Posted on 05/31/2008 12:20:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SCOTT McClellan has learned the profound wisdom of the old Groucho Marx line about not wanting to belong to any club that would have him.
The former press secretary has written a scathing memoir about his time in the Bush administration - but nothing he says in his book, dully titled (appropriately enough) "What Happened," is as damning as the fact that he spent nearly three years as White House press secretary.
Likable, but maladroit and plodding, he was the perfect spokesman for the administration of Harriet Miers, Michael Brown and Al Gonzales. For anyone who doubted that President Bush too often valued loyalty over talent, there was McClellan stumbling through daily briefings to embody the point more eloquently than he ever could have stated it.
McClellan's book has all the inherent interest of one of his briefings. He tells of an incident that was one of his "favorite moments" from working with then-Gov. George Bush in Texas. He stumbled upon Bush making sandwiches. McClellan picks up the tale from there: "For the next 20 minutes or so we munched on the sandwiches and talked about a variety of topics, few of which had to do with politics."
No one was going to pay any attention to a book replete with such banalities, so McClellan had to "sex it up." He took the conventional anti-Iraq War case and cut-and-pasted it into his book. He says that the administration engaged in a "political propaganda campaign" in the run-up to the war, doing "a disservice to the American people and to our democracy."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Except probably you.
Nicely done. Good job pooping on the thread from the get-go. Pat yourself on the back.
Snitch? Maybe if he had been telling the truth!
We’ll see how YOU like four years of McCain.
If Lazamataz were still here, he’d have a word or two to say to you.
Thanks. I will.
The Rats offered Squat McClellan time off his sentence for informing them of this jail house confession.
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It’s nice that a few folks believe that there is a complete litmus test on conservatism to be accepted.
Ok, let me be more blunt than the poster: Bush sucks. He is close to McCain and that means he sucks a lot.
We get a couple of SC justices, strong defense, and what else? Largest government ever, complete abandonment on school reform, no vetos of any kind, weakest dollar, highest oil prices, buyout of the banks, etc. With conservatives like these, we might as well let Ted Kennedy run the country: at least it is apparent from the get go.
And yes, I think Scott McClellan sucks as well but that is another Bush choice.
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You are putting too much on a president. He does not, after all, control the federal reserve. He does not control the world oil market. And you are forgetting the tax cuts which lifted the country out of a predicament caused by the collapse of the dot-com bubble and by 9/11. Ironically he has managed the war on terror well enough that the country could go on about its business, more or less oblivious to the war. In other words, he is blamed because there have been no significant attacks on American interests since 2003. I do blame him for the enlarged federal programs, but the war in Iraq, which so many peopole decry, has cost the country less than the amount spent each year on public education, with arguably better results.
The Scott McClellan story is really not about White House revelations or about Bush or about Cheney or about Scooter Libby, or, even, about the war in Iraq. It is a story, a very sad story, about a man with no character.
Not to mention the fact that we are now learning that the book that was published was NOT the book he planned on writing — just more proof that the article above is spot on. Whiney Scotty was coerced into writing what his liberal editor wanted him to say. He stabbed the President and all his friends in the back for 15 minutes of time with his new best friend, Keith Olbermann. So his news friends are not his BFFs, like his old friends were. Even moveon.org is calling it a crap book and asking that McClellan donate all the proceeds to the US troops (although they are saying it because he lied to us for three years as the press man).
Poor Scotty didn’t understand what his job was, doesn’t understand loyalty or truth....just gives his opinions in a book that the liberal media is claiming as facts. Clearly they haven’t really read it, because if you look at the clips from the intro, he calls it “my truth” or “his truth” but never does he call it THE TRUTH...because its all a bunch of lies.
Scum.
Last I heard he has issued around ten vetoes.
Leni
You're giving Dubya too much credit. The other nincompoops in Dubya's administration have to suck for him.
Schools, seems to me the unions are controlling the schools, I’ve recently had a run in with “contractual” issues at my son’s school.
