I think I’m high on ranchero sauce.
Halp.
From ABC’s Political Punch:
McClellan On Bush’s Version of the Truth: From Cocaine Rumors to Destructive Partisan Warfare
May 28, 2008 8:34 AM
Scott McClellan’s new memoir on his White House days is harsh.
The decision to invade Iraq “goes to an important question that critics have raised about the president: Is Bush intellectually incurious or, as some assert, actually stupid?” the former White House press secretary writes. “Bush is plenty smart enough to be president. But as I’ve noted his leadership style is based more on instinct than deep intellectual debate.”
In 1999, at a hotel suite “somewhere in the Midwest,” McClellan recalls the Bush mind when dealing with rumors that the then-Texas governor had used cocaine.
Writes McClellan: “‘The media won’t let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,’ I heard Bush say. ‘You know, the truth is I honestly don’t remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don’t remember.’
“I remember thinking to myself, How can that be? How can someone simply not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine? It didn’t make a lot of sense.”
And yet, McClellan concludes, “I think he meant what he said in that conversation about cocaine. It’s the first time when I felt I was witnessing Bush convincing himself to believe something that probably was not true, and that, deep down, he knew was not true. And his reason for doing so is fairly obvious — political convenience…”
Bush “has a way of falling back on the hazy memory to protect himself from potential political embarrassment. In other words, being evasive is not the same as lying in Bush’s mind…It would not be the last time Bush mishandled potential controversy. But the cases to come would involve the public trust, and the failure to deal with them early, directly and head-on would lead to far greater suspicion and far more destructive partisan warfare.”
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Yeah. I “don’t remember” what I did in my youth, either.
This is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve heard in months.
Now, I, personally, cannot stand Rachel Ray. I think she’s a hoser, and there’s something about seeing her face on everygoddamnthing at the supermarket that gives me a tic…
Not like Martha, man… Martha is soothing.
Anyway, all my feelings of animosity aside, I have to express my disgust (and laughter) that this fucking kerfuffle is going down, much less that its considered something newsworthy. ABSURD. If Martha publishes a sfiha recipe in the next issue of Living, will she be branded a friggin’ terrorist, too?
Ted and I ate hummus last week… >.> AND I ate a falafel…
OH MY GOD, MY BABY IS GOING TO BE A TERRORIST.
I didn’t think it was possible, but Michelle Malkin is an even bigger idiot than I took her to be. Pathetic. She’s an idiot, and quite possibly insane.
I don’t like olives, but I keep eating them. Not only am I eating them, but I get all excited about the damned olive bars at Gelsons and Whole Foods. Evidently, my offspring has a thing for olives. This is baffling. I cannot imagine what nutritional virtues olives would have that would make me so enthusiastic about them suddenly.
It turns out that Scott McClellan has gigantic balls.
I take back some of what I said about him when he was White House Press Secretary.
People shouldn’t bring up Maureen Dowd around a surly, pregnant me.
Oh, how I loathe her.
