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

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/rove-obamas-the.html

ABC News' Christianne Klein reports that 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, per Christianne Klein. "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."

Rove said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., "needs to come right at him." He referred to the latest Newsweek poll showing Obama with a 15-point lead over McCain as nonsense, though he used a more scatological synonym. Rove said he was heading over to the White House for lunch and a chat with the President, Klein reports.

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.

:crazy:

'This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite - I call you my base.'

[MyNameGoesHere]

1. No that was me rove you douchebag. n/t

[villager]

2. over and over again, we see that *all* rightwing politics is psychological projection...

Except for, in Rove's case, the "beautiful date" part...

[polichick]

7. Yep!

[cbc5g]

29. Yep it's all projection

They are truly the elitists in society and the sooner people understand that, the better.

[Richard Steele]

53. It's really astounding, isn't it? nm

[Fleshdancer]

3. Holy shit! Karl Rove thinks Barack Obama is James Bond!

oh yes Karl, the martini is shaken. Not stirred.

[ellacott]

10. HAHAHA!!

[otohara]

17. Meanwhile Rove Is The Guy

who makes you shake with fear because there's "evil" seeping from his creepy white skin. Anyway, that's what I did, when he walked in front of my car at the airport recently.

[groovedaddy]

28. You didn't floor it!?! n.t

[elehhhhna]

21. or Barbara Bush, biggest B*tch in the West

[Fleshdancer]

37. the "beautiful date" part kinda negates the Barbara Bush theory

but the arrogance and country club part fits...and not just for her, but for the entire Republican party.

[hedgehog]

4. Yeah, right!

[NatBurner]

5. Obama wouldn't be allowed to be a member of that country club

wtf, carl?

[BeyondGeography]

23. They'd let him serve the martinis though

[JVS]

41. Hmm, could he be the waiter who serves drinks and then talks shit in the kitchen?

Maybe once in a while uses the wrong tone of voice? You know, uppity?

[anonymous171]

6. Thankyou Hillary, for driving the elitist smear into the ground.

It has way less bite than it used to, thanks in part to Hillary.

[Overseas]

8. Would that be the club John Sidney McCain III belongs to?

[ellacott]

9. It's amazing how they are trying to make the community organizer an elitist

[loyalsister]

36. Seriously!

I was just reading in Dreams From My Father about his experiences.
He was on the front lines helping people deal with gang violence, teen pregnancy, and other complicated issues found in many communities. He went out of his way to join the struggles of the residents of the projects and find and organize his own "elite clique" from there.

[SurfingAtWork]

11. Methinks Karl is mad they even let "the coloreds" in his country club as members in the first place.

[rateyes]

12. And, Rove is the guy who

has to pay for a date. Prick.

[ecstatic]

13. Country club discrimination was the FIRST thing that popped into my mind

upon reading that statement. Rove is such a clueless jackass. His smears don't even make sense anymore. It's impossible to paint the Obamas as elitists.

[eShirl]

33. yep, same here

I think Rove's seen his best days

[blondeatlast]

14. KKKarl, you just ain't got it anymore and you never had it as much as you got credit for.

That statement is just utterly, laughably, mock-worthy stupid.

[ecstatic]

20. Exactly! nt

[Drunken Irishman]

15. And the guy he's seeing for lunch is the type from the 1980s movies.

You know, often played by Ted McGinley or William Zabka. An arrogant and rich snobby prick who feels they're entitled to everything and when they don't get it, make a huge fuss.

Barack Obama is Hugh Hefner, George Bush the rich bully from every 1980s teen comedy.

[beac]

52. Rove & Bush are just mad b/c they've had to give up golf!

Now all there is left for them is hanging around the bar being envying the other rich a-holes whose dates don't look like The Joker or whose price doesn't double for "overnight."

They probably write little slam books on cocktail napkins:

THINGS WE HATE

1) Skip Bufforfington bragging about his hole-in-one
2) Whit Whittington has a new supermodel girlfriend
3) Biff Morgan-Smythe can drink without dribbling on himself
4) Barack Obama
5) And other people who think they are "cool"--- but they SO aren't!

SO THERE!!!

[babylonsister]

16. I see the r/wers are out in full force, spinning like crazy. Would this be the

'elistist' tag they want to hang on Obama? I find it funny considering the provenance of both McCains. Compare and contrast; who was really born with silver spoons in their mouths? Again, the truth is immaterial.

[shadowknows69]

18. Because the country clubs in this nation are just overeflowing with black men right?

[NatBurner]

31. especially ones that ridicule the members

[C_U_L8R]

19. Country Club Democrats?? Bwahahaha

How revealing that Rove's world view is centered around a fucking country club.

[TooRaLoo]

22. Man, they're trying so hard to nail down this "elitist" thing.

Pathetic.

