Bob Ostertag

Bob Ostertag

Posted: April 19, 2008 12:44 PM

Will the Real Karl Rove Please Stand Up?

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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...

 
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- efranklin I'm a Fan of efranklin 2 fans permalink

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:04 PM on 04/20/2008
- MfromS I'm a Fan of MfromS 3 fans permalink

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

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:46 AM on 04/21/2008
- radiclib I'm a Fan of radiclib 31 fans permalink

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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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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:25 PM on 04/19/2008
- Gibbons I'm a Fan of Gibbons 3 fans permalink

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:40 PM on 04/19/2008
- anon004 I'm a Fan of anon004 5 fans permalink

Proof?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:00 PM on 04/19/2008
- SamEllison I'm a Fan of SamEllison 15 fans permalink
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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

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:58 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?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:14 PM on 04/19/2008
- mommadona I'm a Fan of mommadona 155 fans permalink
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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"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:28 PM on 04/19/2008
- MPeter I'm a Fan of MPeter 25 fans permalink

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:27 PM on 04/19/2008
- Henry I'm a Fan of Henry 20 fans permalink

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

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:12 PM on 04/19/2008
- Thorn I'm a Fan of Thorn 7 fans permalink

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

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:55 PM on 04/19/2008
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