The wit and warmth of Karl Rove on display at the Clinton Library

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Counterinaugural at the Clinton library
At the dedication of the Clinton library, the former president calls for transcending divisions, while Bush strangely muses that "a submarine could take this place out."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/11/25/clinton_library/index.html



Offstage, beforehand, Rove and Bush had had their library tours. According to two eyewitnesses, Rove had shown keen interest in everything he saw, and asked questions, including about costs, obviously thinking about a future Bush library and legacy. "You're not such a scary guy," joked his tour guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly, "I change Constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician -- as the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact.

On his tour Bush appeared distracted and glanced repeatedly at his watch. When he stopped to gaze at the river, where Secret Service agents were stationed in boats, the guide said, "Usually, you might see some bass fishermen out there." Bush replied: "A submarine could take this place out."

Was the president warning of an al-Qaida submarine, sneaking undetected up the Mississippi, through the locks and dams of the Arkansas River, surfacing suddenly under the bridge to the 21st century to dispatch the Clinton library with a torpedo that could travel on water and land? Is that where Osama bin Laden is hiding?

Or was this a wishful, paranoid fantasy of ubiquitous terrorism destroying Clinton's legacy with one blow? Or was it a projection of menace and messianism, with only Bush grasping the true danger, standing between submerged threat and civilization? Was his apparent non sequitur a reflection of his inner logic about American politics in a fog of war, where little is discernible in the miasma but fear? Or was this simply his way of saying he wouldn't build his library near water? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, a submarine just a submarine. And sometimes we all live in a yellow submarine.

[Crankie Avalon]

1. What a keen observation...

On his tour Bush appeared distracted and glanced repeatedly at his watch. When he stopped to gaze at the river, where Secret Service agents were stationed in boats, the guide said, "Usually, you might see some bass fishermen out there." Bush replied: "A submarine could take this place out."

What a conversationalist. Imagine being stuck on an elevator with this guy. The things that must pass through that "mind"...

Oh, and what a class act trying to squeeze past ans steal the entrance from the man whom everyone was there to honor. :eyes:

[Hello_Kitty]

3. That f**ker better hope he isn't stuck on an elevator with any of us. n/t

[AmerDem]

7. Kudos

:toast:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Karl Rove...

Is the triumph of the man who went from getting locked in lockers and having jocks rubbed in his face in gym, to finding out he could control said jocks by writing their term papers for them.

[opihimoimoi]

4. The ANDY of SHAWSHANKREDEMPTION

kinda like him, gets revenge in the end... but Rove is doing it in a diabolical way

Piss on him

[Zinfandel]

5. "One glup and we're outta here."

Is the boy drinking again?

[xerox]

6. That

was not funny!