The book

Much fuss is being made out of Scott McClellan's book. It has added to the water cooler talk at work.

My opinion?

I could not agree with John McCain more:

Asked in the interview about the new book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, and whether its revelations gave him pause about how the Iraq war was presented to the public, McCain said: "I would point out that people ought to, if they have strong objections, their obligation is to voice their objection at the time."

Yep. For a man who had so many problems, he stayed on the job for a long time not saying a single word.

Then he decides that when he can make a ton of money, suddenly he finds his principles. That is just not good enough.

Either McClellan had no principles during his time at the White House or he has no principles now. Neither one is impressive.

Since Obama brought it up...

H/T HotAir

Since Obama took offense to something the President said yesterday, all it did was resurrect the debate once again:

Would Obama meet with terrorist nations without preconditions?

Obama and his pundits are running around today claiming that Obama never said he would meet with Iran without preconditions and that the right and the President are just distorting what he said:

New York Times

Susan E. Rice, a former State Department and National Security Council official who is a foreign policy adviser to the Democratic candidate, said that “for political purposes, Senator Obama’s opponents on the right have distorted and reframed” his views. Mr. McCain and his surrogates have repeatedly stated that Mr. Obama would be willing to meet “unconditionally” with Mr. Ahmadinejad. But Dr. Rice said that this was not the case for Iran or any other so-called “rogue” state. Mr. Obama believes “that engagement at the presidential level, at the appropriate time and with the appropriate preparation, can be used to leverage the change we need,” Dr. Rice said. “But nobody said he would initiate contacts at the presidential level; that requires due preparation and advance work.”

Clearly Obama is stating today that there would be conditions to meeting with Iran, but check out the Barack Obama's presidential webpage:

Diplomacy: Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. Now is the time to pressure Iran directly to change their troubling behavior. Obama would offer the Iranian regime a choice. If Iran abandons its nuclear program and support for terrorism, we will offer incentives like membership in the World Trade Organization, economic investments, and a move toward normal diplomatic relations. If Iran continues its troubling behavior, we will step up our economic pressure and political isolation. Seeking this kind of comprehensive settlement with Iran is our best way to make progress.

Just in case Obama's own webpage does not convince you that he would negotiate with the terrorist country Iran, here is a You Tube video where he claims "I would" negotiate with terrorist nations:

The politics of victimhood

I know Barack Obama is just victim.

He is defending himself against a supposed attack by President Bush-

In a speech to Israel's Knesset, Bush said: "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

"We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Obama responded with a statement, seizing on Bush's remarks even as it was unclear to whom the president was referring.

"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack," Obama said in the statement his aides distributed. "George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel."

As sensitive as Barack Obama is, you would think he was a girl.

Of course, Obama just ended up opening himself to real comments after feigning indignation towards the President:

Still, even as the White House said Bush meant no dig at the Democrat, Perino couldn't resist the opportunity to get in a small one.

"I understand when you're running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you. That is not always true. And it is not true in this case," she said.

In Columbus, Ohio, the GOP's nominee-in-waiting, John McCain, told reporters he took Bush at his word that he wasn't referring to Obama — but he also used the opportunity to portray Obama as naive, inexperienced and lacking judgment.

Obama is desperately trying to make himself look credible by pretending the President is so worried about him that he would attack him.

Just add self centered and egotistical to Obama's list of not so endearing traits.

Aliens did it!

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cracks me up sometimes.

Really, some folks must be thinking that I am picking on them.

It's hard not to pick on them, they have been so infected by Bush Derangement Syndrome, that sometimes they say the silliest things.

I could not help but giggle when I read this in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel-

The Bush administration slipped a provision into the USA Patriot Act that Congress renewed last year allowing the attorney general to appoint interim U.S. attorneys for indefinite periods without congressional approval. Previously, such appointments could last for only 120 days. Lawmakers may have figured that the extra leeway might help in rare emergencies.

Apparently, the Congress, who overwhelmingly supported the renewal of the Patriot Act, were duped again by the Bush administration. Or at least this is what the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel would have you believe.

The renewal of the Patriot Act passed the Senate last year by in March by a vote of 89-10. Congress renewed it 8 months earlier with a vote of 257-171.

Since it's original passage on Sept. 12, 2001, the Patriot Act was debated for years in the US Congress. You name it, our congressional leaders fought over it.

Yet somehow, Bush duped the Congress again.

God forbid, the US Congress actually included this measure in the Patriot Act because they wanted to. Nope, instead, according to MJS- Bush "slipped" the provision into the bill.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel even went so far as to make up their own excuse for why the Patriot Act, with this provision, sailed thru Congress-

Lawmakers may have figured that the extra leeway might help in rare emergencies.

Well, shoot, since we are making stuff up, I have my own theory.

Aliens did it!

No really, President George Bush called on his alien buddies and had them come down and suck the brains out of our senators and congressmen. That is why the Congress, in a bi-partisan fashion, passed the Patriot Act with this provision in it.

What?

It could have happened.

Even funnier in this article, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is praising Congress for addressing the ever so pressing issue of why President Bush believes he has the right to fire people that he has hired.

Commendably, a House judiciary subcommittee is issuing subpoenas to four of the dismissed prosecutors to appear before it on Tuesday, and the Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to follow suit. Sworn testimony should shed some light on what may be an administration effort to get prosecutors to toe the party line.

That should be an interesting hearing. Congress is trying to answer the question as to why the big meanie President Bush, dares to fire people that he has hired.

Good grief!

You would think that a new Democrat Congress would have cured some of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Bush Derangement Syndrome.

It hasn't cured a thing. Instead, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's BDS has just gotten worse.

President George Bush is to be blamed for everything.

According to the MJS, not only should Bush get approval to hire people, but now Bush needs authorization to fire the people that he has hired.

Good grief.