist of the ‘Haves and the Have Mores’?
These people have no shame! I guess this is what one can expect when one opens up a 17 point lead over a republican presidential candidate in the polls.

Rove is right.
What has Obama ever done or accomplished in his life?
He’s never run a company.
He’s never met a payroll.
His only private sector job after school (other than as a politician) was as a Constitutional law professor. Talk about avoiding the rigors of the market.
He’s never led men in the military – or served in the military.
He’s never been a Governor – or held any kind of executive position.
All he’s done is criticize others.
And now he wants to go from one-term Senator to President of the United States.
Rove is right. Obama is the guy at the country club with lots of big talk – but no actual experience. The listeners to the Obama-type guy at the country club politely listen. But as they walk away they roll their eyes and say to each other, “What’s he ever done? He needs to get some actual experience before all the grand talk.”

I find it ammusing that democrats always bring up race and then talk about it as if a republican said it. Oh, you democrats out there I would hate to burst your bubble, but democrats lie too.

Hillary supporters for McCain! Keep this guy and his cult supporters away from the white house.

exactly, cb…..all fancy nice talk that feels good to listen to, but no substance!

when will everyone realize this is the game Rove, Cheney, Bush, etc play so well? Whether it be true or not, they say it over and over and for some insane reason people believe it just because they’ve heard it so many times. Rove started saying these things a couple of months ago and will continue to intensify his rhetoric all the way until November. This is what they did to win the past two elections as well as the support(?) to fight an illegal war.
My hope is that enough people have seen through this style of politics and will seek truth for themselves and not believe a hate-filled talking head like Rove or Cheney. It’s time to be real, honest and caring Americans that get the facts before name calling and making decisions.

cb: and
GW Bush has run a company
Several – all of them he has run into the ground.
He ran a baseball team – that almost went bankrupt
He ran a State as Govenor – one of the easiest states to Run – the Govenor has virtually no power. The State Representatives have all the power in that state. He did nothing but look good.
Obama did not come from money – Daddy didn’t buy him a company or a Baseball team or have connections to give him a big job doing nothing.
SO WHAT’s your point?
He also ran circles around hillary clinton in raising money and managing money. While she had to put money in to survive, she has to borrow money from him to get out of debt.
LASTLY, McCain is mad because he won’t take a government hand-out to run his election on. He figured out how to RAISE HIS OWN MONEY to pay for HIS CAMPAIGN.
AND McSAME is mad cause Obama won’t take GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS to CAMPAIGN…
HOW FUNNY IS THAT!

actually Obama should hire Rove. Then Rove would say Bush is the guy at the country club,making the remarks, or whatever he’s told to say.

WHAT? The Karl Rove of the current Bush administration calling somebody arrogant? How Ironic!!!

Obama is no way qualified to be president. Neither is John McCain. But then again we have the same mentality of Americans picking candidates on what the federal government gives it citizens in terms of freebies. Both of these bozos are from the same socialist cut of cloth. When are the people of the United States going to demand that the Federal Government actually abide by the US Constitution? Well, there is one group that is demanding it.. The Libertarian Party… the one Political Party that scares Republicans, Democrats, and the Mainstream Media. It will be Libertarian thought and actions that will restore the US.. If it is to be restored to its greatness and the citizens are truly free again.

Obama … brought to you by the folks who brought you Jimmy Carter!
Critics agree:
“Like Carter, only more depressing”
“If you think gas prices are high now, wait till you see this!”
“Canada never looked so good”
“A sequel to Socialism … same bad ending as the original”

Obama has never led anything. No one should trust this guy who has never led anything but wants to change everything. We’re heading straight to massive socialism and huge tax increases with this guy. You’ll see if we don’t vote against him in November.

I think it is interesting that no matter who the member of the press is that reports on Obama, they always refer to him as an “African-American”. In this article a comment is made regarding the clubs that many of the members of the Hill attend and whether they would even allow Obama in. Hmmm…first of all…Obama is only 1/2 black. Although he never comes out and says that he is a white man running for president, the fact remains he is the “other” white man running for president. His mother who never seems to be mentioned unless it is in passing, and never seems to be seen, is white. He has white grandparents…again we only hear about the African-American ones who happen to live in Africa, but his white mother had white parents….oh and as for Obama being labeled African-American…if this is so, then how is he eligible to be president? After countless years of history I remember numerous lessons on how the president of this nation needs to be a naturally born American, not a naturalized citizen. The term African-American is a term which correctly used identifies a person who is from Africa (regardless of complexion) who has moved to America and gained citizenship. This may be a “politically correct” term to use to describe a dark skinned person from African decent, but it is not grammatically correct. And as a person from Chicago who has had the misfortune of seeing Obama in “inaction” over the last few years…I agree with Rove (whom I can’t believe I actually am agreeing with on something), black or white, the image of Obama being the person at the cocktail party commenting on everyone else does seem extremely accurate.

