Rove Doing His Part to Help Shape a Positive Legacy for Bush

[Demeter]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030802184.html?referrer=email

Rove Doing His Part to Help Shape a Positive Legacy for Bush

By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 9, 2007; A05



LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 8 -- In an interview this week in his windowless West Wing office, Karl Rove said that there is "very little" discussion about President Bush's legacy at the White House these days, only a focus on developing good policy that might have a long-term impact. "The president's attitude is, 'History is going to write the legacy long after we are all dead or in no position to affect it -- so why worry about it?' " Rove said.

Yet history is never far from Rove's mind. While he has kept a low profile in Washington since the midterm election losses took some of the edge off his reputation as a political genius, Rove, a Bush senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, has begun trying to put his own distinctive spin on current events and the longer historical view.


He said that the biggest Bush legacy will be what he terms the "Bush doctrine." It "says if you train a terrorist, harbor a terrorist, feed a terrorist, you will be treated like a terrorist yourself. And then the corollary of that, which is that we will not wait until dangers fully materialize before taking action."

Despite Rove's disclaimer, there's plenty of evidence that the Bush legacy is of more than passing interest at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Plans for the Bush library are taking shape, and there seems to be a loose White House campaign to try to define Bush's tenure more favorably than the rough verdict now being rendered by the American public, largely over the Iraq war.

METHINKS ROVE IS TRYING TO BURNISH HIS OWN LEGACY--OR MAYBE HE JUST WANTS TO STAY OUT OF JAIL!

[Turbineguy]

1. Well, you can't condemn

a guy for taking on a challenge!

[Demeter]

2. LOL! Thanks! I Needed That (Sense of Perspective)

[tanyev]

3. I don't care what shape he sculpts it into--

it's still just a pile of excrement.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Bush's biggest legacy?

His only legacy. The leader of a criminal cabal. The only way rove can make anything positive of bush's legacy is to do what he does best, lie.

[mod mom]

9. He also was the 1st pResident placed by a coup-you have to give him that.

[givemebackmycountry]

5. In an interview this week in his windowless West Wing office, Karl Rove said

Windowless West Wing Office...

Well, there's ANOTHER reason why he's such a pale, pasty, hairless, little fucking TROLL!
Ya, think there's any PLANTS in that windowless office?

[ClayZ]

6. That makes ROVE a terrorist!

"Bush doctrine." It "says if you train a terrorist, harbor a terrorist, feed a terrorist, you will be treated like a terrorist yourself."

So, when do we get to treat him like one?

[aquart]

7. Aww, that thousand-year reich syndrome.

[katsy]

8. positively criminal legacy.

<snip>... "Bush doctrine." It "says if you train a terrorist, harbor a terrorist, feed a terrorist, you will be treated like a terrorist yourself. And then the corollary of that, which is that we will not wait until dangers fully materialize before taking action."

And the corollary of the statements above: Any populice that defies the corporate whoremasters will be branded terrorists and murdered. Any country that doesn't bend to the will and on behalf of the corporate whoremasters' interests will be assimilated. Corporate whoremasters are above the law.

[caseycoon]

10. But * already HAS a positive legacy!

For example most folks are now POSITIVE he is the worst president to ever have been inflicted on the United States Of America & her citizens.

I am POSITIVE he is....

[yellowcanine]

11. The folly of trying to polish a turd comes to mind when I read this.

No matter how much one polishes a turd it is still a turd.

[Lisa]

12. you beat me to it! I was going to say that sculpting sewage into interesting ...

... and pleasing shapes, does not disguise the fact that it's still dung, and it stinks!

[MasonJar]

13. Forget it, Rove. Thanks to you and Bush, it is an impossible task.