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TimALoftis1 year, 5 months ago
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FTA:
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush "veered terribly off course," was not "open and forthright on Iraq," and took a "permanent campaign approach" to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
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TimALoftis1 year, 5 months ago
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* 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.
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Goppy1 year, 5 months ago
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Oh jeesh!
Yet ANOTHER former White House employee spillin the beans bout the UNPRECEDENTED MORAL VACANCY of this administration!!
Well, I for one -- well, not for one really -- I along with ALL the Righties on Popieller who STILL express UNDYIN support for this administration will CONTINUE to express support for GW.
Why?
I dont know really. I guess because, if we Christian Conservatives admit that the man we put so much faith in is the worst presdient in history ... on SO MANY levels, whose gointa believe us when we back a candidate in the future?
I mean ... when I see LIBBIES criticise GW, we Christian Conservatives launch into angry tirades that LIBBIES ARE BUSH BASHERS! And we say that all libbies can do is BASH, BASH, BASH.
But Scott McClellan aint no Bush Basher. David Kuo werent no Bush Basher ... The dozens of other former employees werent Bush Bashers.
Maybe you Libbies got this one right. Goerge W. Bush is a misguided idiot and bad for our nation.
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Goppy1 year, 5 months ago
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Id liek to add in defense of Christian Conservatives throughout the nation --- who voted for GW because he said he was a Born Again Christian, and a Compassionate Conservative.
You know, we are just poeple, liek you. We can get fooled. And while there are STILL some folks who support GW --- maybe because their world is supported by the notion that Conservatives are a Rock of Reason --- I think we realize, in our heart of hearts --- that this administration aint even REPUBLICAN in nature.
They aint even CONSERVATIVE in nature!
Goerge RAN as a Republican. But we come to find out, he AINT a Republican.
Goerge RAN as a Conservative. But we come to find out, he AINT a Conservative.
Goerge RAN as a Christian. But I aint never seen a Christian LIE as much as GW, be responsible for so much DEATH as GW, and be so CALLOUS to the health and wealth of our nation as GW.
NOPE! GW is a Horse of a differnt color.
We just learnt that lesson too late.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 5 months ago
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I red this article earlier today and was dumbfounded, not just at bush but this guy also. Knowing what you know as an American you should feel the need to save this nation from the likes of these people. Where is your so-call love for our country, where does your loyalty stands? Does it stand with a man or this nation, and the presidency which is bigger than any man?
He is just trying to sell books and has to do better than the guy before him, I hope there is many more books seller this way we will get to the bottom of this mess! This story is appalling and so is Mr. McClellan for doing nothing while our country sank into this mess!!!
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Blackacereturn1 year, 5 months ago
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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."
"badly misguided." what does this mean? you mean you help them lie to the American people!
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mesodude1 year, 5 months ago
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"I red this article earlier today and was dumbfounded, not just at bush but this guy also. Knowing what you know as an American you should feel the need to save this nation from the likes of these people."
--I get the impression that this book is not just payback to Bush and Co but a way for him to atone for his actions. I just can't believe it's a coincidence that his book (like David Kuo's in '06) comes out in an election year. And the White House is going apesh*t.
"Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House," Perino said. "For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew."
Spin, Dana! Spin! LMAO
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Beau78901 year, 5 months ago
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Well, it's hard to take anything Dana Perino says seriously, after this confession (from a Washington Post article):
"During a White House briefing, a reporter referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and she didn't know what it was.
" 'I was panicked a bit because I really don't know about...the Cuban Missile Crisis,' said Perino, who at 35 was born about a decade after the 1962 U.S.-Soviet nuclear showdown. 'It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.'
"So she consulted her best source. 'I came home and I asked my husband,' she recalled. 'I said, "Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?" And he said, "Oh, Dana." ' "
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mesodude1 year, 5 months ago
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Perino is pretty but she's unbelievably vapid and nasty. It seems as if the White House was seriously scraping the barrel after Ari Fleischer left. And after the clownish Tony "I don't know" Snow, I was sure Bush's handlers had learned their lesson but they turned around and hired preening, finger-counting Barbie. Unless the volume is turned down on my TV, I find her completely embarrassing to watch.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 5 months ago
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"Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House," Perino said. "For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew."
