Bush pal turns on the prez

by Barry Artiste | May 29, 2008 at 04:32 am | 328 views | 10 comments | 24 recommendations

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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

Scott McClellan certainly hit the mother lode as confident to the President, a Holy Grail position which now that his explosive book which came out with a Dirty Laundry list of Tell Alls of President Bush. These revelations will assure him unlimited scorn from politicians of all stripes, and assuredly a Thumbs Up from Oprah's Book Club, which will make him millions....No..billions of Fans the world over.

Perhaps Scott is telling Bush pick your associated closely, as Bush may not rethink his Friends list in his Blackberry, and reorganize his 5 friends list on his presidential phone.

Scott will most likely be fielding countless lucrative calls from talk shows. One wonders if there was a confidential disclosure agreement between Scott and the President, if not, then there should have been, and Georges fault.

Certainly this book will be a best seller in the Middle East and other countries where the Bush Administration stepped on my many toes during his time in office. As for Scott, I am sure he will now have new best friends, and lose many friends who will not trust someone who was a confidante to a President.

WASHINGTON -Bush pal turns on the prez

By AP

Former press secretary says Dubya deceived people-

In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President George W. Bush has written a memoir damning his old boss on nearly every level -- from a less-than-honest selling of the Iraq war to a lack of personal candour.

In the first major insider account of the Bush White House, Scott McClellan calls the operation "insular, secretive and combative" and says it veered irretrievably off course as a result.

The White House responded angrily yesterday to McClellan's confessional memoir, calling it self-serving sour grapes.

"Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House," said White House press secretary Dana Perino, a former deputy to McClellan. "We are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew."

McClellan was the White House press secretary from May 2003 to April 2006, the second of four so far in Bush's presidency. He discloses that he was pushed to leave earlier than he had planned.

Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff for mr Bush.

Омега спасибо, нужно выбрать их наперсниц тщательно.

С уважением, Борис

What's funny is that all of the stuff dragged out in the news coverage is old news, discussed ad nauseam before the invasion. This is the first time, though, that the White House's mouthpiece at the time has gone off-message.

Actually, Ari Fleischer was the White House's press secretary at the time. McClellan was just an assistant. Which brings up the point that Dan Bartlett makes:

Bartlett asserted that McClellan did not play a major role in key
events, noting that the former aide was serving as deputy press
secretary for domestic issues during the run-up to the war in Iraq,
raising questions about how McClellan could claim the President used
"propaganda" to sell the war.

"I don't think he was in a position to know this," Bartlett said
flatly. He said it's "troubling" that McClellan is now "gives
credibility to every left-wing attack" on anecdotes that are "either
thinly-sourced or not witnessed by him" in the White House.

Thanks Big T, for the excellent comments, certainly an eye opener from an American. Though I am Canadian, I may not understand the Presidential office, but I understand human nature.

What you say about McClellan may be true, O feel only partially true. As anyone knows, Loose Lips are a Red Eyed Mistress, even a lowly clerk hears and sees things in the coming and goings on in High office. It is the nature of the beast, I was stationed on our Parliament Hill in the late 70s and early 80s, certainly not privy to what our sitting Prime Minister was doing, but I really did not have to sit beside him, to know the Hills secrets good and scandalous. I was not blind to what was going on. Hence my reluctance to trust what any politician says.

The exceptions would be Honest to a fault and friendly to even panhandlers is former Prime Minister Joe Clark (Conservative Party) whose wife most felt made him a horridly Whipped Man in private, his honesty was likely his downfall.

The other Politician who I also have the utmost respect for was then Leader Ed Broadbent (NDP Party), I also has the pleasure of working for Preston Manning (Reform Party ) idyllic, but in my opinion, honest but really, really conservative even for me, though Preston had Canada's best interests at heart.

Lastly the hardest working and Honest Politician I ever had the pleasure to work for was then sitting Liberal Deputy Prime Minister John Manley.

All these men honest, hard working, family men, I would be proud to serve again with anytime. They of all the politicians had nary a scandal against them, and had Canada's best interests at heart. If they formed a political party, they would be a force to be reckoned with.

Why do I use these Canadian men as an example versus American politicians, it is because, these men I know, most Canadians do not, though the media do, and hesitate for some reason to say what I just stated.

In ending, perhaps this guy McClellan wasn't "personally privy" to everything, but I guarantee you he knew what was going on. I would be inclined to believe him, though I think his opportunistic nature in betraying the trust handed him puts him into the Realm of Benedict Arnold.

Thanks Jordan, especially contradictory was the "War for Oil" mantra, when it was widely known Canada supplied virtually all Oil to the USA to the tune of 24 million barrels a day versus Middle Eastern Oil supplying perhaps a couple of million barrels of oil a day.

The Oil the Middle East supplied to the USA, was a token amount, perhaps because the Saudi investments and money loaned to the USA mandated the USA buy at least some oil from them.

Perhaps the War for Oil was to supply US troops in Iraq and Turkey? Because again, as I state Canada supplies the country of the USA during that time, right up until today and tomorrow for many decades to come.

So in ending, the War for Oil statement certainly doesn't fly with me, unless they meant American Sports Fisherman invading Canada during Spring Salmon Season. That I'll buy~!

The truth wants to be free!

Thanks Jarrett, perhaps the Truth though should be tempered with a grain of salt. After all he does have a book to sell, and artistic license sells books

Thanks for the GS too