I wonder if this McClellan is related to George B. McClellan, the Civil War general who prolonged the war by doing absolutely nothing, and finally had to be fired by Abraham Lincoln, and who later ran against Lincoln as the Democrat presidential candidate running on a pro-confederacy platform...

I will hold off judgement on McClellan until the book if released, but if what is coming out is true, then the guy is an idiot. If he had such reservation, he should have resigned his position, and come forward to the media then.

Also, they're throwing him under the bus? So, if the liberal media disagrees with what may be some legitimate concerns about the motives of McClellan, then he is being thrown under the bus?

Finally, Bush deserves a good deal of the blame for all of the "tell-all" books that have come out of former members of his administration. He should know you can never trust a liberal.

I think everyone with an IQ above 10 knows that any book about President Bush that contained the truth would sell maybe 10 copies at this stage. Load a book with lies and half truths and every left wing nut, aka democrat, in the country will buy one or more. Too bad someone considered a friend would turn out to be a traitor, but then the entire democrat party fits that description so McClellan just joined the crowd. It's all about money to be made.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

I wonder if selling books, will get you into, your Mc Mansion

Sleeping good are, ya! Doing all those 4 am talk shows, ya Book worm.

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Well, if this story doesn't illustrate the Peter Principle...that everyone rises to the level of their own incompetence...I don't know what does.  First, you have the most bumbling, ham-handed excuse for a White House Press Secretary stuttering and stammering his way through an embarrassing stint in the Bush Administration.  His incompetence couldn't even be charted.  Now he's reduced to what he's good at...whoring himself out to the very media who broke him...and they are acting as his pimps.  Meanwhile you've got a self-important intellectual lightweight working as a White House Correspondent...way beyond his competence...and he ends up a coffee clotcher on DNCNN's unwatched morning show.  Here's a tip, John...an overabundance of pancake makeup and an addiction to the blowdryer do not make you appear more intelligent. 

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

Little pudgy Scottie M. was the absolute embarrassment for me when he came on about every day with the WH Press Breifings...he should of been fired after his first stuttering, stammering month....he was always afraid of the press and acted like it...now I see today he is their new bestest friend.

I don't know how people like him can look at themselves in the mornings, let alone sleep at night... 

Roberts and all the rest of the talking heads were nothing but echo chambers with the same ol' questions on the same ol' subject whatever it was that day...one thing their goal was everyday, to slam the President and the administration, especially the war with Helen Thomas leading the whining way.

By the way Little Scottie is a liar...he fits right in with the leftists now...something to be proud of eh? 

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

...that "the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder" while at the same time nothting that "No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact"?

http://www.ajc.com/meetro/content/news/stories/2008/05/27/mcclellanbook_0527.html

Its seems to me if were honest he would've said, "While it appears today the decision to invade....".

Intellectual honesty, where art thou?

First "Recount" and now this "bombshell" all in one week?

I hope someone can get some video footage of all these MSM a-holes buying each drinks and celebrating at their fave bar tonight, ala the Hill Street Blues cop bar. 

Once again: "Fake, but true."

This clown failed miserably as Press Secretary so now he extracts his revenge. He makes himself out to be part of the Inner Circle. What President in his right mind would have some lip mumbler in meetings of State? In his dreams. Like I posted on another site, "Tell All" and "Dirt" sell books. As someone above said, if he had published a book praising President Bush it would have sold 10 copies - the ones he bought for friends.

The KOS nuts and Soros mob will eat this stuff up. The ghostly hand has written upon the wall The Truth for all to see as provided to you peons by His Exaltedness, the (ex)Whitehouse Press Secretary. [pardon me while I kack]

I remember watching McClellan getting reamed by the likes of Helen Thomas and the other MSM.  He was a joke to watch: just stood there with his tail between his legs.  When White House journalists viciously attacked the Administration at the press briefings, he treated the attacks as if they were legitimate questions and not predetermined conclusions.  So now it appears that he was a liberal all along.  The question for me is how long before he took the job was he a Bush-hating liberal?

If you're a liberal and you get asked to be Press Secy for Bush, I would presume your answer would be a resounding "No", but then again if you really hated Bush you might respond with a resounding "Yes".  Is McClellan so cunning as to have planned the sabotage all along?

But then I give McClellan too much credit.  I suspect he figured after his debacle as Press Secy that he would never work again in any profitable capacity, especially if everyone thought of him as a Bushie.  Therefore, he needed to remake himself.  He knew he would get incessant MSM press coverage (and ultimately alot of $$$) if he came out with a book attacking Bush.  Without having read the book, I venture to guess it is rife with simple sentences; so much so that all the ignorant masses can understand it.  His audience will overlap with Katie Couric's after all.

Those who have not swords can still die upon them.

Never believe the guy that writes a tell all book about the boss that fired him.

Rule Number 2: Ones crediblity is inversely proportionate to the number of years worked (3) under that boss while later claiming how corrupt, inept and evil he was. All the while getting behind the podium and apparently conspiring with one's boss by being his spokesman (?!).

This guy had better hire a few bodyguards, because what he has done is just outright treason. Im sorry, but he worked as the President's spokesman for 3 full years! How did he get up every day and do his job? Why didnt he quit after the first few weeks? Hed have been a hero had he done that!

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Ask yourself: Do I want a good paying job, or do I want a government hand out. Its that simple!

Scott McClellan was inept in his job, people saw it right away, knew it all along, and pointed it out all along. He was burned time after time for his lack of ability to explain that some things he just wasn't privy to, then taking a bad guess, and looking like a fool. He left looking bad and was, at least subtley, personally rejected.

Now he takes his revenge. One powerful measure of an issue is timeliness: are bad things being reported at the time they happen, or later when you're getting even and flinging feces?