Boy Genius or Turd Blossom?

[kskiska]

When George Bush moved into the White House in January 2001, the man who got him there, Karl Rove, chose Hillary Clinton's office for himself.

It was a telling choice. The partnership between the president and the man he calls Boy Genius (or on bad days Turd Blossom) is the political marriage at the heart of the Bush administration.

Now, with the Democrats and the Washington press corps scenting blood over the CIA leak scandal, the big question for Mr Bush is whether that marriage will have to be sacrificed in the interests of his re-election.

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The partnership had its origins in 1973, when the junior political flunky was working for George Bush the elder, who was chairman of the Republican National Committee. The 22 year-old Mr Rove was given the job of meeting the chairman's son and handing him the keys to the family.

A starstruck Mr Rove has since told the New Yorker he could remember what the young Bush was wearing that day: cowboy boots, jeans and a pilot's jacket. "He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have," Mr Rove marvelled.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1053901,00.html

[xray s]

1. That wasn't charisma he was exuding

It was scotch and soda.

And the pilots jacket was missing one thing...a pilot who reports for duty.

[Sean Reynolds]

2. Rove is NOT a political genius.

He manipulates and undermines to get to the top. There is a BIG difference between being a political brain, and just being down right dirty.