Off Camera, Obama White House Reveals Enemies List

In a rather obvious play to the Democratic base, Team Obama has been talking a lot about Republican svengali Karl Rove in recent days. This has irked Rove, an organizer of the Republican ad group American Crossroads, who has been telling basically everyone he speaks with publicly–a.k.a. Fox News, Mike Allen–that he has been placed on the White House “enemies list,” a reference to the infamous list kept by former President Richard Nixon. Here is what Rove said on Fox News Sunday:

“The president of the United States accused the Chamber of Commerce, and the Democratic National Committee in its new ad accuses Ed Gillespie and I of a criminal violation of our law by getting foreign money and spending it on American political campaigns, and they have not one shred of evidence to back up that baseless lie. This is a desperate and I think disturbing trend by the president of the United States to tar his political adversaries with some kind of enemies list, with being unrestrained by any facts or evidence whatsoever.”

Today, in an off camera briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs held up the official White House enemies list. “I’m releasing our enemies list,” he said, holding up a blank, ripped 3 X 5 inch card.

The Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Weisman was incredulous. “I’m not on it?” he objected.

“Nobody’s on it,” said Gibbs. “Now can I see the donors to American Crossroads?”

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  • newfreedomblog

    “Nobodies on it,” said Gibbs. “Now can I see the donors to American Crossroads?”

    .
    Hey Michael. Please tell Mr Gibbs that once He and Obama provide their list of donors to their 2008 campaign, I will then advocate for Rove to give up his list. Is that a deal?

  • diecash1

    “…being unrestrained by any facts or evidence whatsoever.”

    It’s comical to see Rove accuse others of something he has been guilty of throughout his career though he’s entirely too disingenuous to see the irony of it.

  • newfreedomblog

    The new Democrat “boogeyman”, Karl Rove. LOL!! You people are such a joke!!!

  • groenhagen2

    I don’t recall President Bush singling out American citizens and civic organizations and portraying them as villians. That makes Bush and this little punk Obama far different. Bush was more presidential and had, and continues to have, more more class.

  • doneck

    “ … the Democratic National Committee in its new ad accuses Ed Gillespie and I of a criminal violation of our law … ” You should have added a ‘[sic]“ after ”I.“ Rove doesn’t know any better, but you should.

  • edismeiamhe

    The Demos are simply following the advice handed down by the Clintons:

    “Never tell the truth, when a good lie will do” (” mine)

  • doneck

    “Nobodies on it,” said Gibbs.” I’ll bet that Gibbs said “Nobody’s on it.” Don’t put solecisms into the mouths of others.

  • http://twitter.com/michaelscherer Michael Scherer

    Thanks, Doneck. Fixed.

  • freeinpa

    “Today, in an off camera briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs held up the official White House enemies list. “I’m releasing our enemies list,” he said, holding up a blank, ripped 3 X 5 inch card”
    .
    Gibbs mis-spoke. What he was holding up was Obama’s economic plan

  • freeinpa

    Targets: Bush, Beck , Limbaugh, Fox, Rove, Insurance Cos. Wall Street, Banks, Chamber of Commerce are targets
    .
    Results :9.5% unemployment, 13 trillion in debt, 1.3 trillion budget deficit, Taxpayers on the hook for Trillions for Fannie & Freddie, Owners of GM with a fraud-car
    .

    Seems the President needs new targets or more likely we need a new President

  • freeinpa

    Actually you are only half right:

    It’s never tell the truth–period

  • newfreedomblog

    I’ll take option number 2 please!!

  • groenhagen2

    Good one.

  • freeinpa

    “CNN – Obama administration to lift deepwater drilling moratorium
    put in place after BP oil spill, government sources say”
    .
    I guess they will need petrol to run those GM Volt’s on

  • Ike Jakson

    I shall read the cards midnight November 2nd after the people have spoken.

  • newfreedomblog

    Bill Clinton getting heckled by a recent campaign run.
    .
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/clinton-heckled-in-blue-new-york-says-half-of-republicans-need-psychiatric-help/
    .
    CLINTON HECKLED IN BLUE NEW YORK, SAYS HALF OF REPUBLICANS NEED PSYCHIATRIC HELP

  • sacredh

    Tarot?

  • kevin

    Bush was more presidential and had, and continues to have, more more class.
    .
    Really?

    In the week before [Karla Faye Tucker's] execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. “Did you meet with any of them?” I ask.
    .
    Bush whips around and stares at me. “No, I didn’t meet with any of them,” he snaps, as though I’ve just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. “I didn’t meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like ‘What would you say to Governor Bush?’ ”
    .
    “What was her answer?” I wonder.
    .
    “Please,” Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, “don’t kill me.”

    Classy.
    .
    http://old.nationalreview.com/daily/nr080999.html

  • newfreedomblog

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2010_Elections/abc-news-yahoo-pollanger-economy-fuels-republican/story?id=11826703
    .

    85 percent of Americans are either angry about the economy or at least dissatisfied with it, according to the survey, produced for ABC and Yahoo! News by Langer Research Associates. That makes economic discontent even higher than anger or dissatisfaction with “the way the federal government is working,” at 71 percent in an ABC News/Washington Post poll last week.

    .
    Does this mean 85% of Democrats running for re-election will be voted out of office?? One can only hope so.

  • kevin

    Clearly, you and your multiple personalities could use it.

  • newfreedomblog

    Selling America…………Obama-style. Unbelievable.
    .
    http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/China_stakes_claim_to_S_Texas_oil_gas_104753969.html
    .
    Now who wants to borrow more from the Chinese and spend it on lame liberal programs which do not work?