Spin, Dana! Spin! LMAO
He knows the one who acted like he hate his country, not the one that has found a renewed love for it!
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Leemck021 year, 5 months ago
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Goppy, I don't think the majority has an ought with Christian Conservatism, in it's purest form. It was how this administration hid behind it or used it as a wedge to keep a distraction going while doing just the opposite of the very things Christianity stands for. It is so bad, the ideology is referred to as "Cons". I still the 'W' Still the President stickers. The Liberal Thinking isn't the issue, we are all Americans and are going to be here. The policy and procedure that we all have to abide with as well as who is handling our national security and treasury is of concern. All this Hagge and Wright stuff, meantime trying to get a rise out of the Catholics, is so far off base from what the Executive Branch is supposed to be doing. A faith based initiative, LOL, when we need solid management, economics and accounting. When you don't have the facts, baffle em with BS. Faith in W; no Vote for change.
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jordan111 year, 5 months ago
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hamy1 year, 5 months ago
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EXACTLY! McClellan is now trying to say that he thought he was telling the truth when I remember his fat face lying through his teeth to try and cover up the incompetence of this administration. He is just as guilty as Bush and Cheney themselves.
Don't give him any more money. He has suckled the teat of America's tax payers long enough. Don't buy this book. Steal it.
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scott42611 year, 5 months ago
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I almost pity Scott McClellan. It's easy for all of to criticize him for his complicity in the crimes of the Bush Administration. Those of us who come into contact with Republicans daily in our working lives and family life know many who wanted so desperately to believe in the Bush Administration. These are not bad people and everyone I am speaking of is quite educated, but they WANTED to believe the lies they were being told. And like McClellan, they have come around to understanding the malfeasance that many of us have been aware of all along. My Republican mother voted for Bush and she has made many of the rationalizations McClellan apparently made while he was press secretary. And to this day my mom still doesn't want to speak ill of the President. Having said that, to say she is disillusioned is an understatement.
I'm gonna take this for what it is. McClellan may have "found religion" like Former Defense Secretary McNamara did in the '90s.
Then again, maybe not...
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Blackacereturn1 year, 5 months ago
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Granted Scott your point well taken...why not come out while you were quiting if you were concerned about the country...Ill tell you why because he wanted to sell books! This guy is as much to be blamed as bush he was there for 4 years he should have known! Well he did say he knew when he saw rove and scooter meeting in the west wing!
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jordan111 year, 5 months ago
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I know what you mean scott, and I have friends and family who did come to the realization that the bush administration has been a disaster. We don't talk about it much because frankly I think they're embarrassed and a little angry that they missed the writing on the wall. However, for a person to be in the position to know what was going on, and quietly make an exit without warning his country, is quite another matter, IMO.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago
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scott4261 said it well. McClellan shouldn't be dismissed because of his participation in the Bush Junta, It seems he wanted to do his job and be a "team" player back then, but has had a conscience since. This is better than the lobotomized shills still on intravenous Koolaid. He may be the best possible look inside the hidden machinations of the Junta.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 5 months ago
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You know what you had about 50% of this nation saying these things were lies and you did nothing they would have backed you. You did nothing and then stayed for 4 years and waited for another 2 so you can sell a book. Mr. McClellan to hell with you. You let your country and the American people down!
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mcgrievysr1 year, 5 months ago
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TimALoftis----"Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush "veered terribly off course," was not "open and forthright on Iraq," and took a "permanent campaign approach" to governing at the expense of candor and competence"
Exactly what we've been saying here, but now it comes from inside the White House.
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 5 months ago
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Same group of shameless fools voted to sink this story.
Their stinky little pack is getting smaller..
From what do they stink you may ask??
The odor of those who continue to be responsible for a completely unaccountable administration that is damaging this once proud country and relies on trained animals like them to keep defending the defenseless...
These people know no shame and have no sense of what being a true American requires..They are stubborn, brainless fools.
They have absolutely no standards for what a president should be..What can they tell their children?
Here they have in bold crayon the absolute outing of their idiot leader and they still defend him blindly, YES, like NAZI's did Hitler. Their loyalty to their pig leader and his pig friend Cheney is inexplicable. They have nothing to add to this nation. What a waste.
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