By vick

March 9, 2010 6:26 PM | Link to this

The Rover’s memoir is already up to #3 in sales on Amazon, right behind the new Chelsea Handler book.

By Blowfly

March 9, 2010 2:41 PM | Link to this

I heard that after the fight that girl moved to Kenya where, ironically, she was Barack Obama’s first babysitter. Small world isn’t?

By Alice

March 9, 2010 12:35 PM | Link to this

GIVE THE GIRL AN AWARD… i would give anything to say that I beat up Karl Rove once. Someone should do a profile on her - maybe she grew up to be an ACORN volunteer or a union thug (if we’re lucky). In response to COMRADE and RED and everyone else that spends too much time in front of the computer drinking red bull and avoiding sunlight: Vick deserves the Sarah Palin Award in Marketing. YOU KEEP COMING BACK.

By vick

March 9, 2010 11:26 AM | Link to this

Thanks, EDO. Is Rove a vegan? He always struck me as a carnivore? Speaking of being struck, I’m actually rather fond of the ripe tomato. Perhaps some pasta is in my future? And these bananas are totally ready. Banana bread?

By edo

March 9, 2010 11:18 AM | Link to this

I still like you Vick… your character (or is it you’re a character?)is uninpeachable but look out for the vegtables being thrown your way… the paranoid posters are nabobs of negativity… when the pendulum swings back we can all swap arguments… the enemy is us…

By vick

March 9, 2010 10:54 AM | Link to this

Professor Blowfly, you never cease to amaze me. Irish, the beauty of political machines is that there is a quid pro quo involved. Under Mussolini the trains in Italy actually ran on time. In Boss Daley’s Chicago (he was Irish, right?) your garbage actually got picked up. Those Irish, the Kennedys, the Daleys, were as close as the wads of cash being handed out in the select precincts during those “good old days” when the trains ran on time and the garbage got picked up. What memories!

By Blowfly

March 9, 2010 10:44 AM | Link to this

Later Karl recalled “I never forgot that girl or the beat down. I decided right then and there I would get even … more than even. I’d get really stinking even I wouldn’t hurt her, since she was like HUGE, I’d hurt someone she loved. So, up in my room I made a little John Kennedy voodoo doll and I’d stick pins in it’s back. One day, I found my Kennedy doll playing naughty with my Marilyn Monroe doll and I got mad . . real mad. Really stinking mad. So, I shot him with my bee-bee gun. I found out the next day that Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. That’s when I knew … I had the gift.”

By irishguy

March 9, 2010 10:44 AM | Link to this

Vick, I forget, did Papa Joe Kennedy buy the election in Chicago or West Virginia? I’m sure there was a lot of “vote early and often” ballots delivered by the Daley “Chicago Machine”. I’d imagine a lot of Chicago folks even rose from the grave to vote for Saint JFK! My Irish grandma thought JFK was the best thing since the Pope. However, my father set me straight about the corruption rife within the Kennedy clan.

By vick

March 9, 2010 9:51 AM | Link to this

I said that was my favorite part “so far.” Gee whiz, let me get past little Karl’s childhood, people. I’m sure I’ll find more good stuff here…Oh, and did Obama get beat up by a girl, too? That would also be amusing. Did that happen? Or was it just little Karl who got stomped by his Kennedy loving neighbor? Kennedy won that election, right? I hear the turnout in Chicago was amazing! If some of those Democrats got beat up by little girls I want to know about that too.

By Squirrellygirl

March 9, 2010 8:20 AM | Link to this

Interesting this is the writer’s fav passage in the book, very telling of Vick’s character. This paper is a wantabee news, but really it’s just a political toy.

By Yeah

March 9, 2010 7:56 AM | Link to this

And he hasn’t been able to look at himself in a mirror ever sense. He is “not a crook”.

By irishguy

March 9, 2010 6:41 AM | Link to this

I saw a video on one of the nets with a College aged Rove, thin with the big 70’s hair and glasses. Quite a contrast. Sadly I had a brother who ate a lot of my baseball cards, I guess he enjoyed cardboard.

By Comrade DDN

March 9, 2010 6:03 AM | Link to this

Ahh yet another article about a Republican that allows comments. Where is the even handed DDN in allowing articles about DEMS or the left to have comments? Last week Palin, this week Rove, 2 weeks ago Cheney…Where are the articles about Oblama, Biden, Reid, Pelosi that allow comments? Yes, the DDN is a far left leaning paper. Might as well rename it Prada..

By Philman

March 9, 2010 5:33 AM | Link to this

I did’nt know Karl was from Chicago.

By vick

March 9, 2010 12:13 AM | Link to this

Can’t you just picture little Karl pedaling around the neighborhood with his Nixon sticker? I love that image. When I was that age I was more into sports than politics. We would take clothes pins and attach baseball cards to our wheels so the spokes would make a clicking sound that we imagined sounded like a motorcycle engine noise. We thought we were so cool. That Pete Rose rookie card got torn to shreds that way and left in a puddle. How was I to know?

By irishguy

March 8, 2010 10:22 PM | Link to this

I can see why you liked that one Vick. That may have been the last political fight Mr Rove lost.