Talk:Pete Rouse
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A fact from Pete Rouse appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 1 February 2008. |
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[edit] Needs
Basic demo and education bio? Controversies? Resume? Thanks! HG | Talk 02:53, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] John Roberts hook
For the sentence about Roberts, here's the quote from the Washington Post: "Besides, Obama said, if he were president he wouldn't want his judicial nominees opposed simply on ideological grounds.
And then Rouse, his chief of staff, spoke up. This was no Harvard moot-court exercise, he said. If Obama voted for Roberts, Rouse told him, people would remind him of that every time the Supreme Court issued another conservative ruling, something that could cripple a future presidential run. Obama took it in. And when the roll was called, he voted no.
"Pete's very good at looking around the corners of decisions and playing out the implications of them," Obama said an interview when asked about that discussion. "He's been around long enough that he can recognize problems and pitfalls a lot quicker than others can." <endquote>"
Subsequently, other press picked up the point of this story too. HG | Talk 05:07, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
