Posted on 09/25/2010 8:19:00 PM PDT by Schnucki
Bob Woodward's searing critique of the Democrats' war strategy comes as key advisers are leaving and voters lose patience with Barack Obama's promise to deliver 'hope and change'. Alex Spillius reports on an increasingly isolated President.
When Barack Obama took office 20 months ago – and what a long 20 months it seems – there was a lot of talk about the great "Team of Rivals" he was appointing around him. Parallels were drawn with the cabinet of substantial talents and big personalities assembled by Abraham Lincoln to rebuild the nation after the civil war.
Now, in a new book, Obama's Wars, the veteran reporter Bob Woodward has confirmed in intricate detail what has been known in Washington for some time: that some of the team could barely stomach working with each other. General David Petraeus, then the military overseer of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, avoided contact with David Axelrod, the President's chief strategist, whom he regarded as a "complete spin doctor". No one had a good word for General James Jones, the national security adviser and former Nato commander, while his number two, Thomas Donilon, was regarded as a "disaster" by the Defence Secretary, Robert Gates.
Most withering of all was Vice President Joe Biden's description of Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy to Afghanistan, as "the most egotistical bastard I've ever met". Biden has nearly 40 years' experience in Washington, so that is saying something.
Much of this would be unimportant if there weren't a war involved – no one expects to be given a smooth ride in the White House and some of what Woodward describes could even be called healthy debate – but the aura of dysfunction portrayed by Woodward as Obama and his "team" debated strategy in Afghanistan is truly alarming.
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His dream of socialism was a nightmare first last and always
His last two years will be very unpleasant.
America and the world woke up with a hangover...and a coyote date next to them.
His last two years will be very unpleasant.
Narcissists fall hard and hit hard. May this evil bastard splatter into a trillion pieces.
It was only a liberal wet dream...Now America is waking up and going to clean up the mess....lol
As a Marine, I find this comment interesting. General Jones was fairly well liked within Marine circles, though we considered him a 'political' Commandant as opposed to a warfighter (his war record not withstanding). He was a very influential and liked Marine officer.
I could have told you this 2 plus years ago .... .
What happened to his dream? Hopefully, it will be dead come November.
Impeachment is imperative.
Coming to DC January 2011.
Obama’s Hope and Change is garbage. Even looney leftists are seeing it, as they are bussing in Democrat college students from all over Wisconsin just to fill Library Mall at UW-Madison.
“Those who voted against health care – his signature achievement – tout the fact at every opportunity. Some omit the word “Democrat” entirely from their ads or campaign material. There is no other way for them to win.”
So don’t let them. Paint ‘em red and track every last one of them down.
There was never a dream...just a bunch of sophmoric crap
“All of this bad publicity will help us in November.”
Yea...Just too bad that none of it is the American
Marxist news media.
Lincoln tried to rebuild America after the war. Obama is trying to cause a civil war.
Like most dreams, eventually the dreamer wakes, usually when he’s made to realize he’s run out of “other people’s money”. Obama’s campaign successfully managed to put enough people into a dream-state, which is what he needed to be elected. They’ve woken up to reality, while he and his Dems
have kept on a-dreamin’. Nov. 2, fittingly, and keeping the metaphors intact, will be his “wake-up call”.
I have reached the highest level of disgust with comparisons of Obama to Lincoln.
Lincoln did indeed assemble a cabinet “to rebuild the nation after the civil war.”
On the other hand Obama has assembled a cabinet to create a civil war and destroy the nation.
As bad and inept as some other presidents have been, none of them intentionally set an agenda to dis-assemble the nation and consign the constitution to the dust bin as Obama has.
If America survives this onslaught and returns to a Constitutional Republic, honest historians will look back on this administration as the lowest point in our history. They will wonder what posessed more than half of the voters to fall for a charlatan who is little more than a later day Marxist decked out as a snake oil peddler.
My fondest wish and what I live for: to see Palin get sworn in on January 20, 2013 with Obama sitting there.
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