Stop the Maddness -
George Bush aka John McCain, the neocon war in Iraq and “we’re committed to being there for 100 years”, the incredible national debt and the most failed administration in our history…. brought to you by Karl Rove.
More than enough said!

Rove continues to prove he is the “bully” on the playgroup who tries to manipulate every situation to his advantage. He is clearly projecting; it’s no secret he is the smug one (who should never be trusted and it’s a laugh he is on television) pulling the puppet strings for the past eight years. Eight years of lies and deceit for personal gain only.

Everybody calm down. This is why these politicians do this to us. Don’t be stupid and fall into their trap of separating us into two. Don’t comment on these stories with hatred for the other side. Make them talk about real things and be open to it no matter what side you are on

Perhaps rove should quit talking about obama and start talking about the valerie plame outing in front of the congress. Nothing he says would interest me until then.

Someone asked, “what snide comments has Barack made?” Just paraphrasing her but… bitterly clinging to guns and religion, afraid of anyone who is different.
Posted by: Chris Connor
*************************************
Was this a snide comment or was this an insightful comment made by a highly intelligent man who has the desire and the capacity to really show us some ways in how we can help ourselves and start to get this country back on track.

I hate Rove as much as the next free thinking human, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t right.

Right on Carl. You describe Obama perfectly. Go McCain!

a citizen – George W. Bush ran everything that he has every had control of into the ground (the country, at its current state, can be included into this list). If that’s your only arguement, then I have no problem taking my chances on Obama.

Rove’s the guy on the phone line leaking national security secrets. We all know that guy…. What a clown Rove is…. And the media for listening to him….

As Karl “The Math” Rove goes more hysterical, the happier and more assured of the Dem candidate I get.
No, seriously, do Republicans have anything to add to our political discourse anymore? Anything at all?

Karl Rove is the guy in the corner bragging about stealing a presidential election and helping to start a quagmire in Iraq.

Reagan fan perhaps you can look at the facts also. An US attorney, fedeeral judge and federal appeals court agree the law was broken for the outing of valerie plame. Perhaps you can quit listening to the legal ramblings of rush limbaugh to get the facts.

obama is an Arrogant, Radical Fraud.
There is nothing “cool” about his Arrogance – Just foolish to even think this guy could be President of the United States – NEVER HAPPEN.

If Rove is such a man of the people, how does he know country club types so well?
Besides, Obama’s no club guy…If you’re at a country club, you know him as your neighor who doesn’t golf and thinks country clubs are a waste of money. And this whole Obama-snob meme is just funny considering that the man had basically no money at all until 2004, when his book took off.

I guess you country club Republicans understand all this. I don’t speak the language. Most people don’t. Stick to your strategy.

“Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said, per Christianne Klein. “He’s the guy at the country club
======================
Does this mean Republican insiders belong to country clubs?

As appealing as the “change brand” sounds, the reality is that B. Hussien has made some rather divisive remarks that do in fact have the wiff of elitism which lends to Rove’s remarks. However, Rove himself is an atheist and has zero credibility on the matter considering he has a history of disengenious behavior to say the least.
I simply caution my countrymen to look beyond the rhetoric and analyze the history of both candidates. A good sales person by nature sounds like music to your ears – look at what can reasonably be delivered and the history of the person making the promises – B. Hussien has done NOTHING substantial in his political career – it’s all talk. Granted, McCain is far from my what I consider an ideal candidate, but at least there is a reasonable degree of trustworthiness based on his visible service in the Senate.

Obama is the same old hash rehashed. He knows that he gets votes if he makes race an issue. What other means is he going to use to promote his candidacy—his vast experience? He continuously stumbles with error after error because he doesn’t even have a neophyte’s level of experience. I’m no McCain supporter but fifty years ago Obama wouldn’t be taken seriously as a candidate even if he happened to be white. Are we supposed to believe that he can be a more convincing commander in chief to McCain? Give me a break!

