By Jonathan Blakely

Mar 15, 2010 2:03pm

Rove: Obama Not Doing ‘Homework in Advance’ on Foreign Trips

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: With tensions simmering between the US and Israel in the wake of Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to the region last week, former senior Bush White House adviser Karl Rove said today that Israel’s announcement of new settlements in East Jerusalem shows that President Obama and his top aides aren’t doing “their homework in advance.”  “I think this is part of a broader problem with the Obama administration, and that is there doesn’t seem to be enough groundwork done before these international meetings that they don’t get caught by surprises like this,” Rove said on ABC’s “Top Line.” “Which is surprising to me given the fact that Hillary Clinton is a very strong secretary of state. But this is not the first time this happened. Remember this really started when they went to the G-8 last year, prepared to say to the G-8, ‘Hey we want you all to follow our lead and stimulate your economies in a similar fashion,’ and they said no. Two days later they went to NATO and said we want you to send additional troops to Afghanistan, they said forget it. And we saw it on the International Climate Conference.” Rove said he agrees with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, who wrote yesterday that Biden should have immediately flown home when the Israelis blindsided him with the announcement about new housing in East Jerusalem. Said Rove. “I do think Tom Freedman had it right: If they didn’t like this, Biden should have left the country immediately.”

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This Hollywood President never did his home work in schools if attented ? in his life time do you expect hime to do any better now ?He is the joke of the United States and the WORLD

Posted by: Joeray | March 15, 2010, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

Rove…you absolute lying piece of crap. Anyone with a brain who understands what is going on over there knows a “blindside” when we see one. The administration is exactly “right on the mark” for calling them out on that low life maneuver. Until “powerful Israelis” take responsibility for their actions…nothing will change.

Posted by: CND FOX | March 15, 2010, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

As Obama’s first trip to Copenhagen last year for Olympic game in Chicago was a total waste and disgrace, his second trip there and to Beijing were not much better; all he got from China is ‘no respect’ , because his failure in controlling spending with money borrowed from China.

Posted by: austin | March 15, 2010, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

newsflash to Karl Rove and those who give him a bullhorn in the media: America hates your guts, get lost, crawl into a hole, don’t show your face on our computer screens agfain. Regular programming may now resume.

Posted by: Amy in Maine | March 15, 2010, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

now that’s an unbiased objective opinion from Bush’s brain. How many funerals of our brave soldiers has he attended from his calculated Iraq diversion?

Posted by: watching | March 15, 2010, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

Rove is dead nuts on. Obama consistently puts himself out there without doing his homework — has devalued the Presidency in more ways than one.
Biden had no clue when he showed up. Had he done his homework, he would have known not to show up unless certain conditions were met. To cry because he felt the Israelis stepped on his little pee pee when he got off the plane — well, it’s Biden.

Posted by: mitchscove | March 15, 2010, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

Yes, by all means, let’s listen to what Karl has to say…he’s so reliable..about as reliable as the network he works for.

Posted by: Bea | March 15, 2010, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

I bet Rove and Bush did their homework very well when they sent 4500 young Americans to die in Iraq.
Have we found the weapons of mass destruction?
Homework my foot.
Give me a break.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | March 15, 2010, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

Lets see, Under Obama israel is about to break peace and war again, Iran is almost Nuclear, China owns us and our children, more jobs have gone overseas, cash for clunkers 1/2 or better of the money went to overseas car companies, taxes have gone up, the debt is 10, 12 or who know in the teens of trillions, stimulus in benifiting stupid projects that add no more workers to do, Holder has given rights to war terrorists, Holder has hired the war terrorists lawyers, and Obama has a clwon as a press secretary. Oh and do njot forget there was no attacks after 9-11 like a underwear bomber. Give em hell Karl

Posted by: Jim Rod | March 15, 2010, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

You must mean Tenet, with Kerry, Kennedy, and 65 other Democrats vocally calling for action. Where did Tenet come from?

Posted by: mitchscove | March 15, 2010, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

Steve NJ– come on man. Obama has them dieing in Afghanistan and still in Iraq. Big campain promise. Instead he and Holder give the very people who killed our troops rights!! Boy Obama sure sent them all home?? You need to camp out in front of Obamas house like Shehan did.

