In what can be most charitably characterized as the triumph of hope over experience, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has issued a somewhat tentative endorsement of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama:

'I haven't made a decision," McClellan told Katie Couric on CBS's Evening News, when asked if he was backing [Arizona senator John McCain]. McClellan paid homage to McCain, saying that the Republican nominee had 'governed from the center, and that's where I am.'

But without prompting, he said he was 'intrigued by Sen. Obama's message.'

'It's a message that is very similar to the one that Gov. Bush ran on in 2000,' McClellan said.

Either the guy has no idea how what he's saying sounds, or this is one last trick from the Karl Rove arsenal to get us all to vote Republican. [Politico]

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