This is just more of Rove’s bizarro world where black is white, up is down, war is peace, right is wrong, etc. I think it’s called projection. There isn’t a more arrogant crowd than the one Rove used to work for and with.

Rove at his sorry pathetic best: character assassination. His kind cannot talk about the issues as the Bush administration, which Rove helped craft, has nothing to contribute to an issues conversation. Character assassination is only as good as it can get.

Great comment Jack, thanks!
Of course, Rove IS the guy who vandalizes your car and blames the help, referring to them with racial epithets.
Rove is the rich, power junkie, corrupted, nasty guy who made it screwing everybody around him, smearing, fabricating shams, and stealing from those who cannot afford lawyers.
Rove is the guy who goes to the classist, elitist, country club with the best date that money can buy.
Rove, of course, hates the cool, adorable guy who made it working hard, who has talent and merits, and got invited to the party because people likes him and his smart, gorgeous wife who loves him, and would never pay attention to a repulsive Rove.
Rove is the arrogant who lies to the face of those concerned for the lives lost in an unnecessary war, and who thinks that he is smart for having dishonored and dismembered his own party.

Who is Karl Rove and why should he be important to me?

What’s really getting old is the same ole Republican versus Democratic stereotypical slams which do nothing but obfuscate the facts and detract average American’s from participating in the process. The selfish party faithful on both sides of the isle care less about the country and more about their party loyalty at the expense of our country’s best interest. Yes, this is an old argument but it’s one which clearly hasn’t lost its relevance. Enough already with the prejudice and class attacks!
Both are neo-aristocracies which need to return to their respective orgins where ironically more common ground can be found.

Barack and Michelle are super arrogant almost beyond belief. And of course like all arrogant people they lie up a storm. Why will he not release his birth cirtificate. Because he was NOT BORN A CITIZEN OF THE USA. He is not legal to be President. He still is a citizen of Kenya. His father never was a citizen of USA. Why does he not drop his citizenship of Kenya. Why does he want to give a trillion dollars to Africa. Why not some of that money for AMERICANS.

“Interesting that Mr. Rove would use a country club metaphor to describe the first major party African-American presidential candidate, whom I’m sure wouldn’t be admitted into many country clubs that members of the Capitol Hill Club frequent.”
Really? And you’re “sure”?
Name a country club members of Capitol Hill frequent that do not admit members based on race. I’ll even give you a break. Forget “many.” Just one will do.

Rant Continues:
Seriously – what the hell is either party doing for the average person? Republicans sit back and mock the attempts of the Democrats as being stupid and in turn, Democrats call Republican solutions foolhearty. Who the hell is mediating the discussion and upon what basis? What American’s need to start hearing are visible solutions to problems with results. I say visible meaning that we need to see who’s benefiting from what. ENOUGH with these G’Dam pork barrel projects and blackmail amendments to legislation!
PS – Jack Murtha needs to be impeached from Congress and prosecuted for his role in speading lies and misinformation against the Haditha Marines! You’d think at the very least this sorry SOB would personally apologize to the people who he falsely accused – but oh no.. that would discredit the Democratic party lies about Iraq which they conveniently used to undermine their enemies (i.e. Republicans). Another case and point of the party loyal putting their interests before the Country. Both parties are guilty and both must suffer at the ballot box if the AVERAGE American wants his/her country back.

You said that Obama, “…wouldn’t be admitted into many country clubs that members of the Capitol Hill Club frequent.” Name one that wouldn’t have him. Stop playing the race card, its old and tiresome.

Why do the media keep listening to this creep? Karl Rove is not to be trusted on any subject anywhere. He doesn’t care about anything except power and is willing to destroy everyone and the country to get it

I currently pay 43% of each dollar I earn to the USA (fedeal+state income tax), BEFORE property tax and sales tax. Obama says I don’t pay my fair share. That’s all I need to know about him. I will do everything legal and ethical in my power to prevent his election. Unless you want to limp through the next 4 years hobbled by his insane economic policy, you’ll do the same.

