I thought it strange Rove would leave the administration to work for Fox News to cover the 08 primary and GE. Now it make sense.
No longer behind the scenes, but covert none the less.
The site lists the history of the dem primary and how we got to this place, covers the reasons MI and FL had to be cast aside, and all the sideshows we have seen and indicates there are more to come.
Why are dems allowing the GOP to pick our candidate? This explains why we will certainly be going to the convention with two candidates.
Grab a cup of coffee, it is a long eye opening read.
http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.htmlEvidence of a covert campaign to undermine the presidential primaries is rife, so it's curious that the Democratic Party and even some within the G.O.P. have ignored the actual elephant in the room this year. That would be Karl Rove. Long accused of rigging the two previous presidential elections, this master of deceit would have us believe that he's gone off to sit in a corner and write op-eds.
Not so. According to an article in Time magazine last November, Republicans have been organized in several states to throw their weight behind Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic rival of Hillary Clinton. While Rove's name isn't mentioned in the story, several former fundraisers and strategists for President Bush are identified. Together, these gentlemen flushed Obama's coffers with cash early on in the race, something the deep pockets had not done for any candidate in their own party. With receipts topping $100 million in 2007, the first-term Illinois senator achieved a remarkable feat, given that most Americans only first heard of him in 2005.
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If, on the other hand, Obama wins the nomination (or even the VP spot), Rove's prospects brighten considerably. Largely unvetted by the press, the senator carries considerable baggage from his stint as a state legislator, particularly his 17-year relationship with Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko, currently on trial for fraud. Until the controversy over his pastor broke in March, most journalists had paid lip service to the particulars of Obama's past. And major media outlets continue to portray him as a fresh new face in American politics, a candidate whose speeches call to mind MLK and JFK, even Abraham Lincoln. For her part, the author of the November Time article, Jay Newton-Small, offered the following explanation to account for the bizarre love affair G.O.P. voters say they're having with an African American senator on the other side of the aisle. "It seems a lot of Republicans took to heart Obama's statement in his rousing speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that 'there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America.'"
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Obama has recited Rove's "high negatives" comment in press interviews when discussing Clinton. His often bitter criticism of her, along with other "Washington insiders", who he says want to "boil and stew all the hope out of him", represents a staple of his core political message. The other half of the stump speech, known by political hacks as the I'm-a-uniter-not-a-divider pitch, is reminiscent of the Bush 2000 campaign, which Rove managed. Perhaps that's not surprising when you discover that one of Obama's speechwriters is Ben Rhodes, the brother of Fox News VP David Rhodes. (Marisa Guthrie, of BC Beat, reported this connection.) You may recall that on election night in November 2000, it was Fox that called Florida for Bush, even though the other networks declared Gore the winner after citing the exit polls. How Fox knew the polls were wrong in advance of the vote count has never been explained.
And the G.O.P. links to the Obama campaign don't end there. The Times of London reported on March 2nd that Obama is interviewing conservative Republican lawmakers like Senators Chuck Hagel and Richard Lugar for key positions in his cabinet, if he's elected in November. "Senior advisers confirmed that Hagel, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and one of McCain’s closest friends in the Senate, was considered an ideal candidate for defence secretary." the story revealed. "Some regard the outspoken Republican as a possible vice-presidential nominee although that might be regarded as a 'stretch'." Lugar is being evaluated as a potential secretary of state.
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Without the contested states in her column, Clinton may be unable to catch up with her opponent in either pledged delegates or popular vote. She has pledged to put up a credentials fight in August, and Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the former candidate, recently backed the idea of an "open convention". As Obama's image has become increasingly tarnished in the eyes of voters, it's possible that many pledged delegates will defect at the convention and vote for Clinton. Still, the road to the White House remains an uphill climb for the once inevitable New York senator. Thanks to Karl Rove and his friends in the shadows, the Democratic nominee may ultimately be determined by the G.O.P., with a big assist from the mainstream media, as well as Democratic Party leaders like Dean, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. In various statements, the party leaders have repeatedly tried to circumvent the nominating process.