Daily Archives: May 31, 2008

McClellan just feeding history

mcclellanColumnist Peggy Noonan came away from former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s book neither admiring nor liking him — which still leaves his number of defenders at zero — but believing him. “What matters is if it’s true. Let the debate on the issues commence,” Noonan wrote. “What’s needed now? More memoirs, more data, more information, more testimony. More serious books, like Doug Feith’s. More ‘this is what I saw’ and ‘this is what is true.’ Feed history.”

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No offense taken in S.D.

clintonHillary Clinton was meeting with the editorial board of the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader when she made the unfortunate reference to Robert F. Kennedy’s death having happened in June — and the media crowd went wild. But the editorial board endorsed her Friday. “Her mastery of complex policy detail is broad and deep, and her experience as a senator and former first lady matches that,” the board editorialized.