McClellan: Bush, Cheney 'Deceiving Themselves' About Legacy

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	McClellan: Bush, Cheney 'Deceiving Themselves' About Legacy

Wisco

1-15-2009 2:31 PM

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"Do the president and the vice president actually think that they didn't make any significant mistakes?" Olbermann asked.

"I think to some extent, they're trapped in this state of denial about their own shortcomings and how this administration went off course," McClellan replied. "If they would go out there and acknowledge some of those mistakes, then I think they could go back and talk about some of the successes. ... But right now, people are just tuning things out, and the only thing they're doing at this point is really deceiving themselves."

As I always say, for the Bush administration, every problem is a public relations problem. This thinking has failed them often in the past, just as it's failing them now.

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1-15-2009 9:15 PM

boniface

Arrest them for war crimes and then maybe they'll get a clue.

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