Interesting above post regarding Obama never having set foot on this soil til he was 18 yrs. old..Seems to coincide with another blog I was reading that indicates he may not even be a legal citizen after all…Anyone else read this??Seems the media would want to dig out the truth on this matter but most of them are so pro Obama I doubt it..If it is true the Democratic Party would have to pick another Candidate..What would happen to all the money that has thus far been donated??Had something to do with his Mother had not lived in US for the 5 previous yrs before his birth…Check it out..Also his BC is also in question..Getting a tad late for all of this to come out but better late than never..Rove can be a little over the top but he generally calls it how it is…BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME….

Obsessed-With-Race Watch, Vol. 1

The Republican strategist Democrats love to hate weighed in this morning on his impression of Barack Obama:
ABC News Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White Hous…

Obama screams America hater with every sneer he makes. Many, many rules in that man’s life. He takes liberal to a whole new level. Bet he loves Iran, North Korea, China and wishes he had that kind of control.

So because Obama is intelligent and self contained…he is now snide. I guess the problem for Rove is he doesn’t know what to think when he encounters an intelligent politician.

um Karl. they don’t let guys that have Obama’s color in the country club, unless they are caddys, towel boys or Tiger Woods.

Louis we’re tired of the racist double standards. Obama is the racist. Blacks can and do get into country clubs. TRY AGAIN!

Karl Rove referring to Obama as the Guy at the Country Club Holding a Martini Making Snide Comments About Everyone Else is like the Charles Manson saying Jesus is satan.
UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a bunch of hot garbage!!!!!!
Always consider the source people, always consider the source.

Karl is the guy who just fabricates nasty stories that appeal to the basest fears in people.
I see to recall his McCain smear to be about an illegitimate black child?
Didn’t he also smear the patriotism of the quadriplegic vet politician?
I don’t know why anyone except the weak minded would listen to smarmy old Karl.

Funny that nearly all of the comments that bash Senator Obama as “arrogant” are by people who have never met the man or have had a chance to have a conversation with him.
Funny that most of the people who’ve actually done so (people like me), actually find him to be intelligent, respectful, and level-headed.
What is peculiar also, is that comments made by one of the most well-known slimebags in Washington are actually taken seriously. The citizens of this country are becoming clowns faster and faster.

if rove is a good example of republican party– i can understand why mccain is so nutty–it must be a requirement.

Traditional attack-dog politics is to find your opponent’s weakness and exploit them. Rove’s stated approach is to look at an opponent’s strengths and undermine them with lies.
Kerry - Strongly documented military record, 3 purple hearts.
Rove Attack – Kerry military record falsified.
McCain - Strong enough to endure harsh captivity.
Rove Attack – McCain unstable from the experience.
McCain - Adopted Bangladeshi girl from mother Theresa’s orphanage
Rove Attack - Has illegitimate black child
Mark Kennedy- Juvenile and family-court judge
- President of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect
Rove Attack - Pedophile
Max Cleland – Lost both legs and one arm in Viet Nam
Rove Attack - Unpatriotic. Ads morphed Cleland’s face to Osama’s and Saddam’s (Ann Coulter went on to claim it injuries caused by his own grenade as if she was there)
-
Take all of Rove’s claims as being the opposite of the truth.

Karl Rove and his brand a divisive politics is exactly what the American people will be voting out of office. And If Obama is the guy Rove says Bush must be the dumb privileged kid that got into all the smart schools because of his Daddy’s connections.
If the American people will not let Rove and his kind turn a guy that graduated from Harvard law school to go become a community organizer in the South Side of Chicago into a country club elite not this time not this election

Mary: You are so right. Obama is not and never will be presidential material. He is using the whites and blacks for his own advantage, to make history like MLK. And the people of this country arent’t even aware of the fact he used the words hope and change for the speech of RFK. Obama doesn’t have the qualities to become president of this country and will need extensive help. Obama should not pick Edwards, Kerry or Richardson for his VP.

Obama is NOT going to win the general election. I think it’s hysterical that the dems picked him as their candidate.
And that presidential seal look-alike. LOL. Umm…you’re not running for senior class president, Obama. It was a childish stunt on the one hand, yet remarkably conceited on the other.
Most Americans can see right through his fake facade for the communist he really is.

Sounds to me like the pot calling the kettle black.

What a laugh. Bush is the frat boy who stands around giving insulting nick names. Obama is the guy who can’t get into Bush’s country club.

