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“Arrogant” is the New “Uppity,” Take Two

6/23/08, 3:36 pm EST

Rove continues to push his favorite meme:

From ABC:

At a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aide Karl Rove referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as “coolly arrogant.

“Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said…. “He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”

If you unpack this it’s really disgusting. He’s playing to all the worst classist and racist fears of the Greatest Generation. Obama’s the uppity black guy who some court forced your country club to admit and now he’s flaunting his sexual appetites — why is Rove painting the long-married Obama as a swinging bachelor? — and looking down on you. It’s all said with a veil of civility, but the Lee Atwater-ian subtext couldn’t be clearer.


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Mr. Bill | 6/23/2008, 4:43 pm EST

Karla Rove seems to forget that the guy he paints, is the guy everyone wants to hang out with…..minus the ’snide comments about everyone who passes by’

It’s much more fun to hang out with that guy, than the racists, oppressors, bigots, and warmongers like Rove.

Good luck Karl. Your message is ghost. Gone. Dust in the wind. Once bitten, twice shopping….

Old straw hat | 6/23/2008, 5:01 pm EST

Last week, more than 2 dozen people showed up to three country court houses in California, Medvill County, San Vandechen County and Branesko County Court Houses, with a assortment of farm animals they planned on marrying.

Now it’s really none of my business who or what someone sleeps with, I mean, come on, what ever get’s you through the night is your business, but if you plan on parading down the street with your new husband, Big Brown’s little brother and expect me to treat you as if nothing was wrong with your mental facilities, that’s just not going to happen. Even in our modern Society, there are still some things people need to ” sneak around ” to do.
Now that the bestiality lovers have worked up the courage to show their faces,, what’s next?? When will we have a person who wants to get a marriage license for their car and themselves?? What about the gazelle in the zoo who winked at the young impressionable fellow?? How about the 3 year old boy that the 28 year old woman just knows has a crush on her? Who’s going to be the first to marry their left hand??
I’m not comparing a man loving a man or a woman loving a woman to bestiality?
Who am I to judge ” WHO ” a person can fall in love with and ” WHO ” they can’t fall in love with, But I think ” WE ” as a society should damn well judge ” WHAT ” a person can bring to the court house and marry!!

Jeff | 6/23/2008, 5:24 pm EST

Congrats Tim! You remain the go-to guy on these sorts of things. You’re the only one I’ve read today that saw the Atwater-ish quality right away. That comment by Rove is stunningly racist. I’m only slightly surprised Rove didn’t top off the imagery by suggesting Obama’s there with a “beautiful *blonde* date” — as stoking those old miscegenation fears is clearly something he meant to so.

DirtyDennis | 6/23/2008, 7:01 pm EST

Old Straw Hat is spamming with Old Bull Sh*t.

That story only appears as comments posted on a few forums on the net.

Mr. Ed | 6/23/2008, 9:44 pm EST

Old Straw Hat is just mad that I left him for a younger man.

ray | 6/23/2008, 11:03 pm EST

If conservatives are prolife why are they for the war and the death penalty?

Mr. Bill | 6/23/2008, 11:10 pm EST

Here’s another one Ray: Can you spread freedom by lying, invading, occupying, detaining and torturing?

ray | 6/23/2008, 11:45 pm EST

MR. Bill, no those things only spread hate.

Anonymous | 6/24/2008, 12:53 am EST

Ya know, I just figured out who Karl Rove reminds me of. Remember that guy in Deliverance who gets it in the @ss and is made to squeal like a pig?

celticfenian | 6/24/2008, 2:11 am EST

shouldn’t rove be concentrating on how he is going to avoid his congressional hearing (plame-gate)?

you can’t run forever turd-blossom!

Anonymous | 6/24/2008, 7:53 am EST

Jed Clampett

Was turd-blossom looking at his friends’ endearing qualities when he came up with the characterization of Sen Obama?
I mean, here we have the whole karl gang… the administration and his cronies that are helping him destroy the nation. A bunch of rich boys born of the elite in society… the 3%-ers, educated(supposedly) at the finest schools. Avoiding any real military service with influence from their elite families with well connected friends in the upper echelons of power was the norm for these guys. And they have the Gall to call someone who actually made escaped poverty by actually working and applying themselves rather than having things given to them and getting by with cheating and obfuscation? These guys are totally ate up with the dark side, even to the extent of projecting their own personality flaws onto their opponents. Watch out USA, you keep allowing these type of people to hold the reigns of your leadership and they will bring you all right over the abyss and deliver you on a platter to the enemy of humanity.

DirtyDennis | 6/24/2008, 9:03 am EST

That wasn’t me. That was a ‘write in.’

Interestingly enough, my name window is blank this a.m.

This site is technological Horse & Buggy.

DirtyDennis | 6/24/2008, 2:42 pm EST

Well, well, well. So it appears that hiring in the Justice Department under Bushney was politically motivated. What a shocker.

The question now, is anyone going to do anything about it?
Actually, the question is WHAT can anyone do about it?
Probably nada.

We have witnessed the biggest fleecing of the federal government since Grant. Actually, the biggest fleecing EVER. And they got away with it. And they’ve front-loaded every agency with Cons, ensuring that the business of government will be … business.

celticfenian | 6/24/2008, 9:21 pm EST

it doesn’t matter if it’s true. all you have to do is say it and let it circulate. that’s what atwater taught turd-blossom. your base will swallow it up whole.

those comments, though pathetic, are kind compared to what the mccain surrogates are going to be saying up through november. have no doubt. they’ll say their smack and mccain will appear completely smug while he half-heartedly and disingenuously apologizes for them. kinda like how he smirked and gave that sh*t-eating grin when his mom questioned romney’s religion. there is a strong possibilty, though, that these things directed against barack and michelle are going to backfire in a big way. mccain better be careful… rove’s utterly passive bigotry is cowardly, but it is evident. he is speaking in code to the other bigots. we see it all the time, but it is soooo passive that it is deniable. characteristic of the weak minded actually.

Chalk | 6/26/2008, 10:09 am EST

Karl Rove, hmmm, his name is befitting. He has a roving eye. He looks to lies, cheating, character assination and anything underhanded to get himself and his miscreants on top. He will stoop to anything to distroy a democrat. Once he get is “Roving” eye on his target, he will zoom in on him for the kill.

But, he should be careful, because he is currently under a “looking” glass himself and I hope the sun is shining brighty and creates a lot of heat.

Perhaps there is room at the “Gitmo Club” for Karl and his Gang of Elite Men. That is surely a place that would welcomf them as they stand against the wall for their last puff of a cigarette.

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