  • http://gum0nshoe.wordpress.com gumOnShoe

    newfreedomblog, any chance you’re paid to shill this stuff? How do you find the time?

  • kevin

    It’s charming to hear Karl Rove complain about some kind of White House Enemies List. He should know:

    Roe walked over to the table, “I’m Jason Roe.”
    .
    Rove: “Oh, the famous Jason Roe.”
    .
    Roe: “I don’t know that I’m famous, but I’m Tom Feeney’s former chief of staff, and I’m offended by your comments on Fox about Tom. You guys wouldn’t be in the White House without Tom. And you made these really degrading comments about him that offended a lot of people.”
    .
    (Sidenote: Tom Feeney was the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives during the whole Bush/Gore 2000 recount.)
    .
    Rove: “Well, I have a file on the things Tom Feeney said about George Bush.”
    .
    Roe: “That says more about you than me that you kept a file on Tom Feeney. This guy was so restrained in his desire to criticize the president — even against this staff’s advice.”
    .
    Rove: “I have a file.”
    .
    Roe: “I’m right here. Tell me to my face what’s in that file.”
    .
    Rove: “I’ll send you the file.”

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0409/Karl_Rove_accosted_by_ex_GOP_Chief_of_Staff.html

  • groenhagen2

    The pervert and pathological liar Bill Clinton said someone else needs psychiatric help? Now there’s a blatant case of projection.

  • diecash1

    It’s fun to watch. Mention Karl Rove and the reactionaries and nutters are out in full force, entirely full of hot air. SS, DD.

  • sacredh

    Right wing paranoia, it’s what’s for dinner.

  • Paul-no not that one

    Rove: “I have a file.”
    .
    And “THE math”

  • grape_crush

    I don’t recall President Bush singling out…
    .
    That’s because your memory is short or you’re not being honest. In addition, we’re talking about Rove, not Dubya.
    .
    Nice attempt to redirect the conversation, ‘tho.

  • diecash1

    From your article:

    State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially testing the political waters for further expansion into U.S. energy reserves.

    So let me make sure I understand your “position” correctly: You’re attempting to vilify the Obama administration because they’re allowing capitalism to take place? Oh noes!
    ..
    Why do you suppose Obama, whom you call a socialist, would possibly allow a company to buy land for development? Doesn’t that go against your entire premise? Oh, right. That doesn’t fit your narrative so you might want to retract that one. You’re still dumb as ever rustyblogwhore.

  • nflfoghorn

    I’d love to see Duval County FL’s supervisor of elections office count those 27,000 votes that didn’t get counted in 2000. But, alas, that would be an investigation in which Justice isn’t interested.

  • nflfoghorn

    Oh dang – 12.1 was meant for here.

  • newfreedomblog

    Actually LADY diecash, it is because Obambi your anointed “One” has stopped all oil drilling and the companies we do have are going broke because of it. Now they are like sitting ducks, just waiting for the Chinese to gobble them all up.
    .
    Go practice your Mandarin a$$wipe, and perhaps your dream of the United Socialist States of America will come true.
    .
    (Disclaimer: I truly did try and remain civil, and not resort to the 3rd grade name calling the libtards who post comments on here do, but as you can see, they are nothing short of children in adult bodies).

  • grape_crush

    “This is a desperate and I think disturbing trend by the president of the United States to tar his political adversaries with some kind of enemies list, with being unrestrained by any facts or evidence whatsoever.”

    “The right has a new response to this: the other side does the same thing, so the complaints amount to hypocrisy. To hear conservatives tell it, there are labor unions and progressive organizations like MoveOn.org doing the same thing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is doing — running ads targeting candidates thanks to secret donations.

    The flaw in the argument: it’s not true.

    MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough made the claim this morning, but to his credit, retracted it on the air. Karl Rove and other Fox News personalities have made the same argument, and wouldn’t you know it, they’ve been reluctant to correct their mistake.[...]

    [Karl] Rove specifically claimed on the air that the National Resources Defense Council, the League of Conservation Voters, the Center for American Progress, and MoveOn are engaged in the midterms, but “do not report their donors.”

    But the claim about MoveOn is wrong, and none of the other groups he mentioned are running campaign ads at all.

    Either Rove has no idea what he’s talking about — which is unlikely, given that he helped create and fund some secretive campaign operations this year — or he’s shamelessly lying on national television.”

  • newfreedomblog

    Well since you are the lobotomized QUEEN of the swamp, little kevie. That is actually a compliment from you.

  • freeinpa

    “It’s comical to see Rove accuse others of something he has been guilty of throughout his career though he’s entirely too disingenuous to see the irony of it.”
    .
    Why is it liberals get so annoyed when a conservative acts the way liberals have for years? And while its debatable that Rove is too disingenuous t see the irony at least he doesn’t lie about it like a liberal would.

  • nflfoghorn

    Sought Secret, Delicious Dirt? ;)

  • newfreedomblog

    You really do not want me to re-print my giant list of George Soros funded far left liberal extremist groups again, do you grape-nuts?

  • michaelfury

    “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

    - Karl Rove

    http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/this-ever-burning-chair/

  • sacredh

    Rove is shamelessly lying. It what he does. It’s what he’s always done. He does it because it works with the ignorant sheep.

  • diecash1

    Yeah, you really tried to remain civil, as if I care. Too bad stupid comes so easily to you instead.
    ..
    I realize that you’ve never possessed any sort of reading comprehension but allow me to help you out:

    CNOOC has agreed to pay about $1.1 billion for a chunk of Chesapeake’s assets in the Eagle Ford, a broad oil and gas formation that runs largely from southwest of San Antonio to the Mexican border

    Wow! Imagine that! It’s not offshore…..it’s…..wait for it……onshore! No ban whatsoever! Have a young child read this and explain it to you.

