Scott McClellan bails on John McCain

[AFA]

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, the consummate Bush loyalist no more, has a knack for dropping bombshells.

He did it with his tell-all book about life and lies in President Bush's inner circle.

And now comes his grinning declaration, taped for a new weekend CNN show, "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News," that he has a favorite in the presidential election, and it is not John McCain

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/mcclellan-obama.html

 

[tubuler]

Didn't McClellan write a book on how fucked up the Bush regime was/is? I think I remember him talking about it on Real Time with Bill Maher a few weeks back. I believe he said he was supporting Obama back then.

It's amazing to see how many republicans are jumping ship. From McClellan to Colin Powell. Yet another piece of the G.W. Bush legacy.

 

[Friday on my mind]

Didn't McClellan write a book on how fucked up the Bush regime was/is? I think I remember him talking about it on Real Time with Bill Maher a few weeks back. I believe he said he was supporting Obama back then.

It's amazing to see how many republicans are jumping ship. From McClellan to Colin Powell. Yet another piece of the G.W. Bush legacy.

Yes he wrote a book about how disappointed he was in Bush and how he was lied to with the whole Plame thing and made to look terrible when the truth of that was revealed.He is just the latest republican to basically say the republican party has lost its way and has nothing to offer vs Obama.Add him to Powell and Ike's grandaughter who are supporting Obama.She's like my god look at these deficits! Powell and McClellan are examples of people who think the reoublican party needs an overhaul and both thought Bush would mean an administation with intregrity.Both were told lies (big important lies too about war and such) that they then repeated to the world only to be made to look the fools later.

 

[AFA]

Another book, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for ******" points out a lot of things about the man that we all forget about. The author makes a case about how happy go lucky he likes to portray himself as, while he brags about being a war president with over 100,000 ***** to his credit. He also took off almost 1,000 vacation days in 7 years and there is evidence he feels that anything like work will make him lose his solitude and so it's avoided. His political statements are basically null, while he is happy to talk about his improving jogging time when many soldiers in this unjust and disguisting war he created through lies are returning with little medical care and no legs.

What really gets me is where are all the voices that claimed he was such a great man and leader 5 years ago now? They are taking up the cause for McCain.

 

[Facial_King]

Another book, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for ******" points out a lot of things about the man that we all forget about. The author makes a case about how happy go lucky he likes to portray himself as, while he brags about being a war president with over 100,000 ***** to his credit. He also took off almost 1,000 vacation days in 7 years and there is evidence he feels that anything like work will make him lose his solitude and so it's avoided. His political statements are basically null, while he is happy to talk about his improving jogging time when many soldiers in this unjust and disguisting war he created through lies are returning with little medical care and no legs.

Well, all that may be true, b-b-but he....he...he gave up GOLF!!!

 

[historylover]

How will Americans react to this general feeling of inevitability?

My gut says that all the Republican abandonment of McCain, including Palin's media-told disagreements with him, may close the Obama-McCain gap a bit too much. Specifically, this "feeling" could nix the chances of a filibuster-proof majority which the Democrats may want. I doubt that a portion of Americans value being "told" who they'll vote for or who'll win. Further, how many contrarians live in the US? Obama may still win, but will "one-party rule" occur?

Obama targeting traditional Republican strongholds seems wise instead of foolhardy in this case. I believe that it lessens the corrosive power of the inevitability problem because he's perceived as still fighting for instead of assuming the win.

 

[senob44]

^ You've got a point there. I can easily see all the talk about Obama winning lead to bigger turnouts among McCain supporters and complacency and lack of turnout from Obama supporters. You're right that people don't like being told who will win.

While it doesn't annoy me that the tide seems to really be turning in Obama's favor once again, it makes me a little wary.