Posted on 02/27/2013 8:01:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward ripped into President Barack Obama on "Morning Joe" today, saying he's exhibiting a "kind of madness I haven't seen in a long time" for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns.
"Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, 'Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget document?'" Woodward said.
"Or George W. Bush saying, 'You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need?'" Or even Bill Clinton saying, 'You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters,' ... because of some budget document?"
The Defense Department said in early February that it would not deploy the U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf, citing budget concerns relating to the looming cuts known as the sequester.
"Under the Constitution, the President is commander-in-chief and employs the force. And so we now have the President going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement. 'I can’t do what I need to do to protect the country,'" Woodward said. "That’s a kind of madness that I haven't seen in a long time," he said.
Woodward's harsh criticism came after he stirred controversy last weekend by calling out Obama for what he said was "moving the goal posts" on the sequester by requesting that revenue be part of a deal to avert it.
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Thank heaven for the internet; without it, Howie Carr would be one of the very few things I miss about M ass achusetts...
Howie is friggen brilliant.
Howie is friggen brilliant.
“Poor Bob. What’s a career Libtard to do? Having willfully blinded himself to the Dems’ evil for so long, how can he regain any credibility as a reporter “
Why do you think he is a career libtard ?
I have been a career republican and you know what, woodward was right about Nixon and I was wrong.
I can’t think of anything he has written that has been way off the mark. Maybe a little off now and then but if you write enough stuff who doesn’t miss the mark now and then.
You didn’t read his fiction about Bill Casey, did you?
“Woodward’s heart is hard-core left.”
Carl Berstein is hard core left.
Woodward said in the early 90’s something like “if we get the deficit under control, the economy will really take off”.
Uh...
What Executive Order # was that?
The Statist Nixon indeed started the ball rolling on the EPA through an executive order in December of 1970.
Nixon was one of many Republicans who instituted highly destructive Statist policies and departments at the national level.
Woodward has to believe that Obama’s petulance is madness, because the alternative is to see the truth, that Obama is doing all this intentionally, as you said. Obama is good at one thing... Chicago politics and I don’t think he can stop until he crushes Republicans and America in the process.
Lots of people thought Bill Clinton would never leave the white house. Now lots of people are CONVINCED obama and Evita will never leave. And half the people in this country support him being president for life.
Sounds like she already did.
bump to the top
And Nixon created our beloved EPA.
Uh...
What Executive Order # was that?
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From what I can discern from the gobs of info out there, #11514.
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