Clinton Responds To McClellan Book: Bush Has Misled Us
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RAPID CITY, SD — Hillary Clinton waited until well after the evening newscasts and newspaper deadlines to respond to the news of the day — Scott McClellan’s tell-all book excoriating his former bosses in the Bush White House.
“Today the news is filled with stories about a book that was published by the former press secretary to President Bush. And in this book, this young man essentially apologizes for having been part of misleading America for three years,” she said. “He talks about how difficult it was that our president and those working with him didn’t either level with the American people or didn’t change course when circumstances demanded it.”
“There isn’t any doubt that President Bush has misled us. The question now is what kind of president we need going forward.”
From the McClellan book, Clinton quickly made a turn to bashing John McCain. “Senator McCain, who’s a friend of mine, we serve together on the Senate Armed Services Committee and I honor his service to our nation, promises more of the same,” she said. “More of the same on the economy, and more of the same in Iraq.”
“We need a president with a proven track record and the strength and experience to level with the American people and undo the damage that has been done to our military, to those who serve, to our standing in the world. If you give me a chance that is exactly what I intend to do.”
UPDATE: Clinton came to the back of the press plane Wednesday night, going into more detail about the McClellan allegations.
“I don’t know him so I don’t have any personal assessment of him,” she said. “It seems odd to me to write a book about 3 years of a job you did basically trying to disclaim any responsibility for what you did, and I don’t think that it comes as a surprise that George Bush and his team mislead America. It’s tragic to hear the details about it, but I don’t think it’s particularly newsworthy.
“”What I hope is that the press and the public and the political class will be much more vigorous and skeptical than everybody was and everyone, in his or her way you know basically let the administration get away with it and they got away with it, they got reelected and here we are. And now all the books have come out, and unfortunately there are a lot of people in a position that know a lot more than most of us who went along and acquiesced and I find that very sad.”
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Just when I was starting to gain a bit of respect for Hillary she has to start Bush bashing again. Will Hillary and Obama please get a clue, BUSH IS NOT RUNNING!
and to quote President Ronald Reagan….
Politics is not a bad profession- If you succeed- there are many rewards- If you disgrace yourself-
you can always write a book!
I think McClellan is a traitor and should be arrested for treason. I never like him. He was a phony the minute I saw on TV. The White House should find out who set him up for his job as Press Secretary and will probably find out that it was done either by the Media or the Communists in our Country.
Hillary CLinton has Class - and is QUALIFIED to lead our country.
Obama is NOT qualified to be President of the USA - also - he is ARROGANT, WEAK, FRAUD, and has very questionable associates “friends”
Hillary you need to watch what you say …people who live in glass house shouldn’t throw stone ..sham on you ….billy ..
This is the evidence the MSM and Scotty doesn’t want you to know.
http://www.thexreport.com/the_prague_connection1.htm
Hey Mccain backers
Every time liberals come up with an new idea. You guys bash it bash it. Then 10 years later you adapt it as your own and no one elses.
McCain for the last 8 yrs voted along Bushes policy 90% of the time.
You think there is much diffrence in thinking your wrong.actions speak louder than words. Same Bush different season.
Conservative is a man who sits and thinks but mostly sits.he will probably ask his grandmother
when in doubt.
If you vote for McCain you vote for bitterness not better change,
mccains great economist Mr Grahm. More lobbyist . Who is looking out for you?
Obama 08
McCain voted 90 % of the time for the status quo.thats in the last eight years.
still sitting in the same seat.
Ob in november
go
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I will be the first to admit that I do not know much about the war, other than what the media and the goverment has told us, which you have to know is only a very, very small amount. I do not know if any of the candidates going to Iraq at this point is a good or bad thing. I also do not know who would be the best candidate. The media has twisted this election in so many directions it is amazing those of us who are following it haven’t fallen over and thrown our guts up. The only thing I think I am pretty sure on is that Obama has way too many Radical associates, and way too many Utopian theories for me to feel even remotely safe with him. Yes Hillary has been involved with some corrupt situations, so I am sure has McCain, and Obama…look at his claim to against lobbyist, yet there before the grace of God go I. Hillary and McCain may have had some “financially” shady dealings, BUT at least we know above all AMERICA’S SAFETY WILL COME FIRST! Are you all willing to risk the lives of your children and grandchildren on a Chance??? I have never been a fan of Russian Roulette, and I pray to God this country doesn’t continue to endorse such a “GAME!”
