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

[rosal]

You would think the Looser Rove would be hiding somwhere in shame. One of the architects in ruining the country, he still feels like giving his worhtless opinion. He sent his president, and his party down the drain. The guy is shameless.

[zanzig]

And the MSM, some of whom are slowly coming out of the foxholes and admitting their enabling behaviour, continues to take advice, comments and "wisdom" from the architect of the ruins. Who is more shameless?

[PoliJunkie]

Wasn't it kept secret that this same KR tried to help out HRC during the primaries? I get it he was talking about WJC? Right?????

[oscartucker]

Rove and the Republicans are "running scared". Rove is so used to making up crap and burying an opponent in it, but this is not your ordinary election or election year. People are "fighting back" and are not going to take the old mess and trickery. I hope everyone will report every little scheme, trick, and "stupid" comment. We have the means to get the word out and inform people correctly. Thanks to Bloomberg who spoke up about the "Muslim attack"; people know when something wrong is being done. If Rove gets away with "stuff", he will be working in the White House again. Let's STOP HIM.

[jonmonbuckeye]

Actually, I found footage of Karl in high school. S2G.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU

[eden4barack08]

LOL!

That was GREAAAT! I laughed so hard and so long I couldn't reply 'till 10 mins later!

Thanks.

[crossoverwriter]

Hey, while you're at it check out the Shattner-Hasselhoff fake campaign ad on youtube--sooooo funnnyyy!!!!!

[jonmonbuckeye]

Rove is just having a flash back to high school when he was just a fat walking zit.

[4wehttam]

He still is that fat walking zit, except now he's not in high school, he's in pre-school.

[Plus15]

Karl Rove: "Obama'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."

Tom Cole: "Exactly he's Nixonian to the core"

Tom Cole is Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) just said exactly that.

[jetgirl]

The whole thing is pretty funny. You mean Obama is the cool guy at the country club that gets the hot chicks? Unlike you Rove who is the fat balding guy at the country club who can't get a break? I personally don't know any kind of people who hang out at country clubs, so this whole thing goes over my head.

[XME]

Hillarious. I think whenever Rove opens his mouth, it's a win for Obama.

Even someone who might believe Obama is "elitist" would laugh at the image of him at a country club, leaning up against a wall, with a martini in one hand, and a "chick" in the other, just watching people walk by and laughing at them. Like Obama or not, think he's elitist or not, there's just no way to connect such a picture with Barack Obama.

Thank you Karl!

[DieHardObamaSupporter]

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

McBush/McSame - STRIKE!

Next, batter up...LOL

OBAMA 08

[Plus15]

Karl Rove's statement "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" is actually a very, very accurate description of..........GEORGE W. BUSH

[jeplanet]

Not quite.
George Bush would be the guy doing armpit farts and mooning people out the window.

[PoliJunkie]

ROFLMO!!!

[jeplanet]

I read Valerie Plame-Wilson's book, and I still get SO mad when I think that this arrogant, self-serving, fat b*stard is still walking around making BS comments like this one. He obviously thinks he is completely above reproach; legally or ethically. (yeah, I know...repub ethics..what's that?)
I want to see him bankrupt and in JAIL, where he belongs.

[JAMES GORMAN]

KARL ROVE IS NOT arrogant--he is simply a sociopath who has no fear or emotion of any kind
when it comes to trample what society calls a principle, a right or a legitimate method. Every law
or norm or consensus that he cannot twist, he simply shatters and has gotten by for a decade.
His kind always meets their destiny--namely oblivion. People grow weary of malice, and that is why
villains really are not interesting--the heroes are like the Lone Ranger, Perry Mason, FDR, and the first
guys on the moon--and even a few heroines like Queen Elizabeth at Dianna's death, Catholic nuns who
won't slence the debate about women priests or Harriet Beacher Stowe--not to mention Flannery O'Connor who said that anyone who is serious about God becomes odd.
Karl Rove believes in nothing, and in a few months (win or lose the GOP), people weary of his slander
and reckless disregard will consign him to the forgettables in the shades of Crawford,TX--Condy the Conning, Scooter and Gonzales--forgotten but not gone!! jgorman12

[ElPerro]

Awwwwwwww.......

Poor Karl's going to need some comforting after that one.

Someone put in a call to Jeff Gannon, stat!

[WFV]

The fact we are even discussing this ridiculous remark means he won. Again.

[Ramirez]

Nine pages of comments, and rolling.

[ObserverinVancouver]

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

Props to Willie.