Posted by: Jim Rod | March 15, 2010, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

Take heart, Jim. China is trying to get rid of our treasuries as fast as they can. It’s fun to watch. They hold so much US debt that they have been tracking the Yuan against the dollar — until everyone started screaming that they were manipulating their currency — which they were.

Posted by: mitchscove | March 15, 2010, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

Guess GWB did HIS groundwork before going into Iraq, passing Medicare Part-D, cutting taxes while fighting unfunded wars?

Posted by: treblig56 | March 15, 2010, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

Jim Rod | Mar 15, 2010 4:49:02 PM: Blame the firefighter for not extinguishing the fire the minute he gets there… BTW Shoe bomber? And all but 1,4 Trillion$ in debt is under Obama, 6,7 Trillion added under Bush even while having a very prosperous economy for 6 of 8 years and inheriting budget surpluses…

Posted by: treblig56 | March 15, 2010, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm

Jim Rod – do some homework, dude! Guess you forgot about the anthax attack that killed five people. What about the shoe bomber and the shootings at LA airport. And China owned us long before Obama took office or didn’t you know. Oh yeah, I forgot, that’s when you and your repub ilk were hiding your heads in the sand. Holder, doing nothing different than what Bush did – guess you don’t know that either? There’s only one thing I can think of that repubs are good at and that’s re-writing history. You betcha!

Posted by: pamp205 | March 15, 2010, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

Cheney had a heart attack and had to go home and sit down; so now the Republicans have pulled out Rove to distort the truth at every point.How many supporters were there, willing to send troops, by the end of Bush’s term? And Bush also had his share of non conformers; however, he dealt with that by not asking for help. Remember his unilateral stance on everything? Remember how unpopular Bush was around the world when he left office? Whatever job Obama is doing, he is doing a better job than Bush, Cheney and Rove did.

Posted by: lwba | March 15, 2010, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

Isn’t this the guy who help[ed Bush do his homework for going into Iraq for “Werapons of Mass Destruction”? Just another “American Whiner”, OOPS, sorry did Rove have a patent on that idea, too?

Posted by: able | March 15, 2010, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm

Rove…you absolute lying ….CND FOX>>>Typical democrat nothing but character assassination. All emotion no facts. You call Rove a liar? Prove your point sonny. All hat no cattle.

Posted by: ChicagoBob | March 15, 2010, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

…”China owns us and our children”. Yep, sure does. When Clinton left office we owed China $65 Billion and when Bush left office, we owed China $740 Billion. All available data at the U.S. Treasury webpage >>>>>>>>>>> AND NOW Obama is borrowing US BLIND. WOW thats improvement whats your point? FOOL.. And you remember Charlie Tree dont you? How did they get advanced guidance systems?
LOL.. Yeah Clinton Gimme a break.

Posted by: ChicagoBob | March 15, 2010, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm

Who signed the law that broke Glass Segal? Clinton.
Who was in congress the last 3 years while and denied Freddie and Fannie were in trouble? Democrats.
Who ran around so proud we borrowed 840BILLION 80BILLION which was KICKBACKS ? Democrats remember Reid’s and Pelosi’s face? I do. SO proud. WE got almost all of Tarp back. In fact its may have made money who is talking about that as a success? Stimulus which is NOTHING BUT a SPEND money we dont have is going to do what? HAS DONE what? NOTHING. What a pathetic naive joke Democrats are.

Posted by: ChicagoBob | March 15, 2010, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm

“It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now … Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.”
– John F. Kennedy, Nov. 20, 1962, president’s news conference
“Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government.”
– John F. Kennedy, Jan. 17, 1963, annual budget message to the Congress, fiscal year 1964
And these FOOLS in office dont understand what Kennedy did.

Posted by: ChicagoBob | March 15, 2010, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

If TARP was included in the BUSHES deficit spending is it being SUBTRACTED as its being paid back???

Posted by: ChicagoBob | March 15, 2010, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

OMG, Does this moronic fat man have any idea how much we are NOT interested in his ‘failure-at-everything-he-has-been-associated-with’ opinion!!! My good Lord, if we want someone’s opinion, we will ask someone with a GOOD track record. Not one single thing this man touched ever turned out good, and I do include the election of the worste president in the US history, and the failure of EVERYTHING Rove, Cheney and Bush ever touched, ever took on. IT is purely laughable, absolutely astonishing that they are all STILL so out of touch they have no idea, no inkling, how much people stare at them, stunned, bewildered, that htey imagine anyone, anyone, other than the pathetic 12% who kiss the ground any con walks on, cares one tiny inkling of a bit what this group of pure failures has to say.

