Of course coming from a politician, it seems rather disingenuous; people with political ambition don’t speak up publicly like a man very often. They calculate what they say, how they say it, and in this case, when they say it.

McClellan was a press secretary – always on TV, always in front of reporters, always quoted. A book like his is a good way to get him back on TV, in front of reporters, and quoted. And it’s working like gangbusters, at least for the next week I’d wager.