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by Jason Carroll

O’Reilly questions Carl Rove on his statement that Obama is arrogant;

ROVE: Well, I wasn’t at a country club. I was at the National Republican — the Capitol Hill Club, which is a Republican club on Capitol Hill. Look, I’m not going to get into what I said in an off the record event. But I will say, yes, I do think Barack Obama is arrogant. And I think we saw examples of that last week, at least three or four examples of it.

We saw it when he, you know, earlier on, he made a big thing about he wanted to strengthen the public financing system. He said absolutely he would take taxpayer dollars in the general election if the Republican agreed to take taxpayer dollars and abide by the $85 million limit — spending limit.

And then, you know, that was when he didn’t think he could raise money. Now that he knows that he can raise money, he’s decided the rules shouldn’t apply, and he reversed course on Thursday and said…

O’REILLY: But don’t most politicians flip-flop on certain issues?

ROVE: You know, but here’s the deal. First of all, this is a guy who claims to be different. How can you claim to be different if you do the same old, same old? And not only that, but this was an unbelievable — and he said I will strengthen the system, of course I’ll abide by it, this is really important to me. And then turn around with the greatest of ease and said you know what, it doesn’t matter because I’ve now figured out to go in this direction benefits me more.

And look, it’s not just the only one we saw last week. We saw it on town halls. Early on, he said yes, I’ll meet John McCain any place, anywhere. John McCain says, look, let’s travel and jointly, and together and do 10 town halls between now and the time of the national conventions, one a week. And we’ll go every — let’s agree on places and let’s go together. We can travel together.

It was an interesting idea. And suddenly, “Mr. Anywhere, Any time” became a — he offered up two. He said let’s do one on the Fourth of July, on the night of the Fourth of July when every ambulatory American is going to be eating a hot dog or watching fireworks. And the other one in August. And when McCain said look, let’s have a serious discussion about having more than that, his answer was take it or leave it. That’s the quote.

O’REILLY: So I can put it down in my book that Karl Rove thinks Barack Obama is an arrogant guy. OK.

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