Fairly Conservative

Hey, his word, not mine.

McClellan from a 2004 White House briefing where he was talking about Richard Clarke’s tell all:

Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book.

And now he’s so sad that his little gossip session has the country all a flutter. I don’t care what McClellan had to say. The fact that he violated the public’s trust proffering his right to say it? I think it’s sleazy. Write your little kiss and tell after a man’s no longer living, or at least after he’s left office. The way McClellan’s done it is not acceptable.

Like McClellan said in 2004, “well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner?…He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book.”