"Make sure he never earns another dollar in Washington"

[Toots]

Richard Clarke said he was told by an insider in the Whitehouse that this statement was made about him from the highest echelons of Government. Talk about vindictiveness. These people are just plain Thugs. He was asked if he would give up all profits from his book because the GOP found him contemptible. He said he had planned from the beginning to give a certain amount of the proceeds to not only families of 9-11 victims but also of Special Forces Widows and families because of the War on Terror around the world. He said though that because of such a campaign to destroy him and his economic well-being that the amount would have to be determined after evaluating the popularity and sales of his book. Very Sad Commentary on the Pettiness and thugishness of this Administration.

[neebob]

1. Gee, I wonder who said that. nt

[WilliamPitt]

2. "We will fuck him. We will fuck him like he's never been fucked."

- Karl Rove

[VelmaD]

5. Karl Rove is the most vicious,

nasty, contemptible human being I have ever met. It's been years since I had him for a prof and I still feel like I need a shower. Ick.

I know it's not good for my karma...but I kinda hope he ends up with a cell mate named Spike who quotes that line right back at him.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

15. You had him for a prof? I want to hear more of this..

...what was he like?

[VelmaD]

18. He was an asshole

He taught my "Campaign Politics" class in grad school. A friend had to sit between me and him every class to keep me from going over the table and strangling him.

I consider it a point of honor that he once called me a "fundamentalist, Shi'ite feminist". :-)

[Redleg]

17. Karl Rove was a professor? I thought he never graduated with

even a bachelors degree.

[VelmaD]

19. I have no idea...

he taught as an adjunct prof...was only there for a semester. :shrug:

[mandyky]

3. The same person that outted Valerie Plame

no doubt.

[Laughing Mirror]

4. That one statement pretty much gives the game away

in Washington. It's a mob and their sole interest in Washington is the money they can make there, and nothing else.

[CHestonsucks]

6. Clarke will do fine.

As much as Clarke's testimony is about the war in Iraq and the BUllSHit administration's failures, this is also about what Clarke leaves behind and whether or not he served his country well while in government.

I say he did. In spades.

[Florida_Geek]

7. I think you are wrong, I remember the word was

DIME.............

[Toots]

10. You are quite possibly correct ~ I sometimes suffer from CRS

and I don't have the transcripts of the show. I was just going by memory so I really shouldn't have quotation marks around the statement. :-( CRS (can't remember shit)

[Florida_Geek]

11. No problem

I just was mad that with all the money being made by Repugs leaving the WH, they were going to see that he does not make any money.

[jean]

8. I want this man protected beyond our wildest imaginations

Clarke is a national treasure - he's the Patriot from Hell! I hope he can survive these criminals and go on to train young people in his mold, after single-handedly re-educating our voting public about this government.

But for now, please, protect him from the orcs - he is the brave patriot our country is in such desperate need of!

[Corgigal]

9. Lets just be sure that Bush

and his fellow enablers are not in Washington to be allowed this much power. Works for me

[kanrok]

12. I hope Clarke makes millions off of this book

I find it mildly amusing when douchebags like Frist boo-hoo about Clarke making money on his book. Frist and his family have absolutely no problem fleecing Americans for millions upon millions of dollars with their HMO, but woe betide someone who makes an honest buck. I am doing my part to help fund Clarke's severance package. I bought one of the last copies of his book at Borders. It's selling like hot-cakes, and I love it.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

13. They can't hurt him now

but in the future these spineless thugs are capable of "causing accidents" i would say. Rove is like that chemist in school, who's always up to strange brews until it blows up in his face.

He needs protection. At the very least the public for the most part and some 9/11 families have his side covered.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

14. Thats scary shit....

They would actually try to ruin him financially.

[Joanne98]

16. What egos like they control all the dollars in Washington

these people are delusional. Pretty soon now, THEY won't make another dollar in Washington. Which means the vampires will starve. Vampires don't work they suck. :)

[Toucano]

20. Talking out of their other face!

Aren't they usually the ones that support capitalism?

It's okay for them to profit from their war, but somehow it's immoral for Clarke to profit from his own courage?

Twisted. Totally twisted.