Do you know who this guy is? Listen, I've been blogging against Bush for over a year and I just realised I don't even know what this guy looks like. How is that even possible? This man runs the USA. He is "Bush's Brain" - Karl Rove.
Rove first met Bush Jnr in 1973. In 1980, Rove was the first person Bush hired for his Presidential campaign. Bush calls him both "boy genius" and "turd blossom". When Bush moved into the White House, Rove took Hillary Clinton's old office. John DiIulio, a former presidential adviser, said after resigning in 2001:
"Karl is enormously powerful, maybe the single most powerful person in the modern, post-Hoover era ever to occupy a political adviser post near the Oval Office... Little happens on any issue without Karl's OK, and often he supplies such policy substance as the administration puts out."
Why isn't the media demanding lengthy and detailed interviews with this man? Why isn't Bush being pressured about Rove's role in determining policy?
Rove is a dirty campaigner. In the 2000 Republican primaries, he was widely believed to have been behind the smear campaign against John McCain. Way back in 1970, he handed out leaflets for free beer, food and girls with the date and venue of a Democratic opponent's rally. That's just the top of the bag of dirty tricks that has seen Rove rise to the peak of political power. For a closer look at Karl Rove, read this story in the Guardian, or this profile at Famous Texans.
Rove is a very dangerous man who embodies most of what is wrong with politics today.
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