Karl Rove is irrelevant now and will be totally irrelevant after November. That guy is creepy as heck!

Rove is the fat guy who laughs loudly with his mouth full and bits of food flying out, grease all over his hands which he doesn’t seem to notice as he shakes hands with people and greets them… and you dread having to shake hands with him but you know you must in order to not break the air of pretense at the country club because all the other spineless scions of wealth are afraid of him.
However, I, like most hard working Americans, have never been to a country club. It’s telling for Rove to use such imagery. We know what crowd he runs with and what HIS points of reference are. I personally, being a hard working american, would have talked about a bar or a kegger, but that’s cuz I don’t run with the country club crowd that is apparently Karl Rove’s point of reference in life.

A loyal Bushie calling someone else ‘arrogant’? This, from the administration that took propaganda, arrogance and out-and-out contempt for the American people to new heights. Christ, the nerve of these Bush dead-enders! I want to see them all in jail.

Oh geez, I saw it again. Why in the world would anyone say Obama is intelligent—–he reads teleprompters and even this he doesn’t do very well, but once the teleprompter is removed Obama resorts to being a normal babbling idiot. Its why he had done any real debating—it would should him for what he is a babbling idiot. I don’t why Harvard past him, but they obviously didn’t do it for intelligence.

I wish we could stop talking about race already. Obama’s race is IRRELEVANT! I am not voting for Obama because I disagree with him on the issues and don’t think he has enough experience, but c’mon, the guy is charismatic, smart, educated and thoughtful. He’s got a beautiful family.
Re. Rove’s remarks – I’ve seen Rove on some TV news shows, and he comes across well. However, if he states Obama arrogant, etc., the question is – what does he have to back up this view? If he had an encounter, anecdote, etc., to back it up, great. Otherwise, it’s just his opinion and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Like I said, I’m not voting for Obama, I’m voting for McCain, but I really wish people would stop the mud-slinging and attacks and talk about the issues.
It’s perfectly legit to make a case that Obama’s raising taxes will hurt the economy. It’s legit to disagree with McCain’s making the tax cuts permanent. Comparing Obama to a terrorist or McCain to a Nazi are just low-class, yet I’ve seen people do that. It’s ridiculous.

I hate to give anyone from Bush’s administration credit for anything but Obama proved Karl Rove right with three little words. GET OVER IT. Only someone that arrogant would open his mouth and take a chance on alienating an entire group of people that he does need to vote for him if he wants to get elected.

Rove reminds me of a guy who makes snide remarks about people he thinks make snide remarks…Rove reminds me of a man who claims to have not committed any wrongdoing but time and time again is shown to be a liar, scoundrel, and outright criminal…Rove reminds me people who are realizing they are losing their grip on power and will resort to whatever tactics are neccesary to hold onto it…Yeah! that’s who Rove reminds me of…Thanks for the reminder

Obama cool and arrogant … Rove fat and balding.
Hpoefully soon Rove’ll wake up in a cell with some inmate whispering “your skin … its so smooth” in his ear.

“coolly arrogant” may be part of the reason Obama has not connected with the other half of the democrats during the primary.
Do not discount Rove’s role in this election for McCain, he is not done with politics yet. Obama’s campaign should expect republicans to listen to Rove give advice on beating the democrats for the Whitehouse.
Like him or not (I don’t) he will be lurking behind the scenes for the republicans and this will ensure another election where the voters lose.

Be Independent writes:
“Like him or not (I don’t) he will be lurking behind the scenes for the republicans and this will ensure another election where the voters lose”.
Yeah, maybe your “side” can gather enough dead voters to pull this one out!
Or maybe they’ll find enough loose chads (without DNC tamperers).

Karl Rove: Obama Cooly Arrogant

Jake Tapper, at his ABC News Political Punch blog first recounts an amusing Karl Rove story I had not heard.
ABC News Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former Whi…

Obama the Chartlatan …get ready for the ride

Im so glad Hillary ran so now voters have another thing to be bitter about. Why don’t you just accept that the game was played and your candidate lost. She blew it by her and her stupid husbands mistakes. Thats the way it goes. Don’t blow it for the rest of us by voting mccain because you didn’t get your way.

Haha… That’s excellent.
I guess it’s no longer polite, even in Republican circles, to blatantly call Senator Obama an uppity negro.
Rove prefers it the old fashion way where you earn your privilege, status and money by being born into it.

