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McClellan to Obama: Don't investigate us
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Let's all click our heels and repeat the mantra one more time: If we're nice to the Republicans, maybe they'll stop being so mean to us. Stockholm meet syndrome. ...

McClellan to Obama: don’t investigate the Bushies
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Here are the words of a man who knows where all the bodies are buried in this corrupt, amoral administration. Obama need not take the advice of former White House professional liar spokesperson. Investigate all of them and throw these criminals in the pokey. ...

OK, Senator Obama, NOW do you realize that you cannot play nice with these people?
Brilliant at Breakfast — No, I am not kidding: Scott McClellan warns Obama that he'd better not plan ANY investigations of Bush Administration crimes: Scott McClellan advises Obama, in an interview with my colleague Daniel Libit, not to investigate the Bush administration — because it would, McClellan says, damage Obama's image. (Not that former Bushies have anything at stake in that choice.) That's a sleeper of an issue that, if Obama's elected, could blow up into a major one in unexpected ways, as some foreign governments suggest they'd arrest ...

McClellan: Investigations "Would Be Divisive"
Daily Kos — And so it begins. Via Ben Smith: Scott McClellan advises Obama, in an interview with my colleague Daniel Libit, not to investigate the Bush administration — because it would, McClellan says, damage Obama's image. (Not that former Bushies have anything at stake in that choice.) [...] [W]hen asked what advice he would give to a President Barack Obama or Democratic Congress on the matter of handling former Bush officials, McClellan speaks now of the perils of probing the past. "If Obama were to win," he said last week, ...

McClellan begs Obama: Don’t investigate us
Crooks and Liars — Scotty asks Obama not to investigate his peeps in the White House if he wins in November because it will taint Obama. Scott McClellan advises Obama, in an interview with my colleague Daniel Libit, not to investigate the Bush Administration — because it would, McClellan says, damage Obama’s image…read on  That’s good enough for me…   More at Will Bunch.  ...

This is rich
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... Not that Scott McClellan has anything to be afraid of, mind you. Oh no. It's just that it would look bad for Barack Obama's image. Yeah... that's it... ...

Wednesday’s Mini-Report
Political Animal — Today’s edition of quick hits. * What a shame: “Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio, a Democratic superdelegate and one of Hillary Clinton’s most ardent supporters, was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm, the hospital said.” There were reports earlier that she had died, but they were mistaken. * New pact: “The United States will deploy anti-missile interceptors, upgrade Poland’s air defenses and modernize its military under two agreements signed Wednesday. The agreements, signed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, are almost certain to ...