just to say that this book, the news accounts and the postings/responses here are going to keep laughing for quite some time.

First you say that you won’t make an ass of yourself, but you couldn’t help it and you did.

Brilliant.

[Bush on McClellan's 2006 resigning]: “And I thought he handled his assignment with class, integrity. He really represents, you know, the best of his family, our state and our country.”

Or perhaps insert a Homeresque “Doh!” and label this as “Ain’t Gonna Happen Now, Sucka!” with just a wee touch of “Things Bush Wants To Forget Saying”:

[Bush on McClellan's 2006 resigning]: “One of these days, he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas talking about the good old days of his time as the press secretary. And I can assure you, I will feel the same way then that I feel now, that I can say to Scott, job well done.”

I guess we should stick with the tried-and-true meme: BUSH LIED, MCCLELLAN…er…oh whatever!

In all seriousness, this sounds all sounds pretty contrived to me…

And, no words describe Scott……Liar, traitor,creep…..

In case you haven’t heard Tony Snow has backed out of an appearance for health concerns. Gosh, everyone say a prayer for him. He was a GREAT PS.

And by the way, they haven’t “kicked my ass for years”. Once again, you adhere to the false assumption you and your ilk love to spout that all democrats attach all failures and successes to the government. gimmee a break. I do quite well thank you very much, and the incompetent president we have had nothing to do with it.

I believe that on the Today Show Scott said that he asked President Bush if he authorized the declassification of Plame document to Cheney and Libby and the president answered “Yep.”

And again, IF true, the big scandal in that would be….?

And, IF actually scandalous (which I doubt), the special prosecutor missed it by…..? (McClellan perjuring himself?)

I think we would be better served by focusing on his actions and words, rather than trying to bring his sexual orientation into things.

In short, whether he’s gay or not doesn’t matter, nor should it.

“The other defining moment was in early April 2006 when I learned that the president had secretly declassified the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq for the Vice President and Scooter Libby to anonymously disclose to reporters.”

“This was not a deliberate conscious effort [to lie], everything is centered in trying to manipulate the narrative to their advantage,” McClellan said…

(1) How can you “secretly declassify” something? Is McClellan nuts?
(2) How is LETTING THE PUBLIC IN on the intelligence somehow unsavory?
(3) And yet notice that EVEN MCCLELLAN ends up saying, Bush didn’t lie.

Pathetic. If that’s the best McClellan has, all this truly is a tempest in a teapot…

McClellan talked about the Valerie Plame Wilson affair in which he says he was told by Scooter Libby and Karl Rove, “No, we were not involved in this.”

“I blame myself for going to the podium and passing along information that turned out to be false,” McClellan said.

WHOA. What part of that turned out to be false? Armitage was the leaker. That’s in the public record. Rove and Libby weren’t involved. Libby was prosecuted for something ancillary.

Mary Matalin never thought much of McClellan, it seems:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/mary_matalin_on_mcclelllans_bo.html

When the Left (Olbermann) used to think of McClellan, they were happy to highlight his mediocrity:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3170048640834620407&q=McClellan+Olbermann&ei=Kdo8SMX_EI6IrQLRwb2CBA&hl=en

Thought for the day: Is McClellan gay? In the video, he looks and sounds sort of fat-ugly-gay to me. And he used to work for his mom. I’m just wondering if this is another case like David Brock or Andrew Sullivan: a gay guy on shaky ground to begin with, turning under the influence of the people he wants to have sex with. This is a total shot in the dark; if McClellan is heterosexual, OK, fine.

Do they really want to honor such a person?

That question assumes that the left understands the concept of honor.

The dishonorable honoring one of their own? Isn’t that the definition of a self-reinforcing delusion?

Coward in that he never once spoke up to challenge the propaganda and deceit he now claims.

Conscious collaborator in that he knew he, for three years, continued to push what he knew to be deceit and propaganda.

Do they really want to honor such a person?

Having said that: I would like to know more about what his book actually says. I mean: How bad are his specific claims? I don’t want to buy his book, but maybe I can browse it in Borders - or can someone post a link to an accurate summary?

2: Actually…I do have a comment. Bush did the same thing…