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/p> p> LOSING McCLELLAN br> Re: George Neumayr's Scott on the Rocks : /p>

Scott McClellan is expressing the wrongs while working for the Bush Administration.

My recent government job as a Tobacco Prevention Specialist lasted 42 days. Two weeks of this time Chipper my Chocolate Lab and I slept in the camper of my little pickup truck. A couple of times the temperature dropped below freezing. Like long distance truck drivers I took truck stop showers. My living circumstances were definitely not the "norm" for the polished-hired-health-gun, but I was able to endure with contentment while getting paid for doing what I had done free for many years.

However, it only took a few working days to realize that my restless nights were not coming from my lack of housing, but from the immediate need for me to compromise my passion to play "soft" ball for my state pay check.

p>Can't imagine how poor Scott lasted three years. br> -- Mike Sawyer /p>

I like Mr. Neumayr's take on McClellan, a dupe who has let himself be used. But there is a subtext that implies differently, that he has been dumb all the way to the bank, like Paris Hilton without the looks or the sex tape. After all, he wouldn't have hit the national stage unless he had let Bush use and abuse him, and he wouldn't be proffitting from a best-seller unless he had found that sharp editor who used him in abusing Bush. Either that, or McClellan is the luckiest dumb dupe around.

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