Former spokesman throws Bush under the bus
By: Stephen Keating5/27/2008 - 5:39pm
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence, writes Mike Allen of Politico.
McClellan, who served as press secretary from 2003 to 2006, was much more complimentary on leaving his job. Below is a video from "This Week" in which Pres. Bush recounts that, “One of these day he and I are going to be rocking on chairs in Texas, talking about the good old days of his time as the press secretary.”
McClellan says, “The president has been great to me. Mrs. Bush has been great.”
Under the bus rating: On a scale of one to five, McClellan gets three rear-view mirrors for perfect hindsight.
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Would that it was literal.