[Dawgs]

24. Yeah, I see country club members playing pick up basketball all the time.

:wtf:

Ain't going to work this time, Rove.

[FrenchieCat]

25. So John Sydney MCain III marries the Heiress, but Obama is the

guy at the country club?

How far we have advanced!

Just a few years ago, Obama's only chance at the country club would have been as the caddy.

Thank God for Barack Obama and Tiger Woods for breaking new ground.

And hell yeah, Barack is Double 0844! Now lets kick some Rove ass! :headbang:

[Cleita]

26. Reality check.

In most country clubs he would be the guy holding the martini and the golf bags of the member playing golf.

[JVS]

43. You don't drink martinis on the course!

[Cleita]

45. Oh no?

Have things changed? One of my bosses always talked about a liquor cart making the rounds of the golf greens at his country club. Of course back then they had live caddies instead of golf carts. Back then the only way a black person could get into a country club was as an employee.

[JVS]

46. Gin and tonics for playing out in the sun.

Martinis are nearly pure gin and thus not very thirst quenching. Also, a good martini gets warm quickly outside because it has no ice. You definitely have those in the airconditioned clubhouse after the game.

[Cleita]

47. Oh I see.

Well, not being of the country club set, I wouldn't know. :-)

[endarkenment]

27. Me: Rove is the guy who farts in your car in winter. nt

[Overseas]

30. Rove marketed * as The Beer Guy -- the guy you wanna have a beer with-- and lots of people bought it

So he's trying to make Barack the Martini Guy. Too slick. Can't trust him. Talks too good.

[shadowknows69]

34. Bush is the guy most people would like to have a beer with

When I'm out I always like to be in close proximity to the guy drunker, and more likely to make an ass of himself, than I am.

[The_Casual_Observer]

32. Kept his promise about using the elitist thing. It isn't a very strong

slam. Most people wouldn't really know what an elitist was, and if they did would probably want to aspire to be one.

[dave29]

35. "now, watch this drive" eom

.

[JVS]

38. Funny, I wonder if the country club would even invite "his kind" to be members

[bunkerbuster1]

39. McCain's the guy saying Americans won't pick lettuce for $50 an hour

Fuck you with a rusty chainsaw, Rove.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

40. HOLY BREATHTAKING SHIT! MOTE! BEAM!

[monmouth]

42. Wow, wait till the guys at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach hear about

the comin' of Obama. Even ole Joe Kennedy wasn't allowed in with Gloria Swanson back in the day. Obama and Martinis..hmmmm. I just don't get that visual.

[Hawaii Hiker]

44. What a fucking joke!

Let me get this straight, Obama is a country club elitist, at least according to that dope Karl Rove...First off, how many blacks are even members of a country club, people like Karl Rove would do their best to keep them out....The only blacks Karl Rove likes are the ones who are serving him water & bread at the restaurant in that country club, and check his coat at the coat room....

And by the way, from the movie "Fahrenheit 911" Bush says

"This is a meeting of the haves & have mores, some call you elitists, I call you my base"....

Whose the elitist?....

And which candiate left his ill wife to marry someone with a $100 million inheritance....Yep, it was the phony POW John W McBush....An elitist if there ever was one...

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Cheap_Trick]

48. who gives a flying fuck

what that fat little cock nugget thinks about Obama.

[beac]

49. Yeah, that ought to REALLY resonate with the "average Joe" voter.

I mean don't we ALL know that guy from "The Club" who makes us all feel so uncomfortable while we dine on our filet mignon that we NEVER invite him to join our annual trip to Scotland to play St. Andrews? Dahling, there is simply nothing worse!


:puke:

[Imagevision]

50. Rove; Obama with a 15-point lead over McCain is nonsense? Rove defaults to denial...

[izzybeans]

51. Says the swine making snide comments about everyone else.

Rove talks to a mirror most of the time. "Self? Yes me. I'm that guy at the country club sipping martinis making snide comments about everybody else. That's why the pay me the pig-bucks. Oink Oink oink."

[FredScuttle]

54. Barack Hussein "Otter" Obama

[zulchzulu]

55. We know KKKarl's type

I could say that about Rove. He’s the fat, wide-assed guy at the Old Country Buffet with someone who could pass for his mom, holding a tray full of food overlapping the plates with a cigarette in his mouth blocking the way as he makes snide comments to the help about how he needs more potato casserole.

[Arkana]

56. And Rove's the creepy, balding guy with flopsweat and a bad suit

that ogles his wife, then goes into the bathroom to masturbate furiously.

[cemaphonic]

57. really, the funniest part about that quote isn't about Obama at all.

It's the implicit assumption in the "you know this guy" bit that everyone is familiar with the social dynamics of country clubs. Nice little bit of recursive, self-referential elitism there.

You would think that the sheer level of cognitive dissonance swirling around in Rove's "brain" would make his head explode, but I'm not holding my breath at this point.