After claiming some credit for Barack Obama’s presidential win, longtime Bush loyalist Karl Rove barely endures the rest of his Q&A with left-wing rag The New York Times. We’d like to know what kind of “funny stamps” Rove used to decorate his congratulatory note to Obama.


The New York Times:

Do you think you’re negative? No.

You’ve never repudiated President Bush. No. And I never will. He did the right things.

What about Iraq and the economy? The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

Do you have any advice for him at this point? With all due respect, I don’t need you to transmit what I want to say to my friend of 35 years.

Remember, attack politics are out. It’s a new age of civilized discourse. You’re the one who hurt my feelings by saying you didn’t trust me.

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