  • diecash1

    Perhaps not.

  • newfreedomblog

    The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors. -Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)
    .
    Obambi’s “Hit List”
    .
    http://open.salon.com/blog/behind_blue_eyes/2010/01/27/obamas_hit_list_us_citizens_marked_for_assassination
    .
    Are you on the list?

  • nflfoghorn

    RE Rust-eze @ 16.1: Please don’t. It proves nothing.

  • freeinpa

    “So let me make sure I understand your “position” correctly: You’re attempting to vilify the Obama administration because they’re allowing capitalism to take place? Oh noe”
    .
    Only a liberal would reason that allowing a foreign government owned entity to take our limited oil reserves while hindering , stopping and generally destroying US companies from doing the same is capitalism.

  • grape_crush

    Linky:
    .
    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_10/026024.php
    .
    You really do not want…
    .
    Don’t care, as it has nothing to do with the topic at hand, which is Karl Rove’s hypocritical whinging. All you’ll do is irritate folks for having to wear out their scroll wheels to bypass your usual nonsense.

  • nflfoghorn

    Pretty good maneuver by Gibbs – sounds like Jesus vs. the Pharisees (and Rove’s not the Almighty).

  • diecash1

    Only a liberal would reason that allowing a foreign government owned entity to take our limited oil reserves while hindering , stopping and generally destroying US companies from doing the same is capitalism.

    You and your pal are really reaching on this one. Has some law been broken? No? Then how is it NOT capitalism occurring in the “free” market?
    ..
    If Obama interfered in such deals, allowing those he sought fit to continue while rejecting others, you would then complain that government was “picking winners and losers” and “interfering in the market” or some such bs.
    ..
    If you don’t like the result of capitalism and the free market, write your Congress critters or quit b!tching.

  • nflfoghorn

    You mentioned that the Volt is a “lie” – based on what exactly? It’s always been designed as a gas/electric hybriid…when the electricity runs out the gas takes over. OTOH the Nissan Leaf is 100% electric.

  • grape_crush

    “Personal attacks generally don’t work unless they’re seen as fair, credible and pertinent. Voters must think the character shortcomings are both persistent and relevant. If not, the assaults will fail, even backfire.”

    Hypocrite.

    “Some of Rove’s darker tactics cut even closer to the bone. One constant throughout his career is the prevalence of whisper campaigns against opponents. The 2000 primary campaign, for example, featured a widely disseminated rumor that John McCain, tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, had betrayed his country under interrogation and been rendered mentally unfit for office. More often a Rove campaign questions an opponent’s sexual orientation. Bush’s 1994 race against Ann Richards featured a rumor that she was a lesbian…”

  • diecash1

    at least he doesn’t lie about it like a liberal would.

    Rove’s been a liar since shortly after he was born (or spawned) and he learned the lessons of Atwater well.

  • diecash1

    EDIT: Rove has, not Rove’s…..d’oh.

  • nflfoghorn

    Worth a shot tho’ :)

  • grape_crush

    “Team Obama is suffering from Extended Campaign Syndrome. In an election, campaign staffers are often just trying to survive until the next week or the next primary. They cut corners because they are fatigued or under pressure. They can be purposely combative and even portray critics as enemies. [...]“

    Projection.

    “The former Bush advisor’s attack on Obama is ironic, considering Rove’s own role in creating a divisive ‘permanent campaign’ attitude in the previous White House.

    Former Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan wrote in his 2008 book What Happened that ‘Karl Rove did not create the excesses of the permanent campaign. Rather, the excesses of the permanent campaign created Karl Rove.’ As the Washington Post notes, Rove’s 2003 efforts to promote political appointments and direct federal funding to support ‘Bush’s reelection agenda’ amounted to “a permanent campaign that was an integral part of his strategy to establish Republican electoral dominance.’”

  • newfreedomblog

    Ann Richards featured a rumor that she was a lesbian…”

    .
    You mean Ann wasn’t a lesbian? Well I’ll be damn.

  • nflfoghorn

    “This…has been a Mehlman Production.”

  • freeinpa

    “I’d love to see Duval County FL’s supervisor of elections office count those 27,000 votes that didn’t get counted in 2000. But, alas, that would be an investigation in which Justice isn’t interested”

    .
    Still tilting at that windmill?

    “The lawsuit came after hundreds of Gore supporters flooded the Palm Beach County elections office with calls Wednesday, saying they feared they had mistakenly voted for Buchanan”

    Typical dumb Demo voters
    .
    “The California Democrat Party paid for the mailing of an 11th-hour Bill Clinton campaign letter to unregistered, non-citizen Hispanics urging them to use a bogus “Voter Identification Card” at the polls yesterday, greatly increasing the potential for rampant voter fraud in the nation’s richest electoral college state
    .
    Need to cheat harder next time
    .
    “Al Gore on Tuesday became the first major-party presidential candidate since George McGovern in 1972 to lose his home state. And he lost President Clinton’s home state, too. Many Tennesseans say they don’t consider Gore one of their own anyway, what with his close ties to Washington”
    .
    Even his mother didn’t like him.
    .

    Gore started a legal battle and lost at the only court that matters.

  • grape_crush

    “President Bush, for example, never allowed a White House staffer or administration spokesman to go out and do what this administration and our predecessor routinely did — that is to engage in calling the leaders of the opposition party disparaging labels and question their motives…”

    Dishonest.

