The WaPo has a rundown of his Today show appearance: McClellan, in turn, said it took him some time after leaving the White House to come to terms with his experience there. When the Iraq war started, “my beliefs were different,” he told “Today.” “I trusted the president’s foreign policy team and I believed the …
Archives for May 2008
Not As Bad As
I imagine that with the crumbling administration dragging McCain down like a lead weight, we will probably hear a lot of the “Not as bad as” defense in upcoming months. It might be worthwhile for folks to read this post by the Slacktivist on the NABA defense.
Buchenvald, Not as Bad As Auschwitz, Therefore Obama = Unfit For Command
How far will the right-wing blogosphere go to promote the meme that Obama is “gaffe-prone” (I know, I know, stop laughing. They did support George Bush unflinchingly for eight years)? This far: Buchenwald, on the other hand, while atrocious beyond normal human understanding, was merely a slave labor camp, and not historically abnormal in a …
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Some Perspective
While I understand the glee that the left-wing is having regarding the White House freakout over McClellan’s book, and while I wholly agree he is a jackass for having stood by and served of the mouthpiece for this administration while they did all this bullshit, there is always the possibility that he did not realize …
Stanley Cup Game Three- Pens/Red Wings
All I want for Christmas is one goal. Just one. *** Update *** Penguins win one, and as Tim notes in the comments, if you use Clinton rules and count only the goals your team made, we lead the series 1-0.
McClellan’s Rehab, Slower Than Expected
Captain Ed: Expect all sides to redefine McClellan in order to either boost or reduce his credibility. To the Right, McClellan will have been the worst press secretary of modern times, and to the Left a man of extraordinary ability chased out of his job by Bush’s minions. The truth will be somewhere in the …
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The Wrong Take
The AP reports the DNC lawyers have come to a conclusion: A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers. ADVERTISEMENT Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at …