Sunday, May 11, 2008

The Dark Night.

FILE UNDER: PRIMARIES: So Fucking Disco!


Rove: "I got nothing but love for you baby."
Bush: "What you got?"

Karl Rove on the Iraq War:


"I'm not apologetic about what this administration has done. It's protecting America. It has won important battles in a war that we as a nation better win or we will leave the future to our kids, a much darker and dangerous future."

Karl Rove on Hillary Clinton:

"...I just thought her flaws would show up in the general election. I didn't know they'd show up as early and as strong as they have...calculating. You know, she went through the period where she had the calculated laugh, she went through the period where she had the calculated accents, and you build that on top of a person who already has the reputation that anything she says is calculating, you know...It is if people think it's phony. And that's what her problem is. That and the sense of entitlement. You know, the sense of "This is mine, I deserve it; we're the Clintons, this is ours." And I think that really caused a lot of people to say, "You know what? It's not yours." And do we really want to go back? The '90s were nice in a lot of respects, but do we really want to go back to all that drama?"

Karl Rove on Barack Obama:


"...they [ blue-collar Democrats, who defect to McCain ]see Obama as an elitist who's looking down his nose at 'em. Which he is. That comment where he said, you know, "After 9/11, I didn't wear a flag lapel pin because true patriotism consists of speaking out on the issues, not wearing a flag lapel pin"? Well, to a lot of ordinary people, putting that flag lapel pin on is true patriotism. It's a statement of their patriotic love of the country. And for him to sit there and dismiss it as he did...Obama is coolly detached and very arrogant. I think he's very smart and knows he's smart, but as a result doesn't do his homework..."

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