Rove: Obama Maintains an "Enemies List"
Politico reports:
Karl Rove charged Sunday that President Barack Obama has an “enemies list,” after the White House escalated its argument that Rove and others are orchestrating a flood of midterm-election ads paid for by unknown donors.
The Democratic National Committee is attacking Rove and another top GOP strategist, Ed Gillespie, in an ad that is to begin a weeklong run on national cable early this week.
“Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie: They're Bush cronies,” the ad charges. “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: They're shills for Big Business. And they're stealing our democracy. … Tell the Bush crowd and the Chamber of Commerce: Stop stealing our democracy.”
Rove, in an e-mail to POLITICO, said: ““It is sad to see the president diminish his office by these baseless attacks. Even the truth doesn't restrain him when it comes to assaulting his enemies list.”
Thomas J. Collamore, a Chamber senior vice president, called the ad “rubbish.”
And Gillespie said in an e-mail: “Those who benefited from … outside money in 2008 to help elect Barack Obama, much of it from undisclosed donors, have to come to terms with the fact that the playing field will be more even this year.”
Aides tell POLITICO that Obama plans to continue accusing the Chamber of using “foreign money” to fund election ads, despite a New York Times article on Saturday that found “little evidence that what the Chamber does in collecting overseas dues is improper or even unusual.”
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