Posted by: amazed | March 15, 2010, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm

Never has an American administration so misread the world, and put the entire world of countries against us, as Rove,Bush and cheney. By far the most hated, the most distrusted, the most loathed we have ever been in our entire history since our formation, was during the bush years. I travel for work. have for over 25 years and the difference in being received as an American during the Bush years was astonishing and not just in middle eastern countries and France and Germany, but in ‘friendly’ countries, like england and Ireland. Someone in Ireland (Ireland! Who i have always knows to be our biggest friend and ally and companion!) afronted me in a pub while sipping my tea and asked me if I liked Bush. The whole pub went dog dead silent as every ear slyly turned to hear my answer and when I replied i did not vote for him, a rally cry to buy me a drink rang round the crowd. Never, ever, have I seen such collective animosity as in the Bush years and now that has changed dramatically. Rove has no sense of reality. He is so clearly out of touch now, as he always was during his year in the administration. Arrogant, those three. That’s why they made so many mistakes. So little knowledge, so much arrogance. TO have this man insult you is almost akin to a compliment.

Posted by: ViewFromMyWindow | March 15, 2010, 9:21 pm 9:21 pm

Who signed the law that broke Glass Segal? Clinton———–when the economy was BOOMING. when there was NOTHING RISKY going on. Who was president for 8 YEARS AFTERWARD, WHILE our banks were being shortsold????? While securities were being made that were pure junk, while Bush just watched, while Rove, Cheney just watched and defended. WHile the democrats called for congressional hearings on Predatorial LEnding practices – did you hear about that? Those congressional hearings done by democrats on predatorial lending and how ti would cause massive bank failure??? didn’t catch that? yeah, I know, Fox news never covered it. No stupid republican radio program bothered to cover it either. Too badbecause it was point on ACCURATE! What was Bush’s response to those hearings???? “Let the bad banks fail”. uh huh. The bad banks were ALL the banks. and cons like you were 100% in the dark the whole time, living in your little ignorant world. listening to your republican radio and your fox news while hte other half of the world was out there listening to the battle of hte century while bush saying “let the markets self correct” and Barny Frank saying we were headed for “economic blackmail” from the banks. And when hte stock market crashed and crashed and crashed, bush is like a deer in the headlights, clueless. How???? he was WARNED for over a year from Democrats. maybe he ,and Rove and Cheney were just too damn stupid to understand what they were talking about. Apparently.

Posted by: seriously | March 15, 2010, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm

ChicagoBob, go look up what Hoover did, how did Hoover take a 6% unemployment after a stock market crash and turn it into 9%, then 10%, then 12%, then 15%, 18%, 20%, 22%, 25%….how? why? Balance the budget. The depression was caused by debt, he said. uh huh. And so unemployment went up and up and up. Die hard cons like you used to agree, they agreed when unemployment was 10%, but then 15% and 19% and year after year went by and things only got worse, cons had everything they wanted, did everything they wanted (pretty much like bush for 8 years) and all we did was fall deeper into a hole. FDR walked into office with 25%+ unemployment, by the times the bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor ,it was 9%. FACT.

Posted by: seriously | March 15, 2010, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm

The Cowards of the last administration were so terrified of Osama Bin Laden that they squandered 6 trillion dollars in 7 years, how they have the nerve to criticize is a new low in politics. Bush, Cheney, and Rove…after spending trillions of borrowed dollars, where is Osama? After 4500 heroic dead saviours, are we ANY better off than the day before 9-11? Rove, you and your cronies were such terrified cowards, you HAD to spend American into bankruptcy, and NOW you have the audacity to criticize the adminisration that is bending over backward to raise America back to a tolerable standard.

Posted by: able | March 15, 2010, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm

All the Palestinians want is their land back, to speak the Palestinian language, to restore their Palestinian capital and temple and to dig their Palestinian artifacts and build a Palestinian museum.
After all who are these Jews anyway where did they come from? They must have slipped their artifacts into Jerusalem and the Judean hills, right?