More of the same? Does any one really think Hillary will be transparent? How about Whitewater? How about her very favorable commodities trading? I think this Clinton will say anything to get elected and the Clinton we see and hear on TV will not be the Clinton we will expereince if elected. She is just NOT trustworthy. She too is more of the same. A career politican.
Another thing I do not understand is the press claiming she is for the working people and Obama is the educated elite. Private east coast liberal arts school followed by Yale law school. Does sound like community colleges to me. Who they kidding?
I don’t care to know why Scott told the truth in his book; I just want to read the facts REVEALED in in it to know “what happened” to the George Bush I voted for in 2000!
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Doesn’t this also act as a slap to her own face? Wasn’t she used by the Bush white house? I believe Obama was NOT!
Hillary[as usual] is the last person who should be criticizing anyone on “misleading” “mis speaking” not to mention honesty. And was she not privy to the same information that the President and the rest of the United States Government had. Are we to blame the President only? Who voted for this war without READING ALL THE FACTS? Where is the responsibility of our House and Senate for voting for a war and not doing their job by simply fact finding? All this finger pointing because our elected officials did not want to take the time to read the information presented to them because it takes time. Time that our brave military freely gave along with their lives. These men and woman gave their lives and our governemnt officials cannot even give them the time of day to read a report from start to finish.
Yeah, Clinton is upset about the lies that Bush told to get us in the way but she still funded the war even as the truth came out later. She is no better than the other Washington Gang members McCain, Bush, Chaney et, al. We need to get these people out of Washington. there’s no way Obama could screw this country up as much as Bush, Hillary and the others.
Well, I think Hillary should be paying Scott McClellan royalties for using his material. What did she do when her constituents asked her to move forward to the Speaker with impeachment hearings? Nothing. She cannot hold higher office again because she is part of the Washington culture that propogates these horrible scandals. We do not want more of the same. Rick Noriega for Texas Senate.
http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html
SRD
This book has served it`s ultimate purpose. To derail all attempts at a Republican return to the White House. The timing tells the story. The Obama money trail seems to be making the rounds, even the so-called loyal, are turning traitor to the party. As far as Hillary Clinton`s opinion goes, she is pretty much irrelevant at this point.
I have to say I don’t agree with people that leave jobs and write books just to make a buck. So, Scott is telling us all that is wrong, but for Clinton to come out and talk about it, I just don’t know. How many books have been written about her husband and herself?
I am more concerned about Obama misleading the voters. He is more dangerous for America than Bush ever will be.!!! At least Bush loves America .
LOL. No kidding. He really has done that. Big darn surprise for some people but eventually the truth will come out and the president looks bad, AGAIN. This should be no surprise. Bush foreign policy is flawed and it doesn’t take rocket science to figure it out.
Clinton has taken Kentucky and Obama is right there in Oregon.
The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates – as CNN points out clearly
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/primary.wrap/index.html
If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama
If you haven’t done so yet, please write a message to each of your state’s superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com
Obama Supporters:
Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It’s that easy…
Clinton Supporters too …. !
It takes a moment, but what’s a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !
Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It’s that easy…
Everyone in America knows 3 things:
1. Bush is a loser
2. Obama is clueless
3. Hillary is the best candidate
PUERTO RICO FOR HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hillary was privy to the same reports about Iraq as the Bush administration and she reached the same conclusion to go to war. Has Hillary “misled” us? The spin from Bill is a shamefully dishonest attempt to manipulate naive voters and rewrite facts. Given that McClellan wasn’t involved in any discussions of foreign policy, his book appears to be motivated by money and being gainfully employed in the overwhelmingly liberal press.
Of course there is doubt about the misleading….The Clinton administration had the same intel and agreed. It is popular to have 20/20 hindsight. I am not a supporter of Bush but I also understand writing books and making money and that is all this is. McClellan is not a hero, he is a turncoat and a Judas…making money in a free society.