    As The Oklahoman’s Ryan Dean noted, “In fact, Rove and other members of the Bush administration were routinely critical of opponents to the Iraq war and questioned their patriotism.” In a 2007 speech, Rove directly challenged the “motives” of his political opponents when he implied that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) intentionally used rhetoric that would endanger American soldiers:

    ”Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.”

    During the 2008 campaign, Rove cast doubt on now-President Obama’s patriotism by attacking him for not wearing a flag pin — even though Rove wasn’t wearing one at the time — and criticized Michelle Obama for not showing “adequate enough” patriotism after she had given a lengthy speech professing her love of country.

  • newfreedomblog

    Excellent!! You win the comment of the month. TIME should feature this one on the main page!!

  • grape_crush

    “The administration is making a mistake for itself,” Rove continued. “But more importantly, it is demeaning the office of the president by taking the president and moving him from a person who wants to be talking to everybody and communicating through every available channel the same, if you oppose me, you question me, if you are too tough on me, by gosh, me and my people are not going to come on, we are going to penalize you. That is just wrong, fundamentally wrong.”

    Maligner.

    “It was, after all, George W. Bush who became the first modern president to refuse literally every interview request from the New York Times over the span of nine years. The NYT’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg explained about a year ago, “[Bush] White House officials are quite open about the fact that we have not gotten an interview because they don’t like our coverage.”

    Did Rove find this decision ‘demeaning’ to the presidency? Was Rove in the West Wing, arguing at the time that the president should be “talking to everybody and communicating through every available channel”?

    For that matter, the Bush White House went after NBC News in May 2008, accusing the network of deceptive editing and blurring the lines between ‘news’ and ‘opinion.’ Officials from the Bush team began treating NBC and MSNBC as political opponents.”

  • freeinpa

    “You and your pal are really reaching on this one. Has some law been broken? No? Then how is it NOT capitalism occurring in the “free” market?”
    .
    It’s a free market if we drill in Alaska fo roil, Shale oil in the Rockies, in the Gulf of Mexico, Off Florida, off California. The you have a free market. For some reason liberals thinks if you ask or pay for government approval that’s a free market. By allowing CNOOC to drill they picked a winner and restricting elsewhere, the loser the American people.

  • kbanginmotown

    diecash: You ain’t kiddin’! Today’s other threads get one or two trolling drive-bys, tops. This thread gets a six-pack (or 2 guys @ 3 sockpuppets). Sore subject?

  • newfreedomblog

    Sen. DICK Durbin (D-IL) intentionally used rhetoric that would endanger American soldiers:

    .
    There fixed it for ya!!

  • grape_crush

    “And it’s clear that this is — that this is the same old style politics that we grew to really dislike in the 1990s, when the White House thought everything through from a political perspective, road-tested it by running polls and focus groups and did everything with a very keen eye towards the politics of the matter, not what was in the best interests of the country.”

    Prevaricator.

    “Rove oversaw the politicization of nearly every aspect of Bush’s federal government, from the Justice Department to the EPA. Rove convinced President Bush to outlaw embryonic stem cell research, helping curry favor with the GOP’s evangelical base.

    What was Rove up to in the 1990s? Indeed, he was involved in ‘old style politics that we grew to really dislike.’ In a 1996 campaign for Arkansas Supreme Court, Rove printed flyers that ‘viciously’ attacked his client’s opponent’s family. President Bush’s 1994 gubernatorial campaign, on which Rove was a top adviser, featured an infamous push poll hinting that opponent Ann Richards was a lesbian.”

  • liberalmeltdown

    Obama promised not to take private money in his run for president, until he found out how much money that actually would be. So, he broke his promise. He lied. What else is new? Then he comes up with this. It’s a joke. This guy promises transparency, openness and lies about everything. Then he has the heuvos to try and call out the Chamber of Commerce.

  • newfreedomblog

    Conyer’s placating to the Socialist of America prior to the “One Nation Rally” held recently in Washington DC.
    .

    “Rep. John “Read the Bill” Conyers, D-Mich., speaking to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) prior to the “One Nation Working Together” march in Washington, dismisses the tea party movement and discusses all he and President Barack Obama have in common with the DSA. He is “honored” to be introduced by Frank Llewellyn, the DSA’s national director:”

    .
    Video evidence also included.
    .
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-congressman-speaks-to-democratic-socialists-calls-tea-party-small-and-dismissable/
    .
    “Thank you for coming to the march!!”

  • diecash1

    Did you even read the article? Chesapeake Energy is a private company:
    http://www.chk.com/Pages/default.aspx
    ..
    They made the decision to sell some of their assets to a foreign-owned (Chinese) company, not the Federal government.
    ..
    I notice you didn’t respond regarding whether any laws were broken. Very telling.
    ..
    Also, regardless of where oil or gas exploration occurs, private companies sell it on the world market. Just because it’s drilled here doesn’t mean is belongs to us. You’d really cry foul if we had an American equivalent of the Chinese gov’t owned CNOOC.

  • grape_crush

    “This White House has carried pre-packaged, organized, controlled, scripted events to a new height, and they’re getting away with things that in any previous White House, the media would have eviscerated the press secretary and the White House for it.”

    Deceiver.

    “Of course, pre-screening for political ideology is exactly what the Bush administration did.

    In March 2005, people seeking tickets to a Social Security event were quizzed about their support of President Bush and his Social Security plan ahead of time. In April 2005, Bush’s security detail threw out three people from an event in Colorado because they had a bumper sticker reading ‘No More Blood For Oil.’ White House spokesman Trent Duffy said that if there’s any evidence people might ‘disrupt the president,’ they ‘have the right to exclude those people from those events.’

