Another Former Bush Official Steps To The Left
Filed under: Politik > Barack Obama
The second former Bush administration official to defect from the Right, former Secretary of Press Scott McClellan, has officially announced his endorsement for Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.
He follows in the footsteps of former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who announced his Left endorsement last week.
During Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign, McClellan served as his traveling press secretary. In summer 2003, following the invasion of Iraq, McClellan became the Secretary of Press for the White House after Ari Fleischer stepped down from the position. McClellan resigned after three years, saying he felt deceived by the Bush White House.
Recently McClellan has become better known for his controversial tell-all book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, in which he did all but call Bush a straight-up liar. And, although McClellan's split from Bush seemed friendly enough, and while White House staff remained diplomatic, some former officials were highly cirtical.
During a taping of D.L. Hughley's new show on CNN, McClellan told the host he planned on voting for Obama because he feels he is the candidate who can truly bring a much-needed change to the White House.
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Who gives a shit what that fat fuck thinks? He's in it for publicity and self-serving reasons. He's wormy.
That's no surprise. Since he left the Bush admin he's been doing everything he can to go the opposite course.
…because the writing is on the wall? "(A PLace To) Hideaway" comes to mind…
McClellan, welcome to the other side. Yes We Can!
Cotton candy sweet to go, let me see that Tootsee Roll
Come on, Tootsee Roll, just make that Tootsee Roll
Here we go, Tootsee Roll, yeah, Tootsee Roll
Let me see that Tootsee Roll
Get on the floor and make that Tootsee Roll
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To the left, to the left, to the right, to the right
To the front, to the front, to the back, to the back
Now slide just slide baby slide just slide
Just dip, cotton candy free to go
Let me see the Tootsee Roll
HE'S GAYER THAN SARWHORE'S QUEERFACED HUBBY!
could it be he's looking to get his name out there and pulg his book for the christmas shopping season….predictable weasel fucker
do you know that barack obamas name is really barry and that he may not even be a U.S. citizen he may be from Indonesia. why would you ever vote for someone who you can't even trust. i think someone filed a lawsuit against him
Joins the Goldwater, Nixon, Eisenhower, Powell and many others who THINK.
McCain has fallen to new depths of scuzzy in his campaign.
Stop the politics of LIES!
Vote Obama/Biden and the other Dems. Save the USA. Vote early!
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All the republicans who are endorsing Obama know deep in their hearts that McCain will be no different from Bush and their conscience and hearts are beginning to override their partisan politics. McCain=Bush!
Re: shel – You are such an idiot!! Stop being a fool and pick up a book!!
Re: mamajud – plug
The words rat and ship spring to mind
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The republican shit is sinking and the rats are jumping out to survive. This is going on one a day. Loves it! lol
So Powell was because the race and now let's see how republicans justify this one.
THEY ARE RUNNING TO OBAMA!
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS IS SHAMBLES!
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GO OBAMA!
I approve this message.
Re: karencarpenter – you scare me. i think you are craaaazy!
Welcome to team Obama/Bidden oh boy I hear the old Conservatives crying now…TRAitor!! TRAitor! nah he's being a realist get over it….
Re: sweetpiece –
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RABBIT ON A STICK
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marinade
4lb deboned rabbit backs and legs cut into small cubes
4tbl spoons olive oil
5cloves garlic minced
2tbl spoons rosemary
3tbl spoons parmesan cheese
salt and pepper
Place rabbit {cotton tail} cubes in combined marinade and let marinade over night
Place rabbit on skewers {small portions} roll skewers in flour then in egg then in seasoned bread crumbs.
Heat a cast iron frying pan with oil and brown skewers in oil place browned skewers in roasting pan standing vertical and roast at 400 degrees for 40 minutes enjoy serve with a nice Niagara merlot
FAT FUCK TURN COAT PIECE OF SHIT. The Dems can have the steaming turd ,in fact they deserve him. ASSHAT!
Re: Barack 0bama – where's my $$$$ nigga?
To the Left???? I guess no one in my country would regard Obamas political stand as "left"….. To us in Europe, both U.S. candidates are RIGHT-wing politicians, however, with Obama being the slightly LESSER of 2 evils!
Why is there not much of an ecologist party in the USA?
GLAD TO SEE HE LEFT THE DARK SIDE!!
Re: Shit With Broken Bits of Glass – "Crazy" was Patsy Cline, but thanks for the kudos! *wink*
*ship
lol a Freudian slip
he is so gay.
Re: shel –
hm, and McCain/Bush you CAN/DO "trust"?
WHY????????
Re: sweetpiece –
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KISSES DARLING!