Fox news is an obscene organisation. For years like Libby, they promulgated Bush’s ill thought out rhetoric and casual disregard for Iraqi human rights.
Even while the ship is sinking, they continue to blare out messages designed to confuse, to distract and to misinform the american electorate. As Hillary says “There isn’t any doubt that President Bush has misled us”. Nor is there any doubt that Fox News did the same.
I would really love to see EXACTLY how the publisher “tweaked” McClellan’s original words. Even a few changes here and there could made a world of difference in the tone of this book.
The real “story” here is how the left will twist and distort someones words to fit their own agenda.
People have only seen small quotes from this book.
nobody has read ityet. It is not on shelves.
Lets wait, before we jump to conclusions.
Hillary is the best candidate vote hillary
No surprises here. If you have been paying attention at all during the last eight years you knew there was something rotten in the White House. Lies and deception and political motivations have been the practice since day one of the Bush presidency. Scott McClellan should be thanked for his candor.
We don’t need a book to tell us that Bush misled us on the war in Iraq. Bush was mad because his father didn’t go after Saddam in the Persian Gulf War. Saddam did not have weapons or was he going to start war with America. Bush wanted control of Iraq and the oil in that country and Saddam was in the way. Over four thousand young men killed for no reason, the country in ruins, Saddam and his two sons murdered and what did we gain by that? Bush claims he was protecting this country. From the Iraqi’s? Bush did not really go after Bin Laden he only wanted Saddam. He lied to the American public to cover this tracks on what he really wanted in Iraq.
Hillary is so self absorbed that she is not interested in the news if it isn’t about her and “bumbling Bill” She is too busy trying to bully and intimidate Democrats into “giving” her the nomination. We don’t want you Hillary.
Hillary has a lot of damn gall talking about how President Bush misled us after she did everything in her power to keep her slimeball adulterer husband from being vilified by feminist groups for playing around with other women for virtually his entire marriage. The fact that Chelsea is alive only proves that the Clintons had sex once during their marriage.
If Hillary can’t be truthful about their amoral lives in the White House, the Rose Law Firm records, Whitewater irregularities, Travelgate, Filegate, and the closed-door sessions over Nationalized Health care, at which no doctors were represented, then this is the last person who should ever become President. She has all the honesty of a used-car salesman, and the compassion of Adolf Hitler.
Comment by Wisdo
May 29th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Fox news is an obscene organisation. For years like Libby, they promulgated Bush’s ill thought out rhetoric and casual disregard for Iraqi human rights.
Even while the ship is sinking, they continue to blare out messages designed to confuse, to distract and to misinform the american electorate. As Hillary says “There isn’t any doubt that President Bush has misled us”. Nor is there any doubt that Fox News did the same.
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NOr is there any doubt that Clinton herself has mis led the American public seeing she voted yes on the issue. Clinton has misled the American people over a lot of things. Deception at its best
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To all of you Hillary supporters, what should we make of the books written about the Clinton years and how they bilked the country? I mean the man was impeached for God’s sake. Based on their “history” as their enemies have written to make money, they should both be deported.
Now, having said that, I have about as much faith in the book SM wrote as I do about any other “close friend and confidant” who has written about the Clinton’s.
There is nothing in the book that can be pointed to as anything but speculation. Read it. Listen to him. He even tells you as much. This man is out to make money because he obviously ain’t making it in politics.
What a bunch of morons.
McCain 08
Thank goodness we will not have to listen to Billary after next week! Time for the old Washington guard to fade away into the sunset (Republicans and Democrats alike).
Clinton ??? Clinton hired old boyfriend of Bill’s X-girlfriend,
the truth hurts, Bill was immoral. Hillary is a lier, which is better?
Hillary, if you can’t manage own husband who as a president did immoral things, how can you govern own country????
Japanese saying, “Govern the home, govern the country!!”
Mccain 08′
JOan from VA you’re an idiot. How can you make such a stupid comment. Not everyone in the White House was privy to this information, let alone people in the Senate. Are you that ignorant?