Posted by: Ed Taylor | March 15, 2010, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm

CHICAGO BOB Says: “…”China owns us and our children”. Yep, sure does. When Clinton left office we owed China $65 Billion and when Bush left office, we owed China $740 Billion. All available data at the U.S. Treasury webpage >>>>>>>>>>> AND NOW Obama is borrowing US BLIND.”
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LMAO! ChicagoBob, you really have no idea why the debt is so high, do you?
Here’s a little education for you… when G.W. Bush (2001 to 2009) and his Republican congress (2001 to 2007) increased the national debt by about $4 Trillion…we the American people started paying half-a-trillion dollars of interest each year, on that debt. When you have an annual half-trillion dollar interest payment, then YES … WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A HIGH ANNUAL DEFICIT.
Your next lesson is to understand what the difference is between the “debt” and the “deficit”. LOL…
…and besides, why did the party of “fiscal conservatism” spend so much?… LOL… and you expect us to go back and vote for THEM???!!!! You joking!

Posted by: GeorgieBushie | March 16, 2010, 1:04 am 1:04 am

Oh and do njot forget there was no attacks after 9-11 like a underwear bomber. Give em hell Karl
Posted by: Jim Rod | Mar 15, 2010 4:49:02 PM
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lest we forget the shoe bomber but we wouldn’t want to confuse another blind, uneducated, partisan hack with any little thing like facts……

Posted by: dk | March 16, 2010, 3:35 am 3:35 am

Liberals are soooo tolerant of other opinions

Posted by: JamesJ | March 16, 2010, 8:35 am 8:35 am

Newsflash to Karl Rove…no one is interested in your views or opinions. Your success rate with Bush is not too good so I would say to you…it is easy to sit back and criticize like Cheney but you two dynamic duos have done enough damage and now you are trying to fool people again with your rhetoric. Those who check and know the facts ignore you….unfortunately there are others who do not…that will be your audience. Otherwise you are a has been with a big mouth.

Posted by: talmag | March 16, 2010, 9:51 am 9:51 am

Obama has one asset, and only one…..he gives good speeches.

Posted by: Rick McDaniel | March 16, 2010, 10:12 am 10:12 am

The President of Iran threatens Iseral and the United States this past weekend, but the Obama Admin states that it is Iseral who is out of line?? The President of Iran “murders” US Troops in Afganistan and Iran, but the Obama Admin states that Iseral is insulting? The President of Iran executes his citizens who protested against him, but the Obama Admin states that Iseral has insulted the United States? It is the Obama Admin that is Out of Line and Insulting; this is what happens when a “Man-Child-Socialist” is elected as President of the United States who hates his own country. How sad.

Posted by: Peter King | March 16, 2010, 10:41 am 10:41 am

For those of you are feeling the hate for Israel, look back in history to every nation and society that has turned its back on Israel, and see where they are today.

Posted by: Alan | March 16, 2010, 10:44 am 10:44 am

Speaking of Politicians that did NOT do their homework….George Bush had 8 months to do something with securing our Homeland when 9-11 occured.

Posted by: able | March 16, 2010, 10:57 am 10:57 am

ChicagoBob…I do not have to prove anything …Bob. I have studied, read and researched Rove far more than i am sure you have and my indictment of a “lying piece of crap” stays the same. Besides there isn’t enough memory on this blog to enumerate the reasons for my synopsis of him. By the way, I am not a Democrat. I am a registered Republican thoroughly disgusted with a Party that has “lost its way”, especially in the way it has forgotten the middle class.

Posted by: CND FOX | March 16, 2010, 11:52 am 11:52 am

Funny how Rove wants to rewrite history.
No doubt, the reason the Pubs lost in a landslide in 2008 was because they did such a great job managing domestic and international affairs.
9-11 attacks, Two unwinable trillion dollar wars started by lying to America, thousands of American soldiers dead, 100,000 civilians dead, anthrax, shoe bomber, a doubling of the national debt, record deficit spending, a housing market collapse, the worst economic disaster in 70 years, stagnant or falling wages, zero net job growth, $4/gallon gasoline, and America’s international reputation down the drain ALL occured under Rove and company’s watch!
But, Exxon had all-time record profits for 4 straight years, Haliburton and defense contractors swindled billions, and the richest 2% accumulated massive wealth at the expense of the average American (and they got their tax cuts which was great). So I guess it was worth it.

