"No president in the past 40 years has done more to polarize America so much, so quickly."

[Jackeens]

Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal. You couldn't make it up.

Excerpts:

"Mr. Obama has hastened the decline of Republican support with petty attacks on his critics and predecessor. For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. Starting with his inaugural address and continuing through this week's overseas trip, the new president's jabs at Mr. Bush have been unceasing, unfair and unhelpful. They have also diminished Mr. Obama by showing him to be another conventional politician. Rather than ending 'the blame game,' he is personifying it."

"We don't yet know the price Democrats will pay for Mr. Obama's fiscal radicalism. But we do know that no presidential hopeful in our lifetime has made bipartisanship more central to his candidacy and few presidents have devoted as many eloquent words to its importance. Yet no president in the past 40 years has done more to polarize America so much, so quickly. Mr. Obama has not come close to living up to his own standards. It took him less than 11 weeks to achieve the very opposite of what he promised. That, in its own regrettable way, is quite an achievement."


Full thing (but bring a bucket):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123923500880003227.html

[Christa]

1. Isn't it insane?

Talk about projection :eyes:

[Jackeens]

2. Isn't it extraordinary stuff? So, GWB was a unifying figure? Right.

[Gman]

3. This stuff is really pathological

conservatism is a disease disorder. It really is.

[Christa]

4. I think conservatism is more of a symptom, than a disease

a symptom of being a mindless idiot :headbang:

[Orsino]

34. Conservatism is the name they're hiding their fascism behind. n/t

[burning rain]

50. Well, Obama follows Rove's man, who was a uniter, not a divider,.....

plus Obama's more liberal than that wildman Kerrey, so he's bound to divide America. I think that's probably it, or something.

[Captain Hilts]

11. I don't think he believes it. nt

[Gman]

44. No, I don't think he believes it either for one second

the point is he knows there are a whole lot of idiots out there that vote Republic that cannot think for themselves and if they try, they cannot distinguish varying degrees of uncertainty in a an answer.

[Captain Hilts]

45. He's a 'ho. I've met him. Twice. And argued with him! nt

[Sparkly]

5. Shame on WSJ for printing this.

Not that it's surprising, but shame on them anyway.

I wouldn't wrap fish with this BS.

[truebrit71]

8. Murdoch owns that fish-wrap...need I say more?

..

[Botany]

6. Karl is a perfect measurement of what is true

If he (Rover) says something you know the exact opposite is the the truth,

Karl you, W, and the rest of you shits should all be in prison for any # of crimes.

[truebrit71]

7. Why isn't that porcine piece of shit in jail yet?

..:grr:

[RDANGELO]

9. America is polarized because

a large segment of his party refuses to accept the fact That this is a multicultural society. They want a one culture society.

[Captain Hilts]

10. Amazing crap. nt

[denem]

12. GWB! GWB! GWB! GWB! GWB! GWB! GWB!

Polarize = NIMBY.

[SeaLyons]

13. Go to Prison, Karl.....

you really can't make this shit up...

[Odin2005]

14. LOL @ the cartoon. Plato actually did beleive in "useful lies", that's who the neo-cons got...

...that from. Plato and Rove would get along just fine.

[Submariner]

15. Actually Rove, what you perceive as a feeling of

"No president in the past 40 years has done more to polarize America so much, so quickly", is actually your deep depression that is eating out your guts because your party has lost so badly in recent elections, and it's ALL THE FAULT of you, Dickless Cheney and Chimpy's 8 years of incompetent leadership.

You see Karl, even with access to the powerful military machine on the planet, and the largest most covert intelligence agencies on the planet, Chimpy couldn't even keep the country safe. He didn't believe the warnings, because clearing brush photo ops were more important.

[Webster Green]

16. The approval ratings poll he cites says 27% repuke approval..

That says more about repuke obstruction than it does about the president's popularity.

President Obama reached out to these assholes and they spit in his hand. That makes repukes the partisan hacks, not Obama! :puke:

[YOY]

17. Clearly Obama isn't pandering to the batshit insane 27% of America who bought Rove's BS.

How dare he!

[safeinOhio]

18. and those darn racist just won't change.

[global1]

19. Help Me Here.....

if I knew the most powerful man in the world (Obama) potentially held my future in his hand why would I so blatantly attack him?

Surely KKKarl Rove is smarter than this. He knows that he probably broke every rule in the book over the past 8 years and then some. Dick Cheney as well. Treasonous bastards both of them - their boss included (but he is laying low - I guess he's smarter than we thought).

They must know that with the Obama administrations access now that all kinds of potential evidence could be found to put these two away for a long time.

Seems to me if I were them - I'd want to lay low and just drop off the face of the earth and not be heard from again. You know - out of sight - out of mind. And maybe - just maybe - Obama would get on to other things and just let this whole thing fade away.

But why are these guys out there leading with their chins? Why are they taking every chance they have to criticize and dump on Obama. Are they daring him to take action against them?

It just doesn't make sense to me.

I'm almost thinking that Bush made a deal with Obama. I'll give you Cheney and Rove - if you let me skate.

Is Bush prodding Cheney and Rove to help him on his legacy - just to make them targets? Any other theories? Or are these guys just ego-manical and like to live dangerously?