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WHILE I APPLAUD THIS BIG OLE QUEEN'S DEFECTION FROM THE GRAND OLE POTTY (SEX) I HAVE NO USE FOR CLOSET CASES!!!
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KISSES SMIRKS WHEREVER YOU ARE!
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Re: karencarpenter –
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I ADORE YOU DARLING!
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Too bad he isn't black eh? Cause that's the excuse you repubes gave for Powell's endorsement. So, what's the excuse now?
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Obama/Biden 08 chumps!! It's happening….DEAL WITH IT!!!
It's just "press secretary," not "Secretary of Press." He's a publicist, not a member of the cabinet. Geez Perez, if you're going to write about politics, try to learn the language so you don't sound like such an amateur.
He still hasn't recovered from being dumped by McCain. He just can't get over it and wants payback. I might believe him if and when he comes out of the closet.
Re: shel – 'may not' 'may be' & 'I think someone' gee whizz you make a compelling case.
It's all academic now anyway. In a short time the headlines will be,
OBAMA 08 MCCAIN (and spat him out!)
Re: LordKain – um, how about he has lost his goddamn mind!!
xoxoxox
Re: WakeUpPeople – What's your problem with Shel. This is possibly very true and would disqualify Barry Hussein Obama from being President. Go McCain/Palin. Why don' t you read something instead of this stupid left wing site. jerk face
LMAO! Spin it, Perez! You're sweatin' bullets! I can see them from here! McCain/Palin 08
Re: Shit With Broken Bits of Glass – Or maybe he looked down, saw the water was up to his knees, and decided now would be a good time to jump.
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Obama/Biden 08!!!
Scott McClellan is a fucking sewer rat.
Ecologist party - That shit doesn't fly here. The Green Party is a joke. Ecologist party. That's pretty good. Made me laugh out loud.
I could not care less who Scott McClennan endorses because he's a self-serving weasel. And a liar. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Bill O'Reilly hand him his ass after McClellan falsely stated on another cable news network that O'Reilly received daily talking points from the White House. McClellan's endorsement is yet another reason to vote AGAINST Obama.
I think that everyone who is now going on team Obama is doing so to secure a place for themselves once he's selected, since it looks pretty dim for republicans.
Re: Squirrel – I agree. What a turncoat. I'm not a republican but damn, he really screwed his boss over. What goes around, comes around…..
Can I just say how funny all this is? All these fat cats pass all the bills and legislation and our president signs last/third. They are all fair weather losers and I plan on being one of thousands that are voting every last dirt bag out of the Congress and Senate that lead us to where we are today. They are done, they are just as bad as Bush and they can swing right an left all day - they're done!
Re: NubianPrincess – Like my hat?
Re: shel –
No darling. His name IS Barrack; his nickname is BARRY you twit. He was born in Hawaii, and the last time I checked Hawaii is part of the United States.
McCain wasn't even born in the United States. Bet YOU didn't know that, lie spreader. So, technically McCain is the UN-AMERICAN.
He stepped to the left long before this
Re: Big Black Dick – Whats to like? please have your avtar invest in some Crest whitening Strips thank you come again….
I once pissed in my former boss' gas tank, but I was only 16 at the time. How old is scott?
Who cares what this asswipe thinks??? He just wanted to see books and get on TV. Friggin' cocksmoker.
Shifts to the left? BAHAHAHA! Fuck, Perezito…you are the lamest thing in high heels. Uhhhh…remember that book he wrote? No? Have someone read it to you some time. Boy has been so far left he is shaking hands with Karl Marx and Obama.
Re: JembaBemba – I meant to say "sell" books. ooops.
Why don't you talk about how many Clinton advisors are supporting McCain?!?
They can have him - what a joke!
NOW THIS IS A SMART MAN! And ethical! When you watch politicians lying day after day and making incredibly ignorant mistakes with no repercussions, its only right to come out with the truth! And all of you calling him names, I'm sure have not read the book…or read at all. Your reading probably consist of this website and not much more. GET WISE PEOPLE, you've been fooled for 8 years and you STILL believe the bullshit. And to the people who say that we can't trust Obama, well who SHOULD we trust? Bush? Ha, yeah, look where that got us. Your ignorant and need to stop believing the lies. GO DIMPLES 34!
I wish he could take all the bait and switch republicans with him.
Afganistan or Iraq, the american public will never notice if we wage a war on the wrong country. Sadly they are only starting to clue in.
Re: _Alice_ – He didn't screw anyone over but himself. Only revealed his true colors. I don't think anyone cares who this ass pimple is voting for. Perez is makes it seem like it's a big deal. It changes nothing - he's still a supreme turd and now no one's got his back. Loser. He has zero credibility or influence.
