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To: Lakeshark; Lady Jag; y'all

FOFLOL Naw, similar bodyshape but thats where the similarity ends. McClellan is colorless and uninteresting... even when he lies.... that little Martian thingie has too much color.


3,759 posted on 05/28/2008 4:23:00 PM PDT by Darlin' (oh.... phooey.... lost my tagline.... again)
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To: Letitring; catpuppy; Mo1; Lakeshark; sweetliberty; Servant of the 9; grannie9; ...
Speaking of McClellan.....

I’m puzzled over the interest in Scott McClellan’s opportunistic , backstabber-for-sale book. Why would any reasonable person place any credence in the veracity of anything he says? McClellan was only a deputy press secretary to Ari Fleischer during the lead up and beginning months of the Iraq war. The war started in March 2003 but Fleischer didn’t resign until July of that year. IMHO, it seems unlikely that a press secretary would have appropriate security clearance to be a party to high level, war planning discussions and certainly an underling , deputy secretary would not. Still, McClellan says he dutifully passed along the White House talking points at every press briefing. During his three years as press secretary the only times he ever seemed the least bit uncomfortable with his participation in the “Big Mislead” or any other aspect of his job was when he had to respond to questions from the hideous Helen Thomas. He exhibited the same demeanor throughout his time at the podium. Now he says it was all so wrong . What does that mean really? When do we take him at his word? Was he lying then or now? Is he asking us to believe that he is/was a man of integrity pre and post White House but that he conveniently misplaced it for three years so he could go before the MSM and the public daily, look everyone in the eye and lie? His former colleagues at the White House say he never once expressed his concerns that the public was being mislead about anything to any of them. What does that say about him?

His claims seem silly, petty and border on paranoia such as his assertion that Karl Rover and Scooter Libby had a secret strategy meeting about the Plame/CIA leak. FOFLOL A leak that everyone now knows didn’t come from the White House but from the adored Colin Powell and his gossip-loving, boot polisher, Richard Armitage. (Powell and Armitage sat on that information for months on end and let the White House take the heat for something they themselves did.) How on earth could McClellan know what was discussed in a private meeting between two high profile White House staffers or even how frequently they met? He wasn‘t in the room and it is absurd speculation on his part to presume he knows the nature of their discussion .

One can’t help but wonder exactly when and how it was that McClellan came to see the light. Was it before or after he was fired? Perhaps it was when the GOP chose to support popular Texas Governor Rick Perry’s re-election bid instead of McClellan’s mother, Carole Strayhorn, a former Texas state comptroller who ran as an “independent” Republican candidate against the incumbent Perry. Or was it money that spurred his decision to write a scurrilous book about a man who treated him kindly. A man who on McClellan’s last day on the job stood on the White House lawn with him and spoke with affection about their time together. If McClellan’s Johnny-come-lately-to-the-truth conversion is a sincere effort to set the record straight, to right his personal failings, then he ought to donate all the money he makes to some anti-war group. After all, profiting from his deliberate and calculated deceptions would be just as wrong as the behavior he now says he deplores.

Since McClellan is suddenly so fond of the truth, here is a little something for him to ponder. He is at best a prostitute. If he truly believed these things to be wrong at the time, he had an obligation then and there to try to stop it, failing that he should have resigned and informed the public and congress. But, he did not do any of that. Oh, no, back then he simply accepted the perks and privileges of his position and now he is now betraying the confidence, friendship and loyalty of not only his former colleagues but of the President.

3,760 posted on 05/28/2008 4:44:24 PM PDT by Darlin' (oh.... phooey.... lost my tagline.... again)
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To: Darlin'; Lakeshark; y'all

No, McClellan’s rectum is already inverted.


3,763 posted on 05/28/2008 5:10:28 PM PDT by Lady Jag (You can contribute to FR any time at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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