Is it just me or is this the ramblings of man out of his boat and splashing around in the backwaters of sanity?
Scott,
There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.
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In my nearly 36 years of public service I've known of a few like you. No doubt you will "clean up" as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, "Biting The Hand That Fed Me." Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years.
I have no intention of reading your "exposé" because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job. That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively. You're a hot ticket now but don't you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?
BOB DOLE
Miserable creature? No guts? Soaking up the limelight?
Wow. See, the problem I have with that is it doesn't hold to logic. Now, I admit that I used to look at Scotty as a miserable creature. I couldn't figure out how he did it. I also kind of marveled at him. I have never in my breathing life seen someone so go to bat for someone or something that was so inherently devoid of a logical foundation. I figured he was either blindly loyal or the Administration had a gun to someone's head.
But what he did - it did take guts. It took guts to go in front of the questions facing him every day and stand the ridiculous ground the Administration had laid for him. And if Bob Dole thinks that's what limelight is, if he thinks that Scotty enjoyed that, Bob Dole doesn't know shit. I thought McClellan often looked tortured, at times even defeated by his own rhetoric.
But limelight? I'd rather go without modern plumbing for the year.
Bob Dole throws out the predictable liberal anti-Bush media bash, keeping with the GOP mantra of employing fantasy enemies.
Of course he has to accuse Scotty of "doing it for the money". Uh, really? You don't think our boy Scotty here wouldn't have been duly taken care of? You don't think there wouldn't be some great position for him somewhere in the mix of the great DC revolving door? Scotty was a soldier for these guys. He could have bank rolled out of the public eye in a snap. Anyone talking about John Ashcroft these days?
Bob Dole goes on to expose Bob Dole as an ignorant dipshit by quoting Bob Dole as saying:
I have no intention of reading your "exposé"
I always liked hating Scotty. He was the best I have ever seen at saying nothing in face of overwhelming facts. He astonished me daily. He's going to take a lot in the public eye for this, but I think it will play out for him in the end.
I for one congratulate him. I think he made a difficult choice, and I think he deliberated on it for a long time. A lot could be said about should of would of could of, but this is what happened and this is how many will respond to him. To see an old statesman like Bob Dole use school house insults just goes to show that you did the right thing, Scotty.
UPDATE: Bob Dole explains
"It's just not right but it happens in nearly every administration. It sort of happened to me in a very small way when a low level employee in my Senate office left and published a book in 1995 titled 'Senator for Sale.' He claimed to be a close confidant, etc. The book bombed because neither he nor his rambles had any credibility with the media or the public.
Bottom line is that I have little respect for turncoats like McClellan who have it both ways. Some in public (and private) life have no shame when big bucks are involved. If their motive is 'good government,' O.K. but that's rarely the case."