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Rove quitting to spend more time with his iPhone
Submitted by Paul McNamara on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 7:15am.

Presidential political advisor Karl Rove, perhaps the most controversial figure in history’s most unpopular administration, has told the Wall Street Journal that he will resign at month’s end in order to devote more time to his iPhone.

Rove’s relationship with Apple’s phenomenon of a phone was first revealed last week by TIME magazine in this photograph, after which political observers began to chatter that the picture may well have signaled the end of Rove’s reign as “the brain” of President Bush.

"There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family," Rove yesterday told the newspaper, which while an unwavering ally of the president, oddly enough, has not been known for its coverage of the iPhone. Rove’s son attends college in San Antonio and is said to be having trouble deciphering the advanced features of the iPhone, in particular, its e-mail deletion capabilities.

Rove is considered one of the nation’s foremost experts on e-mail deletion, although he – like the rest of us -- is relatively new to making things disappear from the iPhone. Rove has long been an innovator in leveraging the phone for “competitive advantage” in the often rough-and-tumble world of national politics.