“Interesting that Mr. Rove would use a country club metaphor to describe the first major party African-American presidential candidate, whom I’m sure wouldn’t be admitted into many country clubs that members of the Capitol Hill Club frequent.”
Really, Jake Tapper? Barack Obama, the hottest ticket in town, not to mention a U.S. Senator, wouldn’t be allowed in a country club in DC? Are you kidding?
I think the point of Rove’s advice is that Obama comes off as elitist and too well-heeled. As a Harvard man who’s now in the country’s most exclusive club (that would be the Senate), and who hobnobs with U.Chicago academics in his spare time, that depiction, if inaccurate, is likely to stick.
Obamaphiles can be arrogant at their own risk. But the fact that your man is up by 2 points (not coming close to breaking 50% btw) in an election climate where Dems are favored overwhelmingly, against a has-been Republican loser, is pretty clear evidence that you’ve got a lot of work to do. And making snide (and inaccurate) remarks and brushing off potential (and obvious) lines of attack against Obama may not be the smartest thing to do. Nor will the continued playing of the race card.

Yeah, JFK had that problem, too.

The only one playing the race card is the Obama campaign.

DM,
interesting how Christians need to see things your way or “shut up”. Very inclusive of you.
Christians speak out against homosexual activity because it is an abomination to God, their God not yours. So they are just speaking their view and have every right to it as you have to yours. Non-Christians need to get over their bigotry and let all Americans have a voice.

The “gay” rumors are spreading in Washington re. Carl Rove like gravy over mashed potatoes. Every single time this happens, Mr. Rove has one or two too many and spouts off and idiotic “reporters” like the idiot who posted this actually find the slurs (pun intended) newsworthy. If Obama is “arrogant” what does that make Rove’s buddy Rush…oops…Bush. Well, same thing.

Obama scares me. period.
Just a question…..does anyone know why the earth was destroyed by a flood? the straw that “broke the camel’s back” was homosexual “marriage”.
do the research, it is there. fortuantely for the inhabitants of earth, God promised not to destroy the eearth by flood again. don’t go hating on the christians. if you must hate, don’t hate the “messengers”…..the true christians. not the “renegade” ones

Obama IS arrogant.
You might not like hearing it coming from Karl Rove, but I thought Hillary made a huge mistake when her campaign bit on the “elitist” charge, and failed to push the more accurate description of Obama as arrogant. Obama’s “bitter” remarks weren’t “elitist” – they were arrogant, thinking he could broadly paint a group of people like he did, even if he thought he was off record in the friendly confines of a fundraiser.
Obama’s statement that Hillary “lacked standing” to criticize him is arrogant. His remark about her time as First Lady as “taking tea” is condescending. When he said that Hillary was free to run for as long as she likes – that is just arrogant, especially after complaining how the campaign was like a good movie that has run a half hour too long.
The mantra of Obama’s compaign “Change You Can Believe In” is uplifting and at the same time negative, implying other candidates promising change are lying, pandering, or posturing, and a constant theme of Obama’s stump talks are that you will hear politicians/Washington say all sorts of things to be elected or while in office, and that he, Obama, is the exceptional, unique person who is “post-partisan” and not like all the rest. If that isn’t a soup kettle the size of Illinois full of arrogance it is hard to imagine what is.
So when Obama breaks his word on public financing, or says his words on NAFTA, which he used to skewer Hillary with in the primary, are “overheated”, or that Barack Obama doesn’t need experience or more of it because he is blessed with superior judgment, the conclusion that Obama is arrogant is not hard to reach.
Listening to some of Obama’s supporters during the primary, it is a quality that seems to be in great abundance. If it were oil, gasoline would be 56 cents a gallon and not $4.21 and rising.

This is a comment from Allen West….
Really worth reading…
My advice to Senator Obama is to run as a Man and Leader, and the American people will evaluate you as such, not as a victim. This is a Presidential race, based solely on a capacity to lead the United States of America. It is not about skin tone…however, perhaps we should come to expect these immature statements.
It also seems rather humorous that the Presidential candidate who was supposed to be such a “uniter” and transcend race is the one talking about it the most. If Senator Obama was confident in his abilities and character, he would not need to create a crutch for failure. Senator Obama has just tipped his hand, any criticism of him and his policies will be directly attributed to racism. I congratulate Senator Obama for taking race relations in America back some 30 years.

