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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 10:23 AM
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Scott McClellan Apologizes for Bashing Richard Clarke
As White House Press Secretary, McClellan Called Clarke's Book on the Bush Administration 'Flat-Out Wrong'

By BRIAN ROSS
May 30, 2008

What goes around, comes around.



In an encounter last night in the lobby of a New York hotel, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan apologized for denouncing a former White House colleague, Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism adviser, after Clarke wrote a book highly critical of the Bush administration in 2004.

Now McClellan is facing a similar denunciation from the White House for his own highly critical book.

"I should have known how personal it would get when they went after me, well, I mean, after what I said about you," Clarke says McClellan told him in the lobby of New York's Essex House.

"I think I can forgive you now," Clarke says he replied.

"I'd like to ask you to," McClellan reportedly answered.

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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 10:26 AM
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1. Clark was on MSNBC this morning
He was good natured toward Little Scotty.
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cephalexin Donating Member (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 10:30 AM
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2. That makes me try to recall what Scotty said about Joe Wilson.
Anybody remember?
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 10:31 AM
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3. Hehe, that's great.
I love you man! I love you too buddy!

I expect a huge wave of GOP defectors before November, the line has been drawn.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 10:51 AM
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4. sure hope so!
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