Posted on 10/19/2009 11:18:48 AM PDT by kristinn
Karl Rove, former top adviser to President George W. Bush, bluntly accused President Barack Obama of deliberately "destabilizing" the government of Afghanistan, in an interview this morning on the Fox News Channel.
Rove said Obama sent Democratic party henchman James Carville to help the campaign of one of President Hamid Karzai's opponents for the August presidential election.
An article by NPR last summer says Carville's strategy was to drag the election in to a runoff to aid his candidate, former World Bank official Ashraf Ghani.
Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel made remarks this weekend that questioned whether the Obama administration would send more troops to Afghanistan if the Karzai government remained in power, reported here by Politico:
"Do you have a credible Afghan partner for this process that can provide the security and the type of services that the Afghan people need?" Emanuel said the Obama White House is asking as it conducts a strategy review before answering Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops.
Transcript (by yours truly) of Rove's comments:
Take a look at what this administration has done. They have destabilized the Afghan government by saying you know what we're not certain that Karzai is a good partner for us.
And the Obama administration sent in James Carville, Democrat party operative, in order to handle the campaign of Karzai's opponent. And then they express surprise when Karzai is trying to cut side deals with the remaining warlords and regional powers in Afghanistan in order to make certain he has a power base if the Americans pull the rug out from underneath him.
I mean its really unusual that this administration is so quick to criticize the Bush administration when they are really destabilizing the regime in Afghanistan in a fundamental way.
Sometimes I wonder where the loyalties of the BDS'ers really lie.
Not surprising at all...the UN is a fraud.
That's all this admin is about: political payback to the previous admin, the game of bratty children rather than responsibility to the good of the nation.
You and your ilk are part of the problem that brought us the current administration. Your diatribes are irrelevant.
So who do you suppose STILL runs Carville? obama or clinton?
My money is on clinton runs obama.
It makes me sick to my stomach to think of our brave young people at the mercy of O.
You’re a good writer Kristinn
We need more of these clear, public assessments of how Obama is intentionally destroying the United States.
Clown-in-Chief doesn’t have a clue.
If you really want to “take my measure” (what are you, a tailor selling me suits I don’t want?), you can look up
“supremedoctrine” in the FR search bar, and see somewhere over 4500 replies for the last 2 1/2 years. I am not going to recap my entire polit. philosophy, for you or anybody.
ANd prior to that, since March 1998 I was here too, under a different name, with about 5,000 replies till May 2006.
I can tell you, as someone who’s DEEP into the Tea Party/Patriot/Local and National Activist movement, there is at LEAST as big a majority out there who is as equally ready to cast aside NINETY PERCENT PLUS of Republicans as they are 99.9% of Democrats.
There are maybe two dozen Rs , scattered among the House and Senate worth keeping. I think we all know their names.
Let’s start with Jim DeMint. Let’s not include Arlen Specter, who wouldn’t be welcome back even if he wanted to come back. And the reason I put Rove in there,though he’s always deserved to be there, was I just saw yet another jovial piece of footage between him and the execrable Terry McAuliffe, joshing and laughing and being good ole’ boys together, and that’s what triggered it. THese guys are part of the same clubhouse of political elites, and the sooner they all can be made to go home the better.
0banixon is a clear and present danger to our national security.
“Arent these the same folks who spent 20 years shrieking about the US government meddling in the internal politics of every country in Central America?”
But it’s different when they do it. They are enlightened, donchaknow?
From Answers.com: In a surprising electoral upset in 2002, Michael Steele became the first African-American candidate to win the Maryland Lieutenant Governor's office as the Republican candidate. Not only did he and gubernatorial candidate Bob Ehrlich triumph over heavily funded incumbent Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend--who also had a formidable national profile as a member of the Kennedy family--the Republicans also managed to win in a state that had traditionally elected Democratic candidates. Ehrlich and Steele were the first Republicans to win the state's top offices since 1968, a feat that Steele predicted would lead to future inroads in Maryland for the Grand Old Party. Shortly after his electoral triumph, Steele told Stephen Goode of Insight on the News that Maryland's Republicans "just inaugurated a ten-year strategic plan in which we plan to 'grow' our numbers, 'grow' our bank account and reach out to voters in a very forward-looking way, talking to them with common sense about kitchen-table issues."
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." - Henry Ford
My guess is that Karzai made some kind of simple blunder when Obambi first came to power and Obambi will never forgive him. Karzai maybe failed to bow down low enough to Dear Leader.
I see revenge in these actions by the Obambi Royal Court.
Hey! Rove had better wake the hell up!! He’s trying to destabilize the American Way!!! (In every way!!!)
What do expect from these Turd Party supporters...
I agree with you. Am always surprised when I see Karl Rove being interviewed on TV. He may have some correct opinions, but many Americans connects him with the Bush admin. and clearly voted “against” the Bush/GOP by electing Obama. (I was in total support of Bush on various issues— pro-life, man/woman marriage and still strongly support those issues.)
The GOP needs other faces to represent them. To win the next election the GOP better send some new faces to do the TV interviews and connect with the American people, not Karl Rove.
Just so we all know where we all stand.
“The GOP needs other faces to represent them.”
Liberals are about the “faces” that represent them, I’m just fine with having a man who actually knows what he’s talking about tell me what’s up.
He may not say what you want him to say, but Rove tells it like it is. The good, the bad, AND the ugly, and this is as ugly as it gets.
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