Rove is old news. Just think “failed presidency”. Rebubs will try anything. I think the statement is a projection. Crafty but more related to the sender than the reciever of the barb. Who else would know country clubs so well?

“Obama’s the Guy at the Country Club Holding a Martini Making Snide Comments About Everyone Else” WOW! I never realized Obama is a Republican!

Dear Sylvia Johnsen,
Maybe you should look up the term elitist.
Elitist – the belief that government or control should be in the hands of a small group of privileged, wealthy, OR intelligent people, or the active promotion of such a system.
It has less to do with money, but rather the individuals attitude.
Interesting how you draw this conclusion that McCain is the elitist, when it is Obama who will not stoop so low as to meet with wounded veterans from his own state who just happen to disagree with him on the Iraq war. Obama obviously sees his stance as the right stance and need not bother himself with the other side of the story.
That in itslef, is elitist and just happens to be a true story, because I was there on the day he refused to meet with us. Even though he was in his office at the time.

I’m sorry Karl but your definition of elitism doesn’t fit with your example. If that’s your definition would president Bush also be an elitist as he won’t meet with people who disagree with him, he controls who are allowed into his events and people have to sign loyalty oaths just to get in. i think the McCain example I gave earlier was the definition of an elitist when he wanted to go fishing so he built his own lake on his own piece of land just so he could fish.

Bob Ross says, “People are bitter about what’s happening in this country how their jobs are being shipped overseas. How gas keeps rising and they have to choose between food, gas for their car, or medicine.” And Obama’s policies of taxing businesses to the point that they move overseas will help this situation how? And taxing the “windfall profits” of the oil companies will work real well to help the price of gasoline. I’m sure they will just eat that loss of profit without passing along the cost to the consumer. He’s pandering to people that don’t understand economics and that want to get back at the “rich” people. Won’t work. We’re slowly becoming socialist.

Iam4thisCountry,
You have been misinformed. Michele gave the same basic speech three times. She did say “really” in one of those but in others she left it off.
Obama is right about one thing. People are bitter. I am bitter I am sick of these empty promises given by politicians and Obama is no different. My bitterness does not drive me to my “religion, guns or antipathy of those who are not like me.” By the way I do not have antipathy towards those who are not like me, except for maybe politicians taking my money and destroying this great country. I don’t like Mccain either but I do see him as the lesser of two evils. Obama is just another whining liberal that will screw this country up. This country has turned on the current President because he has had such success at protecting this nation. What the advisor was saying was true but shouldn’t have been said. Mccain is the onl candidate that can protect this country. Obama is naive and is viewed as weak by many here and abroad. He needs Mccain to protect Michele from republican attacks. Mccain has absolutely no power over what the right wing talk hosts and bloggers do just the same as Obama doesn’t control the liberal media even though they all but bow down to him.
Bitter

Sylvia Johnsen: It is stunning that YOU are attempting to change the meaning of words.
If you want to talk about “privilege” then you should talk about privilege, not elitism. They are two different things.
Cindy McCain was born into a wealthy family. But, that did not stop her from becoming a special education teacher. That is NOT elitism.
Michelle Obama went to Princeton, but griped about how she was treated there. That IS elitism.

Bob Ross says he “loves Republican logic,” but then goes on a rant about privilege, which he then calls “elitism.”
Bob Ross does not know the meaning of “logic” because he is using the word in a very sloppy (and very incorrect) popular manner that is nonsensical.
Bob Ross does not know how to use a dictionary, which is one of the first classes taught in college English 101.
Bob Ross does not know how to construct an argument (generally around English 102).
Bob Ross does not know how to compare and contrast.

stgeorgeschapel
You should read up more on Michelle’s Princeton experience and you would learn any griping she did had to do with the racism that existed there. I believe when she went to Princeton in the early 1980′s, she was one of 10-15 African Americans attending. That number is stunning!!! The parents of her roommate at Princeton tried to get their daughter moved to another room away from Michelle.
So why don’t you start dealing in facts yourself.

vote_for_country,
Really? Obama has a resume comparable to that of President Lincoln?
Lincoln served as an officer in the Illinois militia, served four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives and appeared before the Illinois State Supreme Court more than 400 times.
After he won the Presidency. he actually did suspend habeas corpus in the United States, imprisoned 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers (without trial), and spent money without congressional authorization.