Re: shel –
wtf, where do you get your info from the national enquirer?
Is this you McCain?
I'm more concerned about who McCain is currently surrounding himself with:
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William Timmons, Washington lobbyist named by John McCain to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.
From a time period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil.
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Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.
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Timmons is currently working on the McCain election committee, and has been hand-picked by McCain to head his presidential transistion.
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The other two lobbyist pleaded guilty and were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.
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This choice by McCain concerns me a whole lot more . . .
I guess you guys are censoring our comments again and not posting them. Is selective censorship part of that CHANGE platform your voting for?
Re: shel – Did YOU know that McCain wasn't even born in the U.S either…Panama Canal. So shut up.
Re: njpaul0129 –
P A N A M A dumbass. McCain was born in PANAMA.
you pathetic right-wingers can't have ONE good reply to this. FACE IT - two high ranking republican officials have endoresed a DEMOCRAT for President!! HAHA. There's NOTHING you can say to that, nothing. You all are so f*cked.
Re: Caliprincess99 –
*retraction for "either"
Obama was born in the States…not the mainland…but the actual United States, not a "territory" or whatever dumbass excuse they made so McCain could run. That's right-they changed it so this ANGRY OUT OF TOUCH (excpet with his money) OLD MAN could run. So who is the REAL AMERICAN???????
Re: laaaaame - You all are so f*cked. –
Tell me something I didn't already know.
I bet you those dumb Republican hicks will try to dismiss it as nothing. Don't worry Republicans, you always have Heidi and Spencer.
John McCain's politics is culturally divisive, racist, desperate and nasty.
IF McCain cared about COUNTRY FIRST:
a) he (and Marionette Pain) would not go around claiming that some parts of the U.S. are more patriotic than others. He would not go around saying a vote for him is patriotic nor would he insist on calling Obama a terrorist.
b) He would not have selected Palin–a political (not country first) move that backfired.
c. John McCain has sold his soul to the devil in order to win the election.
"An Analysis of the Presidents Who Are Responsible for the Borrowing- Steve McGourty, 9/21/2008 - (article too long to repeat here - part of summation, written prior to Bush's 2nd term:
"1. Since the Neo-Conservative movement has become the dominant force in the Republican Party the national debt has grown and continues to grow at an unsustainable rate, by any measure you use.
2. Experience has shown that “trickle down tax cuts” only work to concentrate the nation’s wealth into fewer hands and never help to rebound the economy.
3. Mr. Bush has no viable plan to deal with the debt he has already created, and we cannot count on him to contain government spending in the future.
4. The only time we have seen national debt reduction in the past 60 years was when Democrats were totally in charge of our government or when one party was in the White House and another ran Congress.
5. In the past 60 years when Republicans were in control of the presidency and both Houses of Congress, neither debt, nor government spending was ever reduced. The last time a Republican Congress reduced the national debt was in 1947, under Truman’s leadership.
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Our nation has always had the strength to overcome bad presidents and failed economic policies. — let us all hope that we see an end to the dominance of the short sighted, Middle Class-killing, Neo-Conservative economic polices soon."
Re: LULU~* – I'm responding to my own post, which looks like a snooze to read, I know . . .
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But, for those who want to see some basic facts and figures, and an analysis of governmental spending from 1900's - today, just google:
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United States National Debt
An Analysis of the Presidents Who Are Responsible for the Borrowing
By Steve McGourty
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Okay, I'm enough geek that I do read long, boring articles and heavy-duty charts and graphs, but this is honestly an interesting read.
The only people left to defend the corrupt republican party are morons and uneducated bigots. Their "base" if you will.
McClellan was the press secretary…there is no such thing as the Secretary of Press. lol Go Obama!
WOW GOP falling apart. So many jumping ship. I guess it's the Palin factor.
Remember when women could not vote?
Remember when african americans were slaves?
Remember when Whites cannot marry Chinese?
Let's make discrimination a thing of the past.
Time to move this country forward.
Everyone has the right to love!
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NO to H8TE. NO on 8
The guy wrote a book proudly proclaiming himself a whore. Who cares what he thinks. See Truth According to To m
The Republicans have really built an expert power mill. Politicians who actually wanted to do good things for America, were defeated by the corrupt leadership.
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shel [IQof8] says: do you know that barack obamas name is really barry and that he may not even be a U.S. citizen he may be from Indonesia. why would you ever vote for someone who you can't even trust. i think someone filed a lawsuit against him
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And you may be a gullible human being with a brain, but we are waiting for the results on that.
