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They're All Criminals -- Except for the President of Course

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Has anybody else noted how when one of the Bush administration past employees writes a book, that everybody -- but the President -- is the bad guy?

In Scott McClellan's book he attacks Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, Condi Rice, barely touches Vice President Cheney; but when he talked about the President we'd hear, "these people didn't serve the President well.  

McClellan issues this disclaimer about Bush: "I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people."

With respects to the war in Iraq McClella writes the president was "insulated from the reality of events on the ground and consequently began falling into the trap of believing his own spin."

McClellan made it clear in his book he retains great affection for the president.

When Colin Powell wrote his book after resigning from his position as Secretary of State -- he too attack the Bush administration but not President Bush.

When Treasurey secretary Paul O'Neill resigned, he too had unkind words for the administration but not the President.  As did Lawrence Lindsey.

You would think from listening to these men that the President stayed in the Oval Office sat behind his desk just smiling for the past 8 years.  They would have us believe the President had nothing what so ever to do with the war in Iraq, the CIA leak, the torturing of prisoners, the invading of our privacy by tapping our phone lines and internet, the firing of judges or generals that didn't agree with his policies.  It was all the president's men -- it was their fault things went badly.

Either the President is a dumb son-of-a-gun that was used for public relations only or somebody's deliberately trying to change history into being 'kinder' to President Bush.





 


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It's their way of being a "kindler, and gentler" administration.

Meanwhile, they're all "kindly, and gently", moving on into the sunset, awaiting book deals and appearances on The View.

I'm going to have to go with the "dumb son-of-a-gun" theory on Bush.

I mean, have you seen the guy speak? He doesn't have the presence of mind to organize the sort of things people often blame on him. He can't articulate anything beyond a basic thought, he shows no semblance of understanding complex realtionships and he seems genuinely uninterested in his job.

None of this, of course, absolves him of anything that happened on his watch, for the same reason that being blind doesn't absolve someone of a hit-and-run.

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One thing they all seem to suddenly have in common is how "puzzled" they are about Scott. Tonight alone, I've heard him referred to as out of the loop, unfit for the job, not really that bright a guy in the first place, he didn't know what he was talking about, he had no access to the Executive branch, he's bitter, a malcontent, and then there's Ari Fleisher's latest: "You have to ask yourself, was Scott telling the truth then, or is he telling the truth now?"

With friends like these...

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Olbermann mentioned that PUZZLED comments - showing clips of all of them saying the TALKING POINTS.

Too bad the media can't interview ONE person (guess what the talking point's going to be) then USE it BACK them in upcoming interviews across the cable land.

Example:

Karl Rove says - It's 'puzzling' how Scott has changed since her resigned.

Then Dan Bartlett comes for an interview - well Mr Barlett - it sure is 'puzzling' how the White House could have not known that Scott would be writing a book like this, isn't it?

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