Posted by: Facts Over Fiction | March 16, 2010, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Does Karl Rove really get to call anyone out about lack of planning prior to Middle-East engagement?

Posted by: DeusExMachina | March 16, 2010, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

Facts Over Fiction – I will add a couple to your list. 1. While Health Care costs were skyrocketing the republicans and Bush administration did nothing. 2. While our financial system was setting us up for failure, the republicans and Bush did nothing until there was a huge economic crash and unemployment was out of control.
While I disagree with democratic plan and process, republicans should get no respect when they did nothing to prevent these two major problems.
It is the usual problem with U.S. politics. The party in power does a poor job running the country for 80% of Americans, while the party out of office has all the correct answer to our problems. We vote one party out and the other party in and the statement is still correct. They both serve the rich and powerful, but when they lose control of government they whine to the American voter that they have the solutions.

Posted by: MikeMo1947 | March 16, 2010, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

Why does anyone bother to listen to Karl Rove?

Posted by: Robert Maxwell | March 16, 2010, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

This coming from a guy that advised Bush to put us in a Trillion dollar war before he know if they had WMD or not? This guy has go some gonads!

Posted by: Carnell Crum | March 16, 2010, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

Sorry to all the duumies out there Rove is right on this. The haters (democrats) better get use to hearing the truth because soon most of your anti-American congressmen will be kicked to the curb where they belong.
Obama lies to us daily and you don’t say a word – if no one else will you I will your all fools.

Posted by: a citizen | March 16, 2010, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

The middle class couldn’t afford to keep their homes so Obama paid the lower income family’s to buy a house so I wonder how he thinks the lower income can make it but the middle income can’t. Obama’s puched the country of the edge, we just haven’t hit the bottom yet. It’s the voters fault for voting in someone because of their race and charisma instead of their experience.

Posted by: Jack | March 16, 2010, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm

This incompetent Obama administration is bullying Israel while being mocked and ridiculed by Iran,North Korea,Venezuela,Al-Qaida,Talibans,Russia and China.What an incompetent president,cabinet members we have. We should be ashamed and have the US Military take over Obama before we are destroyed economically and militarily invaded.These tyrannical,corrupt,arrogant,traitor,islamic sympathizer,pathological liar Obama,Reid and Pelosi dictatorship are now a dangerous domestic threat to our homeland ,freedom and the American citizens.

Posted by: mahalapril | March 16, 2010, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm

He is the joke of the United States and the WORLD
Posted by: Joeray*********************************
Well it takes one to know one.

Posted by: spacerook1 | March 16, 2010, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm

Rove…you absolute lying ….CND FOX>>>Typical democrat nothing but character assassination. All emotion no facts. You call Rove a liar? Prove your point sonny. All hat no cattle. ChicagoBob******
Gee, emotion no facts? Where do you want to start,
at the beginning, or his arse end.

Posted by: spacerook1 | March 16, 2010, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

Said Rove. “I do think Tom Freedman had it right: If they didn’t like this, Biden should have left the country immediately.”************************************* Boy, glad these idiots aren’t in office.
Had he left, they would have been whining that he left
with nothing achieved. Roves wife must have to
clean the mirror every morning because of Karl Roves
kiss marks on it.

Posted by: spacerook1 | March 16, 2010, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

It’s not about Republican/Democrat anymore. Both sides are PICKING arguements with the OTHER side. Rove is one of the cheerleaders, he can’t do a good job, but he complains when the other side DOESN’T. TRUTH is: when you are among a certain political group, you shouldn’t criticize the other side until YOURS is perfect, change comes from within. Republicans should know they won’t change Democrats, and Elephants should know they can’t change donkeys. IF you all were competent, you’d be trying to improve your OWN PARTY and let Americans decide on the better come “Election Day”.

Posted by: able | March 16, 2010, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm

ChicagoBob posted “Who signed the law that broke Glass Segal? Clinton.
Who was in congress the last 3 years while and denied Freddie and Fannie were in trouble? ”
Who wrote and passed the repeal of Glass/Steagal? Republicans
Who was RUNNING Fannie and Freddie that got use into “trouble”? Republicans (James Lockhart III was in charge of running both).
Of course, Fannie/Freddie didn’t get us into trouble, but please don’t let FACTS detour you.

