Connect the Dots, Lalalala
Former Bush Press Secretary McClellan Endorses Obama
He’s the second former Bush administration figure this week to publicly back Obama, following former Secretary of State Colin Powell. McClellan caused bitterness among his former co-workers with a tell-all book that criticized Bush.
Like my dad noted a few weeks ago, you can learn a lot from what’s left unsaid. Why did McClellan criticize Bush in his book?
McClellan also suggests that Libby and Rove secretly colluded to get their stories straight at a time when federal investigators were hot on the Plame case.
“There is only one moment during the leak episode that I am reluctant to discuss,” he writes. “It was in 2005, during a time when attention was focusing on Rove and Libby, and it sticks vividly in my mind. … Following [a meeting in Chief of Staff Andy Card’s office], … Scooter Libby was walking to the entryway as he prepared to depart when Karl turned to get his attention. ‘You have time to visit?’ Karl asked. ‘Yeah,’ replied Libby.
“I have no idea what they discussed, but it seemed suspicious for these two, whom I had never noticed spending any one-on-one time together, to go behind closed doors and visit privately. … At least one of them, Rove, it was publicly known at the time, had at best misled me by not sharing relevant information, and credible rumors were spreading that the other, Libby, had done at least as much. …
“The confidential meeting also occurred at a moment when I was being battered by the press for publicly vouching for the two by claiming they were not involved in leaking Plame’s identity, when recently revealed information was now indicating otherwise. … I don’t know what they discussed, but what would any knowledgeable person reasonably and logically conclude was the topic? Like the whole truth of people’s involvement, we will likely never know with any degree of confidence.” [my emphasis]
(original source Tire Swing CentralPolitico)
And more at FDL:
For three years, Scott McClellan stood before the White House press corp and humiliated himself, saying things he knew were probably false or misleading, while pretending that by dissembling for his President he was serving his country. In now confessing his sins and spins, he still clings to the hope of redemption by saying, gosh, they meant well, even if they were all lying about everything.
McClellan follows Powell, whose reputation will forever be stained with the blood of thousands of troops and millions of innocent civilians. Less attention has been paid to exiled Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill’s association with Obama.
So many Republicans, once so closely associated with the President, all clearly burned by not only the Administration, but the entire Republican party.
As Pee Wee Herman once sang, “Connect the dots, lalalala, connect the dots, lalalala…”
I hope the Republican Party collapses under the weight of its own stinking corruption. I hope they lose and lose big in 2008, and begin to turn on each other, the swine.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
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October 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 pm
That is awesome. Who’s next to endorse Obama – Karl Rove?