Discussion: Karl Rove: Obama Should Be 'More Gracious' To The Man Who Made It Possible For Him To Be Prez

system1 · August 31, 2015, 7:29pm

Discussion for article #239960

blue_grit · August 31, 2015, 7:57pm

Haven’t we heard enough about President Denali for one day?

jcblues · August 31, 2015, 7:58pm

so what are you sayin’ TurdBlossom? that McKinley was in on the conspiracy to make Obama President too?

k_in_va · August 31, 2015, 7:58pm

And Karl Rove wouldn’t exist if his parents hadn’t stupidly had sex.

mschumm · August 31, 2015, 7:59pm

What’s funny is how Rove was in so many ways the Mark Hanna to GWB’s McKinley…

johnscotus · August 31, 2015, 7:59pm

“…annexed in 1898 during McKinley’s presidency.”

Annexed? Yeah…well…

pluckyinky · August 31, 2015, 7:59pm

“In a more jocular way, the guy ought to be more gracious to the guy who made it possible for him to be President.”

Except that he didn’t, you porcine jackass. Just like Cubanadian Cruz and McCain, Obama would’ve been just as eligible to be president if Hawaii never became a state because he was still born to an American mother.

k_in_va · August 31, 2015, 7:59pm

That’s an insult to the memory of the odious Mark Hanna.

ajaykalra · August 31, 2015, 7:59pm

He would still be an American even if Hawaii was not part of US as his mother was a US citizen. Just ask wanna be president Cruz about it.

mordant_k · August 31, 2015, 8:00pm

Thousands of Americans and a half-million Iraqis would be alive if you decided to be a hairdresser. What’s your point?

beattycat · August 31, 2015, 8:02pm

A bit off point, but “annexed” as in how Russia recently “annexed” The Crimea? I always understood it that the ruler of Hawaii at that time was none too thrilled with being forced by Washington’s heavy hand to become part of the United States.

That said, these Republicans sure are butt-hurt about this – yet most of them never ever supported the people of Alaska in being able to name their own landmarks. So much for states’ rights, eh, Repubs?

ralph_vonholst · August 31, 2015, 8:02pm

And instead of Alaska, Sarah Palin would actually live in Russia, if Seward hadn’t bought the thing.

callmeeric · August 31, 2015, 8:03pm

Karl Rove: Obama Should Be ‘More Gracious’ To The Man Who Made It Possible For Him To Be Prez

If you’re trying to get Republicans to honor and respect president McKinley - reminding them how Obama was made possible by him is not a good strategy.

imkmu3 · August 31, 2015, 8:05pm

Rove when on the say: “That uppity n-CLANG should know his place among his betters!”

ralph_vonholst · August 31, 2015, 8:06pm

“And if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a wagon”

willpower · August 31, 2015, 8:07pm

More like Obama wouldn’t have been President if your boy W didn’t tank the economy and make the biggest foreign policy blunder since the Gulf of Tonkin…

pb · August 31, 2015, 8:08pm

Fat fascist says what?

becca656 · August 31, 2015, 8:08pm

Yup, annexed…

But statehood wasn’t granted until 1959, along with Alaska.

Not sure what the stink is. Oh. Yeah. Obama, sure… now I get it.

teenlaqueefa · August 31, 2015, 8:10pm

His logic is obviously faulty, yet somehow it’s fascinating that they believe such nonsense.

nitpicker · August 31, 2015, 8:13pm

Yet another ding-dong claiming claiming the Obama Administration is overturning a 1917 law that named Mount McKinley by officially reverting to its native name. He’s wrong. There actually is no law naming Mount McKinley. There is only a law that named Mount McKinley National Park–which was changed to Denali National Park 35 years ago–and merely accepted the name McKinley, so, no, the Obama administration isn’t violating the law, as Rove claimed. Period.