Posted by: Faurtz8 | March 16, 2010, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm

I got to thinking about what AIG, CITICORP, CHASE, Solomon Bros, Goldman Sachs etc, did, and from what I read, it amounts to criminal activity! The same thing Barney Madoff did, except more convoluted! Not only has Wall Street turned into a gambling casino, but the business and banks being represented on the NY Stock Exchange are CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES!
Giving someone “the business” has taken on a whole new meaning! We the People are not only taking it in the shorts, we have been subsidizing the rich! It’s amazing that the greed and avarice of the average CEO of these organizations has no problem looking in the mirror to shave each morning, while children go hungry in this country, lack a decent education, and health care! Michael Moore’s film “Capitalism-A Love Story” asks some very fundamental and basic questions about “Our Way of Life” (a term used during the Cold War, to protect our status quo in the world, and to ensure that none of what Marx or Engels wrote about ever got implemented in our “Democracy”). What we have, Al Capone loved!
The way the law works, is this: If you are a major corporation, bank, or drug company, you not only have the same rights as the average citizen, you actually have more. The laws are written so that you CANNOT grow a naturally occurring plant (such as Marijuana) for medicinal purposes. No, you will get thrown in jail because it competes with the legalized drug dealers who pump out their crap on our TV airways every 20 minutes. The laws are written so that if you are too big to fail you can do, and get away with, anything you want and never have to worry about facing the consequences of your actions! As a matter of fact, you will get bailed out by the very people you screwed!
Think about it! The government that is supposed to represent us actually represents the 1% of the population that makes as much money as the rest of us (95% of the population). THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENT IN 1930 TO START A REVOLUTION IN THIS COUNTRY! Fortunately for these oligarchs, they also control the mainstream media which has been instrumental in placating and subduing an illiterate, dumbed-down, and brainwashed public (Rockefeller even thanked the media for keeping their plans for globalization and a one world government secret for so long).
DO YOU HAVE HEMORRHOIDS YET? If you don’t it’s a wonder considering how much of the shaft we have been getting! The draconian laws and the elimination of Habeas Corpus (Probable Cause, Due Process, Search and Seizure, arrest and indefinite confinement without charge or lawyer, suspension of the Constitution and Bill Of Rights, torture, and assassination) all in the name of the war on drugs and the war on terror, were implemented so that if the people ever rise up to protest this injustice, they will be crushed. This will be carried out by Blackwater, UAV’s, SWAT, and paramilitary mercenary forces that act against Posse Commitatus (Done away with thanks to the Patriot Act), made up of hardened ex-military who have served back-to-back tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, are unemployed, and suffering from PTSD, and have been trained in house-to-house murder of unarmed civilian women and children.
So we are now a police state, capable of instituting martial law at any time (with the help of a little known government plan called “Continuity of Government”).
THE FOURTH REICH IS ALIVE AND WELL HERE IN AMERICA!

Posted by: TankmanSquare | March 17, 2010, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

Who needs Karl Rove’s opinion on anything. These are traitors who blew the cover on a CIA law enforcement official.

Posted by: what667 | March 18, 2010, 2:34 am 2:34 am

leave rove where he belongs. his vile spewings are pointless to informed people.

Posted by: joe kol | March 19, 2010, 12:47 am 12:47 am

oh please grow up…. China holds a big chunk of your debt and practically, controls your currency and you are still crying about what GWB did years back…..
here is a thought…. China decides to ditch the dollar and instead support the Euro.. OMG…. the US$ is worthless…then what…Democrat or Republican as long as you are American… worry about China.., the middle east…healthcare and such because there in lies what path America takes… not Iraq..everyone knows that was a mistake even Karl Rove… of Course Saddam was a menace and mass murderer. and we dont really miss him.like Blair said in the recent enquiry in the UK.No regrets. of course too much effort and resources where used to get rid of him, we all agree. but thats neither here no there.
Future America not past…Future…even Zimbabweans have a more positive outlook on their Country than you and your complaining….

Posted by: aproudzambian | March 20, 2010, 4:53 am 4:53 am

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