I agree with Bob and Carol.
HILLARY is the best canidate.
God Bless America.
FOX NEWS IS FAIR AND BALANCED.
ITS NICE TO KNOW THE CLINTONS HAVE NEVER ABUSED OUR TRUST OR MISLED US. -ARE WE PUKING YET? LOOK WHO’S TALKING.
“There isn’t any doubt that President Bush has misled us. The question now is what kind of president we need going forward.”
I wonder if Hillary CLinton has already read the entire book…
You go girl! Hillary has no idea what is written in the book. She admited that she has not read the book. She also stated that she is just jumping on the band wagon because it is not good news for Bush. Hillary is a fool and I hope she dies a slow, painful and lonely death. Sooner rather than later.
Does anyone care what Hillary thinks. As I, and the record state, the US Congress, as well as approximately 73% of the country at the time overwhelmingly voted to support President (a word forgotten) Bush in Afgahnistan & Iraq, including Hillary. If you look back all of the Dem’s have given up on winning for political purposes. Pressure from groups like Code Pink, Moveon.Org., Michael Moore, Al Franken, Sean Penn, etc. What have any of these people ever given to the sedurity of this nation? Not a Damn thing! If the Dem’s think it will win a vote for their side they flipflop. Bill Clinton is as much to blame for the situation we are in now because as usual he was gutless and a turn coat. Bill is the one who allowed OBL to grow to the statur he is today, and Hillary like others flipflop Democrates are much the same type. Loosers, just like John Kerry. We need a leader with convictions. President Bush has convictions and does not pander to political whims. The world needs to know that if necessary the US can go it alone. It ain’t the economy any more stupid, its terrorism! ……..A former US Marine……..And I remember how and what the Dems did to us in Vietnam. Let our Military Win.
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He’s not a hero, but it’s always nice to hear the truth after an administration leaves the White House. It sucks the truth never comes out during their stay though.
Christians are being persecuted and arrested for their beliefs in Iran
and all you all can do is blather on about some stupind book about
Bush…pitiful….
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“I hope is that the press and the public and the political class will be much more vigorous and skeptical than everybody was and everyone, in his or her way you know basically let the administration get away with it and they got away with it”
Sorry Hillary! “Everyone” was not entitled to, or trusted with, the intelligence estimates that you were. Nor was “everyone” in the position to get at the information that you could. YOU HILLARY CLINTON are a HUGE laugh on the issue of Iraq.
Right! It’s everybody’s fault but yours. That’s why you never appologized for your vote to send 4000+ soldiers to their deaths because you didn’t have the character or judgement required to hold such a high political office.
Oh, and it has nothing to do with what you got between your legs, Hillary. It’s just you. You. Not what sex you are. Not what race you are. It’s just you. Who you are. The person that you are. The whiny, pathetic, childish, classless, dishonorable human being with no sense of moral values or humility! Remember, “We all know Michigan won’t count” - that slime ball person who now wants her supporters to protest the rules commitee to count the delegates she “knows” won’t count.
Scum!
hello?
McCain should be ashamed of himself - How bad is your positions if you need to “hide” the fact that the President is at your fund raisers - shameful
McClellan is like a child looking for attention … now he’s going to cry so Olbermann the Clown on MSNBC will give him some attention tonite on his TV program. He will get his face on the news for a short time and then everyone will forget him …. just like the great Rev. (Doctor) Wright.
McClellan is like a little child looking for attention … now he’s going to start crying so Olbermann, MSNBC’s clown that poses as a news reporter, will give him some attention on his TV program this evening. In a few weeks the left-wing media will have used little McClellan and he will be forgotten and will fade away to some insignificant place in history.
McClellan is like a little child looking for attention … now he’s going to start crying so Olbermann will give him some attention on his TV program this evening. In a few weeks the left-wing media will have used little McClellan and he will be forgotten and will fade away to some insignificant place in history where he belongs.
McClellan is like a little child looking for attention … now he’s going to start crying so Olbermann will give him some attention on his left-wing TV program this evening. In a few weeks the left-wing media will have used little McClellan and he will be forgotten and will fade away to some insignificant place in history.
