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The Belly of the Architect

March 10, 2008 7:21 AM

In Barack Obama's favorite newspaper -- the University of Iowa's Daily Iowan, which his campaign quotes from quite liberally -- a story about a not-so-warm campus welcome for former White House adviser Karl Rove.

Six different community coalitions formed "The Karl Rove Welcoming Committee" asked cops to arrest Rove for treason, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, the paper reports.

"A woman charged up an aisle, her hands shaking, as she called for Rove to be arrested. And in a row near the front, a veteran told a different 84-year-old veteran to 'F--- off' when he asked him to stop shouting...

"Rove took on the audience of roughly 1,100 - telling a woman who yelled that that UI wanted the $40,000 speaking fee they paid back, simply, 'You can't have it.'...

"He told another man his comment showed, 'a simple, stupid mind, with all due respect.'"

Read more HERE.

- jpt

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JoAnne

If there is nothing substantial to add to a conversation, it is always wise to remain quiet. Dont do what Samantha Power and Goolsbee did to the Obama Campaign. You are not helping.

Posted by: MattOhio | Mar 10, 2008 10:37:35 AM

If a rumor is good to use about Obama then this one is good for Clinton:

Harper's chief of staff, Ian Brodie, last week said someone in Clinton's campaign had called to tell Canada "not to worry" about her campaign comments about reopening the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Posted by: JoAnne | Mar 10, 2008 10:33:50 AM

MattOhio she's just spouting the obama point people on talk shows. Who keep trying to tie Clinton camp into this embarassment for him.

Posted by: toby | Mar 10, 2008 10:26:14 AM

According to this website it is a virtual tie on the popular vote. Plus Clinton has won all the major democrat states that are needed, and she has the democrat base of voters. I agree obama should quit 3 times for the knockout blow that has never come.

Posted by: toby | Mar 10, 2008 10:23:52 AM

Barack Obama should just quit. If he has not been able to deliver a knock out punch to Hillary by now how the heck could he possibly beat McCain?

As for this "will of the people" arguement...isn't Hillary ahead in popular vote (if you count Florida and Michigan) now and what if she is when all the primaries and caucuses are done? Then what will you say?

Posted by: Eric | Mar 10, 2008 10:17:18 AM

webster...it was revealed yesterday that it was the Clinton campaign, not the Obama campaign, that had the meeting with the Canadians about NAFTA. So what do you think about Hillary now? Also, Hillary before running for President said that it was OK to use torture in some cases. Now that she is running for President, no torture should be used. She accused Obama of using Karl Rove tactics. He didn't, but she did, does, and will. See my post from 8:20. I think your candidate has a little credibility problem. Stop drinking the Clinton Kool Aid!

Posted by: JoAnne | Mar 10, 2008 10:16:24 AM

In 2008, Senator Obama rails against NAFTA in Ohio while his top economic advisor assures the Canadians his rhetoric is just "political positioning."
It turns out those speeches were just words. And if you can't trust Senator Obama's words, what's left?

Posted by: webster | Mar 10, 2008 10:00:05 AM

The Clintons won't win even with FI and MI. She still won't have enough votes and in my guy I feel that the Supers won't go against the will of the people...imagine the landslide McCain would win by if they stole the election from the people. Perhaps we should all flood the news media with shouts of "Hell no she won't go" and if she does? Then we vote Republican because it will be apparent that the Democratic party no longer exist. Only the wants of a few.

Posted by: Sam | Mar 10, 2008 9:51:13 AM

agreed JoAnne, and I believe that sentiment is starting to resonate across the country. God help us all if the DNC gives her the nomination.

After reading these posts for the last month or so, it is really disheartening to hear the hillary supporters spread the lies, distortions, and constant innuendo. It just proves that the majority of these people have no clue as to what hillary and bill are really all about. To have that couple back in the white house would be political suicide for the democratic party.
I have already moved away from the dems and will not vote for hillary should she be the nominee.
I can only pray that MI and FL, should they have a do-over, mail-in or otherwise, realize just what is at stake.

Posted by: LA in Indiana | Mar 10, 2008 9:28:10 AM

I think it is sad our country is leaning towards the Clintons again. They are pratically forcing Obama to accept this...

Posted by: cindy | Mar 10, 2008 8:51:53 AM

Rove is a sociopath, a character assassin--a skilled hit-man, nothing more. That he is "in demand" as a speaker speaks volumes about the neocon success of "reality creation" about which he bragged to Suskind.

Naturally the Clintons (the "good cop" of the Bush/Clinton tag team) would value his skills and work to protect him from prosecution.

Posted by: realitybased | Mar 10, 2008 8:33:27 AM

Of course, Hillary and Bill have no problem with Rove and his tactics:

The Clintons recognize the skill Rove has brought to politics and admire his craft, if not his ideology. Just days after the November 2004 election, Bill Clinton pulled Rove aside at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas. "Hey, you did a marvelous job, it was just marvelous what you did," Clinton told Rove, according to the book "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008," by John F. Harris and Mark Halperin. "I want to get you down to the library. I want to talk politics with you. You just did an incredible job, and I'd like to really get together with you and I think we could have a great conversation."

Frankly, the Clintons are sickening.

Posted by: JoAnne | Mar 10, 2008 8:20:53 AM

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