Dole Calls McClellan "Miserable Creature"
In an email obtained by Politico, former GOP senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole harshly criticizes former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan for keeping quiet while serving in the Bush Administration only to write a money-making book critical of the administration once he had left.
"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. "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."
"No doubt you will 'clean up' as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm," Dole added. "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's spokesman confirmed that the email is authentic.
The 1996 Republican nominee wrote that McClellan should have spoken up at the time if he had concerns about the administration, writing that doing so "would have taken integrity and courage."
Concludes Dole: "You’re a hot ticket now but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?"
"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. "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."
"No doubt you will 'clean up' as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm," Dole added. "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's spokesman confirmed that the email is authentic.
The 1996 Republican nominee wrote that McClellan should have spoken up at the time if he had concerns about the administration, writing that doing so "would have taken integrity and courage."
Concludes Dole: "You’re a hot ticket now but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?"
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See all 314 CommentsWar, Corruption, Deaths and Destruction are the character of this Republican Party. And, in regards to one of their own close working Bush cabinet members, look at just who is calling the kettle black.
Absolutely. The NEOCON GOP Nazi''s are calling McClellan every name under the sun, but not one of them has disputed the substance of his book.
What does that lead us to?
It''s OK to start war, to lie, to cheat, to spend trillions on your buddies and big companies PROVIDED you stay a loyal GOP person and keep your secrets to the grave.
A very sad state of affairs... What would the GOP know about integrity or courage?
I CAN think of other professions where it WOULD be their responsibility to ask these questions.
Posted by boatdocster at 01:10 PM : May 30, 2008
That''s because there ISN''T ANY! But if you want to buy it and go sit in the bathroom and make the pages stick together, be my guest. I know it really gets foaming at the mouth libs really ''worked up''.
Bloggers?
Surely not the stenographers we call "journalists".
"IS NOT! Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!"
obama
yo'''' momma
it''''s all the same
Posted by bswalker12 at 01:30 PM : May 30, 2008
don''t talk about my mamma!
He''s just a Pi**ed off old viagra pitchman. He needs something to have to with Elizabeth Dole....YUUUCCCKK!
I thought Dole was dead.
He''ll be cindy sheehaned by next week.
Talk about cashing in!
The neocons believe that party come first, before country!
It''s what we call treason!
Scott McClellan is a man of conscience.
The rest of the neocons who have made billions from their sham war in Iraq are TRAITORS to the country!
Dole, shut the fvck up and go take some more vi@gra.
2000 years ago Plato was correct
McClellan Left the Cave..Dole has not!
In Plato''s famous cave analogy, the inside of the cave represents the depraved human condition. Those inside the cave are passive, unreflective. They live in darkness and conformity.
It is only through abstract thinking that we may escape the cave, gain access to philosophical insight, and self-liberation.
Leaving the cave, then, is synonymous with attaining enlightenment and truth.
Elected officials have a duty to our country and the people that elect them first not to other elected officials.
McClellan did the right thing, and if politicians did the right thing they would not have to fear someone writing a book about their doings.
The truth is, all the rats with any intelligence are jumping ship. Bush and Cheney (and so many more) will be tried for their international war crimes. Whoever else is left with them in the end will be subject to the same fate.
Imagine several prisoners who have been chained up in a cave for all of their lives. They have never been outside the cave. They face a wall in the cave and they can never look at the entrance of the cave. Sometimes animals, birds, people, or other objects pass by the entrance of the cave casting a shadow on the wall inside the cave. The prisoners see the shadows on the wall and mistakenly view the shadows as reality.
One man breaks free from his chains & runs out of the cave. For the first time, he sees the real world & now knows that it is far beyond the shadows he had been seeing. He sees real birds and animals, not just shadows of birds & animals.
This man is excited about what he sees and he goes back to his fellow prisoners in the cave to tell them about the real world. But to his astonishment, they don%u2019t believe him. In fact, they are angry with him. They say the shadows are reality and that the escaped prisoner is crazy for saying otherwise.
POINT OF THE CAVE ANALOGY: According to Plato, the world outside the cave represents the world of forms while the shadows on the wall represent objects in the physical world. The escape of the prisoner represents philosophical enlightenment and the realization that forms are the true reality. Most people are like the prisoners in the cave. They think the shadows are reality. Philosophers, though, are like the man who escapes the cave and sees the real world. They have true knowledge.
Posted by zorar
Except when one has given up trying to remove Bin Laden from his cave!
Posted by UnderMyBoot at 01:26 PM : May 30, 2008
Oh I don''t know... the way some folks defend HRc''s lies and antics, I''d say it was typical Hillary supporter -think too. LOL
I can only hope that some of the people who once defended this administration are open-minded enough to notice how many erstwhile members of the Bush administration have come out with memoirs saying essentially the same thing, and how the administration trots out essentially the same talking points against all of them. You''d think that if so many ex-White House people were "disgruntled former employees", that might raise questions about whether something in the White House had given them cause to be disgruntled. And you might wonder why, if all of them had somehow gone insane or been eaten up by bitterness or were trying for massive book payments, they all came out with the same set of criticisms.
Posted by zorar at 02:02 PM : May 30, 2008
The only flaw in your analogy is this: you never know if the way you see a bird is the way that real bird looks to someone else--besides the gradations of color-blindness humans have, we also view texture, and other features differently. The fact that most philosophers realize is that reality is not an absolute--it is an illusion. Reality is a complex illusion tempered by perception and since each person''s perception is different, then reality is always a compromise based on consensus.
In other words, the bird in reality, is not that much different than the bird that is a shadow--except in the world of reality. In the world of the cave, THAT version IS the reality and if they live and die in the cave...then only their version matters anyway. This is the essence of philosophy--that one can ponder away, but that depending which way one angles a fact or idea or reality--one will always view it differently.
Posted by zorar
No, leaving the cave is akin to changing one''s version of reality by altering perception. Such a reality would change yet again, if one could see beyond the physical bird''s exterior and examine as an amalgamation of matter, atoms and electrons and protons. And yet again if one was to examine it from another dimension. There is no reality--just our consensus and agreement that what we see is what all others should see--but what we see is not always the only thing that is there. We always think we have attained enlightenment--but progression always shows us that for every layer of the onion skin we peel back, there are thousands of layers left that we have not yet begun to contemplate.
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