MCCLELLAN: "...A Left Wing Blogger"

Some very quick impressions about the Scott McClellan interview still going on as I write this on the NBC Today Show:

--McClellan sounds naive when he talks about being so shocked and appalled in the partisanship of Washington D.C
and when he talks about his desire to use his new book to try and "change that culture." In D.C. it has long been about party
first, country second, regardless of the party you claim to be a member of and anyone with McClellan's background and
experience would have known that.

--Of course Karl Rove would try to spin Scott McClellan as sounding like a "left wing blogger." The evil genius of Rove is that every opportunity he can take to equate being "left wing" or "liberal" with something dishonest or disingenuous--without actually coming out and using those words--he does it. Karl Rove and former Republican Party chairperson Lee Atwater have done more to demonize the word liberal than anyone else in the history of America.

--The White House is going to spend all day spinning and spinning but the louder the complain and the more effort they put into trying to make McClellan look bad, the more I think they validate his point of view.

--It's not a shock to anyone not blinded by the right-wing party line that the President and his top advisers would try to "shade the truth" about the Iraq invasion, but it's still illuminating to see that McClellan was disgruntled (enlightened?) enough to go into it in his book.

More on this later...

"I'm not watered down/So I'm dyin' of thirst." --Sticky Fingaz (Onyx) from the song, "Slam".

Peace.