Context

Headline from Politico.com this morning:

McCain hits Obama on Petraeus meeting
By JONATHAN MARTIN | 5/28/08 5:02 PM
Says Obama hasn’t sat down with leader of Iraq troops; Obama camp response invokes McClellan.

I've been following the McClellan Story with relish, of course. It's refreshing to see the Inner Circle trying to circle the wagons around...what, exactly? Though I will admit that I buy the White House line that McClellan is saying things just to sell books, too...I have trouble believing that anyone who's been a flack for this administration would turn on it out of the goodness of their "heart."

But what really struck me about this headline is that when I read it I immediately thought that they were invoking not Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary, but George McClellan, the much adored, frequently invoked general in charge of the Union Army in the Civil War, and the man whose credulous belief in enemy propaganda and repeated failure to act allowed the Confederacy to grow from a grossly overwhelmed force of scrappy fighters into an army that almost took Washington more than once.

That might be the better invocation.

JEK
Chairman, Shelby Foote Deification Society