[JayMusgrove]

23. I vote for ego-maniacal, and they don't know how to shut up. Oh and

they are as stupid as a bag of rocks, and didn't win elections without cheating.

[Mz Pip]

29. Rove has managed

to avoid testifying before Congress by just ignoring subpoenas. It's worked for quite a while so I don't doubt that he believes it will continue to work.

Rove has a level of hubris and arrogance that is unparalleled. I can only hope that it will be the downfall of him very very soon.

[GoCubsGo]

20. What the article fails to mention...

Funny how hardly anyone is pointing out that the GOP is also much smaller than it was this time last year. A fat chunk of their membership became independents around the time McCain was nominated, and more jumped ship when he chose Mooseburger Barbie as his running mate. The country isn't "polarized". The republican party is just becoming more and more marginalized.

[LynnTheDem]

21. Ummm...ROTFLMAO!!! Now THAT is completely off the charts!

Poor dumb Rove obviously hasn't seen the polls lately. You know, the ones that show majority favorability for Prez. Obama and 33% for republicans.

[LynnTheDem]

22. Ohhh Karl!

By comparison, the Republican Party...finds its favorability at an all-time low.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493021/

[ErinBerin84]

24. Nancy Pffluffernutter

(previously of the McCain campaign) was just on MSNBC appearing as a Repuke strategist echoing this talking point. Joe Doucheborough was repeating it this morning too.

[high density]

25. The only radicals I see are Karl Rove and his lameo Repuke buddies.

As for the laughable "Blame Bush" complaints, I don't see how that fits Obama. At every turn Obama explains how we need to move forward instead of dwelling on the past. Maybe Rove should spend more time trying to improve the brand of his party instead of still insisting that Democrats and Obama are out of the "mainstream." You can't get much more mainstream than 66% approval, which is something Bush could only capture as a "war president."

[rvablue]

26. Ha! Ha! We are all experts by now on Rove 101: Attack your opponents strength

and so anything this guy writes or says is like opposite day.

If he says that Obama is polarizing we know the reality is the exact opposite!

Whatver Karl.

[otohara]

27. Latest GOP Buzz Word on Obama - Polarzing

I've heard this from other GOP talking heads in the past week. They sure do stay on message, even if it's the most laughable one they've come up with of lately.

How can a POTUS with 69% approval be the most polarizing ever?

Get a new word losers - this one won't stick.

[Deep13]

28. polarized into two camps...

the clear majority and the lunatic fringe. No President has been this divisive since G.W. Bush almost 11 weeks ago!

[AtomicKitten]

30. Tsk, tsk, Karl. A projection a day keeps the reality away.

n/t

[Vidar]

31. A pity Obama hasn't done more to jail Rove & Rupert Murdoch.

[Sebastian Doyle]

32. Shit. Chimpy had the country polarized before he was even sworn in.

Of course that's a likely result when your brother steals an election which is eventually decided (6 weeks later) by five Republicans appointed by your family crime syndicate on the Supreme Court.

[Orsino]

33. And the WSJ will publish this crap.

I'm not sure whether Rove can always get face time, or column inches, but I imagine that WSJ is a pretty reliable outlet for him.

[Cha]

36. Here's a contact for wsj..

Editorial
To contact the staff of the Journal's Editorial page, please send an e-mail to [e-mail].

[Cha]

35. This coming from the so called "genius" who not

only polarized the country but left his carlyle candidate dangling with a polling in the 20%tile as the worst president(sic) in American History.

Poor little prick.

[Jennicut]

37. Oh Karl. You are so pathetic. YOU my dear are the one that polarized us all to begin with.

You pushed the Rethugs to say we all hated America and were unpatriotic when we did not support this farce of a war in Iraq or questioned Bush on anything. Karl, please take a few pills, some alcohol and slink back under the hole you came out of. No one ever wants to see your toady face again in American politics. Ever.

[amb123]

38. It's Official: WSJ has become a Tabloid.

:crazy:

[Soylent Brice]

39. GWB didn't unite Americans. 9/11 did.

but i guess, some would specualte that he COULD take credit for that as well...

[jillan]

40. Hey Rove . . . .

Sorry - I just couldn't resist.

[redqueen]

41. Morons.

Well ... anyone gullible enough to believe this crap is a moron.

He's an evil scumbag, but not a moron. No moron could play so many million actual morons like cheap violins.

[olegramps]

42. There is only one thing that I have to know about KKKRove

He outed a covert CIA agent that was working to protect the American people. He should be arrested and hung as a traitor. People if the law refuses to act then perhaps it is time for REAL Americans to take the appropriate action.

[SKKY]

43. All the great, wonderful people in this world who die, and this fucker...

...gets to keep on living.

[moondust]

46. Question for Karl.

If Pew asked a group of card-carrying Neo-Nazis if they approve of Obama what would the results be? Around 27% approval? Somewhat less?

[Canuckistanian]

47. Why isn't this man in jail, trading cigarettes for his life?

THAT should be the philosophical question of today.

[mitchum]

48. Follow your mother's lead...and kill yourself, Karl

[mitchum]

49. Suck on this permanent majority, Porky