Karl Rove, on Obama:
Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.'Cause when I think "country club," I think of a skinny black guy who never makes snide comments and doesn't play golf.
I have no idea what Rove is trying to get at here, but Yglesias' commenters took a stab:. My favorites:
- "Having grown up as the middle class kid surrounded by upper-middle-class country club-goers, I feel I can say with authority that, no, Obama does not come across as this guy. George W. Bush is that guy."Posted by Stephen Silver at June 24, 2008 04:54 PM- "What country club that Karl Rove has ever been to would allow Obama to come to one of their parties?"
- "Yeah, that doesn't even make any sense. Guys with beautiful dates are busy mingling, showing off their beautiful dates. The guys standing off to the sides and making snide remarks are the ones without beautiful dates."
- "So Barack Obama is basically Chevy Chase's character in Caddyshack?"
- "I thought Muslims weren't allowed to drink alcohol. This is getting SOOOOO confusing..."
- "This is intended as raw meat for those who resent the success of Tiger Woods and the fact that he has a stunning wife. How big a demographic could that be?"
- "The way he phrased it sounds like we're all supposed to know what it's like to deal with that guy at the country club. It's like Krusty trying his hand at observational humor and complaining about your butler bringing you the wrong cognac."
- "If Karl Rove were at a country club party, he'd be the guy who scratched your car and then said the staff did it."
- "it's weird to paint an African American - particularly a black man that's also being painted as a foreign, exotic, Muslim, anti-white black churchgoer that's out to destroy America, or at least the white part of it - as a snooty country club elitist"
- "Wait, was this quote supposed to be about Obama or Truman Capote? Cause I get them confused all the time."