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Ex-aide's tell-all has White House 'puzzled' and 'sad'
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Scott left the White House, made his financial condition secure, and THEN he let loose this telling barrage of truth. If he had done it while in the White House, he would have been quickly blackballed and unable to find any position that would support him. Good for Scott McClellan! I hope his book makes him a millionaire!
It happens with such regularity that we should coin a phrase for it. Confessions?
And then there is this shooting of the messenger instead of reading the message.
The man came clean. His conscience was bothering him. He decided that he might meet his maker someday and he did not want to be caught short.
So he confesses.
And they rush to shoot the messenger, to discredit him, to... eradicate the thinker and truth teller.
Why is that? I do not know but somewhere in Shakespeare it must be explained. Must get out The Bard tonight and read him again.
The Shadow Knows.
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My personal thoughts are that when people do not want to discuss the issues it is common place to degrade and demonize the messager.
This occurs both here on KSL.com and in the political spectrum. I find it disappointing.
We ought to be able to articulately defend our positions with out the personal attacks. If we have to resort to personal attacks perhaps we ought not to post.
I wonder if the personal attacks which seem so common are a smoke screen that maybe we do not want to discuss certain issues.
Since my post is the first one let's limit the name calling and focus more on the issues he has raised.
Lots of love.