Aborting the Rebirth of Slick: Obama and the GOP's War on Cool Mobutu Sese Seko · 05/01/12 01:33PM This weekend, Karl Rove's mom-and-pop PAC, American Crossroads, took a couple shiny quarters out of its $100 million billfold and gave the world "Obama Cool," a political attack ad that accuses Barack Obama of being cool.