High oil prices, we can all try to use less energy, but too many americans want to have their cake and eat it too. Driving suvs, but not wanting any more drilling. The president has tried to open up Anwar, but it’s not all up to him.
Banks, have you heard of the Community Reinvestment Act? Thanks to Clinton extending that act, banks have had to offer loans to more minorities, many who probably had not business qualifying for a home loan.
The Fed made the decision to bail out Bear Sterns, which, imo, is a good thing, otherwise you would have seen more widespread damage done to the stock market and the damage done to the credibility of other financial institutions would have resulted in bankruptcies. Once people lose confidence and start withdrawing their money from companies such as Bear Sterns, having a company go under then becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
The fed did what it had to do, with its bailout of Bear Sterns it restored confidence to a shaky market.
You aren't even funny.
He's lower than Whale Excreta.
To update (and clean up) a 50's phrase.
LOL
... Riposte of the week! I salute you!
And that skunk who stunk up the thread with his Kos-like comment ... Scottie McClellan, you a freeper? Who’d a thunk!
If Obama gets elected he will take money away from defense and pour it into education (teachers paychecks). You should see the teachers here....they think Obama is the answer. They all complain about high gas prices but buy Starbucks coffee everyday.
Personally I think they should do away with Obama’s plans for new teacher mentoring programs and put in a teachers gym. Many teachers are extremely overweight. If they lose 50 pounds they could save money on gas.
If defense is wasteful...so is our educational systems. No matter how much is spend on education we still have kids dropping out of High School. Obama isn’t going to change things except taking money from the honey jar.
Remember teachers have their own 403B retirement fund and don’t pay for Social Security except for the Medicare portion. Regular folks don’t have that option.
Teachers should just shut up and count their blessings.
And don’t vote for Obama.
Take a look at Chicago’s South Side under Obama’s stewardship.
Obama scares me. His whole party scares me. He is only the latest in a string of candidates who think that the U.S. military is a danger to the world. They will do what Labour is doing to the British military, the death by a thousand cuts, and a civilian leadership adverse to risk.
I don’t trust Obama.
What type of RENAGADES is he going to head up his Administration?
This worries me the most.
Its just like his preachers problems.
You can’t say he didn’t stay in the congregation for twenty years not knowing what type of ideology is being spouted.
Well...anyway....stock up on the dry goods, batten down the hatches and keep your powder dry. American people will be very disappointed in their boy King. He will go down in history being our First Black Jimmy Carter!
He will raise taxes and start these crazy social experiments during difficult times. He might start price controls on our fuel and watch the future gas lines.
If John McCain is More the Same.
Obama is Kum and Go...A quicky stop for political expediency. A three year inexperience US Senator Top Gunning for CIC.
I Rather deal with More the Same McCain because he is predictable. At least we know where he was at from October 26, 1967 to March 14, 1973. McCain went through trials and tribulations which shaped his character.
I met McCain a few years ago at a Valet Job I did awhile back. We had a lot of Navy guys working with us and they really liked McCain. They were all gushing all over him. One Navy guys had his book and McCain stayed to sign it for him. The guy was so delighted. McCain also stayed away to shoot the breeze with the Navy guys. He came across as a average guy not pompous or vain.
Obama only did summer school trips to Kenya and Pakistan which he feels qualifies him as a expert on foreign policy!
The guy is a Snobbish Hypocrite. No improvements in the South Side under his stewardship. He used the backs of the poor from the South Side as a stepping stone and hasn’t looked back or appreciate what people have done for him.
Can you come up with a rhyme for Obama?
Rumble with Obama?
Obamadamnation!
(Obama Damns a Nation)
Obama and Chicago Public School District 299.
The one he does not send his children to.
They go to private school.
http://district299.typepad.com/district299/2007/07/obama-gives-dod.html
District 299 Report Card
http://iirc.niu.edu/district.aspx?districtID=150162990&source=district%20profile
Awesome!
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