    Bush even screened the assembled group of soldiers he would meet in Iraq during a 2003 Thanksgiving visit: Soldiers had to fill out a questionnaire asking whether they supported Bush. ”

    (and I can go on, but the point is made…BIG hat tip to Benen over at the Washington Monthly, who’s keeping track of The King of Irony)

  • diecash1

    You nailed that Kbang!

  • freeinpa

    diecash1:

    But it does raise some interesting questions?
    .
    First at the risk of being called a conspirator, is Obama deliberately trying to deplete our oil supply to force Crap & Trade on us?.
    .
    Is this a bribe to keep the support of the Chinese government in buying Treasury bonds while Obama continues to run up the public debt?

    .
    Will CNOOC receive taxpayer money when the drilling begins?
    .

  • newfreedomblog

    How many people died and were subsequently jailed because of this?
    .
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy
    .
    Oh that’s right, we do not want to bring out skeletons from the closets do we?
    .

    The Whitewater controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal, Whitewatergate, or most often, simply Whitewater) was an American politics controversy that began with the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.

  • diecash1

    But it does raise some interesting questions?

    Yeah, okay. Let me know when you have the tiniest shred of evidence supporting any of those suppositions.
    ..
    BTW, I fail to see how this sale has absolutely anything to do with Obama since it was a private transaction between two corporations. From the article it seems that some Texans are actually happy about it since it will crank up exploration activities and bring new jobs with it.

  • shepherdwong

    Only a liberal would reason that allowing a foreign government owned entity to take our limited oil reserves…
    .
    All of our limited oil reserves are sold on the global market by the multi-national oil conglomerates, like Exxon-Mobil, that extract it. Now wipe the drool off your chin, put on your helmet and go out and play with your little friends. See if you can find some traffic.

  • diecash1

    Tastes like chicken.

  • diecash1

    How many people died and were subsequently jailed because of this?

    Well, stupid is as you write. Precisely how is one posthumously jailed?
    ..
    Better question: Why can’t your tiny brain stay on topic? Uh oh, don’t look now……….SQUIRREL!!!

  • shepherdwong

    Gore started a legal battle and lost at the only court that matters.
    .
    It was Bush v. Gore you lying @sshat. It was George Bush who sued his way to the White House courtesy of the lying, anti-constitutional, corporatist hacks his Daddy put on the Supreme Court. Part one of the corporatist coup that Junior completed with appointment of lying, anti-constitutional, corporatist hacks John Roberts and Samuel Alito.

  • freeinpa

    “Some of Rove’s darker tactics cut even closer to the bone. One constant throughout his career is the prevalence of whisper campaigns against opponents. The 2000 primary campaign, for example, featured a widely disseminated rumor that John McCain, tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, had betrayed his country under interrogation and been rendered mentally unfit for office”
    .
    Seriously? You call Rove a hypocrite? NYT smear McCain over affair rumors, the ongoing smear of McDonnell, Palin or any conservative. Obama smearing the Chamber of Commerce. Grayson and his Taliban ad, the list goes on.
    .
    Taking umbrage at one and winking at the other all with a sanctimonious tone is the height of hypocrisy

  • sacredh

    Tastes like chickenhawk. Fixed it.
    .
    Slightly OT, but the husband of a friend of my wife is always saying that liberals are pussies, don’t have any morals and aren’t patriotic. My wife told me the other day that his only son just came out of the closet and moved in with a guy just a couple of years younger than his dad. Just a couple of years ago at a cookout this guy was telling me how disappointed I must be because my son was going to be a teacher (a woman’s job in his opinion).

  • freeinpa

    “”Rove oversaw the politicization of nearly every aspect of Bush’s federal government, from the Justice Department to the EPA. Rove convinced President Bush to outlaw embryonic stem cell research, helping curry favor with the GOP’s evangelical base.”
    .
    With everyone of these you become a bigger joke. Which Democratic administration did not politicize nearly every aspect of the federal government? And what Democratic administration did not pass some legislation to curry favor with some part of their base or group.
    .

    You are either a liar or an idiot! And all of this does nothing to help a failing Administration and Congress.

  • freeinpa

    “Bush even screened the assembled group of soldiers”
    .
    Who would have thought he had the time? But then he doesn’t spend most waking moments golfing , touring, and vacationing why the country slowly sinks.

  • freeinpa

    “I notice you didn’t respond regarding whether any laws were broken. Very telling”
    .
    Yes it is very telling. I love liberals who tout the law on convenience. Tell me how do you feel about illegal immigrants? Or is that a law that is ok to break. Or the one about military ballots not being mailed coincidentally from blue states?
    .
    Chesapeake is certainly within their right to sell to who ever they choose as their shareholders is there primary interest. I wonder if you and Obambi would agree that is true about companies sending jobs overseas for the same reasons. I seem to recall some nut job Democrats calling that treason and unpatriotic Most countries consider oil as vital to national security, this administration views it as something to destroy..

  • grape_crush

    Seriously?
    .
    Yeah. Seriously. Rove fails his own tests.
    .
    …ongoing smear…
    .
    Criticizing O’Donnell for what she’s said and done is not a smear, Freeper. Deriding Palin for her dim-witted statements when she makes them is not a smear. Calling out the US Chamber of Commerce when they refuse to disclose who gives them their funds is not a smear. And so on.
    .
    Unlike Rove’s brutish work, which frequently lacks any element of truth:

    [former Alabama Justice Mark] Kennedy leaned forward and said, “After the race my wife, Peggy, was at the supermarket checkout line. She picked up a copy of Reader’s Digest and nearly collapsed on her watermelon. She called me and said, ‘Sit down. You’re not going to believe this.’” Her husband was featured in an article on “America’s worst judges.” Kennedy attributed this to Rove’s attacks.

