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bookemdanno
Joined: 30 Apr 2008
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 Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:54 am Post subject: BOB DOLE TAKES SCOTT MCCLELLAN BEHIND THE WOODSHED |
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Senator Dole, I couldn't have said it better myself:
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Bob Dole unloads on McClellan
from Politico
Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding email to Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a "miserable creature" who greedily betrayed his former patron for a fast buck.
In an extraordinary message obtained and authenticated by Politico, Dole uses his trademark biting wit to portray McClellan as a classic Washington opportunist.
"There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don�t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues," Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning. "No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique."
Michael Marshall, Dole's spokesman and colleague at the Alston Bird law firm, confirms the message came from the former senator and presidential candidate. "Yes, it is authentic," Marshall wrote in an email.
"In my nearly 36 years of public service I've known of a few like you," Dole writes, recounting his years representing Kansas in the House and Senate. "No doubt you will 'clean up' as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, 'Biting The Hand That Fed Me.' Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years"
Dole assures McClellan that he won't read the book -- "because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job"
"That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively," Dole concludes. "You�re a hot ticket now but don�t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?"
He signs the email simply: "BOB DOLE" |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:15 am Post subject: ... |
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| WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST POST THIS IN THE CURRENT THREAD ON THE TOPIC, DANNO? |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Dole assures McClellan that he won't read the book -- "because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job."
"That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively," Dole concludes. |
This seems like valid criticism to me, although Dole articulates it in an attack, and I wonder how McClellan responds. Why did McClellan not "speak up" at the time? Why did he accept a position in the administration if he felt the way he now claims he did? Why did he not resign in protest?
Why did he wait and make it into a book deal? And why did he not wait until later to publish it? |
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bookemdanno
Joined: 30 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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This has all the makings of opportunism. Those of us who lived in Austin when Bush was governor--a very popular one at that--know that McClellan was pulled along by his coattails. Up into the moment that Bush one the nomination n 2000, good ol' Scottie was only managing his mother's business operations.
Speaking of the man's mother, she has a very bad reputation in Texas for being a turncoat-she traded party allegiances not once but twice and turned on her former colleagues the moment the going got bad.
So the rotten apple falls close to the tree. Indeed, McClellan's family going back three generations were Yellow Dog Democrats of the peculiar Texan variety.
He's going to have a heck of a time when he returns to his hometown because Texans don't appreciate kiss-and-tell from any quarter.
Nowhere Man:
Have anything substantive to contribute to the thread, or just frazzled because I'm calling your new hero of the Left into question?
Fret not, you still have a famous song named after you. |
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agentX
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
Location: Jeolla province
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 5:40 am Post subject: |
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Hilarious. Bob Dole passing himself off as a man of honor.
This is a guy who complained when John Kerry talked about his war record in 2004 during the campaign, but has kept quiet about John McLobbyist talking about his war record.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5820820/
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| "In my nearly 36 years of public service I've known of a few like you," Dole writes, recounting his years representing Kansas in the House and Senate. |
Yeah, he certainly does. He hates it when close people regain their soul and let bare their dirt. Bob Dole doesn't like the truth coming out, especially since he's almost as dirty as Bush.
http://www.perkel.com/politics/dole/index.htm |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 8:19 am Post subject: |
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his has all the makings of opportunism. Those of us who lived in Austin when Bush was governor--a very popular one at that--know that McClellan was pulled along by his coattails. Up into the moment that Bush one the nomination n 2000, good ol' Scottie was only managing his mother's business operations.
Speaking of the man's mother, she has a very bad reputation in Texas for being a turncoat-she traded party allegiances not once but twice and turned on her former colleagues the moment the going got bad.
So the rotten apple falls close to the tree. Indeed, McClellan's family going back three generations were Yellow Dog Democrats of the peculiar Texan variety.
He's going to have a heck of a time when he returns to his hometown because Texans don't appreciate kiss-and-tell from any quarter.
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Glad to see, you so quickly managed to find a way to disregard McClellan's revelations! Congrats |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| Play the ball, not the man. Play the ball, not the man...And so on. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: ... |
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| Nowhere Man wrote: |
| WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST POST THIS IN THE CURRENT THREAD ON THE TOPIC, DANNO? |
It's a fair question. I'm curious myself.
Here's another one: When asked, why did the OP instead chose to make a clever little insult at the poster who asked, instead of, say, I dunno, answering it?
Dole was always known for his mean-spiritedness. It was his own personal glass celing that kept him from going as high as his aspirations.
About McClellan: Usually, leaving a job in the White House like he had, one can write their own ticket - journalism like Stephanopolus, media maven and on-call talking-head "expert" like Fitzwater and others, media consultant like the people who had similar jobs in the Clinton and Bush I administrations ... so why has the world not been beating a path to Scott's door?
In order to do his job in this White House, he had to stand in front of reporters and tell lies every day - a lot of them heinous ones, and many of them very obvious ones, even at the time, but far more obviously in retrospect. This White House has been almost exclisively in the business of lying to the American people and lying to the world, but abolut actions and about intentions.
Of course, there's no law against politicians telling lies unless they are under oath - notice how, in the whole Libby/CIA affair, senior staffers would only agree to discussions with the Special Prosecutor, not sworn testimony. And McClellan became the sacrificail lamb in all that.
He lacks honor, yes. For participating in the lies, and seeking profit and that end - now, for confessing (which he hasn't, not really) and bashing those he was asked to fall on his sword for.
Pretty ugly, sure, ugly all around. But what, precisely, is there to be found about this White House that is anything else but ugly.
And, Bob Dole? Gimme a break. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| The Bobster wrote: |
| I'm curious myself. |
Sure you are. You stopped "being curious" and made up your mind about everything long ago.
The time has come for you to end this preachy, rhetorical posturing and posting behavior and grow up, Bobster. End it. End it now. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| The Bobster wrote: |
| I'm curious myself. |
Sure you are. You stopped "being curious" and made up your mind about everything long ago.
The time has come for you to end this preachy, rhetorical posturing and posting behavior and grow up, Bobster. End it. End it now. |
Haha, this thread isn't about me, Gopher. Whatever made you think so? |
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