Bob Dole. Scott McClellan. No Contest. [UPDATED; understanding Scott’s motive as promoting ‘teh Leftist Narrative’ (not to mention that Scott is obviously fleecing the mindless BDS sufferers)]
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Updated: Bob Dole continues in his e-mail to Scott McClellan:“In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you,” Dole writes, recounting his years representing Kansas in the House and Senate. “No doubt you will ‘clean up’ as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, ‘Biting The Hand That Fed Me.’ Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years”
Dole assures McClellan that he won’t read the book – “because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job”
Whether or not anything in this book are true, the fact is that Scott McClellan chose now to publish this thinly disguised hit piece. If he had waited until after President Bush left office, there would be fewer dollars jumping in his pocketses. Scott knows that the frothing liberals who will buy it are ripe for the plucking; one of the symptoms of BDS is the rabid acceptance of anyone who agrees with their POV no matter how obvious their agendas.
That same reasoning applies to their acceptance of people like perennial Leftist-Cause supporter and moneybags George Soros, who otherwise would be scoffed at as ‘one of those evil rich people who obviously doesn’t pay enough taxes’. (They would be right if they looked at Soros in that light; when was the last time he paid U.S. taxes?) And, Soros may be partly responsible for high gas prices. He’ll be dragged before a Senate committee next week to ’splain the role his hedge funds played in crude oil’s futures price surge.
Oh. Did I mention Soros? Further evidence that the motives for this Scott McClellen book are only political…
“We’d merely note that the book’s publisher is PublicAffairs, an imprint founded by left-wing editor Peter Osnos and which has published six books by George Soros. PublicAffairs is owned by Perseus Books, which is owned by Perseus LLC, a merchant bank whose board includes Democrats Richard Holbrooke and Jim Johnson, who is now doing Barack Obama’s vice presidential vetting. One of Perseus’s investment funds, Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical, is co-managed with Mr. Soros.”
We wonder if Mr. McClellen will be rewarded, as Bob Dole speculates, with another nice, cushy job in a Democratic administration where he simply reads what’s given to him and has no further insight into actual policy decision-making than would any Presidential lapdog.
Not a lapdog. More likely, as just another flea jumping to the next host.
Whether or not anything in this book are true
That just about sums up your position. Forget about the truth.
McClellan provided the White House with an advance copy of his recent memoir more than a month before publication this week. They had time to vet it for any inaccuracies, objections or secutiry violation. They had none.
There’s nothing new in this book. We know that the Iraqi war was propagandized and sold to the American people and Congress (who voted to allow the war, in case you’ve forgotten.) We know that Saddam Hussein is better off dead, and his people-shredding sons. We know that al-Qaeda is now forced out of Iraq; we know the Surge has worked (to the amazement of the liberals who, all, predicted and hoped that it wouldn’t; and are forever now tied to their wishes that the Surge would fail for political reasons).
The difference now is also knowing that these BDS liberals were willing to spew whatever hatred and vitriol they could to the detriment of the troops on the ground. They more or less joined the enemy.
I can wait until Bush is no longer CinC to comment on his actions. I’ll be damned if I’ll ever be mistaken for the enemy when we have troops on the ground in harm’s way.
That’s the difference between you and me, William. You’re no better than the enemy.
I can wait until Bush is no longer CinC to comment on his actions.
I can’t wait to see you rationalize why Bush and a bunch of his cronies are no longer in the U.S. on 1/20/2009.
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we know the Surge has worked
Has it?
Wasn’t it supposed to lower the violence level in Baghdad, to allow political reconciliation in the Iraqi government?
When did that happen?
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The. Surge. Worked.
Sorry for you. Get over it.
The. Surge. Worked.
IOW, moving the goalposts to declare victory is AWESOME! So, bring the troops home!
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If your not for us (troops getting killed and killing Iraqis), then you’re against us. Right Serr8, we know your kind, the habitual fixed response black and white kind. Sorry, but the long term ramifications of the Iraq invasion will never be good. We will eventually leave, leaving behind a less stable region with more enemies and a less safe world for the US. Isn’t that why we invaded in the first place? To make US safer? Now your trying to say it was all a trillion dollar humanitarian mission? Tell that to the people of Fallujah who were burned by white phosphorus, tell that to the people tortured, tell that to the 2 million Iraqis displaced. Oh yea, Bush, the big protector.