    When his term on the court ended, he chose not to run for re-election. I later learned another reason why. Kennedy had spent years on the bench as a juvenile and family-court judge, during which time he had developed a strong interest in aiding abused children. In the early 1980s he had helped to start the Children’s Trust Fund of Alabama, and he later established the Corporate Foundation for Children, a private, nonprofit organization. At the time of the race he had just served a term as president of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect. One of Rove’s signature tactics is to attack an opponent on the very front that seems unassailable. Kennedy was no exception.

    Some of Kennedy’s campaign commercials touted his volunteer work, including one that showed him holding hands with children. “We were trying to counter the positives from that ad,” a former Rove staffer told me, explaining that some within the See camp initiated a whisper campaign that Kennedy was a pedophile. [...] “What Rove does,” says Joe Perkins, “is try to make something so bad for a family that the candidate will not subject the family to the hardship. Mark is not your typical Alabama macho, beer-drinkin’, tobacco-chewin’, pickup-drivin’ kind of guy. He is a small, well-groomed, well-educated family man, and what they tried to do was make him look like a homosexual pedophile. That was really, really hard to take.”

    Yeah. Seriously.

  • newfreedomblog

    Oh LADY diecash you are so funny!! I just love it when you respond to all of my comments. Pretty soon you will be JUST like pattysartor, he is another far left liberal nutball that loves to stalk and harass me too!! Good job.

  • grape_crush
  • freeinpa

    Again keep repeating something doesn’t make it true.

    First lawsuit: One day after Election Tuesday, the first lawsuit (Fladell v. Palm Beach County Canv. Bd. (PBCCB) ), is filed in Florida by Palm Beach County voters who, alleging voter confusion over the county’s butterfly ballot, are seeking to set aside all presidential votes in the county and order a new county-wide election. Defendants include the PBCCB, Bush, Cheney, Gore, and Lieberman.

    NAACP President Kweisi Mfume notifies Attorney General Janet Reno of the reported irregularities and minority vote dilution African-American voters in Florida may have encountered on election. He asks Reno to investigate the charges.

    Immediately after the ruling, Gore’s legal team filed a notice of appeal ..

    They filed first, lost then appealed.

    .
    Seem the lying asshat is you. And you can add whining sore loser to your description

  • kevin

    Well since you are the lobotomized QUEEN of the swamp, little kevie.
    .
    You’re calling me gay? What are you, three years old?
    .
    Hard to believe you’re both racist and homophobic. So unlike a conservative.

  • certifiablylazy

    @3.1: Don’t forget Real Americans, and Our Country, which needs to be taken back by the former. They obviously hate both, ambiguously.

  • freeinpa

    ” Calling out the US Chamber of Commerce when they refuse to disclose who gives them their funds is not a smear. And so on”
    .
    Are they legally required to disclose them? If not, the only purpose is a smear.
    .
    “Criticizing O’Donnell for what she’s said and done is not a smear, Freeper. Deriding Palin for her dim-witted statements when she makes them is not a smear.”

    .
    Just so we have it straight, bringing up things O’Donnell (running for 1 of 100 Seante seats) said or did years ago is not a smear, but asking Obama about relationships with terrorists, a wing nut preacher that “formed Obama’s life” and various left wing radicals that he put into his administration is smearing and just racist. Is that about right?

  • freeinpa

    “As the Washington Post notes, Rove’s 2003 efforts to promote political appointments and direct federal funding to support ‘Bush’s reelection agenda’ amounted to “a permanent campaign that was an integral part of his strategy to establish Republican electoral dominance.’”
    .
    And again this is different than Obama and Clinton how? Oh yeah they are the good guys. Sorry my mistake.
    .
    Actually Clinton and Obama tried but failed because they took the typical moronic liberal assumption when they were elected god. Quickly the public disagreed and Team Donkey Congressional prospects suffered.

  • hippooath

    “Well since you are the lobotomized QUEEN of the swamp, little kevie. That is actually a compliment from you.”
    .
    Wow, sharp. Nothing like making a childish homophobic insult to put someone in their place.
    .
    Swampland – could we have better trolls please?

  • diecash1

    You need to stop as I just don’t have time to refute all of this nonsense.
    ..

    Tell me how do you feel about illegal immigrants? Or is that a law that is ok to break.

    Well, by definition, they broke the law. St. Reagan was okay with it so why aren’t you?
    ..
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986
    ..
    Personally, I think we need a reasonable immigration policy — what that constitutes, I don’t precisely know but sending back 10-12 million people doesn’t seem reasonable to me. It’s also probably why it wasn’t done that way in the past.

    Obambi

    What are you, one of rustyblogwhore’s multiple personalities?

    Most countries consider oil as vital to national security, this administration views it as something to destroy..

    How exactly is governmental policy in this area different than the last several administrations? Precisely when did the U.S, have a national oil company to gather and store it’s resources strictly for American use? Again, there would be cries of market interference from the right until the cows came home. Don’t attempt to pretend otherwise.

  • diecash1

    That’s a pretty stiff dose of reality for him……………

  • diecash1

    Pointing out the stupidity of your remarks is a full time job and I just don’t have that kind of time (or interest) most days.
    ..
    Don’t go away mad rustyblogwhore, just go away.

