“Karl’s got Rove-ing eye for me, says irate Hil” trumpets Google news on top of 183 stories in various newspapers about Karl Rove’s comments in a recent BushCo book.
Typical of the stories…in so-called left AND right-wing papers…is this one in the NY Times.
(Below the fold…)
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: February 28, 2006
ALBANY, Feb. 27 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took a swipe at the White House on Monday, saying that Karl Rove, the president’s political adviser, “spends a lot of time obsessing about me.”
Mrs. Clinton’s comments came during an interview with an Albany radio station, after she was asked about a new book that quotes Mr. Rove as saying she is certain to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008.
“I don’t know where he gets his information from,” Mrs. Clinton said of Mr. Rove during the interview on WROW-AM. “If I were thinking about this, I’d say, ‘Why are they spending so much time talking about me?’ “
In “Strategery,” a book released on Monday by Bill Sammon, a White House reporter for The Washington Examiner, Mr. Rove is quoted as calling Mrs. Clinton “the dominant player on their side of the slate.”
The Ratpubs have mounted some sort of attempt at a rejoinder, but she threw a fastball right by them.
Please note the fine shades of meaning in this statement.
The use of the word “obsessing”.
Please…picture Karl.
SMACK!!!
Gotcha.
“If I were thinking about this, I’d say, ‘Why are they spending so much time talking about me?’ “
As if she is NOT thinking about this. As if this fight means little or nothing to her.
We all may have quarrels with her tactics, but you must admit…she is without a doubt the best mainstream politician that the Dems have.
By far.
She is a political artist.
Pragmatism defined.
She doesn’t NEED no Karl Rove.
She’s her OWN brain.
And more power to her. (Which you can be sure she is going to get.)
Remember the joke that was in vogue when Bill was first elected President?
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Bill and Hillary are riding through DC in a motorcade.
Suddenly Hillary says to the driver “Pull over!!! Right NOW!!!”
He does so and the motorcade screeches to a panicked halt.
Hillary gets out of the limo, walks up to a homeless man sitting dejectedly on the curb, kneels down next to him and says a few words, reaches into her purse and gives him a card, and then gets back in the limo and says “OK, we can go now” and they start back up.
Bill turns to Hillary and says “What was THAT all about?” and she answers “Oh…I recognized that guy. I used to go out with him before I met you and I hated seeing him in that state, so I figured I’d see if there was something I could do to help him. He was an alright sorta guy…just down on his luck a little, I think.”
Bill swelled up a little (as he did so well, so often…) and said “Hillary, I’ll bet you’re glad you married me instead of him. Now you’re married to the President of the United States!!!”
And Hillary patiently answered him.
“Bill…you still don’t understand, do you? If I had married him, he’d be the President of the United States.”
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Yup.
AG
