Scott McClellan On Obama: I'm "Intrigued" (Video)

In an interview with USA Today on Thursday, Scott McClellan declared that while he respects John McCain he is also "intrigued by Obama."

He also mentioned his interest in Obama during an ABC News interview aired Thursday evening in which he added that he had not made up his mind about whether to vote Democrat or Republican in the upcoming election.

Watch the video:

Here's the transcript from ABC:

MARTHA RADDATZ: What do you think of John McCain?
SCOTT McCLELLAN: Uh, I have a lot of respect and admiration for Senator McCain. Um, I, he's...
MARTHA RADDATZ: Would you like him to be President?
SCOTT McCLELLAN: He's someone that, uh, has governed from the center. Uh, I haven't made a decision, in the presidential election. Uh, I...

MARTHA RADDATZ: It's possible you could vote for a Democrat?
SCOTT McCLELLAN: I, I'm intrigued by Senator Obama's message. Uh, whether or not he can act- actually accomplish it is another thing. As I show in this book, it's a very difficult thing to try to change things in Washington. And you better have a way to do it, and you better constantly focus, focus on it.

MARTHA RADDATZ: So, you haven't made up your mind about a candidate, which means you haven't decided whether you'll vote Democrat or go Republican?

SCOTT McCLELLAN: I haven't made any decision.

Comments

[coollbreezz]

McClellan book is a gift for Obama. He has already given the candidate for change a major endorsement. McClellan only shared with us one aspect of the great conspiracy to deceived the America people. Yellin implicated MSM but main stream religion also played an important roll in the propaganda campaign leading up to the Iraq War. .But the Iraq war wasn't about WMDs, or advancing democracy not even about oil.. According to Bush adviser and member of the 9/11 commission Phillip Zelikow, he said the "Iraq war was launched to protect Israel." Its all about Israel and the NWO agenda. The White House and the MSM has covered-up this truth.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0329-11.htm
http://joeland7.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/the-new-world-order-religious-and-political-conspiracy/

[syrupcore]

I don't care who you vote for or what you wrote in your book - you're still a scumbag. Say you're sorry, then we'll talk.

[hyderoplane]

Ariesjill

I just caught Scott Mclellan live on C-SPAN. . It put the excellent Olbermann interview to shame. Apart from the specifics he has come forth with, ...

Posted 09:37 AM on 05/30/2008

Really?
What specifics did come forth with that support his claim that Libby and Rove conspired on a Plame story at their secret meeting that he hadn't attended?

Did he mention that neither of them could actually have leaked Plame's name because it had already been leaked by Armitage and Fitzgerald knew that?

What specifics did come forth with that support his claim that the buildup to the Iraq War was deliberately misleading? He'd need to say what was said and who said it. Did he give you that?

[hyderoplane]

kennedy

GREAT!!!!!!!!!

Bush and Chenys little cousin. Scott will feel right at home.

Scott can give Obama the same great advice he gave Bush.
Posted 03:53 AM on 05/30/2008

This is really quite funny.
Scott the mama's boy gave no one policy advice or even on communications matters.
Scott's job was to answer the questions asked by the wolfpack.
Tony Snow actually knew the subject matter because he was involved.
You could see the difference between the two.
Scott the mama's boy didn't participate in strategy or policy making.
That's what makes his book so empty.
If you buy the thing and read it, I bet you won't see first hand examples that support his assertions.
Scott the mama's boy was made a tool of his lefty publisher.
We'll see how he does with Russert. There's real potential for Scotty to be laid bare.

[lostonechampion]

"Mama's boy"? What does that have to do with anything. I haven't made up my mind on this dude, but what value does calling him a "mama's boy" add?

[hyderoplane]

I think you might see the answer to that in the coming days.
Just be alert and remember where you heard it.

[kittyma]

You know what is sad in this whole thing? People's children, husbands, wives have died or have been maimed! All this so that Bush could "look good" and then Cheney has the gall to say "So?"! and "they volunteered"!

They ALL have blood on their hands. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, McClellan, The media, the corporate media executives, the Bush WH syncophants, ALL the WH press secretaries (including the present ones and Tony Snow) and all those who voted for the war. How is it that so many people were seeing it and they couldn't. People protested all over the US in the hundreds of thousands, they protested all over England and France, they protested ALL OVER THE WORLD and they were demonized.

SHAME ON THE MEDIA, THE BUSHERS AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO HELPED THEM.

[Ariesjill]

I just caught Scott Mclellan live on C-SPAN. . It put the excellent Olbermann interview to shame. Apart from the specifics he has come forth with, the real thrust of his book, already recommended as must reading by the Washington Post fo all staff of both Obama & McCain-- IS THE BEST ARGUMENT YET for the ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA, and punctuates with new intensity, why we must do everything possible to preclude Sen Clinton from having ANY part.

