Frank Rich's Sunday NY Times column: "McCain’s McClellan Nightmare"

[Faygo Kid]

I know, I know - this can go to Editorials et al. But it sure as hell is political, and I post it for my good friends here. Got to love this guy.

THEY thought they were being so slick. When the McCain campaign abruptly moved last Tuesday’s fund-raiser with President Bush from the Phoenix Convention Center to a private home, it was the next best thing to sending the loathed lame duck into the witness protection program. John McCain and Mr. Bush were caught on camera together for a mere 26 seconds, and at 9 p.m. Eastern time, safely after the networks’ evening newscasts. The two men’s furtive encounter on the Phoenix airport tarmac, as captured by a shaky, inaudible long shot on FoxNews.com, could have been culled from a surveillance video.

But for the McCain campaign, any “Mission Accomplished” high-fives had to be put on hold. That same evening Politico.com broke the news of Scott McClellan’s memoir, and it was soon All Bush All the Time in the mediasphere. Or more to the point: All Iraq All the Time, for the deceitful origins of the war in Iraq are the major focus of the former press secretary’s tell-all.

There is no news in his book, hardly the first to charge that the White House used propaganda to sell its war and that the so-called liberal media were “complicit enablers” of the con job. The blowback by the last Bush defenders is also déjà vu. The claims that Mr. McClellan was “disgruntled,” “out of the loop,” two-faced, and a “sad” head case are identical to those leveled by Bush operatives (including Mr. McClellan) at past administration deserters like Paul O’Neill, Richard Clarke, John DiIulio and Matthew Dowd. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01richedit.html?ref=opinion

[Botany]

1. I loves me some Frank Rich

"Americans don’t like being lied to by their leaders, especially if there are casualties involved and
especially if there’s no accountability. We view it as a crime story, and we won’t be satisfied until
there’s a resolution."

A f***ing men!

[FrenchieCat]

2. McCain will be proven a failure on Iraq and National Security.

and McClellan will be a small part of it......but only the start!

[JimGinPA]

3. K&R

[uponit7771]

4. OBAMA CRITIC WARNING; What kinda gets my craw about Obama at this point is the need to be 'clean'

....when it comes to campaigning no matter what.

There could simply be a commercial of McSames position in 2003 and now in regards to the war and let that speak of itself.

Something like that needs to be repeated early and often...very often.