| I believe it was Jon Stewart who asked Scott McClellan a few months ago when McClellan was promoting his book who McClellan was going to vote for in the presidential election. McClellan didn't say it at the time, but you could tell he was undecided.
He isn't undecided anymore. McClellan says he will be voting for Barack Obama.
And now comes his grinning declaration, taped for a new weekend CNN show, "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News," that he has a favorite in the presidential election, and it is not John McCain.
His face lighting up as bright as his French blue shirt, it is clear what he's going to say before he opens his mouth.
"I will be voting for Barack Obama," he declares.
So the week that began when one former top Bush administration figure, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, endorsed Obama ends with the endorsement of another.
McClellan doesn't have the stature that Powell does, but his vote does show that there are Republicans who are willing to cross party lines and vote for Obama. I know plenty of Republicans and I have heard of a few supporting Obama. The whole unity message resonates with people on both sides of the aisle. |
