McClellan Bails; Obama References Honorable Service and GOP Tries to Sound Mean. And Fails.

The Republicans are in an embarrassingly horrible position, something no one (aside from the usual attack-dog suspects, rushannemichellebilletc), is/are able to deny and sound remotely plausible.  Scott McClellan, former press secretary for the White House, has just released his tell-all, and it's a doozy.  'Course, it sounds mainly like he's attempting to alert Congress that he's willing to take the stand against all the President's (other) men when, not if, they eventually go to trial for their heinous war crimes.  Fine by me.

Meanwhile, the GOP are doing their best to blow some serious hot air into the ether and hope it sticks.  Which is funny, because it's ridiculous.  Transparent.  Laughable.  Boring.  I'm bored.

Moving on.

To the biggest non-issue of the day:  Senator Obama, when referencing his great-uncle's service for the U.S. during WWII in order to explain how messed up people's heads are when they come back from war, gave the wrong name of the Nazi concentration camp the great-uncle's infantry division liberated (probably, speaking extemporaneously, he threw out Auschwitz because it's the camp most commonly referred to when discussing the Holocaust in our current culture).   From the piece:

In a meeting Monday with veterans, Obama discussed the importance of improving treatment for soldiers suffering post-traumatic stress. To illustrate his point, he talked about his own family.

"I had an uncle who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps. The story in our family was that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn't leave the house for six months," Obama said. "Now, obviously something had really affected him, but at that time there just weren't the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain."

So, to recap:  Obama is discussing the need for better health care for our vets coming home from Iraq, vets who are very likely suffering from, at minimum, PTSD, and the Republicans?  Can only slam him on having used the wrong name for part of his story.  (And, in the meantime, their special guy, McCain, was absent for the latest veto-proof Senate vote on upping military pay and providing better benefits, but was clear on his disapproval of the bill, because, for goodness' sake, WHY would we want to reward those who have served with their lives for our safety?  We liberals who want to see vets given their proper due - good pay, health care, and the education they've been promised? - yep.  We're off our stinky-hippie rockers.  Uh-huh.)

The neo-cons, if you haven't noticed google and yahoo's blaring headlines to that effect, have just gone wild trumpeting this accident to the skies, in an attempt to paint him as some kind of monster-liar.  To which I must respond:  This is NOTHING.   And this time, it's funny 'cause it's sad.  Pathetic.  Painful.  And, finally, again, boring.  I'm nodding off.

Wake me when the Republicans manage to come up with something slightly less milk-toast from their bag o' tricks, a bag that's looking awfully anemic from over here in Saney-Liberal-Pants-Land.

(See you after the election!  Save me a DEMOCRATS RULE! '08 bumper sticker or something.)

Comments

[JayMonster]

I guess Bush and McClellan won't be in those rocking chairs talking about the "Good Old Days" as Bush promised when they gave Scotty the heave-ho.