Bottom line of this emerged statesman"s work, is the extent who which the mindset of "Permanent Campaign Culture" in the last FIFTEEN YEARS---note the inclusion of the Clinton Adminstrations ---."POISONED" everything productive, bi-partisan; TRUTH, ACCOUNTABILITY, openess, & HONORING THE ELECTORATE in even the most rudimentary ways. He is not employing these phenomena to excuse the chicanery he witnessed and became a part of, finally with growing and sincere regret.

In this, Scott has defined the "poisoned seed" as he perceived it over time, and in the process, he makes a stunning if inadvertent case for every single, entirely atypical element that distinguishes Barack Obama from EVERYONE ELSE.

He even recommends a new Cabinet Post: "Chief of Governance"....essentially some purely principled statesman mandated to "Keep it Real." (my shorthand) How ironic that that too, speaks Barack Obama....and is the virtual antithesis of GUESS WHO?

[joeyp404]

Just because Barack hasn't been on the national scene for the last 15 years, doesn't mean he hasn't been campaigning his entire political career.

[whiskeytangofoxtrot451]

If McClellan is planning on supporting Obama, he might as well come out and say it not. The neocons have already labeled him a traitor. There isn't anything can do to make things worse for himself with them.

Once you break from the neocon hive mind, they consider you just another enemy to be destroyed.

[DakotaMinnesota]

Poor McCain. You know the Anakin in him wants to support Obama too.

[daddydamon]

SWEEEEEEEEEEET! Another defection to sanity.

[piper1233]

YES SCOTTY, COME OVER TO THE LIGHT SIDE OF THE FORCE. I DONT CARE WHY HE DECIDED TO COME CLEAN OR WHY IT TOOK SO LONG, IT WAS A BRAVE THING TO DO GIVEN THE VINDICTIVE NATURE OF THOSE IN POLITICS. BOTH LEFT AND RIGHT.

[Stew118]

Atta boyi Scottie. You must be from East Texas.

[AMJordan]

He's from Austin. I think his mother was Mayor at one time.

[munkii]

he said it on Olbermann's inteview first

[wanj]

McClellan hinting about supporting Obama is like Jenna Bush doing the same.... should make Bush proud! This is how bad the republicans have it!
Good luck McBush

[gregjones]

McCLELLAN: AMERICANS SHOUD'VE PAID MORE ATTENTION !!! It is amazing watching the media squirm from the truth that they were all major accomplices in the Bush Regime's deception campaign regarding the entire Iraq invasion. From the over 6 so-called military experts who appeared over 4500 times on cable news lying to the American public (were paid by Pentagon to lie), to the former Bush staffers who had been telling us that we had been lied to (O'Neil, Richard Clark and now McClellan) with very little if any coverage on cable news, anyone who watched cable news regularly could see the non-stop 3rd World style media manipulation. Bottom line....THE MEDIA HAS BETRAYED AMERICA ! Even now, as the media works tirelessly to discredit McClellan, you can see the wheels of deception turning in CYA lockstep. Media folks that we trusted are revealing themselves to be complicit through their desire to join the Regime's discredit campaign. David Gregory, Chuckie T, Anderson, Wolf and even Andrea Mitchell is asking the question why is Scotty speaking out now, without reviewing the fact that her own husband Alan Greenspan waited until he left the Regime to expose that we invaded Iraq FOR THE OIL ! (as he wrote in his memoir). The real story behind McClellan's book is not just how the Bush Regime has betrayed and deceived America....but how THE MEDIA was the #1 chief accomplice. America should demand an investigation of the media ! HEADS SHOULD ROLL !!!!

B4B

[e2008usa]

Ok may be, I'm not seing any alert ... but why paranoia.... or fear of conspiracy

It dosen't matter who you're...
what you did in your past life....
YOU CAN CHANGE ... and Scott is saying.... "Yes We Can"

Republicans, Liberals, Independants, Democrats, Peoples of all kind of Art. THERE IS only 1 NATION

I think it makes it less difficult to welcome and forgive a man who stood up in a time when it was risky...
In an arsenal where it didn't felt at home since the day he decided to dedicate a book to the peoples...

Sorry but, I can't help the feeling of a new era in order to stop fighting against each other. Scott has shown courage, and if more of us had been willing to take the heat in order to fight for to rally those whom still are on the wrong side, then we'll bring them back home in the United States of America,

Think of ... if suddenly you wake up in the morning and you look around you but cannot see as much poverty at the corner of your neighborhood.... (not in dream) but facing a reality that you find less and less peoples in needs, the streets safer (Yeah, it'd take time),... Please look at John Edwards Poverty Program: http://www.ohboyobama.com/Publicity/Join-John-Edwards-on-a-weeklong-poverty-tour -
JUST IMAGINE EVERYONE BEING MORE PRODUCTIVE - A CONTRIBUTION TO ACHIEVE OUR GOAL