Top Obama advisor: 'Thank you Karl, do it again' 
Since the New Hampshire primary last week, the exchanges of rhetoric between the Clinton and Obama campaigns have heated up. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who is now a top advisor to Obama's campaign, joined Wolf Blitzer on CNN to discuss the controversies, but he repeatedly refused to be drawn into debate on specific charges, saying, "This is what the American people are tired of."
Daschle became more engaged when Blitzer brought up former Bush advisor Karl Rove's criticisms of Obama. Rove recently wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in which he charged, "Mr. Obama has failed to rise to leadership on a single major issue in the Senate. ... He is often lazy, given to misstatements and exaggerations and, when he doesn't know the answer, too ready to try to bluff his way through."
"I would take Karl Rove's criticism as a badge of honor," Daschle commented.
Daschle's own defeat in the 2004 South Dakota Senate rate was generally credited to the campaign tricks of a Karl Rove protege, Dick Wadhams. More recently, Rove has attempted to blame Daschle for the Iraq War, claiming last month that Daschle had pushed as hard as President Bush to force through a war resolution before the November 2002 election.
"You're not a good Democrat unless you've been criticized by Karl Rove at least once," Daschle concluded. "Thank you Karl. Do it again."
The following video is from CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, broadcast on January 13, 2008
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