Will the Real Karl Rove Please Stand Up?

Just when you think it can't get any worse, we get this: Rick Sloan, communications director for the International Association of Machinists as Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) distributing a McCarthy-esque red-baiting attack on Obama titled "What Is Rove Up To?"

Clinton Backer Distributes Essay On How GOP Would Link Obama To '70s Radicals

But, ummm, Rove isn't really in the picture right now, is he? It's not Rove that is up to this at all. It is Clinton.

How utterly weird: A Democrat engaging in red-baiting, then blaming it on Karl Rove, who really didn't have anything to do with it.

Red-baiting, McCarthy-esque: did I really just say that? Is it really 2008? Is this really the Democratic primary? Naw, it can't be. I must be dreaming...

Comments

[efranklin]

05:04 PM on 04/20/2008

Given that Bill Clinton and Poppy Bush are pals, and how much Clinton's campaign almost seems to have Karl Rove's fingerprints on it -- could there be a Rove-Clinton connection that we are blissfully unaware of? Can this be ruled out? We're only talking 2 degrees of separation here.

[MfromS]

05:46 AM on 04/21/2008

Stop whining and let your candidate take some heat for once........

[radiclib]

02:25 PM on 04/19/2008

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Does anyone else think it strange that that the former propaganda minister for the Bush regime is now posing as a ``fair-and-balanced'' analyst? Even by the ``standards'' of Fox News , this is sleazy.
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[Gibbons]

01:40 PM on 04/19/2008

Rove may not be in the picture now but he was in Iowa when he told Obama and Edwards to start attacking Hillary and they eagerly accepted his advice.

[anon004]

02:00 PM on 04/19/2008

Proof?

[SamEllison]

11:58 PM on 04/19/2008

This op-ed;
COMMENT: Memo to Obama: win Iowa or lose the race
By Karl Rove, Financial Times
Published: Dec 03, 2007

TO: Senator Barack Obama
FROM: Karl Rove
SUBJECT: How to Beat Hillary

http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=Karl+Rove+comment&y=5&aje=true&x=15&id=071203000170&ct=0&nclick_check=1

[atomicprince]

02:14 PM on 04/19/2008

May be I was in different universe at that time.

or may be u just woke up now from a terrible dream?

[mommadona]

01:28 PM on 04/19/2008

DLC = Rove fan club.

DLC = DINO

DLC = K STREET

DLC candidate? = CLINTON TAG TEAM - WWE-STYLE

"/We feel yer pain - gotta buck till Tuesday? I'm courtin' the Pubhahs...gee, thanks, hon...everything's gonna BE ALL RIGHT...yeah......oh hey, call me....let's do lunch....ciao"

[MPeter]

01:27 PM on 04/19/2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa1hDJjWuYc The Clinton Camp is in panic mode and will do anything. The Clintons are Republicans and have done enough to damage our Party. They need to be expelled.

[Henry]

01:12 PM on 04/19/2008

My favorite of the new adversaries is the "dictatorship of relativism"

[Thorn]

12:55 PM on 04/19/2008

I don't know. DID you really just say "Red-baiting, McCarthy-esque"? Because it's pathetic.