Scott McClellan’s new book — What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception — is coming out next week, and apparently Scottie points some fingers. Could be fun.
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Scott McClellan’s new book — What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception — is coming out next week, and apparently Scottie points some fingers. Could be fun.
I admire him for putting himself on the line- he took risks in writing this book; but at the same time I am somewhat skeptical of the many people jumping on the bandwagon and distancing themselves from Bush at a time when it is politically expedient for them do so- when Bush’s popularity has plummeted into the abyss.
“I had allowed myself to be deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood,â€
Really?.. Something don’t jive. If you can allow a deception..Is it a deception? I think Scotty is working too hard to dress-up his lie. Don’t expect much from Scotty’s book in the way of truth… It’s more like a whore wanting to get paid for their trick.
Sorry, don’t want to hear it. The only place I want to hear this information is on the witness stand in a trial against Bush, Chaney, and all the rest, for taking us into a foolish and unnecessary war. He would, of course, have to take a plea and still serve some jail time because the public just wouldn’t stand for anything else. Nixon had nothing on these crooks.
I’m waiting for the review by beloved, occasional diarist “karate explosions” on dKos. Something along the lines of “The Scotty Show Reunion: Scotty’s Revenge.”
What does it say about Congress, Justice, the media and the rest of us that much of what McClellan wrote was covered in Paul O’Neill’s book which came out about 5 years ago. The reaction then was one step below ho-hum.
Were we all just brain-dead, or in the case of Congress, Justice and the media just keeping their asses covered. So much of this nightmare could have been avoided if we’d dealt with and gotten rid of this seriously flawed administration long ago.
Perhaps pie-in-the-sky, but remembering the Japanese admiral’s remark about us after his country’s victorious bombing of Pearl Harbor, I’m afraid we’ve merely awakened a sleeping giant, can or even will Obama be able to awaken an American public. There are a lot of us but we’re only as powerful as we want to be.
I’d have been impressed if he had come out with this in 2003 or even early 2004 when it might have done some good. As it is, it only appears that he is trying to save his own skin. He seems to think that, in some way, by writing this book his name will not be associated with the most corrupt and deceitful presidency and administration in American history.
Instead of being a small measure of vindication for seeing the truth before Scotty got right and purged his conscience, Scotty’s book revelations become salt in the wounds. Libby will still get his pardon, Bush will continue to be lavished with praise and rewarded handsomely for his treasonous crimes,and Cheney will just slither off unscathed into his corporate cesspool of untold wealth and power. Nobody will have to answer, and nobody will be held to account. That sucks!
The Judas Goat wants to save his own ass…..
A million or so lives too late .