McClellan is like a little child looking for attention … now he’s going to start crying so Olllbermann will give him some attention on his TV program this evening. In a few weeks the left-wing media will have used little McClellan and he will be forgotten and will fade away to some insignificant place in history.
Clinton’s seems to have a high opinion of herself. Didn’t she vote yes for the war on the same intell?
McClellan is like a little child looking for attention … now he’s going to start crying so the far left news reporters will give him some attention on their TV programs this evening. In a few weeks the left-wing media will have used little McClellan and he will be forgotten and will fade away to some insignificant place in history.
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WE know things where spinned in the favor of war that is a no brainer…what always made us made was the fact that the cia, Bush and Cheney gave all this proof to everyone…with the proof that was presented…anyone would have voted for the war…even MR PUPPET MAN obama
If that book was about Hillary Clinton some of you McCain and BO lovers would be all over it but because it is about your beloved Bush - this guy had enough guts to say what he thought, freedom of speech - if you don’t like it don’t read it. Bush did lie to the American public, as did Cheney and Powell, so get over it. Republicans have convenient memories.
wow!!! she now can claim to be a brain surgeon or rocket scientist to have figured that out!!!
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I have four important questions for Bush, McCain and the GOP!
1. Is Iran stronger or weaker since Bush’s invasions of Iraq?
2. Has Osama bin Laden been killed or captured since Bush’s invasion of Iraq?
3. Are we paying more for gas now or before Bush’s invasion of Iraq?
4. Is our economy better of now or before Bush’s invasion of Iraq?
5. Is the White Houses creditability better now or before Bush’s invasion of Iraq?
6. Is the budget deficit higher now or before Bush’s invasion of Iraq?
7. Is the Middle East more peaceful now or before Bush’s invasion of Iraq?
8. Do we have more American Solders dead or before Bush’s invasion of Iraq?
This WAR has cost us so much; it is unbelievable that damage that Bush administration has done to this nation. The saddest thing about this WAR most of the American cannot comprehend what has happen during the last seven years of this administration. Further, McCain wants to go down the same road! Go figure!
McLellan is wrong to have written this book and releasing it at this time. He and his kind make it difficult for any sitting president to trust those closest to him/her. I don’t know McLellan’s reason for doing this, but he must have some personal agenda or he wouldn’t have burned the bridges he has.
As unpopular as Bush may be, no sitting president should be publicly humiliated in such a way by those closest to them. If McLellan had waited 5 or 10 years to do this as a historical reference or “lessons learned”, I’d have more respect for him. No administration should have to go through this unless they’re in the process of being impeached and are under investigation where the truth needs to come out. In all fairness, I haven’t seen an interview w/ McLelland yet so there may be something I’m overlooking.
I’m an Independent probably voting Democratic this year, but I still think, until I hear McLellan’s full explanation, that what he did is very distasteful.
President Bush has misled American says Hillary…really? Hillary has been misleading America for years…cover up after cover up after cover up…get real Hillary! The Clintons are pure counterfeits!
go to iraq, dont come back, ba rack
I think Hillary’s response was way late and muffled because she, as a First Lady, knows the damage that comes when an insider writes a tell-all book about a President. She herself hastily fired her traveling staff and knows all too well the position that Bush is in. She purposely chose not to piggy-back on the specifics and support Scott’s book because her hands are just as dirty as Bush’s. There are plenty of books out there on her and Bill, and she would not like for them to be re-visited. Bottom line- she had to somehwhat defend Bush or risk opening a couple of cans of worm on the Clinton years in the White House.
Obama for President!
Read the Clinton Chronicles or watch the video on google/video and see if you still want Hillary for President. Dick Morris says that she will do anything to win and has suggested that she might have private investigators investigating super delagates in order to push them into voting for her.
Maybe the story is all about what a lot of us have felt from the beginning, but aren’t in a position to write a book and bring everything out into the open.
FOX NEWS = GOP = WAR PROFITS
Hillary…who really cares about this obvious hit-piece or your failed bid for the Dem nomination?