Velvet Revolution Co-Founder Snaps Pix With Rove, Shares a Piece of His Mind
Shopping List for Bush's Right-Hand Man: 'Toilet Paper, Barq's Root Beer, Land o' Lakes Butter'
By Brad Friedman on 5/31/2007, 8:33am PT  

Exclusive cell phone photos follow below of a chance meeting between Karl Rove and a progressive Anti-War, Anti-Bush activist at a D.C. Safeway supermarket on Memorial Day. The activist, Brett Kimberlin, is a director at Justice Through Music, which is a co-founder, along with The BRAD BLOG of the Election and Media Reform organization, VelvetRevolution.us. Kimberlin was recently featured in an article by the Lonestar Iconoclast, George W. Bush's "hometown paper" in Crawford, Texas, after the release of his anti-war "Happy Springtime (Bush is Over)" song and video...which we highly recommend, by the way.

Rove took the time to pose for a picture with Kimberlin and his daughter, after which he sent us both the photos and the following, rather amusing description of the encounter...

Brad, I sent you pics from my cell phone today of Karl Rove’s car and him in the Safeway Supermarket line. He saw me taking pictures of him, and said that I could take a picture with him, but his wife had to clear the writing on my T-Shirt first, which said, Nils Lofgren, Break Away Angel. Rove said, Nils is good, and that I must be good too so he took a picture with me and my daughter Kelsie.

He then asked what we were going to do today [Memorial Day], and I said we are going to remember all the troops that Bush sent to be killed in this godforsaken war in Iraq. He then asked where I was from and I said, "VelvetRevolution, we support regime change here at home." He looked sick.

I then looked at what he bought and it was an entire shopping cart of toilet paper, Barq's root beer, and Land o' Lakes butter. That's it. No food whatsoever.

The photos of Kimberlin and Rove, and his swell butter-transporting Jaguar, follow below...

This isn't the first time The BRAD BLOG has offered exclusive photos of the ubiquitous Rove. In the Summer of 2005, from Crawford Texas, we posted photos of the White House operative and top Bush aide, smiling and glad-handing those who were camped out across from Cindy Sheehan's "Camp Casey", opposing her opposition to the war, in the wake of her son's death in Iraq.

At the very same moment --- between smiles, flashbulbs and attaboy's for protesters who had recently been verbally assaulting Sheehan for her viewpoint --- the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which had struck two days prior, was destroying New Orleans. But at least Rove and his boss George, a few miles up the road, were all having a dandy time of it. Those exclusive Rove photos are posted here...

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