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Edwards On Rove's Departure: "Goodbye, Good Riddance."

John Edwards' statement on the departure of "the architect" has just landed in the old in-box, and it easily takes the award for best statement of the day. Here it is, in full:

“Goodbye, good riddance.”

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Eloquently spoken. Just like a trial lawyer. :)

Perfect.

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yes, agreed. I like it. appropriately scornful and dismissive...

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he built a strong majority and then lost it all in 1 election. LMAO.

one has to wonder if he actually accidentally built a democratic majority for years to come

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an excellent statement indeed!

Can someone now please begin harassing Rove about why he saw that gay prostitute so many times while he posed as a right wing journalist? Wasn't it something like a hundred times this guy went to the White House and said he was there to see Karl?

I forget the name of the guy at the moment, but many of you, I'm sure know who I'm talking about.

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This is why I like Edwards: simple, unvarnished truth. It's ironic that he's the one somehow tagged with the "lawyer" slur, yet is the one among the frontrunners capable of speaking like a guy in the street. It's a matter of putting real personal response over calculation.

Anything from the other candidates? It would be really interesting to compare their reactions to Rove's sucking parts finally losing their grip.

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10!

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LOL. Short, sweet and to the point.

Here's my goodbye to Turd Blossom.

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Jeff Gannon

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If Edwards doesn't stop doing things like that he is going to find himself being the Democratic candidate for president in 2008. That would teach him a lesson!

Hoppy in Sacramento

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John Edwards got it right.

I thought when the moment of Rove's departure came, whether he was perp-walked from the West Wing or not, I'd have a feeling of victory -- and I don't.

He'll be remembered for taking a scion of a rich family, a frat-boy drunk, and selling him as a rational leader long enough to have him elected governor -- but not so long that he permanently dented the state of Texas -- and then, on to the presidency!

The legacy Rove created by pushing Cheney / Bush on the nation is corrosive, divisive, and putrescent. Rove is personally responsible for promoting the ruin of the United States and its Constitution. He's personally responsible for destroying lives here, and abroad.

Now, he's off to a comfortable vacation. The American People will pay for all his necessary security, and his family's, for a long time to come. He'll never have to be concerned about finding employment -- or shelter, or potable water, or living in fear, unlike many in Iraq... or in America.

And whatever the future has in store for us all, well -- Karl will just blame someone else.

He's had such a lot of fun -- and with America to pick up the tab... well, I guess that means your career so far has been a wonderful success, eh, Karl?

John Edwards got it right.

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I'd rather hear "That's an interesting explanation Mr. Rove, we'll see if it checks out. In the meantime we'd like you to come downtown to answer some more questions. Oh BTW we're gonna need your passport too. No that's ok, we'll wait while you go get it.

Sir! Sir! get ahold of yourself. Listen to me now. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. So calm down Mr. Rove, I don't want to have to cuff you. Here use my handkerchief, take a minute, wipe your eyes, I'm sure you want to look composed when we walk out that door with all those cameras out there."

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While a village in Texas is still missing it's idiot one is getting it's asshole back.

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If he doesn't get it I'd be real happy if he got Krauthammer's spot on the op-ed page while he prepares to run again 2016. Gonna take more than 8 years to fix the mess Repubs have left.

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I wouldn't be so sure he's riding off into the sunset just yet. He may have plans to resurrect the thousand year reich that can't be hatched in the rubble of Mr. 30%'s WH.

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couldn't be said better

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You people won't be so snarky about Karl when he has that Medal of Freedom around his neck.

Oh, sorry, I guess you will. (Thank God!)

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I'd just like to know who was shtupping whom? Not that it really matters.

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He built a weak, hate-based, micro-majority and it crumbled under its first real test. Let's hope the vermon that scrambled out of the dumpsters at the Rove School are quickly spotted for what they are in this next cycle.

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Can you even imagine the lengths the media would have gone to if a gay prostitute was posing as a journalist in the White House Press Corps while regularly meeting with anyone on Clinton's White House Staff no matter how lowly?

Imagine one of Clinton's (or any Democratic President's) top staffers (the Rove equivalent) meeting with the gay prostitute over and over. Consider it for just a minute. Why the media firestorm might threaten the time space continuum! We would never hear the end of it---not even for years afterward.

But this God Damned Republican pack of criminals gets caught red-handed in that very situation and it just goes by the wayside like a little leaf on a fast moving stream, unnoticed, barely reported, deliberately ignored. It's truly astounding in my opinion. I know Rove committed much greater crimes, but I guess that proves my point that nothing these bastards do gets any genuine scrutiny in the media no matter how outrageous. Friggin incredible.

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He didn't say he was retiring, (more's the pity) he wept today because he will no longer openly walk the halls of power, use Air Force One, have a huge staff to wait on him. He is just going undercover. Bet he can't wait to see how the new domestic spy program works.

Yes I like the succinct notation of John Edwards, Rove is not worth many words.

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If Edwards doesn't get the nomination, and I support him, I rather see him as Attorney General then writing op-eds. The justice dept. could use a man like John Edwards.

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Good point. I would have tapped him for Secretary of Labor.

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Where everybody knows your name...
unless you use a pseudonym

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I posted a little pictorial tribute to Karl Rove, documenting his most cringe-inducing expressions - check it out (this is all for fun, nothing serious...)
See you in court, Karl

[CT]
One million page hits against Bush!!!

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If Edwards doesn't get the nomination, and I support him, I rather see him as Attorney General

Under Hillary?

How would she get Edwards to prosecute all those enemies of the state for not being part of her upper crust?

Never happen in this lifetime.

Under Obama, sure.

Best, Terry

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Terry,
I can't say I disagree with you. I don't see how Hillary puts him in there, but it would be good if she did and gave him free rein.

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Unofficial response to Rove's resignation from Barack Obama:

"Kick rocks, turdboy. And don't let the doorknob hit ya where the dog shoulda bit ya."

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Does Alberto have a twin sister Hillary can appoint AG? :-)

Julie could be the fusion substitute but it would be hard to top two strong women. They could have the country really rocking and rolling.

Julie only wears dresses occasionally.

Best, Terry

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Actually, his real name is James Guckert. He works under the name "Jeff Gannon". He's even got a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon.

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LOL, best comment I've seen today!!


You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.--- Friedrich Nietzsche

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except he didn't. Obama pontificated instead.

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John Edwards' statement on the departure of Rove is a great response.

But Rove's like a flea. Jump off one dog and he'll land on another.

With sincere apologies to all dogs, wherever you are.

~OGD~

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Rove is off to do more political skullduggery, maybe putting together a Swift Boat attack on the Dem nominee, probably Hillary, and a vote stealing operation.

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He's never been a prosecutor or worked in criminal law so it's not likely. From 1976 to 1980 Reagan wrote op-eds or had them ghost written for him and it kept him in the public eye.

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