I really wish Americans would stop looking at the Republicans vs. the Democrats like a football team unless they understand that we are the football getting kicked around. WE are supposed to be in charge according to our constitution and all we do is whine about which “side” of the aisle has more right answers or power. When are we going to tell Obama and McCain what WE WANT THEM TO DO instead of asking them to take care of us? Why do we NEVER flex our own powerful muscles. They are supposed to be our servants, remember?

My friend that’s a secret service agent told me the one time he encountered Obama, he asked him to empty his pockets and put his hands up for a metal detector, for a routine security measure. Obama said quote “do you know who I am? If this happens again you will never work here.” That sounds much like Rove’s example. Sounds ignorant to me, which folds into his anti-American ties.

I know that Rove is the one who gives generously to the club’s philanthropic arm. I have seen the income taxes of both subjects of this discussion in the press and Rove is the one who donates in the 7 figures, more than $1 million for the math challenged, to charities every year.

To Red Sleeves:
Yes, Lincoln and Obama have similar resumes. They both served 8 years in the Illinois legislature. And yes, Lincoln was in the militia, but fighting civil rights cases in Chicago is great experience also.
And my bigger point was that they both had/have limited “Washington” experience so experience is not a predictor of success. Wasn’t that the Reagan, Bush, Clinton message? That you don’t want someone who has lived their whole life in Washington, like McCain has.
Besides, Obama respects his wife, whereas it is pretty clear that McCain has issues there. Do you know what perjorative he called his wife in public in the early 90′s? Let’s just say it is about the most cruel thing you can say to a woman. Two journalists just published a book describing the scene in detail.
Nice guy, that McCain…

I like how Karl Rove never mentioned John McCain’s elitism. There is a famous incident the White House machine hid a few years back in which John McCain screamed at a kitchen employee at a posh country club in Phoenix, Arizona. This incident was followed by another in which McCain threw a dinner dish on the floor. The same man that Rove accused of having a bad temper is now being protected he his now a Bush toady.

What’s most disturbing is how Obama is above reproach. It’s become almost blasphemy to criticize him in anyway. Kudos to John Stewart for pointing this out in his comedy routine, but he’ll probably catch flack for that, just like the rest of us. It’s as if Obama has been packaged and sold to us as some kind of diety, when he’s nothing more than a junior senator, with a thin resume, who voted present a hundred times at his job.

The abundance of country-club metaphors only shows how deeply the institution is ingrained in American life? Maybe we are all a little more elitist than we think?

Day One w/ObamasSpeech—-I’m for this
Day Two w/Obama’s Speech—I’m against what I was for yesterday
Day Three w/Obama’s Speech–I apoligize, my words were taken in the wrong context the last two days.
Come on, what are you for and what are you against? This man switches his position according to the group people that he’s speaking to.

I’ve read message after message about the war and 4000+ deaths. Does anyone not remember 911 and all the gungho for the President to go and blast them off the face of the earth. Everyone was for it now everyone acts like they didn’t approve at the time. We don’t have a draft now so everyone must be a volunteer. I think they realized there would be a chance of not coming back since they were trained to fight. Just please back off this crap and support our boys that are there and that might have to go over there or even worse places. Both of my brothers and one sister served in VietNam. All made it back (thank God) with everything in tac except for agent orange. I still remember the President addressing the people of the plans and everyone excited about it now he’s a #######. We elect these people to make decisions we don’t want to make so give some slack.

Rove is trying to call Obama an elitist, and the only comparison he can make is some guy he doesn’t like at his country club? Country club snickerers?
It’s like trying to pin an elitist title on someone by comparing him to the guy who always complains about the selection at your wine-tasting parties.

Carl Rove is the height of arrogance. I can not wait to see him squirm if anyone ever has the —– to bring him down.

real pig!

Carl, I’m a 20yr Naval retiree, also I’m 100% disabled by the Veterns Administration. Social Security turned me down for benifits, I havent worked in 11 months due to my health. Is there any where I can go for help. Without getting a expensive lawyer?
If I receive a check from the U.S. government for my disabilities and the USA goes bankrupt. Would we loose our benifits? I bet there are a lot of Vets thinking about this possible problem.