Posted on 09/25/2010 8:12:56 PM PDT by Schnucki
The first book about a new administration by Bob Woodward, Washington's court chronicler, usually promises to be the high watermark for an incoming commander-in-chief.
Officials are reluctant to dish the dirt because they have the chance of years of employment ahead of them. The cynic might think that a positive portrayal helps position the Watergate scribbler nicely for access next time.
It was the late conservative columnist Robert Novak who divided public figures into sources and targets. Woodward generally treats those who talk to him kindly while those who don't get a more damning verdict.
So it was of little surprise that the biggest problem Woodward must have had with his Obama's Wars was deciding how to cull the herd of White House officials eager to spill the beans.
But the clamour among staffers to present their boss and themselves (not necessarily in that order) in the best possible light has backfired spectacularly.
A president has no more solemn duty than that of being commander-in-chief. And judging from the evidence presented by Woodward, Barack Obama's view of that role is at best disquieting.
Nearly 100,000 American troops are now committed to Afghanistan but Obama's principal war aim is to withdraw and his main preoccupation is how the conflict plays domestically, particularly within his own Democratic party.
"This needs to be a plan about how we're going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan," Obama says at one stage. At another he declares that "everything we're doing has to be focused on how we're going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint".
Obama comes across as viewing his generals with thinly-disguised hostility,
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The British Press, doing the work the American Press won’t do. The British Press is welcome to come HERE and do the job that needs to be done!
Hahahaha. Total meltdown doom. Hope and change anyone? Failure and crisis seems more suitable.
Just hate seeing the word “great” used to describe anything about Obama, even his unraveling.
Obama is not an American citizen, therefore he is not eligible to be President.
The Great Obama disaster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H47x9q5-C2k&feature=related
I suppose Obama advisors thought the firing of General Stanley McChrystal would make the Bamster appear Truman-like.
Can he lose by winning Kalifyornia (Moonbeam and Bouncer will win this year!)
bunch of tiny girlymen
Those darn colonialist Brits...
Exactly, the British press, real members of the press. The American “press,” fools.
Obama speaking: “as I said before” – code for “you’re clearly too dumb to have understood me the first time”
“Let me be perfectly clear” code for “you’re clearly too dumb to understand this, so listen real close now”
One Term President - OTP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MddREczVeL4
Here’s hoping the Great Obama will unravel some rope and hang himself, saving the Country another two years of distress.
My comparisons between Obama/America and Ty Willingham/Notre Dame continue. It’s what I predicted back in the 2008 primaries:
1) Obama would win the Dem nomination and be elected because all the historical trends were there to say it would happen.
2) The fan base, egged on by the media, would revere him like a savior (”and did you know he’s black, too?”)
3) Early success would raise his status to frenzied heights.
4) His flaws would be shown early and his track record wouldn’t match the hype and the faithful would first voice timid criticism and, eventually, talk about getting rid of him.
5) The management would move quickly to get rid of him and replace him with someone totally different (in the case of Notre Dame, that was Charlie Weis).
6) The same Left that was so proud that a black man was hired will now claim racism to any attempt to dismiss him.
Us Washington Husky fans had a similar experience! Oooh, it was painful.
Obama is nothing more than a community organizer who was glorified by the MSM and rode that hype all the way to the WH
The same MSM that portrayed Sarah Palin as being “stupid”
Looks like the stupid ones are the MSM and Obama.
Obama, thinking dialectically, has the satisfaction of pushing the country left further and faster than any of his liberal predecessors. Surfing the dialectic of history is all he cared about. Look for a lot more vacationing as he spends the next two years saying “up yours.”
They are scum,interested not in the well being of this nation but of their own lust for money and power.I hold most so called mainstream Republicans in that category.
The Telegraph has the best White House coverage of any newspaper anywhere.
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