Scott McClellan, schrijft een vroegere woordvoerder van het Witte Huis in een nieuw titled boek: “Wat gebeurde: Binnen de Cultuur van het Witte Huis en van Washington van Bush van Teleurstelling,“ President Bush op de oorlog in Irak heeft aangeklaagd. Bovengenoemde McClellan: „Bush veranderde vreselijk van cursus van richting“ en „sleepte“ aan een onnodige oorlog in Irak mee. Het „witte Huis gebruikte propaganda om oorlog te verkopen,“ toegevoegde McClellan.
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McClellan omvat de lasten in zijn 341 paginaboek, dat een ruwe blik bij het Witte Huis en de man levert die hij voor dicht bij een decennium heeft gediend. Hij beschrijft Bush als aantonen „gebrek aan inquisitiveness,“ zegt het Witte Huis in werking wordt gesteld dat in „permanente campagnede“ wijze, en laat aan heeft bedrogen door sommigen in de binnencirkel van de voorzitter over het lek van de naam van een van de CIA arbeider…. toe[MEER]
Scott McClellan Spent Some Time With MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann — Talking About His New Book
McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It. | No president in US history has abused the prestige of his office in as crude a way as Bush did yesterday.
By James P. Rubin
Friday, May 16, 2008
If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview of the general election, we are in for an ugly six months.
Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick, McCain has shown that he is also happy to use Nixon-style dirty campaign tactics.
McBush — The Hypocrite
By charging recently that Hamas is rooting for an Obama victory, McCain tried to use guilt by association to suggest that Obama is weak on national security and won’t stand up to terrorist organizations, or that, as Richard Nixon might have put it, Obama is soft on Israel.
President Bush picked up this theme yesterday. Without naming Obama during his speech last night to Israel’s Knesset, Bush suggested that Democrats want to “negotiate with terrorists” while Republicans want to fight terrorists….[more]
The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968, when Richard Nixon built a Silent Majority out of lower- and middle-class folks frightened or disturbed by hippies and student radicals and blacks rioting in the inner cities.
The 2008 race may turn on which party will win the lower-and middle-class whites in industrial and border states—the Democrats’ base from the New Deal to the 1960s, but “Reagan Democrats” in most presidential elections since then.
It is a sure bet that the GOP will try to paint Obama as “the other”—as a haughty black intellectual who has Muslim roots (Obama is a Christian) and hangs around with America-haters.
The Obama team also notes that McCain himself has been the victim of a smear. In the South Carolina primary in 2000, GOP operatives spread the rumor that McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child.
Orlando, Fla, Nov. 17 — Declaring that “I am not a crook,” President Nixon vigorously defended his record in the Watergate case and said he had never profited from his public service.
“I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice,” Mr. Nixon said.
“People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.”
Richard Milhous Nixon “THE CROOK” — On Thursday, August 8, 1974, announced his resignation as the 37th President of the United States.
After two years of bitter public debate over the Watergate scandal, President Nixon bowed to pressures from the public and leaders of his party to become the first President in American history to resign.
George Bush has “commuted” [he will most likely be given a full pardon just before Bush leaves office in 2009] the 30 month sentence of a potential “IraqGate” squealer - Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
The action, announced just hours after a federal appeals court denied Mr. Libby’s request to allow him to remain free while his case is on appeal, spared Mr. Libby his prison term, but it “does not excuse him from stiff fines or probation.”
Many people and politicians have assailed Bush for this action.
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, a Democratic presidential candidate, said in a statement that the commutation of Mr. Libby’s sentence “cements the legacy of an administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law.”
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, said the decision showed Mr. Bush “condones criminal conduct.”
And the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, told The Associated Press: “Libby’s conviction was the one faint glimmer of accountability for White House efforts to manipulate intelligence and silence critics of the Iraq war. Now, even that small bit of justice has been undone.”