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Perez Blows [33] says: It's just "press secretary," not "Secretary of Press." He's a publicist, not a member of the cabinet. Geez Perez, if you're going to write about politics, try to learn the language so you don't sound like such an amateur.
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Umm, I appreciate your distaste for everything Perez, but you kind of jumped to a wrong conclusion. Perez does not write the articles he posts here. He steals them, along with the photos, from other gossip sites. Google any string of words from any article, and you will find the articles were always posted before the link to Perez, word-for-word. Perez doesn't even give them professional credits, and he doesn't even write the closing comments at the end of the articles. I think that kind of arrogance will eventually morph into a target on his back. It's full on thievery. It's something much worse also to be turning those stolen articles and photos into advertising revenue by defacing them with pornographic images in order to create mass readership.
njpaul0129 [37] says: Re: WakeUpPeople – What's your problem with Shel. This is possibly very true and would disqualify Barry Hussein Obama from being President. Go McCain/Palin. Why don' t you read something instead of this stupid left wing site. jerk face.
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Hey, jerkface(s). Take your schoolyard name-calling of Barrack Obama, and shove your Hussein up your ass. And if you were an informed person, you would know that it is John McCain that was not born in the United States. If you are going to say that he is American, because he was born on an American Army Base in Panama, then you must also call every child "American" that is born on American Army Bases throughout the world. That would make for a lot of Iraqi/American babies. Idiot(s).
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Squirrel says – reply to this 41Ecologist party - That shit doesn't fly here. The Green Party is a joke. Ecologist party. That's pretty good. Made me laugh out loud.
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You see, Bavaria [24], this is evidence of what I have been saying all along. Americans don't get it. They are so arrogant, they don't even care about the planet they are leaving to their own generational offspring. It's all about them; that is all they see; that is all they care about. The culture is basically selfish and self-serving at the core. The arrogant cannot recognize arrogance.
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His brother used to run the corrupt Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This guy sucks the donkey and the donkey isn't satisfied.
No McCain either.
Re: LULU~* –
Lulu. BEFORE 9/11, the Republicans - and the Bush family/Cheney - did a LOT OF weapons and other big business with Saddam Hussein and the Bin Laden Clan. That s why Bush let ALL of Osama Bin Ladens families and friends leave the U.S. by airplane after the 9/11 attacks without having any of them even questioned by the FBI and other Agencies!
I just don t understand why there was not an outcry on thast fact among the U.S. population and why a lot of Americans nevertheless STILL can support such corrupted and lying politicians as the Republicans are!
Re: Squirrel –
Sorry, grey squirrel, I fotr a moment had forgotten that you as an American live onb a SEPARATE planet and therefore, contrary to the rest of the civilized world, do not have to care about ecology and the destruction of the environment!
Re: uraPIGperez –
urapigperez,
that s true, that s what I meantime believe, too. I just couldn t phrase it as well in English as you did!
@LULU: I fully agree with what you say about the economic desaster the Republicans brought and still bring to the US and to the world…
AND YET THESE PEOPLE ARE BRAGGING ABOUT SCOTT MCCLELLAN'S
BENEDICK ARNOLD?! IDIOTS.
ACTUALLY 4 REPUBLICANS FROM THE BUSH WHITEHOUSE HAVE COME OUT FOR OBAMA/BIDEN. REMEMBER NO ON 8 STOP THE HATE ,NO ON 8 STOP THAT HATE,ITS ONLY HATE PEOPLE, NO ON 8
I don't give a shit who this quitter supports!
We need to remind everybody that Gov. Palin is the only one in the race with executive office experience!!! I think many are voting for Obama based on character!!! The fact of the matter is that If you raise Corporate tax, and you also raise Minimum Wage… what do you think that'll happen??? Specifically small business owners that have a lower margin will have to lay off to be able to compensate for the increase in tax and salary expenses!!!! IT'S INSANE TO VOTE FOR NOBAMA!!!!!————————————————————————————————————————
Also, he wants to raise taxes on Capital Gains…well news flash.. the stock market is in the crapper… Investors are scared to put money back in the market…they have a valid fear of losing their money… so if on top of that.. you tell them that if they happen to invest and make a gain they will get taxed higher…. He's not giving incentives to the investor…He's not giving incentives to corporations…and what good does having to pay lower personal taxes if you don't have an actual job.. because your company let you go…after Obama raised their taxes…————————————————————————————– As you can see Nobama's affects everybody!!! VOTE McCAIN/PALIN 08'!!!!!!
Re: JennaMeow – Nice. A bit judgmental aren't we? I love how that's the only way Republicans can argue; irrelevant, personal attacks.
Re: Bavaria – I know, and I totally agree with you. I'd like to know why so many things never make it onto national news media outlets . . . .