  • grape_crush

    ….asking Obama about relationships with terrorists, a wing nut preacher that “formed Obama’s life” and various left wing radicals that he put into his administration is smearing and just racist.
    .
    Dunno about the racist part; you said it, I didn’t, Freeper…Freudian slip perhaps?
    .
    As for ‘smear’…where’s the element of truth in any of that? Obama had no close association with Ayers, distanced himself from Wright when Wright’s more controversial statements became more public, and as for ‘left wing radicals’ in the Obama administration, well, that’s just your Beck-induced perspective, Freeper.
    .
    Is that about right?
    .
    Nope. Not even close.

  • freeinpa

    “Rove’s been a liar since shortly after he was born (or spawned) and he learned the lessons of Atwater wel”
    .
    And you know this to be fact or is this just more liberal whining. I vote whining.

  • nflfoghorn

    Oh never mind, I figured out the source of your talking point – King Flush, who’s never sat in one (prolly ’cause he can’t fit in it), said he doesn’t like the Volt. (How anti-American can you get???) Coupla other car critics jumped on that as well.

  • freeinpa

    “(Reuters) – General Motors Corp said on Tuesday its all-electric Chevrolet Volt was on track for a launch in 2010 after the company’s board approved funding for production of the high-profile plug-in vehicle”

    .
    Then Government Motors should be sued for false advertisement and taking tax payer money under false pretenses. It is also on the Chevy website as an all electric car. Edmonds wrote it up as an all electric car after seeing it and has now changed its review.

  • diecash1

    Riiiiight. Rove’s never been an all-out liar in virtually every campaign he’s touched. Nope. Never. He poisoned every single thing he touched. As mentioned in commentary previously, he helped to politicize the Dept. of Justice under W in an unprecedented fashion. You can decide you don’t like it but you can’t refute it either.

  • freeinpa

    “BTW, I fail to see how this sale has absolutely anything to do with Obama since it was a private transaction between two corporations”
    .
    “Again, there would be cries of market interference from the right until the cows came home. Don’t attempt to pretend otherwise.”
    .
    “Chinese oil company Cnooc Ltd. on Tuesday withdrew its $18.5 billion takeover bid for California energy firm Unocal Corp., saying it could not overcome resistance from politicians in Washington who said such a deal could threaten U.S. national security and violate the rules of fair trade”

    Cows are home I guess. But your new found love for capitalism is touching. I assume you are calling for the repeal of ObamaCare which interferes with free markets or is that another liberal exception.
    .
    “Well, by definition, they broke the law. St. Reagan was okay with it so why aren’t you?”

    Lovely “by definition”- more liberal crap along with the fact that you believe that every conservative holds the same opinion as another based on some cheat sheet that is passed around to us. Reagan was wrong and by ignoring it we have over 10 million criminals here wasting precious resources.

  • freeinpa

    “Kennedy attributed this to Rove’s attacks.”
    .
    Talk about your solid proof. Attribution by the loser.
    .
    “We were trying to counter the positives from that ad,” a former Rove staffer told me,”
    .
    And an unnamed source
    .
    “What Rove does,” says Joe Perkins, “is try to make something so bad for a family that the candidate will not subject the family to the hardship.”
    .
    And supposition from a Democratic political consultant who was before a grand jury for being part of a vote buying scheme in AL.

    Talk about unimpeachable sources without a single fact.

    National Enquirer may be calling you soon

  • Alex Vallas

    Rove complains that the White House is lying? The guy who lied about outing an American Spy? The guy should be in jail and not out mouthing off. How he has any credibility is beyond me. Why doesn’t the GOP put up Libby to run for President? Birds of a Feather.

  • freeinpa

    ” Rove’s never been an all-out liar in virtually every campaign he’s touched. Nope. Never. He poisoned every single thing he touched. As mentioned in commentary previously, he helped to politicize the Dept. of Justice under W in an unprecedented fashion”
    .
    And your evidence is what Liberals lost? Exactly what did Carville & Begala give us? In their own words “smash mouth” politics.
    .
    Politicize DOJ? Clinton had FBI files on folks -of course that was an honest mistake. DOJ had Gorelick a long time Clinton cheerleader to protect Clinton and not the country. Sandy “‘Baggy Pants” Berger steals documents, Holder and DOJ with stonewalling of Black Panthers, the terror trials, everything politicize.
    .
    What is tiresome is the left always whines but conveniently forgets that do the same things. One difference Rove is out of office and the political hacks on the left are now in office doing exactly what you skewer Rove for doing. Denying it is only a delusion of the left.

  • freeinpa

    And speaking of lying. Liberals keep repeating things doesn’t make them true.
    .
    The leaker according to the guy whose article named her (Robert Novak) was Richard Armitage. The Plame/Wilsons have filed suit after suit and have lost all the way up to the Supreme Court.

    So what we have is, in addition to the continual liberal lies, is constant whining.

