McClellan Sees Similarities Between Bush, Obama Campaigns

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan sees a lot a similarities between Barack Obama’s campaign and the presidential campaign of then Governor George W. Bush eight years ago.

Obama’s campaign “has a theme that is very similar to the one this president ran on,” McClellan said during an address in San Francisco. McClellan explained that, like Bush in 2000, Obama is running on change and portrays himself as a bipartisan promising to work across the aisle in order to get things done.

McClellan said many of Obama’s themes are the same that originally attracted him to working for Bush.

Bush echoed McClellan’s sentiments earlier this month ahead of his trip to Europe.

“I mean, they say, ‘we want change,'” Bush said. “And I tell people every time I ran for politics I said, ‘we want change.'”