Obama Camp Responds To Rove: He Has 'Cornered The Market On Arrogance'

Yesterday, Karl Rove, somehow convinced he'd become a hero to the common man as opposed to the architect of a presidency rejected by three-fourths of the U.S. population, said of Barack Obama, "Even if you never met him, you know this guy...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." Mind you, he said this whilst in attendance at the Capitol Hill Club, a haven for GOP-types where a ban on tipping the help is enforced in the rules (but where the prices for high-end dining staples are actually quite reasonable, perhaps owing to the fact that there are about twenty restaurants in the vicinity that can cook a better sirloin).

Well, Obama communications director Robert Gibbs came on Morning Joe this morning and he wasn't having it. Asked about Rove's remarks, Gibbs offered that he was "willing to bet you that Karl Rove hung out in...a country club a lot more often than Barack Obama," adding that after eight years in Washington, Rove "might have cornered the market on arrogance."

Also, classic Robert Gibbs: "His president right now, his approval ratings hover somewhere around the national drinking age." Uhm, zing!

[WATCH.]

GEIST: I want to ask you, Pat Buchanan coined the term faculty lounge, he's got the patches on his sleeves, smoking a pipe. Karl Rove has a different way of describing it. He says this. This is reported by Jake Tapper from ABC yesterday. At a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aide Karl Rove referred to Barack Obama as quote, "coolly arrogant...Even if you never met him, you know this guy. 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." That sounds like your candidate?

GIBBS: I would be willing to bet you that Karl Rove hung out in the lounge of a country club a lot more often than Barack Obama has. I would think a guy who came to Washington eight years ago and talked about how his version of the Republican party would take over the country for years and years to come, might have cornered the market on arrogance to a degree that not many people have seen before. His president right now, his approval ratings hover somewhere around the national drinking age. So I think it's convenient from a lot of people in Washington to take political advice from Karl Rove. I think if people look at the arc of the Bush presidency and where this thing has ended up, we have had a disastrous foreign policy, our economy is in shambles, our debt and our deficit have skyrocketed. It's really hard to list one or two things that Karl Rove did right over eight years. So, you know, I'll let him do his lecture circuits and coin little phrases, but, it seems like a silly thing.

BRZEZINSKI: Touche.

GEIST: So for the record, Barack Obama does not hold martinis or stand against walls. Is that what you are saying?

BRZEZINSKI: Making snide comments.

GIBBS: The last time I saw him, he was drinking a beer.

Comments

[Mygirl]

Karl Rove is the biggest joke and con artist around. He has no degree, He got a draft deferment by entering the University of Utah to avoid the Military and then dropped out of college. His father left his mother when he was very young. His mother married a man who raised Karl and the mother later divorced him and they learned his step father was a homosexual. His mother later committed suicide. Karl Rove needless to say became a genius of political deception
enough said......I call that arrogance.

[Donnat]

Talk about a guy with issues. No wonder he has a bond with Bush, whose family would not even acknowledge his sister's death . They both suffer from absent/dys­functional­/neglectfu­l parenting. Unfortunately, like serial killers, they take out their angst on the rest of the country.

[NotWaldo]

Karl Rove makes a derogatory remark about Barack Obama and it becomes news.

At CNN they opened the 8 o'clock show with THAT. What silliness !

Meanwhile, NINE american soldiers have been killed in Iraq since last friday. May God bless their families.

[sharonh]

Be the cream that rises to the top, rise above it. Do not lower yourself to Rove by responding or replying, it just brings you down. Do not have dialog at their level. Please.

[javagirl322]

Rove is NOT important. In fact, he's downright insignificant! Let's ignore him...

[Crake]

No, he is a war monger and war profiteer, he MUST be brought to justice.

[ShawnMichel]

To ignore a war criminal is to excuse that war criminal is to be complicit in that war criminal's crimes. In fact.

Karl Rove should be hanging from a yard-arm behind a federal prison somewhere. That he isn't is a national disgrace. In fact.

[AlexVonHussein]

Mccain in the fat, old balding MCdaddy at the country club who leaves his respected and loved wife for a a way younger blond girlfriend , who no self respecting ,conservative wants to be seen, with and when they pass by, people turn around and older women cover the eyes of their young daughters, so they dont have to see such disgrace.

Rove and friends are the guys you see in country club, hanging out in a group and gossip behave like small boys to get attention

[eden4barack08]

Big fat Rovie is so embarassed by this, he refused to comment when Bill'O asked him about it.
He said, : 'I won't comment on what was a private conversation...'. Naturally Bill'O didn't pressure him any further!

[LA2000]

The republicans are clearly flailing. If they keep this stupidity up, it'll be a blowout.

Keep talking, Karl. It only helps.

[mergina]

It would be nice if soon he was trying to corner that market from the corner of a prison cell.

[thisoldbroad]

Every time I see this little freak all I can think of is how much he reminds me of a little mad scientist cartoon from the 70's. Does anyone know the character I'm talking about? Seem to remember he had a bit of a lisp & a thin dimwitted lab assistant.

Can't remember the name of the character, but it helps keep me from throwing things at the TV when I see Rove.

My other trick is to tap the mute button on the remote & pretend I'm sending a thousand volts of electricity through the annoying person on TV. I've zapped Bush & Cheney so many times they're probably still sparking! (The # button on the phone works equally well for annoying callers.)

Good times..good times!

[eden4barack08]

LOL

[crossoverwriter]

Dexter's laboratory??

[MoeJava]

Project much - Karl?

[copesthetics]

sounds like a self portrait, karl

[chamay0]

Oh please, the republican's tactics is getting dumb and dumber. What chance does Obama have of being allowed into the country club. Goodness knows he will need a lot more money than what he currently have. Even then his memberhsip is not guaranteed. Just who is Rove really talking about? Is his age showing and he's talking about his yesteryear with Bush? Or is he letting his hatred taking control of reason. We the people ain't got time for his BS. If the republicans win it's becuase they planned a war to hurt us or they woke up to the fact that if McCain wants us to vote for him he needs to define who he is and stop pandering.

[LettuceB1]

Karl sounds jealous!

Size does matter Karl! And the size of your ego is repulsive :)

[MissingAmerica]

Rove's arrogance is proven by the fact that he can't see what a disaster he has made of this country. The man needs to be taken out of the country clubs and put in a different type of brotherhood, such as the one at Leavenworth.

[rosal]

He sounds as he has a crush on Obama. He is a Repug, so this is not too farfetched. Notice how he describes Obama. Is he a bachelor?