  • sasquatch08

    I had something witty and insightful to say about this but after reading everyone screaming insults and curses at each other I think I had a mini-stroke and I don’t remember what I was going to say.
    .
    Regardless of political affiliation making serious charges of criminal offenses such as vote or election tampering without evidence and then demanding proof that it didn’t happen is about as un-American as you can get (looking at you Axelrod).
    .
    This Administration and the DNC hadn’t really done anything that made me angry (things I disagreed with yes) until they pulled this out of their hat. Unless they have some evidence of the crimes they claim are being committed they are committing a crime themselves: slander (or is it libel when you run an ad on TV?).
    .
    In the country I grew up in you simply do not go around making claims that ANYONE is committing serious crimes against the country unless you have some evidence to support your claim and “well… do you have evidence that it didn’t happen?” is NOT evidence and serves no purpose than to highlight what a d-bag you are.
    .
    While I am loath to make this comparison it sounds a lot like what happened to political opponents of say… Stalin? Government official makes claim that you are guilty of crime X –> you must now prove that you are NOT guilty of crime X —>government is under no obligation to prove it’s claims to be true —> do not pass go, do not collect $200, straight to the gulag or firing squad with you!
    .
    I am disappointed and disgusted that some weasel like Axelrod would actually have the stones to say “well you can’t prove it’s not true”.
    .
    Hey! Guess what everyone! Aliens from 20,000,000 light years away landed in my back yard last night and they brought Jesus with them! Jesus told me that Axelrod is the Anti-Christ and and Obama is Satan himself! Bush was just a test by the devil using a lesser demon to run the country! Jesus says we must rise up and kill them all for the good of humanity!
    .
    I don’t need proof that this is true, because you don’t have any that it’s not! *makes childish hand singles” NAAA NAA NA NAAAA NAAA! *runs away to play on junglegym*

  • shepherdwong

    Seem the lying asshat is you.
    .
    Nope, still you. Gore won his legal battle “in the only court that matters,” the Florida Supreme Court – just like the election. That’s exactly why Bush and his “conservative” cronies had to engineer their judicial coup d’etat in the court that had no constitutional jurisdiction over Florida’s vote-counting.

  • sacredh

    I’ve only met them a couple of times and the wife seemed pretty nice. The dad was a bit of an @sshole. My wife says the son was at the cookout but I don’t remember him. I guess the mom is more than a little upset (no grandkids) but the dad doesn’t want to see him again until he stops being gay.

  • acameronw

    I’ll stipulate that some of this Chamber of Commerce overseas funding kerfuffle is being used by the Democrats as a political tactic in an election cycle that appears to be pretty grim for them. But I have to say that I’m surprised that conservatives (including the Swamplanders) aren’t more concerned about this. It’s obvious they don’t care about the American corporate money gushing into the system in the wake of the Citizen’s United decision, trust in corporations over one’s government being a conservative hallmark. But foreign corporations? Seems like selective xenophobia to not worry about that money. Or are they so determined to prevail in this election that they don’t care how they go about it? Strange bedfellows indeed.

  • pgillenw

    Let’s see an enemies list with no names except the bantering about of K Rove and the Chamber. Seems there are articles alluding to this now infamous list but “where’s the meat”? I do not doubt that one exist. I also do not doubt that the Dem’s are conniving to curtail freedom of speech in order to attempt to silence the Conservatives. Some one please get your fingers on “the” list.

  • sacredh

    I found a list but I’m pretty sure it’s an old Christmas list. There’s a bike and a blow-up doll on it so I’m guessing it’s from somewhere around puberty.

  • sacredh

    Nevermind. It says “Dear Satan”, not “Dear Santa”. Either it’s a spelling error or else I briefly worshipped the Devil.

  • sacredh

    Good Grief! I think I was dating Christine O’Donnel back then. Christine dear, if you’re reading this, I think the blood on the altar means you’re not really a virgin anymore.

  • sacredh

    Btw, I’ve still got your Scooby-Doo underwear with the racing stripe in the back.

  • diecash1

    “….who said such a deal could threaten U.S. national security and violate the rules of fair trade

    The operative word being could. They withdrew their bid because they apparently couldn’t stomach the process and the “climate” as the linked article stated. No where was any of this determined to be illegal and it’s mighty convenient for you to attempt to hide behind national securtiy when you have demonstrated that you prefer completely “free” trade yet you now want to engage in protectionism. The sound of the shattering glass is deafening.

    Lovely “by definition”- more liberal crap along with the fact that you believe that every conservative holds the same opinion as another based on some cheat sheet that is passed around to us.

    So you object to the word “definition” used in conjunction with the law………..pfffft.
    ..
    Oh, last I checked, it seems that the majority of conservatives do hold the same opinions, the ones they get from Fox, Beck, Rush, Rove, etc. Feel free to check the polls on that. I also don’t recall some massive conservative outcry when Reagan signed the IRCA into law either. A majority of Repub Senators and slightly less than half of House Repubs voted for it and Reagan signed it.
    ..
    While I didn’t make the contention that it should happen again, I don’t feel that +/- 12 million people can be evicted without consequence. What precisely do you suggest? All I’ve heard from you is a lot of b!tching about “illegals”, no solutions, no scorn for the businesses that hire them. Feel free to be constructive for once.

  • diecash1

    but the dad doesn’t want to see him again until he stops being gay

    Sounds like a good recipe for dying bitter, old and alone. The dad probably won’t figure it out until about then either.

  • perrywhite1

    When I saw Rove’s tremulous lip and bruised feelings on display on the teevee machine, all I could think of was “whee, whee, whee, all the way home.”

  • herby002

    new,
    You didn’t say whether you think Rove is lying or not.

  • herby002

    On the other side(s) of the card was the Republicans’ legislative plan to meet the needs of the nation:

    Left side:

    N

    Right side:

    O

  • herby002

    16.1 – new,
    “You really do not want me to re-print my giant list of George Soros funded far left liberal extremist groups again, do you grape-nuts?”

    Me! Me!
    I do, but I want you to show us the link where you got your supposedly accurate data.

    I asked for this info in a previous post, and I still don’t expect you to supply the source – and defend its accuracy.

  • diecash1
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