Rove's Memo To Obama: How To Beat Hillary

Financial Times   |  Karl Rove   |   December 2, 2007 08:20 PM


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Not that you have asked for advice, but here it is anyway: Iowa is your chance to best her. If you do not do it there, odds are you never will anywhere. You are way behind her in most national polls. The only way to change that is to beat her in Iowa so people around America take another look at you. You did a smart thing organising effectively in the early primary states. But you can take advantage of that only if you win Iowa and keep her from building an overwhelming sense of invincibility and inevitability.

The good news is you have again got "the buzz". Polls are looking better for you in Iowa and the other early states. Your press is improving, with your performance at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson dinner a big help. Hillary Clinton has made unforced errors. But she is still the frontrunner and there are several things you need to do quickly to win.

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News Flash: Karl Rove is paid to help the Republican Party. His memo to Obama is intended to get the two Dem front-runners in a public squabble. How does this help the R's? It puts a stopper in the big hole in their bucket. With no clear candidate of their own, more defecting R's are likely to accept Obama's intelligence and clean appeal. By enticing Obama to become more aggressive, he'll risk appearing more like HRC - leaving no clear choice for defecting Republicans. Get it? This is my humble opinion.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:43 PM on 12/04/2007

Yeah, Obama seems to be on the wavelenght already- fake honesty and you got it made- wonder where empty suit Obama got his idea to invoke Reagan in his platitude fests....either way, his wink and nod to republicans are alarming and stupid as well.

I say, sure O, listen to one of the most deceitful fucks in public life...no surprise he cut his teeth with one of Nixon's most corrupt propagandists. Go Obama Faust awaits you.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:32 PM on 12/04/2007

Obama's Memo To Rove: Go Away

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:27 PM on 12/04/2007

Obama is a sellout! He knew if he's the nominee for the Dems he can't win the General Election, MONEY TALKS, BULLSHIT WALKS!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:44 PM on 12/04/2007

I mentioned here in huffpo 3 or 4 days ago, Obama is getting his advice from Karl Rove, and WHAM! There goes the open Memo of Rove to Obama how to attack HRC.

I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:41 PM on 12/04/2007

Rove is fat, ugly in so many ways and is the most evil civil servant since the death of J. Edgar Hoover.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:16 AM on 12/04/2007

I really resent the media, including HuffPo, only giving coverage to these two. There are other, better candidates.

This ostensibly liberal site does a remarkable job of ignoring the liberals.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:45 PM on 12/03/2007

A cleverly written 'unsolicited memo' to help Hillary? BIG SURPRISE!

Unless the Republicans run against Hillary, they don't have a prayer in this election.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:26 PM on 12/03/2007
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Let's see. The best chance we have to win next year is by nominating one of the most polarizing figures in Washington (Hillary)?

Good god, this country is doomed.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:15 PM on 12/03/2007
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Guess what Robert Reich (Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton) wrote on his blog(http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-is-hrc-stooping-so-low.html)? He defends Obama against Hillary's attacks. Here is a sample:

"I"m becoming increasingly concerned about the stridency and inaccuracy of charges in Iowa -- especially coming from my old friend (Hillary Clinton). While I"m as hard-boiled as they come about what"s said in campaigns, I just don"t think Dems should stoop to this. First, HRC attacked (Obama's) plan for keep Social Security solvent. Social Security doesn"t need a whole lot to keep it going " it"s in far better shape than Medicare " but everyone who"s looked at it agrees it will need bolstering (I was a trustee of the Social Security Trust Fund ten years ago, and I can vouch for this). Obama wants to do it by lifting the cap on the percent of income subject to Social Security payroll taxes, which strikes me as sensible. That cap is now close to $98,000 (it"s indexed), and the result is highly regressive. (Bill Gates satisfies his yearly Social Security obligations a few minutes past midnight on January 1 every year.) The cap doesn"t have to be lifted all that much to keep Social Security solvent " maybe to $115,00. That"s a progressive solution to the problem. HRC wants to refer Social Security to a commission. That's avoiding the issue, and it's irresponsible: A commission will likely call either for raising the retirement age (that"s what Greenspan"s Social Security commission came up with in the 1980s) or increasing the payroll tax on all Americans. So when HRC charges that Obama"s plan would "raise taxes" and her plan wouldn"t, she"s simply not telling the truth.

"I"m equally concerned about her attack on his health care plan. She says his would insure fewer people than hers. I"ve compared the two plans in detail. Both of them are big advances over what we have now. But in my view Obama"s would insure more people, not fewer, than HRC"s."

Whoa?!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:30 PM on 12/03/2007

Here is good news for Hillary supporters. The latest AP-Pew poll has Hillary leading by 5%.

Here is the link:

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=374

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:57 PM on 12/03/2007

"What the ????? I thought Rove wanted to run against Hillary." So why would he and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity be giving Obama advice to go after Hillary? Huh!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:32 PM on 12/03/2007

Right from Joseph Gobbels mouth !!!

Americans need to get used to the idea there may very well be NO ELECTION in 08.

Bush/Cheney have a False Flag operation up their sleeves that will make 9/11 look like a summer picnic. Millions will die. Bush will gain Absolute Power, the World will plunge into World War III.

13 More months Bush has his finger on the Nuclear Button - lets not forget that.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:20 PM on 12/03/2007

I believe in redemption, to a point. I think if Karl Rove volunteered to help restore John McCain's confidence and the years he lost due to Rove and Bush's sliming, I might believe he had some redeeming qualities.

But having slimed John McCain, and damaged him forever, he put into office one George W. Bush who has managed to kill thousands and thousands of people.

And then he slimed two more veterans, Max Cleland and John Kerry. Folks who post here who want to claim that it was their fault for not getting out in front of the slime earlier need not bother... People who are lied about and slimed owe no apologies for the fact. The personal destruction for which Karl Rove has earned his fame outweighs any use he might now want to make of his life.

I'm sure Michelle and Barack Obama know exactly what Karl Rove is.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:12 PM on 12/03/2007

You gotta love this. One side says, "There, proof he wants Obama to win." The other side says, "He's using reverse psychology so that Hillary will win."

Did nobody else see The Princess Bride? Both glasses are poisoned!!! (Hope I didn't ruin that for anyone.) OK, enough stalling...here's the punchline...

The answer clearly is that he doesn't want anybody talking about Edwards!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:28 PM on 12/03/2007
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