Former Bush Press Secretary Backs Obama
Scott McClellan, whose book did not speak favorably of the Bush administration, says he’s supporting Senator Obama for president. In his book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception McClellan laid out some of his problems with the his former employer.
• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them – and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
• McClellan asserts that the aides – Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff – “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
This makes McClellan the second high-profile former Bush administration official to back the Democratic nominee, following the Colin Powell endorsement. Do things happen in threes?
Yep, McCain voted against funding for the troops. McCain cannot connect with me or the average votor. I’m for Obama/Biden 2008!
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Joel,
McCain voted against a bill that had a specific end date for the war. If you go by what Obama/Biden wanted to do, our troops would have been out of there before the surge worked and Iraq would be split into tiny little sections.
What connection do you have with Obama/Biden?
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Things usually DO happen in threes, but I seriously doubt that Cheney will be coming out to endorse Obama. Anyway, I honestly don’t even know if Cheney is still alive.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I haven’t quite figured Scott out. I’m on the fence as to whether he published that book for money or bc of his conscience. As far as this endorsement decision, I read the article that Alan links to above… it’s hard to say.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Sellout? LOL the big sellout will be a McBush presidency!
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Let Iraq spend some of their surplus instead of draining our country.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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Check this out and see what the rest of the work thinks also!!!!!!
October 24th, 2008 at 8:15 am
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October 24th, 2008 at 10:18 am
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October 24th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
President Bush actually voted for Obama! He needs some change too!
October 25th, 2008 at 11:03 am