Karl Rove and Bushies hate Obama-love Hillary Clinton

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Sat Jan-12-08 05:24 PM
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Karl Rove and Bushies hate Obama-love Hillary Clinton

Edited on Sat Jan-12-08 05:32 PM by Tropics_Dude83

Also interesting, on "Tim Russert" on MSNBC this morning, the panel members which consisted of Brooks, Page, and Todd said that many Bush administration officials admire Senator Clinton and are rooting for her to win. To be fair, not because they think she'd be easy to beat, but because they are really quite taken by her.

Anyway, here's the article about Rove and his racist article about Obama. A hint of the kind of racist sleazy slimeball pathetic campaign he'd run against Obama. BTW, has anyone ever noticed how ugly and fat Rove is?

Here's the Yahoo article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080112/cm_huffpost/081184

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Act One

I keep hoping Hillary Clinton will change direction, because she's a good Senator and this country needs a woman President. But her cynical (and self-destructive) choices have been hurting the country since that war vote in 2002, and last week's New Hampshire campaign was a new low.

First came the Swiftboating. Her campaign spread flyers around the state containing a lie about Obama's record - one they already knew was a lie. Their claim that Obama had abandoned the pro-choice cause by voting "present" had already been disproved. NOW's Chicago director, a Clinton supporter, described the flyers as "offensive" and added: "I'm very disgusted at this tactic being used by the Clinton campaign."

Act Two

Now Karl Rove has come out and given us a preview of the Republican playbook should Obama be the nominee. Remember when the Clinton campaign was slamming her critics for repeating "Republican talking points"? Apparently, now she's writing them. Less than a week after those New Hampshire flyers went out Rove writes: "(Obama) had a habit of ducking major issues, voting 'present' on bills important to many Democratic interest groups, like abortion-rights ..." So Clinton pushes a lie and the GOP picks it up. Thanks a lot.

Rove's race-baiting isn't subtle, but here's a translation for cloistered liberals who have "never met a racist": When he says Obama is "lazy" (what he means to say is "shiftless"), he's reinforcing a racist stereotype. When he claims that Obama "bluffs" and makes "misstatements" or "exaggerations," he's appealing to bigots who believe black people are inherently dishonest.

Here's a classic code-talker sentence: "His trash talking was an unattractive carryover from his days playing pickup basketball at Harvard, and capped a mediocre night." "Trash talking" is perceived by white racists as both a black slang phrase and a common form of minority behavior, while whites have seen African Americans play "pickup basketball" in a thousand ghetto movies. (And bonus points to Karl for "cap," which is hip-hop slang for shooting people. Is he that smart? We report, you decide.)